Showing posts with label August 9. Show all posts
Showing posts with label August 9. Show all posts

Thursday, August 13, 2015

August 9, 2015. Upper Santa Rosa Trail
View toward connector trailhead
Tocalote (Centaurea melitensis)
Composite or sunflower family -- Asteraceae
August 9, 2015. Upper Santa Rosa Trail
Seed head
Invasive
Nightshade (Solanum xanti)
Nightshade family -- Solanaceae
August 9, 2015.  Upper Santa Rosa Trail
Native

Purple sage (Salvia leucophylla)
Mint family  -- Lamiaceae
August 9, 2015. Upper Santa Rosa Trail
Native
Seed head

Common sandaster (Corethrogyne flaginifolia)
Composite or sunflower family -- Asteraceae
August 9, 2015. Upper Santa Rosa Trail
Color: Purple
Native


Bush monkeyflower or sticky monkeyflower (Mimulus aurantiacus)
Figwort family -- Scrophulariaceae
August 9, 2015. Upper Santa Rosa Trail
Seeds
Native





Chaparral yucca (Hesperoyucca whipplei) 
Agave family -- Agavaceae
August 9, 2015. Upper Santa Rosa Trail
Seed head
Native

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Peruvian pepper tree (Schinus molle)
Cashew or sumac family -- Anacardiaceae
August 9, 2015.  Upper Santa Rosa Trail
Tree
Non-native

Lemonade berry (Rhus integrifolia)
Cashew or sumac family -- Anacardiaceae
August 9, 2015.  Upper Santa Rosa Trail
Shrub
Native

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Small wirelettuce or whiteplume wirelettuce (Stephanomeria exigua)
Composite or sunflower family -- Asteraceae
August 9, 2015. Upper Santa Rosa Trail
Color: White, Purple
Native




Fennel, sweet fennel, biscuit root (Foeniculum vulgare)
Carrot or parsley family -- Apiaceae
August 9, 2015.  Upper Santa Rosa Trail
Invasive

Mexican whorled milkweed, narrow leaf milkweed (Asclepias fascicularis)
Dogblane family -- Apocynaceae
August 9, 2015. Upper Santa Rosa Trail
Color: White
Native
Seed head

Longstem buckwheat (Eriogonum elongatum)
Buckwheat family -- Polygonaceae
August 9, 2015. Upper Santa Rosa Trail
Color: White
Native


Holly leaf cherry (Prunus ilicifolia)
Rose family -- Rosaceae
August 9, 2015. Upper Santa Rosa Trail
Shrub
Fruit
Native 

August 9, 2015.  Upper Santa Rosa Trail
View
Cliff aster (Malacothrix saxatilis)
Composite or sunflower family -- Asteraceae
August 9, 2015.Upper Santa Rosa Trail
Color: White
Native 




Elderberry (Sambucus niger)
Elderberry or moschatel family -- Adoxaceae
August 9, 2015. Upper Santa Rosa Trail
Native


Prickly pear (Opuntia littoralis)
Cactus family -- Cactaceae
August 9, 2015. Upper Santa Rosa Trail
Fruit
Native

Prickly lettuce (Lactuca serriola)
Composite or sunflower family -- Asteraceae
August 9, 2015. Upper Santa Rosa Trail
Invasive
Clustered tarweed (Deinandra fasciculata)
Composite or sunflower family -- Asteraceae
August 9, 2015.  Upper Santa Rosa Trail
Color: Yellow
Native
Seed head