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Available Site Reviews Point Mugu State Park |
Date of Reviews 01/22/2011 & 12/13/2010. |
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Everything is green and growing
although some plants are showing the effect of lack of water. We had a great
start with many of the winter-blooming flowers appearing as early as December. The warm weather we have had this
year had made for some pleasant hiking but has also shortened the season for
some of our early bloomers. I can’t remember a shorter Bigpod Ceanothus
bloom up here at Circle X Ranch (although you can still see it in other
locations.) The Shooting Stars are mostly finished in many places too. The
warm weather keeps tricking me into thinking that there should be more
flowing now but it’s still early for many things. In addition, this extended
dry spell has been hard on a lot of the plants. Last week I went down to the
Grotto but there wasn’t really anything new to report. This probably
explains why this site, which depends on volunteer submissions, has not had
much to report so far this year. As always, if you want to contact me
or submit a flower report my email address is at the at the bottom of this
page. See you on the trails. – ed. |
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Point Mugu State park |
Backbone Trail |
Date: 01/22/2011 |
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Today’s hike
was the first leg of the 2011 Backbone Trail series cosponsored by the
National Park Service and the Santa Monica Mountains Trails Council. We
are hiking west to east covering one segment every two weeks. Walking through
Coastal Sage Scrub and Sycamore Savannah environments of Pt. Mugu St. Park
the following species were noted in bloom: bind weed, lemonade berry, deer
weed, rattlesnake weed, wild cucumber, locoweed, Indian paint brush,
wishbone, black mustard, bladderpod, bush sunflower, purple nightshade, big
pod ceanothus, coast wallflower, fiddleneck, popcorn, hedge nettle, canyon
sunflower, wooly blue curls, prickly phlox, prickly pear, shooting star,
chaparral currant, greenbark ceanothus, gooseberry fuchsia, two tone
everlasting, miner's lettuce, Sheppard’s purse, golden top - grass,
lomatium - quite small, oxalis, parry’s phacelia. All in all it was a
good flower day for January! – N. Cusworth
(and others) – N. Cusworth
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Point Mugu State park |
Multiple Trails |
Date: 12/13/2010 |
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It has been an astonishing year so far. Here is what a friend and
I found in bloom at six areas in Point Mugu State Park: 1. Chumash Trail (first quarter mile from PCH) --- chaparral sunflower; deerweed; paintbrush; and a small yellow,
native oxalis 2. PCH half a mile on either side of La Jolla Canyon --- giant coreopsis 3. Parking lot of trailhead of Ray Miller and La Jolla trails
--- wood mint; sweet pea 4. Sycamore Canyon Trail (1.1 miles or so from PCH) --- bush mallow; buckwheat; chicory; elderberry 5. Serrano Trail (westernmost half mile) --- blackberry; and that same small yellow, native oxalis 6. Serrano Trail (easternmost quarter mile, from Serrano Road)
--- white and purple nightshade; chaparral currant; canyon
sunflower; blue-flowered greenbark ceanothus and white-flowered ceanothus;
chaparral gooseberry; and most amazing of all, a matilija poppy in full
bloom. – Matthew F. Delaney. |
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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area 401 West
Hillcrest Drive 805-370-2301 |
If you
would like to contribute to the wildflower report: e-mail: or phone
Tony at 310-457-6408 |
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