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We had a great start this year with
many of our winter flowers appearing as early as December. The warm, dry weather we had early in the
season made for pleasant hiking but shortened the season for many of our
flowers. I can’t remember a
shorter ceanothus bloom up here at Circle X Ranch. In addition, that long
early-winter dry spell was very hard on a lot of the plants. Many of the
typical early season annual species were pretty scarce. I’ve heard many comments like
“... but we’ve had so much rain!” I must remind people that
plants are living organisms and as such not very interested in high
“average” quantity, but much more dependent on consistency, and we’ve had very
little of that this year. While many of
the perennials are having a good to excellent year this remains about the
worst year I’ve ever seen for many of the annuals. I was hoping the later season annuals would
look better because the rain was more consistent later on but even they seem
to be having a weak year. On the other
hand most of annuals can still be found if you are willing to look, just not
in the dramatic eye-popping displays of some of the recent past. 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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Los Robles Open Space |
Los Padres Trail |
Date: 05/26/2011 |
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The Los Padres
Trail is off Moorpark Rd. Go under the freeway and turn left on Los
Padres Drive. The trailhead is almost immediately on the
right. The hike starts with a stroll through an oak glen. It
is very pretty. Then you will start a gradual up hill climb. The
climb becomes steeper going up the mountain which makes this a good exercise
hike. There is a lovely view of Conejo Valley on one side and a
peek of Hidden Valley and the expanse of the mountains on the other.
The varying shades of green in the mountains due to our recent rainfall is
picture perfect. Of course it is all downhill on the way back.
The whole hike takes about 1 1/2 hours. Flowers of note were Indian
pinks, lots of elegant clarkia, heart shaped penstemon, cliff asters, sticky
monkey flower and a few patches of mayweed. We also saw:
California everlasting, elderberry, greenbark ceanothus, canyon sunflower and
bush sunflower, California poppy, morning glory, chamise, tree tobacco, black
sage, purple nightshade, bull thistle, caterpillar phacelia, yarrow, bedstraw,
verbena and horehound. The amount of Italian thistle was a
little overwhelming. Look for the patch that is flattened where
Fred fell. We saw two beautiful California Sisters butterflies in the
oak glen.– Fred and Nellie |
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Escondido Canyon Park |
Escondido Falls Trail |
Date: 05/22/2011 |
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Escondido Canyon
is located off Winding Way Drive which is off PCH. The parking
lot is near PCH, but there is a long walk through the neighborhood to reach
the trailhead. At the end of the trail is a waterfall. It was
only running moderately today, however, the ferns, moss and algae growing on
the rocks was quite lovely. At the beginning of the trail was the
ever-prevalent black mustard and Italian thistle and also a forest of
hemlock. We also saw: tocalote, blue eyed grass, bush mallow,
hummingbird sage, canyon sunflower, black sage, sticky monkey flower, Indian
paintbrush, deerweed, wild rose, blackberry, purple sage, verbena, sweet
yellow clover, lupine, elderberry, bush sunflower, cliff aster, vetch,
scarlet pimpernel, heart shaped penstemon, hedge nettle, bedstraw and a small
patch of coastal lotus.– Fred and Nellie |
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Rancho Sierra Vista / Point Mugu State Park |
Cabin Trail |
Date: 05/21/2011 |
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Take Wendy Drive
past Lynn road until you reach the trailhead at Potrero Road. There are
several trails in this area. The cabin trail is off the trail which
leads to the waterfall. We found an abundance of flowers and
wildlife. The air was filled with the buzzing of busy
bees. We saw many inside of flowers gathering nectar. We
also saw four types of lizards; alligator, side spot, western fence
and two huge whiptails. One was on the road and another
was hiding in a snowberry bush. We also saw a large gopher snake
slithering across the trail. It was a very rewarding hike.
We were greeted at the beginning of the trail with wild rose bushes.
There was quite a lot of Italian thistle, which has been a usual sight this
year and black mustard also. Other flowers include: wild radish,
sticky monkey flower, California everlasting, California poppy, purple
nightshade, farewell to spring, morning glory, red stemmed and bird beak
filaree, horehound, vetch, tocalote, green bark ceanothus, deerweed, black
sage, verbena, bush mallow, chamise, golden stars, microseris, fiesta flower,
Indian pinks, mountain dandelion, white and yellow yarrow, hummingbird sage,
canyon sunflower, elderberry, scarlet pimpernel, buckwheat, bush sunflower,
wishbone, caterpillar phacelia, fennel, cliff aster, bedstraw, heart leaf
penstemon, lupine, blackberry, hedge nettle, Indian paintbrush, snowberry
(it was a large bush, but only one flower) chalk dudleya and one
cudweed hiding in the deerweed.– Fred and Nellie |
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Topanga Canyon State Park |
Santa Ynez Canyon |
Date: 05/19/2011 |
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Entering on the
Palisades side, trailhead at the end of Vereda de
la Montura St. which branches off of Palisades
Drive. This is one of my
favorite hikes. The creekside area is always green and shady. Be aware that a lot of the green is poison
oak, long pants and long sleeves are a good idea. This canyon is a
gem in the summer time. It gets a lot
of summer flowers after the hillsides have dried up. It is not quite there yet but there is
still a lot of water in the creek and a lot of flowers in bloom. Upon entering the trail flowering black
sage, canyon sunflower and hedge nettle were immediately visible. As I walked along I saw blackberry flowers,
purple nightshade, sticky monkey flower, wild rose, deer weed, bush lupine,
honeysuckle, lance leaf dudleya, sweet pea and wild morning glory in
bloom. The cream bush, which is one of
the special flowers on this hike, is just getting started. I really went on this trail to look at the
chaparral portion that heads of the mountain to Trippett
Ranch. May often has spectacular
flowers in this section. Not this
time. There are flowers worth going to
see, but not the abundance that is often there. There are the usual chaparral flowers;
yucca, golden yarrow, yellow pin cushion, chamise, Turkish rugging,
California buckwheat and owl's clover.
There are only a few specimens of the more exciting flowers that often
occur here; white snapdragon, scarlet larkspur, golden star lilies and globe
gilia. The scarlet larkspur looked as
though it had been browsed by deer.
There were a lot of butterflies; checkerspots,
California sisters, mourning cloaks, swallowtails and a lot of little
blues. – Dorothy Steinicke |
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Paramount Ranch |
Trail behind the Train Depot |
Date: 05/19/2011 |
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I often don't
think of Paramount Ranch as a good hiking spot for sighting flowers,
but this trail had quite an abundance of flowers. It would be a great
trail to take a family with younger children as the trail is short (about an
hour) and the western town is fun and there are bathrooms. Go
through the western town to the train depot. The trail is to the right
and goes up a small hill. Yarrow lined almost the entire trail with
sprinklings of elegant clarkia and woolly blue curls. The yellow and
purple combination was quite appealing. Other notable plants
include: golden current in berry, abundant black mustard, tocalote, red
stemmed filaree, Italian thistle and milk thistle, mint leaf verbena, a very
large horehound bush, caterpillar phacelia, perezia, purple clarkia,
elderberry, chamise, buckwheat, a nice large patch of foothill penstemon,
quite a few yuccas up the hillside, owl's clover, slender sunflower, purple
nightshade, purple sage, golden stars, mountain dandelion, spring vetch,
pineapple plant, and fiddleneck. There is a short trail off to the
left of the main trail which leads to a secluded picnic bench. We also
saw a baby rattlesnake slithering across the road and a horned lizard hiding
in a bush.– Fred and Nellie |
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Malibu Creek State Park |
Cistern Trial |
Date: 05/18/2011 |
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There are some nice
blooms on the Cistern trail in Malibu Creek State Park. The trailhead
is located about 1.6 miles west of Las Virgenes Road on Mulholland Highway,
on the south side of the street. The trail is not signed, but there is
a "no bikes" sign at the trailhead. There is a colony of
Matilija Poppies near the beginning of the trail. I also saw California
Buckwheat, Golden Yarrow, Black and Purple Sage, Deerweed. Purple
Nightshade, Canyon Sunflower, Sticky Monkeyflower, Woolly Bluecurls, Indian
Paintbrush, Scarlet Pimpernel, and Vervain. Continuing west on
the canyon bottom and turning right on the Cage Creek trail there are some
annuals blooming; Elegant Clarkia, Caterpillar Phacelia, and at the junction
of the Cage Creek trail and the Lookout Trail there is some Specked Clarkia.
Further on up the Lookout Trail there is White Popcorn Flower and
Goldenstar. The hike that I am describing is a 2 and 1/2 mile loop:
Take the Cistern Trail down to the canyon bottom and turn right,
right on the Cage Creek trail, and right on the Lookout Trail which
takes you back to the Cistern Trail.
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Castro Crest |
Backbone Trail |
Date: 05/15/2011 |
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The section of the
Backbone trail from Kanan Rd to Latigo Cyn is showing some really nice blooms
right now. This part of the trail heads east , over tunnel #1 on Kanan
Rd. Among the flowers that you will see are Sticky Monkey Flower,
Indian Paintbrush, Golden Yarrow, Fiesta Flower, Mariposa Lily, a
couple of different kinds of Phacelia, Black Sage, Purple Sage, Pitcher Sage,
Wooly Blue Curls, Elegant Clarkia, Canyon Sunflower, and Bush Lupine.
If you cross the road when you get to Latigo Canyon road and continue east on
the backbone trail for a little ways, there are even more nice blooms,
including some Indian Pinks. This trail has some of the best wildflower
displays that I have seen this season in the Santa Monica’s. – Jim Garafalo |
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Red Rock Canyon Park |
Red Rock Fire Road |
Date: 05/15/2011 |
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The park is at the
very end of Red Rock Canyon Rd. which intersects Old Topanga Rd. Be careful on Red Rock Canyon Rd. There are many blind curves and several
places where it is essentially only one lane wide. This was one of
the nicest and most flower filled walks I've been on it a while. The trail is a fire road that heads uphill
out of the parking area. On your right
is a still running stream. On your
left towering rock walls pocked with many worn away holes. There are masses of blooming flowers
clustered together. There is golden
yarrow, elegant clarkia, blue dick, chamise, elder flower, wild roses, banks
of Chinese houses, purple nightshade, virgin's bower in seed pods, canyon sunflower,
sticky monkey flower, holly leaf cherry, California chicory, lance leaf
dudleya, Indian pinks and lots of blue larkspur and farewell-to-spring. The green hillsides above the creek are
speckled with flowering yucca.
Continuing uphill you leave the rock formations behind and find
yourself inside a giant green bowl.
There are still a lot of flowers along the road including black sage,
wild morning glory, deer weed, bush lupine, California everlasting, Indian
paintbrush, California buckwheat purple sage and a few mariposas. There is one stand of surprisingly large
hummingbird sage plants in bloom.
Surprisingly there are prickly phlox and greenbark ceanothus still in
bloom. The road comes to a T the left,
downhill direction will take you to Stunt Rd.
The right continues uphill.
That is the way I went. This
stretch is much more exposed and had fewer flowers but there were still some
rewarding surprises. There was bush
sunflower, yellow monkey flower, woolly blue curls, mustard evening primrose,
popcorn flower, cliff aster and white snapdragon. In one sheltered patch just off the trail
there was a large clump of notable penstemon.
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Malibu Creek State Park |
Crags Road |
Date: 05/15/2011 |
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It was a beautiful
day in Malibu Creek with blue skies and puffy white clouds and a
wonderful day for a hike. However, there were not too many
flowers. We walked from the lower parking lot to the rock pool and then
back to Crags Road past the MASH site to the Malibu Lake
community. The flowers we saw were: black mustard, spring
vetch, storkbeak filaree, Italian thistle,
poison hemlock, yarrow, purple sage, bedstraw, deerweed, bush mallow, sticky
monkey flower, red stem filaree, popcorn flower, caterpillar phacelia,
elderberry, foothill penstemon, farewell to spring, elegant clarkia, some
large wild rose bushes and one brilliant deep red
colored purple clarkia on the right hand side of the road past the
MASH site.– Fred and Nellie |
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Triunfo Canyon Park |
Pentachaeta Trail |
Date: 05/10/2011 |
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The Pentachaeta
Trail is located at the end of Triunfo Canyon Road at Lindero Canyon
Road. The trail was delightfully blooming with flowers. There was
a few large patches of Pentachaeta fairly close to the trailhead. We
also saw elderberry, California poppy, elegant clarkia, yarrow, foothill
penstemon, mulefat, hollyleaf redberry, black
mustard, curly dock, California everlasting, chamise, Italian thistle, purple
nightshade, gooseberry fuschia, milk thistle, sweet yellow clover, pineapple
plant, blue eyed grass, yucca, blue dicks, purple sage, woolly blue curls,
and lupine. We went up a small trail to the right and saw creek monkey
flower and globe lily. The trail went into a dry creek and was so
overgrown we went back onto the main trail, but were glad for the detour to
see both of these flowers. Back on the mail trail we saw black sage,
mint leaf verbena, scarlet pimpernel, sticky monkey flower, golden stars (just
a couple of almost dead ones). Then we happened upon a gopher snake in
the middle of the trail. It looked at us for a few minutes and then
slithered back into the grass. Continuing on we saw deerweed,
caterpillar phacelia, English plantain, and sugarbush.
We ventured up another small trail and encountered miner's lettuce, virgin's
bower and some honeysuckle growing on a scrub oak tree. It was a great
hike!. – Fred and Nellie |
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Circle X Ranch |
Grotto Trail |
Date: 05/02/2011 |
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There is still a lot of water in the
creek and newts cavorting which makes this hike especially nice. There is black sage, canyon sunflower, blue
dicks, blooming sugar bush, sticky monkey flower and purple nightshade. Past the second creek crossing there is a
rock wall with water seeping down it.
It is completely covered in masses of creek monkey flowers with a
gathering of Chinese houses, Santa Monica Mountain dudleya and willow herb
clarkia below it. Really lovely. The trail up to the meadow has popcorn
flower, deer weed, caterpillar phacelia, wild morning glory, California
chicory and woolly blue curls. The
meadow is carpeted with Catalina mariposa lilies and spring vetch. Continuing down through the chaparral there
are star lilies, flowering yucca, golden yarrow, chamise, hedge nettle, blue
eyed grass and hummingbird sage. Look
for more newts in the creek below.
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Circle X Ranch |
Canyon View Trail |
Date: 05/02/2011 |
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This trail does not
have the lovely accompaniment of a nearby stream, but as the name suggests,
there are wonderful views. The
beginning of the trail (branching off from the Grotto Trail) is nearly
carpeted with yellow monkey flowers.
There are twining snapdragons, black sage, California buckwheat,
chamise, blooming yucca, wild morning glory, blue dicks as well as purple
clarkia, elegant clarkia, globe gilia caterpillar phacelia and gorgeous
Perry’s phacelia. There are some
collarless poppies and blooming sugar bush as well as star lilies and
butterfly mariposas. We walked as far
as the creek filled with step pools and lined with blooming red skinned
onions, creek monkey flower and speedwell.
A lovely spot.
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Los Robles East |
Oak Creek Cyn Loop |
Date: 05/02/2011 |
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This is a nice
trail because it is close to Thousand Oaks and easy to access. It is a
good trail to hike when you don't have much time, but want some variety and a
little bit of a workout. Take Moorpark Rd. to where it dead ends at the
mountains. Turn right on Green meadow and follow to the trail
head. The trail starts in an oak grove. When you leave the grove
you'll be in a coastal sage scrub area. The Los Robles east trail
leads up to a hilltop that offers magnificent views of the Conejo
Valley. Chamise and black sage were in abundance. Some other
flowers that we saw include: purple nightshade, horehound, Italian
thistle, black mustard, annual bedstraw, rock rose (right near the parking lot)
white nightshade (near the trailhead), elderberry, pearly everlasting,
gooseberry fuschia, sugar bush, canyon sunflower, popcorn flower, sticky
monkey flower, cobweb thistle (up a small trail to the right), prickly phlox,
deerweed, goosefoot, yarrow, verbena, mariposa lily, sweet yellow clover,
scarlet pimpernel, fiddleneck, tree tobacco, greenbark ceanothus, morning
glory, bush sunflower, stork's beak, and one blue dick. Other notable
sightings include: a prickly pear with fruit, five wild cucumber seed
pods hanging in a row on a tree branch looking like Christmas ornaments and a
yucca in bud. All in all it was a great hike considering it was a quick
get away after work. – Fred
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Paramount Ranch |
Misc. Trails |
Date: 04/29/2011 |
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Leaving the
Western Town area I took the Coyote Trail and then wound around to the
northwest and returned by way of an informal trail through the
grassland. In less than two miles I
saw spring vetch, blue dicks, purple nightshade, golden yarrow, elegant
clarkia (early), wishbone flower (late), elder flower, chia and chamise in
bloom. There was owl's clover,
flowering yucca, caterpillar phacelia and woolly blue curls. In the deep shade there were Chinese
houses, fiesta flowers, hummingbird sage, prickly phlox, sugar bush and
cinquefoil. In the grassland there
were a lot of California poppies. – Dorothy Steinicke |
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Wildwood Park |
Misc. Trails |
Date: 04/26/2011 |
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We started at the
main trailhead on Arboles and headed west, then
down to the creek, continuing west along the creek to the falls, the picnic
areas, and the treatment plant, and then north up the switchbacks to lizard
rock. From there you have a magnificent vista including the lovely broad open
valley looking back east to where you can see your car sitting in the
distance. The only annuals that seem to be doing well are the weedy one's
I'll not mention by name here. It was a lovely hike on a lovely afternoon,
but of the about thirty species found in bloom there was not much to write
home about. Some of the highlights include purple sage, blue dicks, Several
Catalina mariposa lilies scattered in the grassy fields, chamise, California
wild rose, California buckwheat, Turkish rugging, black sage, yucca,
rattlesnake weed (the low prostrate one) caterpillar phacelia, chia, bush
mallow, morning glory, golden yarrow, popcorn flower, wishbone bush, sugar
bush, California blackberry, purple nightshade, and scarlet pimpernel. As you
can see I gave up and added some of the weeds to this list just to make it a
bit longer. – ed. |
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Castro Crest Area |
Backbone Trail |
Date: 04/23/2011 |
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This is becoming
one of my very favorite places to hike.
There are amazing views from the parking lot. Standing at the
trailhead you can see golden yarrow, deer weed, woolly blue curls, black
sage, chamise and wild morning glory in bloom. Descending through the chaparral there is
blooming California everlasting, purple nightshade, chaparral current, sticky
monkey flower and popcorn flowers.
Entering the wooded canyon bottom you cross and recross
little streams. I counted fourteen
water crossings in all. In that wooded
shade there are milkmaids, miner's lettuce, sweet pea, fiesta flowers, johnny
jump ups, fuchsia flowering gooseberry and canyon sunflowers. Rising up again through the chaparral there
are California poppies and blue dicks. Walk as far as you like and return as
you came. – Dorothy
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Circle X Ranch |
Backbone Trail |
Date: 04/21/2011 |
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This section of
the backbone trail from the parking lot at the Mishe Mokwa Trailhead out to
the south side of Triunfo Peak overlooking the ocean and then back is one of
my favorites. It has a good variety of habitats and many sheltered nooks and
crannies which can harbor shy flowers. For this time of year it is probably
one of the best flower producers at Circle X Ranch. The flowering highlights
included bush mallow, golden yarrow, bush sunflower, a couple of the little
native clovers, red-skinned onion, lance-leaved dudleya, bush lupine, chia,
chinese houses, a couple of chocolate lilies still holding on, a few woodland
star, blue larkspur, sticky cinquefoil, a single farewell-to-spring,
elderberry, Parry's phacelia, yellow monkey flower, holly-leaved cherry,
fiesta flower, miner's lettuce, hedge nettle, wild cucumber, sugar bush,
morning glory, california everlasting, purple nightshade, popcorn flower,
caterpillar phacelia, bush monkey flower, black sage, tarweed, silver puffs,
brown microseris, virgin's bower, Chinese houses, woodland star, a couple of
the little wooly-heads, deerweed plus a couple of it’s small lotus
cousins as well, ceanothus megacarpus in a spare second-bloom, rock rose,
Eastwood manzanita, chamise, prickly phlox, buckwheat, woolly blue curls,
blue dicks, Douglas sandwort, and the common fiddleneck. All told well over
seventy different species in bloom but most only in modest to low numbers.
Still, a pretty darn good showing in an off-year. – ed. |
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Oakbrook Regional Park |
Hidden Meadow Trail |
Date: 04/19/2011 |
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The trailhead is
located at the end of Falling Star Ave. which is off of Kanan Rd. Go
all the way to the end of the Cul de sac. The
trail is on the right side of the street. We started out thinking there
wouldn't be much to see. However, we were mistaken. We went at
4:00 in the afternoon, which was a perfect time as the sun was low, the
shadows abundant, and a gentle breeze. Chemise and black sage
were blooming along the whole trail. The scent of black sage
was delightful. We also saw these plants in bloom: bush sunflower,
sugar bush, California buckwheat, prickly phlox, morning glory, black
mustard, prickly poppy ( just one on the left hand side), purple
nightshade, sticky monkey flower, hoary leaf ceanothus, two tone everlasting,
popcorn flower, lupine, wooly blue curls, deer weed, wishbone, nolina,
strigose lotus, cobweb thistle, horehound, caterpillar phacelia, hairy leaf
ceanothus, Brauton’s rattle weed, 1 blue dick, slender sunflower, wild
cucumber, foothill penstemon, and bedstraw. The Brauton’s rattle
weed was located on a side trail to the left just before you reach a large
fire road with a power line. There were five plants
in bloom. When we walked up the hill we were greeted
by several areas filled with slender sunflowers and woolly blue curls.
It was a nice view at the top of the hill.
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Cold Creek Preserve |
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Date: 04/19/2011 |
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We hiked in the
creek bed and along the upper trail. We also saw several California
frogs in the creek. The plants that we saw in bloom: Caterpillar
phacelia, popcorn flower, storksbill filaree,
canyon sunflower, sweet yellow clover, horsetail, morning glory, sticky
monkey flower, sugar bush, purple nightshade, bedstraw, blackberry, poison
oak, mule fat, pitcher/hummingbird sage, miner's lettuce, bush lupine, black
sage, California buckwheat, Indian pink, greenbark ceanothus. – Fred and Nellie |
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Cold Creek Canyon |
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Date: 04/19/2011 |
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We hiked mainly
along the creek but saw a lot of flowers on the path down to the creek and on
another path returning from the creek. There was a lovely grove of
white thorn ceanothus, which is an unusual sight. Most of the blooms on
the white thorns were gone but we spotted a few. We saw a lot of single
stemmed yellow aster-like flowers in the meadow areas. I couldn't find
their name. They had grasslike stems and leaves. These are the
plants we saw in bloom: elderberry, blue dick, purple nightshade, filaree,
wild cucumber, California buckwheat, deerweed, sweet pea, sticky monkey
flower, canyon sunflower, wild dandelion, gooseberry fuschia, yellow sweet
clover, bajada lupine, greenbark ceanothus, pimpernel, black sage, cotton
plant, sugar bush, yarrow, bedstraw, pitcher/hummingbird sage, windmill pink,
blackberry, spring vetch, bur-weed, coastal live oak, shiny lomatium, poison
oak, milk maids, white thorn ceanothus, sow thistle, prickly phlox, pin
cushion, fiesta flower, two tone everlasting, mountain mahogany, chia, yucca,
arroyo willow, scarlet buglar, notable penstemon. – Fred and Nellie |
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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area 401 West
Hillcrest Drive 805-370-2301 |
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