Updated with many spelling corrections on the plant list
Yesterday we went on a Marin CNPS walk at Bull Point, Point Reyes National Seashore led by Doreen Smith. The weather was sunny, temperature 65 F and breezy. In true botanizing style we covered about one and half miles cross-country in about two and quarter hours.The habitat was mainly grasslands with some marshy areas. It is also an area where cows graze and they were present today.
The focus of trip was seeing plants including a number of rare ones. Not much bird activity. Many plants found and identified due to knowledge of leader. Not any significant wildflower displays; trip was truly for the plant lover. I didn’t take time to really do serious photography but here are some quick photos from the day.
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Plant List (in order seen)
for Plant list I used the Marin CNPS list:
BULL POINT TRAIL AND ABANDONED “F” RANCH (aka. OLD PT. REYES POST OFFICE) PT. REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE, This list compiled from field trips of 12 July 2006, 8 May 2007, 22 May 2008, 4 June 2009, July 2010, and June 2011, last updated August 2012. The area offers a variety of plant communities: coastal grassland, coastal scrub, freshwater marsh and saltmarsh.
KEY TO SYMBOLS; LIST IB.1 = rarest plants, LIST 4 = plants of limited distribution, A = species alien to California . This is list is maintained by Doreen Smith
California Poppy/Eschscholzia californica
Carolina Cheeseweed/Modiola caroliniana A
Scarlet Pimpernel/ Anagallis arvensis A
Blue-eyed Grass/Sisyrinchium californicum
Douglas Iris/Iris douglasiana
California Blackberry/Rubus ursinus
Coastal Native Yellow Oxalis/Oxalis pilosa
Cottonball Clover/Trifolium tomentosum A
Pt. Reyes Horkelia/Horkelia marinensis (not in flower) rare List 1B.2
Bearded Clover/Trifolium barbigerum var. barbigerum
California Buttercup/Ranunculus californicus
Dog Violet/Viola adunca
Dwarf Checkerbloom/Sidalcea malviflora ssp. malviflora
Rosy Sand Crocus or Pin Grass-leaved Crocus/Romulea rosea var. australis A
Cow Clover/Trifolium wormskioldii
Red Maids/Calandrinia ciliata
Corn Spurrey/Spergula arvensis ssp. arvensis A
Sand Spine Flower/Chorizanthe cuspidata var. villosa rare List 1B.2
Sand Gilia/Gilia millefoliata rare List 1B.2
Popcorn/Plagiobothrys spp.
Coastal Evax/Hesperevax sparsiflora var. brevifolia rare List1B.2
Goldfields/Lasthenia californica ssp. californica
Little Blue Lupine/Lupinus bicolor
Wild Carrot or Rattlesnake Weed/Daucus pusillus (there are no rattlesnakes at Pt. Reyes)
Pacific Silverweed/Potentilla anserina ssp. pacifica
Yellow-eyed Grass/Sisyrinchium californicum
Creeping Marsh Buttercup/Ranunculus flammula var. ovalis
Candy-striped Claytonia/Claytonia sibirica
Coastal Large-leaf Plantain/Plantago subnuda
Salmonberry/Rubus spectabilis
Brass Buttons/Cotula coroponifolia A
Camas Lily/Camassia quamash ssp. breviflora
Slender White Pearlwort/Sagina decumbens var. occidentalis
Small-flowered Linanthus/Leptosiphon parviflorus “var. rosaceus” rare
Tidytips/Layia platyglossa (all yellow ray flowers)
Sky Lupine/Lupinus nana
White Clover (European)/Trifolium repens
Harlequin Lotus/Hosackia gracilis rare List 4.2
Franciscan Paintbrush/ Castilleja subinclusa ssp. franciscana
San Francisco Owl’s Clover/Triphysaria floribunda
Beach Strawberry/Fragaria chiloensis
Small-flowered Godetia/Clarkia davyi
Johnny Tuck/Triphysaria eriantha var. rosea
Grass Pink/ Petrorhagia dubia
Bird List
California Quail
Turkey Vulture
Killdeer
American Crow
Western Bluebird
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer’s Blackbird
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By: sharonstjoan on April 17, 2015
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