Natural History Wanderings

The Marin CNPS Facebook page has a new posting  with nineteen photos from  this past Saturday for a CNPS post-fire hike at Pepperwood Preserve.  There are photos of recovering burned meadows and some nice displays. The following were shown in bloom:

• Lasthenia californica – slender goldfields
• Platystemon californicus – cream-cups
• California poppies
• Leptosiphon parviflorus – variable Linanthus
• Gilia tricolor ssp. tricolor – bird’s-eye Gilia
• Claytonia gypsophiloides – rosy pink Claytonia
• Ancistrocarphus filagineus – woolly fishhooks
• Calystegia collina ssp. oxyphylla – serpentine morning-glory
• Calochortus amabilis – golden fairy lantern
• Sagina decumbens ssp. occidentalis – pearlwort
• Sisyrinchium bellum – blue-eyed grass

See these postings and others at Marin Native Plants Public Group | Facebook