Natural History Wanderings

Lundy Lake

We walked the Lake Trail about a mile in and saw many species in bloom including three penstemon species, lots of Calochortus bruneaunis, two species of Paintbrush plus many Orthocarpus cuspidatus which is a species of flowering plant in the broomrape family known by the several common names Short-flowered Owl’s Clover, Copeland’s owl’s clover, Siskiyou Mountains orthocarpus, and toothed owl’s-clover.

Coyote Mint and Sulphur Buckwheat

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Lake Trail Plant List 7/12/19

• Sierra Onion/Allium campanulatum
• Sulphur Buckwheat/Eriogonum umbellatum
• Blue Elderberry/Sambucus mexicanaSoda Straw/Angelica lineariloba
• Lupine sp.
• Bruneau Mariposa Lily/Calochortus bruneaunis
• Snowberry/Symphoricarpos rotundifolia
• Mule’s Ear/Wyethia molis
• Single-Stemmed Butterweed/Senecio integetrrimus
• Douglas’s Pincushion/Chaenactis douglasii
• Wild Rose/Rosa woodsii
• Bushy Leptosiphon/Leptosiphon nuttallii subsp. pubenscens
• Scarlet Penstemon/Penstemon rostriflorus
• Showy Penstemon/Penstemon speciosus
• Mountain Pride / Penstemon newberryi
• Coyote Mint/Monardella odoratissima
• Mt. Mahogany/ Cercocarpus ledifolius (in fruit)
• Tobacco Bush/Ceanothus velutinus
• Western Wallflower/Erysimum capitatum var. capitatum
• Oregon Sunshine/Eriophyllum lanatum var. integrifolium 
• two Paintbrush/Castilleja  possibly  C. applegatei and C.applegatei sip. pallida
• Short-flowered Owl’s Clover, Orthocarpus cuspidatus