Hi everyone! Thanks for a really wonderful first hike. Unfortunately, I only got a couple of ho-hum meadow pictures, so please feel free to send me some or post in the comments section.
There's no way I can recap all the things we saw yesterday, so if you're interested, I urge you to follow up with your own research. My favorite field guide is the Audubon Field Guide to California (here's a link; I feel like it's been updated since this so if you can get an updated one, do. I think the update date is 2001. https://books.google.com/books/about/National_Audubon_Society_Field_Guide_to.html?id=MtsTAQAAIAAJ).
I also really love the East Bay Regional Park Wildflower Photo Guide - FREE - sorted by flower color, and with an emphasis on common names. Download it here: http://www.ebparks.org/about/stewardship/plants. Get the district-wide one.
You can also scroll down in this blog for things we've seen in recent classes, including Milkmaids, Houndstongue, Indian Warrior, and California Buttercups.
Here are some of the things we saw & some links for more information:
1. Silver bush lupine (and a few other lupines too): http://calscape.cnps.org/Lupinus-albifrons-(Silver-Lupine)?srchcr=sc560d70d4551df
2. The ridiculously diminutive California plantain, obligate larval host plant for the very endangered Bay Checkerspot Butterfly (see my previous email for a description of BCB recovery efforts at Edgewood park): http://www.calflora.net/bloomingplants/californiaplantain.html
3. Cream cups: http://www.desertusa.com/flowers/Cream-Cups.html
4. Blue Dicks (Indian potatoes!): http://plants.usda.gov/plantguide/pdf/cs_dica14.pdf
5. Blue eyed grass (actually an iris): http://www.calfloranursery.com/plants/sisyrinchium-bellum
6. Coast Live Oak: http://www.glendaleca.gov/government/departments/public-works/indigenous-tree-program/coast-live-oak
7. Valley Oak: http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=461
Don't forget to post or email your pics, and I'll see you in two weeks!
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