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Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve

Just south of the Town of Los Gatos, on the east side of the Lexington Reservoir, sits Sierra Azul, the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District's southernmost open space preserve. Translated Sierra Azul means "Blue Range." This Preserve encompasses more than 18,000 acres and is the District's ...more ↓

Upright Pepperweed 1
Lepidium strictum
Milkmaids 2
Cardamine californica
hairy bittercress 3
Cardamine hirsuta
bristly jewelflower 4
Streptanthus glandulosus
most beautiful jewelflower 5
Streptanthus glandulosus glandulosus
western wallflower 6
Erysimum capitatum
American yellowrocket 7
Barbarea orthoceras
shepherd's purse 8
Capsella bursa-pastoris
Black Mustard 9
Brassica nigra
tumble mustard 9
Sisymbrium altissimum
sand fringepod 10
Thysanocarpus curvipes
Common Whitlowgrass 4
Draba verna
California mustard 11
Caulanthus lasiophyllus
common sandweed 1
Athysanus pusillus
Brewer's rockcress 7
Boechera breweri
Brewer's rockcress 12
Boechera breweri breweri

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