sarahashlock's Identifications

"cultivated (or wild) radish/ Jointed charlock"

OPERS Field
36°59'36" N, 122°03'04" W
180 m
The patch is located by a pile of boulders, behind a patch of brush in the South-East corner of OPERS Upper East Field, due North of the Lower East Field.

Desc: low-standing flower with dark veins in the corolla. Basal and cauline leaves are present. This plant is hairy to some-what spiny. These grow in massive patches when able.

Habitat: Open grass field

Associated spp.: Raphanus raphanistrum, grasses

Identified with the Jepson eFlora Project cross-referenced with the plant list provided by the UCSC Campus Natural Reserve.
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Specimen sat about 6 inches off the ground. It had pinnate compound leaves that were deeply divided. The flower had 4 equal petals, 6 stamens (4 long, 2 short). The petals were purplish- white with dark veins visible.

"Bermuda buttercup/ Sourgrass"

East Remote Parking Lot
36°57'54" N, 121°58'27" W
89 m
3rd island to the right of the exiting lane of the parking lot. (facing West) Head to the middle row planter and then head to the planter North-East of it.

Desc: knee-high herb with heart-shaped clover leaves. Stem nodes appear to be whorled. Inflorescence generally about 2x the height of leaves.

Habitat: Inside of a concrete island/planter, a highly disturbed area. In this instance, growing inside and around an oak shrub.

Associated spp.: oak shrub, grasses

Identified with the Jepson eFlora Project cross-referenced with the plant list provided by the UCSC Campus Natural Reserve.

"cultivated (or wild) radish/ Jointed charlock"

OPERS Field
36°59'36" N, 122°03'04" W
180 m
The patch is located by a pile of boulders, behind a patch of brush in the South-East corner of OPERS Upper East Field, due North of the Lower East Field.

Desc: low-standing flower with dark veins in the corolla. Basal and cauline leaves are present. This plant is hairy to some-what spiny. These grow in massive patches when able.

Habitat: Open grass field

Associated spp.: Raphanus raphanistrum, grasses

Identified with the Jepson eFlora Project cross-referenced with the plant list provided by the UCSC Campus Natural Reserve.
Activity

"California/wild/wood/woodland strawberry"

McHenry Library
36°59'45" N, 122°03'30" W
205 m
Near the East-most point of McHenry Library, there is a plot of soil that divides a walkway between the building and the path that leads underneath the bridge to Hahn Student Services.

Desc: This is a basal herb that is generally hairy. There exist sepals and petals, parted in 5s, on its flowers. A hypanthium is also present. The leaves are palmately lobed into 3s and the young fruit is wrapped in the white petals.

Habitat: Along a walkway in a planter between asphalt, a highly disturbed area

Associated spp.: grasses, blackberry

Identified with the Jepson eFlora Project cross-referenced with the plant list provided by the UCSC Campus Natural Reserve.
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In a sunny patch of vegetation 12m from the Kerr Hall bus stop and next to Heller Dr on the UC Santa Cruz main campus. The species is a herb with 1 stigma, the stamens are alternate to corolla lobes and the number of stamen is equal to corolla lobes. In a flat area right before a steep slope into a ravine. The area is sunny without a lot of tree cover due to a busy road next to the patch of vegetation. This specimen was collected next to a redwood forest. Grasses were growing next to the specimen.

Herb with long stem. Basal leaves larger than cauline leaves, ovate or oblong in shape. Flowers clustered at stem terminal. 5 petals that are fused at base, light blue in color, small (4-5mm), yellow anthers in center.

Specimen sat about 6 inches off the ground. It had pinnate compound leaves that were deeply divided. The flower had 4 equal petals, 6 stamens (4 long, 2 short). The petals were purplish- white with dark veins visible.