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Slender Hairgrass (Deschampsia elongata)Observer
rawlingstimbyDescription
Dense patch, perennial with upright narrow inflorescence < 1 cm wide; just coming into bloom. Coastal prairie
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By-the-wind Sailor (Velella velella)Observer
rawlingstimbyDescription
thousands; intertidal zone
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Fire Evax (Hesperevax acaulis var. ambusticola)Observer
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opening in serpentine chaparral, with Mimulus douglasii. Photos by Alice Cummings
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Prairie Woodrush (Luzula macrantha)Observer
rawlingstimbyDescription
widespread usually in oak woodland
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Little Pectocarya (Pectocarya pusilla)Observer
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hundreds of tiny plants in dense patch, white flowering, some already showing cross-shaped (4) nutlets. Growing in transition between chaparral and oak woodland in opening dominated by Stipa lepida
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Fendler's Meadow-Rue (Thalictrum fendleri)Observer
rawlingstimbyDescription
Thalictrum fendleri Engelm. in A. Gray var. polycarpum [syn Thalictrum polycarpum]. Many plants occupying a portion of veg reduction zone (for fire)
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California Manyseed (Polycarpon depressum)Observer
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many plants, flowering, with Cryptantha, Ligfia filaginoides. Edge of chaparral adjacent to Palmer oak copse. Greenstone
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Timwort (Cicendia quadrangularis)Observer
rawlingstimbyDescription
small patch 25+ plants; sandstone substrate
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Tuberous Sanicle (Sanicula tuberosa)Observer
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2 plants flowering in rocky serpentine, north facing slope
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Fire Evax (Hesperevax acaulis var. ambusticola)Observer
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with Leptosiphon pygmaeus, Madia exigua, Pectocarya pusilla
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Western Nettle (Hesperocnide tenella)Observer
rawlingstimbyDescription
edge of chaparral
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Fleshy Lupine (Lupinus affinis)Observer
rawlingstimbyDescription
locally abundant w L. nanus. Annual
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Hoary Bowlesia (Bowlesia incana)Observer
rawlingstimbyDescription
widespread in different communities on trail 9
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Pubescent-fruited Buttercup (Ranunculus hebecarpus)Observer
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locally common
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Scytheleaf Onion (Allium falcifolium)Observer
rawlingstimbyDescription
small patch in rocky serpentine adjacent to small drainage
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Crinkle-awn Fescue (Festuca subuliflora)Observer
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Observer Ken Hickman, John Rawlings
Number of Plants 51 - 100
Elevation 180 meters
Notes much more bunchrass and more widespread than originally observed
Other Santa Cruz Mtns iNat reports
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Confused Canary-Grass (Phalaris brachystachys)Observer
rawlingstimbyDescription
Annual. Scattered plants in annual grassland. Specimen JROH6235. The iNat reference photo is not representative of the typical infl which is "usually ovoid to ellipsoid, occasionally cylindrical" (FNA)
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Sanddune Bluegrass (Poa douglasii)Observer
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Locally common rhizomatous perennial; dioecious endemic; typically in sand dunes. Dry seedheads. Its hairy rachises distinguish P. douglasii from other species of Poa. With Calystegia soldanella, Distichlis spicata, Elymus mollis, Isolepis cernua, Plantago maritima. CAS Catalog #: 686353. Additional collectors Toni Corelli, Sara Timby
Photo detail:
- Spikelet with glumes removed (dioecious but not not sexually dimorphic)
- Lemma hairy on keel
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Scribner's Grass (Scribneria bolanderi)Observer
rawlingstimbyDescription
a few scattered small annuals; thin soil rocky serpentinite; damp place. Widespread on the Preserve in similar habitat. A monotypic genus endemic to the North America Pacific states. Multiple specimen collections for San Mateo County: Jasper Ridge, Edgewood Preserve, San Bruno Mtn.
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Purple False-Brome (Brachypodium distachyon)Observer
rawlingstimbyDescription
locally dominate, most plants short to 6 inches tall, light green
Habitat: Annual grassland, SW slope, Greenstone substrate. Growing with Avena, Vulpia, Bromus hordeaceus (dry seedheads in photo)
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Tufted Feather-Moss (Scleropodium cespitans)Observer
rawlingstimbyDescription
?. common and widespread soul muss
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Short-stalked Woodrush (Luzula subsessilis)Observer
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Scattered plants in damp ground, flowering based on Jepson eFlora.
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Dwarf Checkerbloom (Sidalcea malviflora ssp. malviflora)Observer
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widely spaced small patches, mostly still vegetative
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California Fescue (Festuca californica)Observer
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small patches, no overstory on N-S trending ridge. stems with hairy collars
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California Fescue (Festuca californica)Observer
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scattered dense patches along trail NW facing bank
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about 50 canes in flower or bud; riparian, with willows, Ribes divaricata
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Rattail Sixweeks Grass (Festuca myuros)Observer
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Vulpia myuros (L.) K. C. Gmelin. var. hirsuta Hack. = Festuca megalura Nutt. Dense patches of small, flowering annuals, with Aira caryophyllea, Arnica discoidea, Cryptantha clevelandii, Vulpia bromoides,
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Rattail Sixweeks Grass (Festuca myuros)Observer
rawlingstimbyDescription
depauperate dense patches, with Bromus hordeaceus, Castilleja densiflora, Lessingia hololeuca. Santa Clara formation. Minute lower glume helps separate from Festuca bromoides.
