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Cattail marsh near the bridge
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Cattail marsh near the bridge
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The last puddle of water under the bridge.
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Urtica dioica ssp. holosericea, HOARY NETTLE
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*Foeniculum vulgare, FENNEL
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Persicaria punctata (Polygonum punctatum), PUNCTATE SMARTWEED (white) and *Persicaria maculosa (Polygonum persicaria). LADY'S THUMB (pink)
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*Brachypodium sylvaticum, SLENDER FALSE BROME
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*Brachypodium sylvaticum, SLENDER FALSE BROME
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*Brachypodium sylvaticum, SLENDER FALSE BROME
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*Brachypodium sylvaticum, SLENDER FALSE BROME
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*Brachypodium sylvaticum, SLENDER FALSE BROME
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*Brachypodium sylvaticum, SLENDER FALSE BROME
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Diane dwarfed by tall cattails
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Diane, John and Ann, pleased to have finally emerged from the cattail thickets
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Sambucus nigra ssp. caerulea (S. mexicana), BLUE ELDERBERRY
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we had to go through a big patch of poison oak
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Botanists walking along an artificial ditch near the K-wall
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*Brachypodium sylvaticum, SLENDER FALSE BROME
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Botanists starting to make their way through dense cattail marsh
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Equisetum telmateia ssp. braunii, GIANT HORSETAIL
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Biggest willow
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cattails were interspersed with stinging nettles and bull thistles
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Juncus effusus ssp. pacificus (J. e. var. pacificus), PACIFIC RUSH
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Ann sights the Monterey pines
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Ganoderma applanatum, ARTIST'S CONK
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We're getting closer
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Botanists walking through a patch of Schoenoplectus acutus var. occidentalis (Scirpus a. var. o.), COMMON TULE
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*Cirsium vulgare. BULL THISTLE.
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Neotoma fuscipes, DUSKY-FOOTED WOOD RAT nest
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Scirpus microcarpus. SMALL-FRUITED BULLRUSH
