CARQUINEZ STRAIT PARKS 
NEJEDLY STAGING

May 28,  2013
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Hike/Park Description:
The weather was still mild and we hadn't been here for a few years, so in spite of some threats of rain we decided to take a chance on this local park. Luckily the weather stayed dry and 7 of us trudged up Hulet Hornbeck Trail and took our usual Franklin Loop for a nice 4.5 mile hike. We were rewarded with some great Carquinez views, Watched an oil tanker leave port during lunch, and found some new flowers.
 

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Blooming Plants Not Photographed:
NN=Non Native
Achillea millefolium (Common Yarrow)
Acmispon wrangelianus (California Lotus)
Aesculus californica (Buckeye)
Amsinckia intermedia (Common Fiddleneck)
Anagallis arvensis (Scarlet Pimpernel)NN
Calandrinia ciliata (Red Maids)
Cardamine oligosperma (Bitter Cress)
Castilleia attenuata (Valley Tassels)
Cerastium glomeratum (Common Chickweed)NN
Claytonia perfoliata (Miner’s Lettuce)NN
Conium maculatum (Poison Hemlock)NN
Dichelostemma capitatum (Blue Dicks)
Erodium botrys (Big Beak Filaree)NN
Erodium cicutarium (White Stemmed Filaree)NN
Erodium molle (Dove’s Foot Geranium)NN
Eschscholzia californica (Ca. Poppy)
Gallium aparine (Bed Straw)NN
Geranium dissectum (Cut leaf Geranium)NN
Lathyrus vestitus (Hillside Pea)
Lepidium nitidum (Pepper Grass)
Lithophragma affine (Woodland Star)
Lomatium utriculatum (Common Lomatium)
Lupinus bicolor (Miniature Lupine)
Lupinus nanus (Sky Lupine)
Hypochaeris glauca (Smooth Cat’s Ear)NN
Hypochaeris radicata (Rough Cats Ear)NN
Marah fabaceous (Wild Cucumber)
Matricaria matricarioides (Pineapple Weed)NN
Medicago polymorpha (Bur Clover)NN
Micropus californicus (Q Tip Plant)
Mimulus aurantiacus (Sticky Monkey Flower)
Nemophila heterophylla (Canyon Nemophila)
Oxalis pes-caprea (Bermuda Buttercup)NN
Plantago erecta (California Plantain)
Quercus agrifolia (Coast Live Oak)
Ranunculus californicus (California Buttercup)
Ranunculus muricatus (Prickle Fruited Buttercup)NN
Sanicula bipinnata (Poison Sanicle)
Sanicula bipinnatifida (Purple Sanicle)
Sanicula crassicaulis (Snakeroot)
Scandix pecten veneris (Shepard’s Purse) NN
Senecio vulgaris (Common Groundsel)NN
Silene gallica (Windmill Pink)NN
Silybum marianum (Milk Thistle)NN
Sisyrinchium bellum (Blue Eyed Grass)
Sonchus asper (Prickly Sow Thistle)NN
Sonchus oleraceus (Smooth Sow Thistle)NN
Spergularia rubra (Purple Sand Spurrey)NN
Stellaria media (Common Chickweed)NN
Trifolium dubium (Shamrock Clover)NN
Trifolium hirtum (Rose Clover)NN
Trifolium subterraneum (Subterranean Clover)NN
Vicia sativa (Vetch)NN
Vicia villosa (Hairy Vetch)NN

Ferns & Allies Not Photographed:
Adiantum jordanii (Maidenhair Fern)
Dryopteris arguta (Wood Fern)
Pentagramma triangularis ssp. triangularis (Goldback Fern)
Polypodium calirhiza (Nested Polypody Fern)