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LAS POSADAS D.S.F. LAS POSADAS May 20, 2010 Home Trail Description: We started our hike from where Las Posadas Road makes a 90 degree turn and headed east for a quarter mile before turning south. Initially we went through pine forests, then through Oaks and Madrones as we neared Recreation Flat. The Gold Fields, Cream Sacks and Ithuriel Spears covered flat show no sign of dryness even this late in the year. After lunch we headed up from the 4H camp through maples, redwoods and other moisture loving foliage. Finally we bushwhacked it back close to the fence, but I personally would have preferred a regular trail more... even though a little out of the way. Trail Map: here Blooming Plants Not Photographed: NN= Non Native Achillea millefolium (Yarrow) Anagallis arvensis Scarlet Pimpernel)NN Anthriscus caucalis (Bur Chervil) NN Aquilegia formosa (Red Columbine) Briza maxima (Rattlesnake Grass) NN Briza minor (Little Rattlesnake Grass) NN Camissonia ovata (Sun Cups) Cardamine californica (Milk Maids) Carduus pycnocephalus (Italian Thistle)NN Castilleja rubicundula ssp lithospermoides (Cream Sacs) Clarkia purpurea ssp. quadrivulnera (Wine Cup Clarkia) Claytonia perfoliata (Miner’s Lettuce) Collinsia sparsiflora var. sparsiflora (Blue Eyed Mary) Delphinium hesperium (Western larkspur) Delphinium nudicaule (Red Larkspur) Dichelostemma capitatum (Blue Dicks) Dichelostemma congestum (Ookow) Eschscholzia californica (California Poppy) Genista monspessulana (French Broom)NN Geranium dissectum (Cut Leaf Geranium)NN Geranium purpureum (Little Robin)NN Gilia tricolor ssp. Tricolor (Bird’s Eye Gilia) Hemizonia congesta (Hayfield Tarweed) Hypochaeris glabra (Smooth Cat’s Ears) NN Hypochaeris radicata (Rough Cat’s Ears) NN Lasthenia californica (Goldfields) Lathyrus torreyi (Torrey’s Pea) Lathyrus vestitus (Hillside Pea) Leptosiphon parviflorus (Baby Stars) Lotus purshianus (Spanish Trefoil) Lotus wrangelianus (Sub Pinnate Lotus) Lupinus bicolor (Miniature Lupine) Madia madioides (Woodland Madia) Medicago polymorpha (Bur Clover) NN Nemophila heterophylla (Canyon Nemophila) Osmorhiza chilensis (Sweet Cicely) Plantago erecta (Dwarf Plantain) Plantago lanceolata (English Plantain)NN Ranunculus californicus (California Buttercup) Ranunculus occidentalis (Western Buttercup) Rosa gymnocarpa (Woodland Rose) Rumex acetosella (Sheep Sorrel)NN Sanicula crassicaulis (Snakeroot) Senecio aronicoides (Butterweed) Sidalcea diploscypha (Fringed Checkerbloom) Silene gallica (Windmill Pink)NN Sisyrinchium bellum (Blue Eyed Grass) Smilacina racemosa (False Solomon’s Seal) Sonchus asper (Prickly Sow Thistle)NN Sonchus oleraceus (Smooth Sow Thistle)NN Toxicodendron diversilobum (Poison Oak) Trientalis latifolia (Starflower) Trifolium dubium (Shamrock)NN Trifolium willdenovii (Tom Cat Clover) Triteleia hyacinthina (White Hyacinth) Triteleia laxa (Ithuriel’s Spear) Vicia americana (American Vetch) Vicia sativa (Vetch)NN Vicia villosa (Hairy Vetch) NN Wyethia angustifolia (Narrow Leaf Mule’s Ears) Ferns Not Photographed: Adiantum jordanii (Maidenhair Fern) Dryopteris arguta (Wood Fern) Pentagramma triangularis (Goldback Fern) Polypodium calirhiza (Nested Polypody Fern) Polystichum californicum (California Sword Fern) Polystichum munitum (Sword Fern) Pteridium aquilinum var. pubescens (Bracken Fern) Woodwardia fimbriata (Giant Chain Fern)
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