What We Saw At IVC Open Space

Wendy's tells us about all of the natural world which we saw on our hike in the Indian Valley College Open Space:

FLOWERS

RED

Indian warrior (partially parasitic on madrone and manzanita), SHEEP SORREL (not native, lemony edible leaves)

PINK

TOM CAT CLOVER, PLECTRITIS, HEDGE NETTLE (mint family), field madder, SLENDER PHLOX, dove’s foot geranium (not native), storksbill (not native), shooting stars (pointing up means pollinated), hillside pea

PURPLE/lavender

blue dicks, SKY LUPINE (black dots on white before the flower is pollinated), purple sanicle, wooly vetch (not native), blue eyed grass (Iris family), ground iris, Douglas iris (also saw cream color ones)

YELLOW

buttercups, suncups, SNAKEROOT, lace-leaf sanicle, PRICKLE-SEED BUTTERCUP (not native),

WHITE

fairy bells, milkmaids (4 petals), hairy hog fennel, milkmaids, miner’s lettuce, star lily AKA star of Zigadene. SMALL-FLOWERED NEMOPHILA (same genus as baby blue eyes), NATIVE PLANTAIN (tiny white “Q-tip” but important butterfly host plant), YARROW

BROWN

Mission bells

ORANGE

poppies, sticky monkeyflower (bush)

Also saw leaves of California pipevine, snowberry (shrub), leaves of Pacific star flower, cattails (original disposable diaper).

MISC

Pacific tree frog tadpoles (browner), Western toad tadpoles (blacker), turret spider’s turret

FERNS

BIRDS

Heard: orange crowned warblers (fingers on comb), PACIFIC SLOPE FLYCATCHER (chee-weeep), WARBLING VIREO.

Saw: Red-winged blackbird males, red-tailed hawk, Western bluebird, black phoebe

BUTTERFLIES

SARA ORANGE TIP, California ringlet, veined whites (some puddling), AMERICAN PAINTED LADY, mourning cloak

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