What We Saw At Olompali

Here's Wendy list of all the flora and fauna we saw on our hike in Olompali State Park:

WHAT DID WE SEE AT OLOMPALI ON April 1, 2008?

TREES

Black oak, buckeye, bay, blue oak, madrone, live oak

FLOWERS (New for this session CAPS)

YELLOW lace-leaf sanicle (aka cut-leaf sanicle), buttercups

RED Indian paintbrush

BROWN mission bells

WHITE milkmaids, California saxifrage, woodland star, hill woodland star, fairy bells, small flowered nemophila, STRIPED CORALROOT (white with red strips, native orchid)

PINK/LAVENDER shooting stars

PURPLE blue-eyed grass, ground iris, purple sanicle, blue dicks

FERNS – a nine fern day!

Goldback, sword, maidenhair, wood, chain, coffee, polypody, shield, lady

MISC PLANTS

Ocean spray (host plant for Lorquin’s admiral butterfly), mock locust (host plant for California dogface), SHEPARD’S PURSE (non-native in mustard family with heart-shaped seed pods)

BIRDS

Acorn woodpecker (white windows in wings as it flew), lots of wild turkeys, black phoebe, red-tailed hawk

Heard: Lots of orange crowned warblers, dark-eyed juncos, warbling vireos

BUTTERFLIES

veined white, spring azure

FUNGI

I still think that was Springtime Amanita even though it didn’t have the striate margin.

MAMMALS

Grey squirrel

MIWOK FOOD

Buttercups (seeds for pinole), bay nuts, hazel nuts, acorns, buckeyes (in time of famine), manzanita (berries), madrone (berries), miner’s lettuce (salad greens), fiddleneck (new leaves for salad), soaproot (tips of leaves eaten)

Edible bulbs/roots: soaproot, milkmaids

MEDICINE CABINET

GI trouble: tea from woodland stars, tea from madrone bark

Fever: yarrow, pineapple weed

Burns: roots of hound’s tongue

Poultice for swelling: honeysuckle

Poultice for arthritic joints: hedge nettle

Urinary/kidney problems: sticky monkeyflower

Respiratory ailments: tea from madrone bark and leaves, tea of hedge nettle flowers and leaves, bay leaves in nostrils

Warts: poison oak

Loss of appetite: juice of miner’s lettuce

Headache: bay leaves bound on forehead

Insect repellant: bay

OTHER USES

Soap: soaproot

Glue: soaproot

Brushes: soaproot

Flutes and clappers: elderberry

Rope: ground iris, hedge nettle

Fish traps: rushes

Basketry: stems of maidenhair ferns

Diapers: lichens

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