What We Saw On the Deer Park-Phoenix Lake Hike

Wendy lists these flowers and plants as the ones we found hiking from Deer Park to Phoenix Lake and back on Tuesday, April 29th:

FLOWERS (CAPS means first of the season for this class)

RED Indian paintbrush, CALIFORNIA ROSE

YELLOW cut-leaf sanicle (genus Sanicula, same as footsteps of spring), buttercups, WOODLAND MADIA, broad-leafed mule’s ears

WHITE Modesty, California manroot (aka wild cucumber or Marah, used to stun fish in streams by interfering with their uptake of oxygen), REIN ORCHID (I think Piperia unalescenis), California Phacelia, coastal mourning glory, Hooker’s fairy bells, star-flowered Solomon’s seal, branched Solomon’s seal, strawberry, woodland stars, ONE-SIDED JEWELFLOWER (aka second jewelflower, only jewelflower in Marin that is not endangered)

PURPLE/lavendar Douglas iris, Milkwort aka Polygala (increases lactation), miniature lupine, lupine sp., silver-leafed lupine, ookow, wally basket (aka Ithuriel’s spear), blue-eyed grass, blue gilia (which is purple in my opinion)

PINK Windmill pink (non-native), Clarkia sp., HONEYSUCKLE vine just getting flowers, hillside pea, PACIFIC STAR FLOWER, CHINESE HOUSES, hedge nettle

ORANGE Sticky monkeyflower, California poppies, COLUMBINE

PLANTS WITH NO FLOWERS

Mugwort (wonderful smell!), coyote mint (wonderful smell!), rock lettuce just starting to send up flower stalk, TRAIL PLANT, RED BERRY (had berries, bush), chamise (bush)

FERNS

Chain fern (aka Woodwardia), sword fern, wood fern, goldback fern, coffee fern, birdsfoot fern, maidenhair (black stems used in Miwok basketry), California polypody

GALLS

SPINY BUD GALL WASP on California rose

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