What We Saw On The Bull Point Hike (July 8)

Here's Wendy's roster of plants and critters spotted on the Bull Point hike:

FLOWERS (C = listed by California Native Plant Society as rare or endangered)

PURPLE

DWARF BRODIAEA (AKA earth brodiaea), giant coastal hedge nettle (aka tall hedge nettle), coastal prairie lupine, prunella (AKA self-heal), blue eyed grass

YELLOW

YELLOW EYED GRASS, TINKER'S PENNY, shore cinquefoil (AKA pacific silverweed), seep-spring monkeyflower (AKA common monkeyflower), coastal bush lupine (fragrant!), SAN FRANCISCO GUMPLANT (sticky buds, stems not woody like on prostrate gumplant), HOOKER’S EVENING PRIMROSE, BRINE LOCOWEED (AKA saltmarsh milkvetch, at beach where we had lunch, pea family), lots of the non-native hairy cat’s ear.

WHITE

Brownie thistle, yarrow, LARGE-FLOWERED LINANTHUS (was Linanthus grandiflora, now Leptosiphon grandiflora) (C), Siberian candyflower (AKA candy-striped Claytonia), COASTAL ANGELICA, coast buckwheat (gets pinkish), ledum (aka Labrador tea, shrub with medicinal smelling leaves), POINT REYES HORKELIA (honey-smelling low plant) (C)

ORANGE

Poppy, sticky monkeyflower, COAST LILY (Lilium maritimum) (C )

BLUE

Flax, sky lupine

RED

Franciscan paintbrush, sheep sorrel

PINK

Cow clover, seathrift (AKA sea pink), COASTAL CLARKIA (aka Davy’s godetia), Point Reyes checkerbloom (C), SMALL FLOWERED LINANTHUS (now Leptosiphon), NOOTKA ROSE (at the coast lily spot)

NO FLOWERS, OR NONE AT THIS TIME

Gray willow, coyote thistle (parsley family, not sunflower family like “regular” thistles), notch-leaf pennywort, California blackberry ( some ripe berries)

BIRDS

About 40 white pelicans, one great blue heron, double crested cormorants, CASPIAN TERNS fishing (sound like cat with tail under rocking chair),savannah sparrow, red-tailed hawk, killdeer.

BUTTERFLIES

MYRTLE’S SILVERSPOT (endangered).

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