What We Saw On The Sky Trail to Bear Valley Hike (July 15)

Wendy lists this flora and fauna from our hike from the Limantour Road trailhead for Sky Trail to Bear Valley via Divide Meadow:

FLOWERS

Orange: sticky monkeyflower, poppy, too much non-native Crocosmia

Purple: skunkweed, selfheal (Prunella), CA aster, coast hedge nettle

Pink: foxglove (not native)

Blue: forget-me-nots (not native), flax (not native)

White: Elk clover, poison hemlock (not native, carrot-like leaves), cow parsnip, coastal morning glory, candy striped Claytonia (aka Siberian candyflower)

Yellow: Coast tarplant (not native), hairy cat’s ears (not native), Lotus sp., buttercups

BERRIES

Ripe huckleberries, thimbleberries, salal, CA blackberry (aka bear berry), flowering currant

Red elderberry (not for eating)

TREES

Douglas fir, bishop pine, hazel (with nuts), adlers (by creek)

FERNS

Lady, bracken, sword, leather

BUTTERFLIES

SATYR COMMA (host plant nettles, hibernate as adults), spring azure (host plants buckeye, Ceanothus, ocean spray, chamise, hibernate as pupae), WOOD NYMPH (host plant grasses)

BIRDS

Seen (at least by some) Quail family with cute babies, hairy woodpecker, dark-eyed junco, osprey, chestnut-backed chickadee

Heard: wrentit, osprey, hairy woodpecker (squeaky dog toy), chickadee

MAMMALS One Sonoma chipmunk

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