Sierra Azul Wildflower Survey April 2008 - Page 2

Wildflower identification in Sierra Azul with the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District. Many photos blurry, sorry, not checking shutter speed and it was too slow too often. Photos are copyright Ellen Finch. You may use on your personal web site or for nonprofit if you give me credit and link back here. All others contact me.

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elf1 > Park biologist IDs as probably a wild pea, Lathyrus species. (I had noted: Vetch of some sort; not sure which variety. ) Near the end of the hike, someone suggested that I include fingers in ALL the photos of flowers for scale, since our reference sheets made them all look the same size. Truth is, in the several shots I did that, the fingers came out crystal clear but the flowers were hazy.

elf1 > Fernald's Iris. I didn't ask who Fernald was, but it was probably this guy.

elf1 > Blue Dicks. Who comes up with these names? (Short for Dichelostemma capitatum.)

elf1 > Sticky monkey flower. Another ubiquitous shrubby plant that I was so confident about getting photos of that I also cavalierly got only one blurry shot. It's called sticky because it feels sticky when you finger its leaves. Not sure why monkey--because monkeys go around fingering its leaves?

elf1 > Globe Lily (or Fairy Lantern). Good thing we had an experienced leader, or we'd have missed these pale (but fairly large) flowers amid the undergrowth.

elf1 > Dang, I'm running out of time. So probably no more links. More Blue Dicks.

elf1 > Small yellow #4. By the end of the day, I was started to see double-- was it just the same DYC (damned yellow composite) I'd seen earlier, or something entirely new?

elf1 > Small yellow flower #5. Buds. I thought at first that these were actually the flowers, but no. More photos later. (Ah ha! I believe that this is Yellow Yarrow, Eriophyllum confertiflorum.)

Park biologist IDs as probably a wild pea, Lathyrus species. (I had noted: Vetch of some sort; not sure which variety. ) Near the end of the hike, someone suggested that I include fingers in ALL the photos of flowers for scale, since our reference sheets made them all look the same size. Truth is, in the several shots I did that, the fingers came out crystal clear but the flowers were hazy.

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