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Marshall Canyon Hike Description

Plants on Marshall Canyon Trail - February 6, 2011

These are plants I photographed on Marshall Canyon Trail on February 6, 2011. It gives a snapshot of plant life in the middle of winter here. There is very little in bloom. The blossoms pictured here represent all of the species of plants I saw in bloom (except for sunflower [Helianthus annuus] and cliff aster [Malacothrix saxatilis], which I did not get shots of). Except for the wild cucumber and hoary-leaved ceanothus, plants in bloom here only occurred once or very few times for the entire five-mile hike.

Since my primary mission for the hike was mapping and checking my trail description, I was not focused on plant photograph, thus some of the images are not the best in quality.

An asterisk (*) indicates that I am not certain with the identification.

Poison oak Toxicodendron diversilobum Native	Poison oak Toxicodendron diversilobum Native	Poison oak Toxicodendron diversilobum Native
Poison oak Toxicodendron diversilobum Native	Stinging nettle Urtica dioica Native	California peony Paeonia californica Native
Toyon Heteromeles arbutifolia Native	Toyon Heteromeles arbutifolia Native	Bush or Sticky monkey flower Mimulus aurantiacus Native
Purple nightshade Solanum xanti Native	Douglas nightshade Solanum douglasii Native	Pearly everlasting Anaphalis margaritacea Native
Wild cucumber or Man-root Marah fabaceus Native	Currant* Ribes Native	Hoary-leaved ceanothus Ceanothus crassifolius Native
Snowberry (Wild Honeysuckle) Symphoricarpos mollis Native	Chaparral or Foothill yucca Yucca whipplei Native	Wild or Shortpod mustard Hirschfeldia incana (older name: Brassica geniculata) Non-native
Moss*	Moss*	California polypody Polypodium californicum Non-native
Acacia* (next to equestrian facility)	Tree tobacco Nicotiana glauca Non-native	Castor bean Ricinus communis Non-native
Laurel Sumac Malosma laurina Native	Western Sycamore Platanus racemosa Native	Western Sycamore - leaves Platanus racemosa Native
Canyon Live Oak Quercus chrysolepis Native	Canyon Live Oak Quercus chrysolepis Native	Reminder of a past wildfire
Marshall Canyon Hike Description