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0.00 | | | | Begin trail guide at the gate across road, elevation 700 feet, downhill to the south from the parking lot.
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0.00 | r | 1 | | *redstem filaree | Erodium cicutarium | / | 30
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0.00 | r | 2 | | *rattail fescue | Vulpia myuros var. myuros | / | 10
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0.00 | r | 3 | | California sagebrush | Artemisia californica | 99 / 9 | 31
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0.00 | r | 4 | | California buckwheat | Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum | 99 / 9 | 37
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0.00 | b | 5 | | *shortpod mustard | Hirschfeldia incana | 99 / 9 | 36
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0.00 | r | 6 | | *tocalote | Centaurea melitensis | 99 / 9 | 31
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0.00 | l | 7 | | *red brome | Bromus madritensis ssp. rubens | 99 / 9 | 34
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0.00 | l | 8 | | common pepper-grass | Lepidium densiflorum var. elongatum | 20 / 1 | 1
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0.00 | l | 9 | | yellow fiddleneck | Amsinckia menziesii var. intermedia | / | 8
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0.00 | l | 10 | | *gazania | Gazania X (mounding hybrid) | 1 / 1 | 3
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0.00 | l | 11 | | short-winged deerweed | Lotus scoparius var. brevialatus | / | 13
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0.00 | r | | | Sign: "Caution: pedestrians on trail. Authorized vehicles only"
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0.00 | r | 12 | | laurel sumac | Malosma laurina | 50 / 9 | 27
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0.00 | r | 13 | | wild-cucumber | Marah macrocarpus var. macrocarpus | 30 / 9 | 31
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0.00 | l | 14 | ~ | popcorn flower | Cryptantha intermedia | / | 18
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0.01 | l | 15 | | *bermuda grass | Cynodon dactylon | 6 / 2 | 13
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0.01 | l | 16 | | *narrowleaf filago | Filago gallica | / | 28
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0.01 | l | 17 | | *annual blue grass | Poa annua | 5 / 1 | 7
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0.01 | r | | | Sign: "California Department of Fish and Game. Welcome. Dogs on leash only."
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0.01 | r | 18 | | broom baccharis | Baccharis sarothroides+ | 5 / 5 | 7
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0.02 | l | 19 | | *ripgut brome | Bromus diandrus | 50 / 2 | 34
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0.03 | l | 20 | ? | unk rosette almost like sow thistle | ? | / |
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0.03 | l | 21 | | matchweed | Gutierrezia sarothrae | 50 / 9 | 4
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0.03 | l | 22 | | white sage | Salvia apiana | 509 / | 27
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0.03 | l | 23 | | blue dicks | Dichelostemma capitatum ssp. capitatum | 99 / 9 | 28
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0.03 | r | 24 | | *horehound | Marrubium vulgare | 10 / 1 | 17
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0.03 | r | 25 | | bush monkeyflower | Mimulus aurantiacus | 50 / 9 | 29
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0.04 | l | 26 | | coastal goldenbush | Isocoma menziesii+ | 20 / 5 | 4
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0.04 | l | 27 | | south coast morning-glory | Calystegia macrostegia ssp. intermedia | / | 11
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0.04 | l | 28 | | small-seeded spurge | Chamaesyce polycarpa | 2 / 2 | 7
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0.04 | l | 29 | | *Mediterranean schismus | Schismus barbatus | 5 / 1 | 10
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0.04 | l | 30 | | California dodder | Cuscuta californica var. californica+ | / | 12
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0.04 | r | 31 | ssp | leafy daisy | Erigeron foliosus var. foliosus | / | 28
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0.04 | l | 32 | ? | phacelia or eucrypta sp.
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0.04 | l | 33 | | *California burclover | Medicago polymorpha | 99 / 9 | 25
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0.04 | l | 34 | | chaparral yucca | Yucca whipplei | 20 / 9 | 17
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0.04 | l | 35 | | California four o'clock | Mirabilis californica | 50 / 4 | 12
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0.04 | r | 36 | | *petty spurge | Euphorbia peplus | 5 / 1 | 6
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0.06 | | 37 | | western ragweed | Ambrosia psilostachya | 99 / 9 | 24
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0.06 | l | | | (coast live oak, Quercus agrifolia var. agrifolia)
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0.06 | r | 38 | | *Russian thistle | Salsola tragus | 10 / 1 | 21
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0.07 | r | 39 | | San Diego wreathplant | Stephanomeria diegensis | 99 / 9 | 6
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0.07 | | | | Cross small drainage.
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0.07 | r | 40 | | California plantain | Plantago erecta | 99 / 2 | 8
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0.07 | r | | | Display kiosk and porta-potty.
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0.08 | r | 41 | | pygmy-weed | Crassula connata | 99 / 3 | 11
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0.08 | r | 42 | | unk small plants with wedge-shaped leaves like venus hair fern
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0.08 | r | 43 | sp | clarkia sp. | Clarkia sp. | / |
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0.08 | r | 44 | | *mouse-ear chickweed | Cerastium glomeratum | 99 / 2 | 11
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0.08 | r | 45 | ~ | *smooth cat's ear | Hypochaeris glabra | 99 / 2 | 21
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0.08 | r | 46 | | saw-toothed goldenbush | Hazardia squarrosa var. grindelioides | 50 / 9 | 25
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0.08 | r | 47 | ~ | *white-stemmed filaree | Erodium moschatum | / | 10
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0.08 | r | 48 | | *Australian brass-buttons | Cotula australis | 99 / 1 | 9
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0.08 | r | 49 | sp | miner's lettuce (linear leaves) | Claytonia exigua or C. parviflora^2 | 20 / 1 |
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0.08 | r | 50 | | coast jepsonia | Jepsonia parryi | 99 / 1 | 9
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0.09 | | | | Enter shade. Canyon is more than 50% shaded from this point on.
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0.09 | b | 51 | | coast live oak | Quercus agrifolia var. agrifolia | 50 / 9 | 29
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0.09 | r | | | Check for different phacelia or eucrypta sp. here, and earlier branching phacelia
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0.09 | r | 52 | ? | California brome? | Bromus carinatus var. carinatus? | / |
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0.09 | r | 53 | | coffee fern | Pellaea andromedifolia | 50 / 9 | 16
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0.09 | r | 54 | | hollyleaf redberry | Rhamnus ilicifolia | 50 / 9 | 29
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0.09 | r | 55 | ssp | narrowleaf bedstraw | Galium angustifolium ssp. angustifolium | 10 / 9 | 37
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0.09 | r | 56 | | California polypody | Polypodium californicum | 50 / 3 | 11
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0.09 | r | 57 | ~ | goldenstar | Bloomeria crocea | / | 8
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0.09 | r | 58 | | silverback fern | Pentagramma triangularis ssp. viscosa | 50 / 5 | 3
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0.09 | r | 59 | | small-flowered melica | Melica imperfecta | 50 / 9 | 25
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0.09 | r | 60 | | golden yarrow | Eriophyllum confertiflorum var. confertiflorum | 20 / 5 | 38
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0.09 | r | 61 | ~ | *windmill pink | Silene gallica | 99 / 5 | 20
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0.10 | l | 62 | | poison oak | Toxicodendron diversilobum | 99 / 9 | 28
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0.10 | | | | Cross side drainage
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0.10 | r | 63 | ~ | Chinese houses | Collinsia heterophylla | 99 / 3 | 10
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0.10 | r | 64 | ? | checkerbloom? | Sidalcea malviflora ssp. sparsifolia? | / |
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0.10 | r | 65 | sp | miner's lettuce (wedge-shaped leaves) | Claytonia sp. | 20 / 1 |
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0.10 | r | 66 | | *common chickweed | Stellaria media | 99 / 2 | 15
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0.10 | r | 67 | | common bedstraw | Galium aparine | 99 / 2 | 19
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0.10 | r | 68 | ? | fiesta flower | Pholistoma auritum var. auritum | 99 / 2 | 9
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0.11 | l | 69 | ~ | triangular-fruit sedge | Carex triquetra | 1 / 1 | 10
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0.11 | l | 70 | | Torrey's oak | Quercus Xacutidens | 50 / 9 | 6
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0.11 | r | | | Hundreds of coast jepsonia, Jepsonia parryi line the trail for a while here.
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0.11 | r | 71 | | *sow thistle | Sonchus oleraceus | 5 / 1 | 20
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0.12 | l | 72 | | *charlock | Sinapis arvensis | 5 / 1 | 2
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0.12 | l | 73 | ? | rattlesnake weed | Daucus pusillus | 99 / 3 | 13
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0.12 | l | 74 | ? | unk bristly rosette - fiddleneck?
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0.13 | r | 75 | ? | sanicle? | Sanicula sp.? | / |
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0.13 | r | | | (Check for different clover sp. here.)
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0.13 | l | 76 | ? | unk mustard like hedge mustard | ? | / |
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0.13 | l | 77 | | *soft chess | Bromus hordeaceus | / | 25
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0.14 | | 78 | | California-aster | Lessingia filaginifolia var. filaginifolia | / | 35
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0.15 | | 79 | ? | grass like elymus glaucus
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0.15 | r | | | (Check for goldback fern here)
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0.15 | r | 80 | | chaparral beard-tongue | Keckiella antirrhinoides var. antirrhinoides | 30 / 9 | 6
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0.15 | l | | | Post on left, brown except for yellow top.
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0.16 | r | 81 | | fringe-pod | Thysanocarpus curvipes | 50 / 1 | 6
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0.16 | r | 82 | | dwarf lupine | Lupinus bicolor | 5 / 1 | 17
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0.16 | l | | | Jct. trail to Oak Grove.
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0.17 | r | 83 | | young mule fat | Baccharis salicifolia | 3 / 3 | 26
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0.17 | | 84 | sp | Avena sp.
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0.17 | l | 85 | sp | lotus | Lotus hamatus or strigosus? | / |
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0.17 | l | 86 | | bristly bird's beak | Cordylanthus rigidus ssp. setigerus | 3 / 1 | 21
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0.17 | l | 87 | sp | suncup | Camissonia sp. | / |
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0.18 | r | 88 | | San Diego sagewort | Artemisia palmeri | 99 / 9 | 3
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0.18 | r | 89 | | toyon | Heteromeles arbutifolia | 3 / 3 | 34
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0.18 | l | 90 | | chamise | Adenostoma fasciculatum | 99 / 9 | 26
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0.18 | r | 91 | | southern honeysuckle | Lonicera subspicata var. denudata | 20 / 9 | 29
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0.18 | r | 92 | ~ | virgin's bower | Clematis lasiantha | 50 / 2 | 4
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0.20 | l | | | Sign: "Hawks! Vultures! ...".
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0.20 | l | 93 | | redberry | Rhamnus crocea | 5 / 1 | 11
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0.21 | | 94 | ? | one-sided bluegrass? | Poa secunda^2? | / |
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0.21 | r | | | eucrypta | Eucrypta chrysanthemifolia var. chrysanthemifolia+ | 20 / 3 | 14
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0.21 | r | | | (Check for another different lily family species)
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0.21 | r | 95 | sp | Fendler's meadow-rue | Thalictrum fendleri | 99 / 3 | 2
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0.23 | r | 96 | | sugar bush | Rhus ovata | 2 / 2 | 17
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0.26 | r | 97 | ~ | California chicory | Rafinesquia californica | 20 / 1 | 14
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0.26 | r | | | (Check for different clarkia sp. here.)
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0.26 | r | 98 | | mugwort | Artemisia douglasiana | 99 / 3 | 22
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0.26 | r | 99 | | California peony | Paeonia californica | 10 / 2 | 10
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0.27 | r | | sp | (Check for different sanicle sp. here)
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0.28 | r | 100 | sp | larkspur | Delphinium sp. | / |
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0.28 | r | 101 | | giant wild rye | Leymus condensatus | 20 / 3 | 22
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0.28 | r | 102 | | San Diego pea | Lathyrus vestitus var. alefeldii | / | 13
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0.31 | l | | | Post, brown except for yellow top. Broken off at base on 2/3/03, now laying on its side.
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0.32 | r | 103 | | *bull thistle | Cirsium vulgare | 1 / 1 | 10
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0.37 | l | 104 | | blue elderberry | Sambucus mexicana | 1 / 1 | 33
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0.42 | r | 105 | | California everlasting | Gnaphalium californicum | 1 / 1 | 23
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0.43 | r | 106 | | white-flowering currant | Ribes indecorum | 5 / 5 | 11
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| l | 107 | ~ | sacapellote | Acourtia microcephala+ | 1 / 1 | 11
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0.43 | l | | | Jct. Creekside Trail.
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0.43 | l | | | mature mule fat | Baccharis salicifolia | / |
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0.43 | l | | | Sign: "Tracks" with examples of animal tracks.
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0.44 | | | | Cross side drainage
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0.47 | l | 108 | | red willow | Salix laevigata | 1 / 1 | 14
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0.48 | l | 109 | | telegraph weed | Heterotheca grandiflora | 30 / 2 | 20
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0.48 | r | | | Jct. closed-off road/path.
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0.49 | r | 110 | | horseweed | Conyza canadensis | 5 / 1 | 21
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0.49 | l | | | Sign: "Lifeblood of the Canyon..."
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0.50 | l | 111 | | *common plantain | Plantago major | 5 / 2 | 2
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0.50 | l | | | (Check for different bromus sp. here.)
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0.50 | l | 112 | | Hooker's evening-primrose | Oenothera elata ssp. hirsutissima | 30 / 3 | 3
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0.50 | l | 113 | | arroyo willow | Salix lasiolepis | 2 / 2 | 24
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0.51 | l | 114 | | *bristly ox-tongue | Picris echioides | 5 / 1 | 7
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0.51 | l | 115 | | yerba mansa | Anemopsis californica | 20 / 1 | 2
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0.51 | l | 116 | ~ | stinging nettle | Urtica dioica ssp. holosericea | 20 / 1 | 8
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0.51 | l | 117 | | *rabbits-foot grass | Polypogon monspeliensis | 1 / 1 | 11
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0.51 | | | | Road formerly had large cobbles in it here to fill in a wet spot, but road was regraded in 2003, removing the cobbles.
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0.57 | l | | sp | (sedge like San Diego sedge, Carex spissa)
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0.60 | | 118 | | western sycamore | Platanus racemosa | 5 / 2 | 17
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0.63 | l | | | Large isolated boulder
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0.65 | | 119 | | goldenrod | Solidago californica | 20 / 3 | 24
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0.65 | r | 120 | | California maidenhair fern | Adiantum jordanii | 50 / 2 | 6
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0.67 | r | 121 | ssp | sticky cinquefoil | Potentilla glandulosa ssp. glandulosa | 10 / 1 | 6
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0.67 | | | | View into Creekbed on left, with the following 4 species visible: San Diego sedge?, Carex spissa?, desert wild grape, Vitis girdiana, cattail, Typha sp., and another sedge. At mile 0.72, one can scramble into the creekbed without going through poison oak.
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0.70 | r | 122 | | milk maids | Cardamine californica var. californica | 10 / 1 | 4
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0.71 | l | | | Poison oak-free short scramble to creek bed.
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0.72 | r | 123 | | climbing bedstraw | Galium nuttallii ssp. nuttallii | 1 / 1 | 14
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0.72 | r | | | (Check for different wild pea sp. here.)
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0.73 | r | | | (Check for Rhamnus pilosa here; specimen has densely hairy twigs and lvs.)
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0.79 | l | 124 | | California blackberry | Rubus ursinus | 50 / 1 | 11
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0.80 | | | | Cross side drainage
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0.80 | r | 125 | | umbrella sedge | Cyperus eragrostis | 5 / 1 | 4
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0.81 | r | | | Jct. road to Lake Poway; elevation ~665 feet; sign on r: "Lake Poway [to right]"; sign on l: "Espola Road 0.9 mi [back] Lake Ramona 2 mi". Go right.
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0.89 | | | | Leave shaded canyon for open chaparral.
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0.89 | b | 126 | sp | filaree | Erodium brachycarpum or botrys. | 99 / 1 |
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0.90 | l | 127 | | California poppy | Eschscholzia californica | 20 / 1 | 20
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0.90 | l | | | Check for different clarkia here when it blooms.
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0.91 | r | | | Sign: "Poison Oak". Jct. road to campground.
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0.93 | l | | | Jct. road / path.
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0.95 | b | | | Jct. firebreak / boundary of BSER. Firebreak is signed "Do Not Enter". Go straight, enter Lake Poway Recreation Area.
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0.99 | r | | | View of Lake Poway Dam.
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1.01 | | 128 | sp | Mariposa lily. | Calochortus sp. | / |
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1.01 | l | 129 | | bird's-foot fern | Pellaea mucronata var. mucronata | 1 / 1 | 19
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1.04 | r | 130 | | dove weed | Eremocarpus setigerus | 5 / 1 | 10
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1.04 | r | 131 | | Bathroom building of Campground (running water).
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1.04 | r | 132 | | *London rocket | Sisymbrium irio | 5 / 1 | 6
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1.04 | r | 133 | sp | *Mexican tea | Chenopodium ambrosioides | 3 / 1 | 6
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1.10 | r | 134 | ~ | *curly dock | Rumex crispus | 5 / 1 | 13
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1.11 | l | 135 | | *smilo grass | Piptatherum miliaceum | 30 / 1 | 14
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1.12 | l | | | (purple wild radish, Raphanus sativus)
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1.12 | | | | Cross small drainage; begin short section of steep uphill.
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1.13 | l | | | (mission manzanita, Xylococcus bicolor)
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1.16 | l | | | Jct. Lake Poway Trail; go left and take it; elevation ~720 feet. Sign: "[on Lake Poway Trail: Lake Poway Trail 1.9 miles; Mt. Woodson Trail 1.0 miles. [going back on the road]: Lake Ramona 1.9 miles; Campground 0.1 mile."
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1.17 | b | 136 | | mission manzanita | Xylococcus bicolor | 20 / 9 | 10
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1.19 | l | | | popcorn flower | Cryptantha clevelandii or intermedia+ | / |
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1.19 | r | 137 | | threadstem | Pterostegia drymarioides | 5 / 5 | 13
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1.19 | r | 138 | ~ | California filago | Filago californica | 20 / 1 | 12
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1.19 | l | 139 | | virgin's bower | Clematis pauciflora | 5 / 2 | 7
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1.20 | b | 140 | | southern tauschia | Tauschia arguta | 20 / 1 | 4
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1.20 | r | 141 | sp | California suncup? | Camissonia californica? | / |
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1.20 | l | | | Post with a number "6".
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1.21 | l | 142 | | Robinson's pepper-grass | Lepidium virginicum var. robinsonii | 20 / 1 | 2
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1.21 | | | | Cross major drainage.
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1.21 | b | | | (Pampas grass, Cortaderia jubata)
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1.21 | b | 143 | | California fuchsia | Epilobium canum ssp. canum | 5 / 1 | 10
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1.21 | r | 144 | ~ | cotton-batting plant | Gnaphalium stramineum | 2 / 1 | 9
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1.23 | | | | Cross side drainage
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1.25 | l | | | Check lepidium sp. here (not nitidum^2)
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1.25 | l | 145 | | San Diego jewelflower | Caulanthus heterophyllus var. heterophyllus | 20 / 5 | 3
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1.26 | | | | Trail curves right 90°
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1.27 | r | 146 | | lanceleaf dudleya | Dudleya lanceolata | 5 / 2 | 16
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1.29 | | | | Trail curves left 90°
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1.30 | r | 147 | | California chalk lettuce | Dudleya pulverulenta ssp. pulverulenta | 5 / 5 | 7
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1.32 | r | 148 | | baby blue eyes | Nemophila menziesii var. integrifolia | 20 / 1 | 2
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1.32 | r | 149 | sp | skunkweed | Navarretia sp. | 20 / 1 |
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1.32 | r | 150 | sp | prickly cryptantha? | Cryptantha muricata? | / |
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1.33 | r | | | Check for another different clarkia here when it blooms.
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1.33 | r | 151 | ~ | purple snapdragon | Antirrhinum nuttallianum | / | 4
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1.33 | l | 152 | | branching phacelia | Phacelia ramosissima var. latifolia | / | 20
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1.37 | r | 153 | | Parry's phacelia | Phacelia parryi | 2 / 1 | 4
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1.38 | | | | Trail makes a long curve right 90°
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1.40 | r | | | Jct. shortcut.
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1.40 | b | 154 | | giant needlegrass | Achnatherum coronatum | 1 / 1 | 17
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1.41 | r | | | Sign: "Lake Poway Trail 1.0 mile"; switchback right.
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1.53 | l | 155 | ? | robust rosette like fiddleneck | ? | / |
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1.57 | l | 156 | | collar lupine | Lupinus truncatus | 5 / 2 | 15
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1.61 | | | | Switchback left.
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1.63 | | | | Switchback right.
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1.66 | r | 157 | ~ | *common groundsel | Senecio vulgaris | 1 / 1 | 11
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1.67 | l | 158 | | Bigelow's spike-moss | Selaginella bigelovii | / | 13
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1.69 | | | | Switchback left; good view of water in Lake Poway.
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1.70 | | | | Switchback right.
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1.70 | l | 159 | ~ | shining peppergrass | Lepidium nitidum var. nitidum | 20 / 1 |
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1.71 | r | 160 | ~ | *foxtail chess | Bromus madritensis ssp. madritensis | / | 1
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1.74 | | | | Local high point of trail; elevation ~980 feet; descend to path around Lake Poway.
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1.76 | r | 161 | | California brickellbush | Brickellia californica | 20 / 3 | 21
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1.80 | r | 162 | | stinging lupine | Lupinus hirsutissimus | 3 / 2 | 11
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1.80 | l | 163 | ? | yellow pincushion? | Chaenactis glabriuscula? | / |
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1.83 | l | 164 | ~ | showy penstemon | Penstemon spectabilis var. spectabilis | 1 / 1 | 8
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1.83 | l | 165 | sp | meally white pincushion? | Chaenactis artemisiifolia? | / |
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1.88 | l | 166 | | bicolored everlasting | Gnaphalium bicolor | 1 / 1 | 19
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1.88 | r | | | Jct. with trail across upper dam surface; sign: "Lake Poway Trail 1.5".
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1.90 | l | 167 | | *fountain grass | Pennisetum setaceum | 20 / 2 | 6
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1.98 | l | | | Two porta-potties.
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1.98 | l | 168 | | *Peruvian pepper tree | Schinus molle | 1 / 1 | 5
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1.99 | | | | Pine Point.
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2.01 | r | 169 | ~ | slender sunflower | Helianthus gracilentus | 5 / 1 | 9
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2.07 | | | | Cross drainage; two porta-potties.
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2.09 | | 170 | | *nit grass | Gastridium ventricosum | / | 14
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2.10 | r | 171 | | black sage | Salvia mellifera | / | 27
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2.17 | r | | | Post with a number "9" at a mission manzanita and a wild cucumber.
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2.18 | r | | | Two porta-potties.
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2.20 | l | | | Jct. with trail to Mt. Woodson; elevation ~1000 feet. Sign: "[along the trail to Woodson]: Mt. Woodson Trail 1.0; Fry-Koegel Trail 0.9; Mt. Woodson Estates 2.8; Warren Creek 3.1; Highway 67 3.3. [along the Lake Poway Trail back the way you came]: Campground 1.1; Park Info Office 1.9; [along the Lake Poway Trail continuing forward]: Lake Poway Park 2.8".
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2.20 | | | | Trail guide ends here. Continue with either the Trail to Mt. Woodson or the Lake Poway Trail around the Lake.
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http://tchester.org/sd/plants/guides/bser/bser_to_mt_woodson_trail.html