Flora of Rattlesnake Canyon and Surrounding Area, ABDSP
Introduction This is a flora of the Rattlesnake Canyon in ABDSP, reached via the Villager Peak Trail, and not to be confused with the Rattlesnake Canyon in Poway.
The flora is from our field trips and from iNat observations. There are only four vouchers in this area, but one of them contributes one species to the flora.
Field trips were done on the Villager Peak Trail on 29 January 2008, 25 March 2008, 17 December 2010, 8 February 2011, and 14 April 2018. Field trips were done in Rattlesnake Canyon on 15 December 2011, 19 December 2011, 7 March 2012, 18 January 2019, and 3 and 12 February 2019.
For completeness, this Checklist also includes species found in the neighboring canyons to the east of Rattlesnake Canyon, as well as species found on the Villager Peak Trail.
For more information on hiking Rattlesnake Canyon, see Fred Melgert and Carla Hoegen's page. Their plant list may also have been more recently updated than the one here.
See also Fred and Carla's Villager Peak page.
Checklist for Rattlesnake Canyon and Surrounding Area See:
- Notes on the Scientific Names Used At This Site and
- Information about the links from the Scientific Name and Common Name.
An asterisk before the common name indicates a non-native species.
The column with header Famil gives the first five letters of the Family Name.
The column with label BW links to the photo gallery page for each species at Fred Melgert and Carla Hoegen's BorregoWildflowers site.
The column with label VP gives the minimum number of plants found in the area of the Villager Peak Trail, up to a maximum of 99 plants.
The column with header RS gives the minimum number of plants seen in Rattlesnake Canyon above the Villager Peak Trail. Most of these plants are in the first 2.3 miles of Rattlesnake Canyon. If that column contains iNat, there is an iNaturalist observation of that species that we have not yet seen. The V in that column indicates the single species vouchered at Rattlesnake Spring not seen by us.
Species with no entry in either of the last two columns have been found in Palo Verde or Smoke Tree Canyon.
Version for printing, without lines and other text on this page: html (5 pages) or pdf Clickbook booklet (2 double-sided pages) (also a short form fitting into a single double-sided page by stripping out the clade headers). (See printing instructions for an explanation of these options)
Voucher data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria (ucjeps.berkeley.edu/consortium/; Sun Dec 18 2011)
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Last update: 13 February 2019