| Mile | # | id? | Common Name | Latin Name | #here | #all
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| 0.00 | | | Begin plant guide at southwest corner of Pine Ave and Carlsbad Blvd. This guide only lists plants on the right of the sidewalk that are easily visible from the sidewalk; one cannot necessarily touch the species from the sidewalk.
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| 0.00 | 1 | | *natal plum | Carissa macrocarpa | 3 / 2 | 1
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| 0.00 | 2 | | *European sea rocket | Cakile maritima | 20 / 9 | 2
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| 0.00 | 3 | ~ | *ripgut brome | Bromus diandrus | / 1 | 41
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| 0.00 | 4 | | *creeping Australian saltbush | Atriplex semibaccata | 20 / 9 | 10
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| 0.00 | 5 | | *Russian thistle | Salsola tragus | 99 / 9 | 24
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| 0.00 | 6 | | *marsh rosemary | Limonium perezii | 10 / 5 | 1
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| 0.00 | 7 | | *stock | Matthiola incana | 30 / 9 | 2
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| 0.00 | | | First bench and palm tree on sidewalk.
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| 0.00 | 8 | | coastal goldenbush | Isocoma menziesii+ | 99 / 9 | 11
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| 0.01 | | | Second palm tree and end of this bay in sidewalk.
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| 0.01 | 9 | | sacred datura | Datura wrightii | 10 / 9 | 14
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| 0.01 | 10 | | *sea fig | Carpobrotus chilensis | 10 / 2 | 2
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| 0.04 | 11 | | seaside heliotrope | Heliotropium curassavicum | 10 / 3 | 7
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| 0.07 | 12 | ~ | coast cholla | Opuntia prolifera | 30 / 9 | 3
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| 0.09 | 13 | | *castor bean | Ricinus communis | / | 14
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| 0.09 | | | Second bay with benches. Jct. Walnut Ave.
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| 0.09 | 14 | | *little horseweed | Conyza bonariensis | 50 / 9 | 11
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| 0.10 | | | Lots of cholla.
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| 0.11 | | | A close cholla
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| 0.13 | 15 | | saltgrass | Distichlis spicata | 99 / 9 | 10
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| 0.14 | | | Pedestrian crossing to Sycamore Ave.
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| 0.15 | 16 | | California encelia | Encelia californica | 30 / 5 | 12
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| 0.15 | | | Stairs to beach.
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| 0.18 | | | Jct. Chestnut Ave.
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| 0.21 | | | Third bay with benches.
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| 0.22 | 17 | | *red brome | Bromus madritensis ssp. rubens | / 1 | 42
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| 0.23 | | | Stairs to beach.
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| 0.25 | 18 | ssp | California buckwheat | Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum | 10 / 2 | 40
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| 0.25 | | | Pedestrian crossing to Maple Ave.
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| 0.29 | 19 | ? | unk annual in habit like filago.
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| 0.32 | | | Fourth bay with benches. Jct. Acacia Ave.
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| 0.34 | | | Large water meter.
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| 0.38 | | | Stairs to beach and pedestrian crossing to Cherry Ave.
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| 0.40 | | | Fifth bay with benches, with flower planting in sidewalk that includes a tree or large shrub.
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| | 20 | ? | unk annual like sweet clover (location not precise)
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| 0.42 | 21 | | *Bermuda grass | Cynodon dactylon | 50 / 5 | 20
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| 0.43 | 22 | | *campground shrub | Myoporum laetum | / | 2
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| 0.45 | | | Sixth long bay, from Juniper Ave. to Hemlock Ave.
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| 0.48 | | | Planted tree in grass on left of sidewalk.
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| 0.54 | 23 | sp | umbrella plant? | Cyperus involucratus? | 10 / 1 |
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| 0.55 | | | Stairs to beach; jct. Redwood Ave.
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| 0.55 | 24 | ? | unk annual like sweet alyssum101
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| 0.57 | 25 | | *spotted spurge | Chamaesyce maculata | / | 2
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| 0.58 | 26 | | *giant reed | Arundo donax | / | 8
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| 0.58 | 27 | | *dallis grass | Paspalum dilatatum | / | 5
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| 0.60 | | | Take stairs to beach (just before jct. with Tamarack Ave.), and turn right at bottom, back toward beginning of loop.
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| | | | Locations are not yet precise for the return trip along the lower beach sidewalk.
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| | | | Stairs to upper sidewalk.
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| | 28 | | *tree tobacco | Nicotiana glauca | / | 18
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| | | | Stairs to upper sidewalk.
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| | 29 | ? | spider lily? naked ladies? | Lycoris squamigera? Amaryllis belladonna? | 5 / 1 |
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| | | | Stairs to upper sidewalk.
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| | 30 | | sea-cliff buckwheat | Eriogonum parvifolium | 3 / 1 | 4
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| | 31 | ? | subshrub with leaflet like deerweed11
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| | | | Stairs to upper sidewalk; lifeguard station #28.
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| | 32 | | unknown plant with thick leaf, petiole ~ blade, elliptic blade51
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| | 33 | | *prostrate myoporum | Myoporum parvifolium | 5 / 1 | 1
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| 1.21 | | | Sidewalk curves right and goes uphill.
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| 1.22 | | | End plant guide back at the beginning.
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http://tchester.org/sd/plants/guides/carlsbad_beach_sidewalk.html