Laguna Mountains: Preliminary Guide With Plant List: Inspiration Point Parking Area

This is a working list, about which I make no guarantees at all until I officially release it. Use at your own risk!

This guide is especially incomplete, since it was done "on the side" during a fairly-fast-paced hike with a Botany Class.

Introduction and Explanation of Plant Trail Guides

Introduction
Highlights of This Trail
Fieldwork Dates and Summary of List Changes With Time
The Plant Guide
Comments On Specific Species

Introduction

Highlights of This Trail

Some of the botanical highlights of this trail are:

Number of Unique Taxa On This Trail

The following histogram gives the number of trails in our database that contain each taxon on this trail. I had 58 trails in my database when this histogram was made. A number of "1" means the taxon has only been found on this trail among the trails in my database.

Number of Trails Containing A Taxon	Number Of Taxa On This Trail	% of Taxa On This Trail
1	11	48%
2	1	4%
3	1	4%
4	1	4%
5	1	4%
6	2	9%
7	1	4%
8	0	0%
9	0	0%
10	1	4%
11	0	0%
12	0	0%
13	0	0%
14	0	0%
15	1	4%
16	0	0%
17	0	0%
18	0	0%
19	0	0%
20	0	0%
21	0	0%
22	0	0%
23	1	4%
24	0	0%
25	0	0%
26	0	0%
27	0	0%
28	1	4%
29	0	0%
30	1	4%
Total Taxa	23	100%

I found 0 additional species not in the above table, since they have not been identified yet. The unidentified ones are marked with ? or sp in the id? column in the guide, and do not have any number given in the #all column.

Fieldwork Dates and Summary of List Changes With Time

The following table gives the dates the trail was walked and taxa recorded. After each visit, the tables gives the total number of taxa on the list and the breakdown of the taxa without positive identification. See Explanation of Plant Trail Guides to understand the symbols below.

Visit Date	Visit #	# taxa	# "?"	# "sp"	# "~"	# "ssp"

The Plant Guide

Version for printing, without lines and other text on this page (1 page)

mile	s	#	id	Common Name	Latin Name	#here	#all
				Beginning of guide at SR79 and Inspiration Point turnout. Only plants on the right hand side of the entrance road are recorded.
		1		cupped-leaf ceanothus	Ceanothus greggii var. perplexans	/	6
		2		wavy-leaved ceanothus	Ceanothus foliosus var. foliosus	/	1
		3		woolly-fruited lomatium	Lomatium dasycarpum ssp. dasycarpum	/	4
		4		toyon	Heteromeles arbutifolia	/	30
		5		tuberous sanicle	Sanicula tuberosa	/	1
		6		southern mountain phlox	Phlox austromontana	/	1
		7		southern mule's ears	Wyethia ovata	/	3
		8		fire reedgrass	Calamagrostis koelerioides	/	1
		9		Columbia cutleaf	Hymenopappus filifolius var. lugens	/	1
		10	ssp	foothill penstemon	Penstemon heterophyllus var. heterophyllus	/	1
		11	ssp	creeping Oregon grape	Berberis aquifolium var. repens	/	1
		12		chamise	Adenostoma fasciculatum	/	23
		13	?	slender sunflower	Helianthus gracilentus	/	6
		14		*garden burnet	Sanguisorba minor ssp. muricata	/	1
		15		western lady's mantle	Aphanes occidentalis	/	1
				Skip to east end of parking lot.
		16		*African daisy	Dimorphotheca sinuata	/	2
		17		Bishop's lotus	Lotus strigosus	/	15
		18	ssp	baby blue eyes	Nemophila menziesii var. menziesii	/	7
		19	sp	goldfields	Lasthenia californica	/	5
				Skip to north end of entrance road.
		20		hollyleaf redberry	Rhamnus ilicifolia	/	28
		21		silver puffs	Uropappus lindleyi	/	10
		22		Parry's green-gentian	Swertia parryi	/	1
		23		Arizona cypress	Cupressus arizonica ssp. arizonica	/	1

Comments On Specific Species

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Last update: 5 December 2003.