Plant Guide to San Elijo Lagoon Trails From Rios Ave. Entrance, Solana Beach This is a working list, about which we make no guarantees at all until we officially release it. Use at your own risk!
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 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. We had 52 trails in our database when this histogram was made. A number of "1" means the taxon has only been found on this trail among the trails in our database.
Number of Trails
Containing A TaxonNumber Of Taxa
On This Trail% of Taxa
On This Trail1 23 20% 2 9 8% 3 5 4% 4 4 3% 5 3 3% 6 5 4% 7 8 7% 8 6 5% 9 6 5% 10 5 4% 11 1 1% 12 3 3% 13 2 2% 14 5 4% 15 4 3% 16 0 0% 17 2 2% 18 2 2% 19 2 2% 20 0 0% 21 3 3% 22 2 2% 23 0 0% 24 2 2% 25 4 3% 26 3 3% 27 3 3% 28 2 2% 29 0 0% 30 1 1% Total Taxa 115 100% We found 8 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.
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 table 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
Mile s # id? Common Name Latin Name #here #all Begin guide at north end of Rios Avenue, turn right along path into Lagoon. The initial part of this path was a severely disturbed area which had been taken over by arundo, castor bean, and other invasive plants. Those plants were removed in ?? which should help allow native plants to gradually reclaim this area. 1 r *crown daisy Chrysanthemum coronarium / 3 2 *Oriental mustard Sisymbrium orientale / 7 3 *purple wild radish Raphanus sativus / 6 4 *cheeseweed Malva parviflora / 9 5 *foxtail barley Hordeum murinum ssp. leporinum / 15 6 r *nasturtium Tropaeolum majus / 4 7 l red willow Salix laevigata / 11 8 r ~ western choke-cherry Prunus virginiana var. demissa / 3 9 *ripgut brome Bromus diandrus / 25 10 *rescue grass Bromus catharticus / 1 11 ? curly dock? 12 r *castor bean Ricinus communis / 10 13 r *sow thistle Sonchus oleraceus / 18 14 r sp cat-tail Typha sp. / 15 arroyo willow Salix lasiolepis / 21 16 r Fremont cottonwood Populus fremontii ssp. fremontii / 8 End severely disturbed area. Sign: "3 Lemonade berry". 17 r lemonade berry Rhus integrifolia / 9 18 r *poison hemlock Conium maculatum / 4 19 r *campground shrub Myoporum laetum / 1 20 r giant wild rye Leymus condensatus / 19 21 r ~ horseweed Conyza canadensis / 15 22 r fiesta flower Pholistoma auritum var. auritum / 7 23 r common bedstraw Galium aparine / 15 24 wild-cucumber Marah macrocarpus var. macrocarpus / 24 25 r western stinging nettle Hesperocnide tenella / 1 26 r small-flowered melica Melica imperfecta / 22 27 r San Diego fiesta flower Pholistoma racemosum / 3 28 common fiddleneck Amsinckia menziesii var. intermedia / 6 29 l *golden wattle Acacia longifolia / 2 Sign: "4 California buckwheat, Eriogonum fasciculatum" 30 California buckwheat Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum / 30 31 sp miner's lettuce Claytonia perfoliata ssp. perfoliata / 6 32 r fragrant everlasting Gnaphalium canescens ssp. beneolens / 1 33 r sp *rattail fescue Vulpia myuros / 5 34 r California polypody Polypodium californicum / 8 35 California bee plant Scrophularia californica ssp. floribunda / 6 36 sacred datura Datura wrightii / 10 37 r San Diego sagewort Artemisia palmeri / 2 38 r California sagebrush Artemisia californica / 27 39 r ~ virgin's bower Clematis pauciflora / 6 Sign: "7 Laurel sumac" 40 laurel sumac Malosma laurina / 21 41 r wild tarragon Artemisia dracunculus / 14 42 r ~ California pellitory Parietaria hespera var. californica / 2 Sign: "8 San Diego Sagewort"(?) at an Artemisia californica 43 coyote bush Baccharis pilularis / 17 44 *smooth cat's ear Hypochaeris glabra / 14 45 toyon Heteromeles arbutifolia / 28 46 r cream cups Platystemon californicus / 1 47 r canyon clarkia Clarkia epilobioides / 2 48 r *scarlet pimpernel Anagallis arvensis / 10 r Liverworts 49 r redberry Rhamnus crocea / 8 50 r collar lupine Lupinus truncatus / 12 51 r eucrypta Eucrypta chrysanthemifolia var. chrysanthemifolia / 9 r (bladderpod, Isomeris arborea) r (sea dahlia, Coreopsis maritima) 52 *tocalote Centaurea melitensis / 26 53 black sage Salvia mellifera / 25 54 l deerweed Lotus scoparius var. scoparius / 15 Jct. Trail on left; keep going straight. 55 ~ California dodder Cuscuta californica var. californica / 9 56 ~ *shortpod mustard Hirschfeldia incana / 28 57 coastal goldenbush Isocoma menziesii var. vernonioides / 13 58 bush monkeyflower Mimulus aurantiacus / 25 59 foothill needlegrass Nassella lepida / 10 60 California everlasting Gnaphalium californicum / 18 61 *red brome Bromus madritensis ssp. rubens / 26 62 r Pacific sanicle Sanicula crassicaulis / 7 63 California encelia Encelia californica / 10 64 r ? Cryptantha sp. / 65 l coast prickly-pear Opuntia littoralis / 7 66 narrowleaf bedstraw Galium angustifolium ssp. angustifolium / 26 67 *soft chess Bromus hordeaceus / 17 68 l ~ lavender woolly-star Eriastrum filifolium / 1 69 r ~ rattlesnake weed Daucus pusillus / 7 70 r ~ *narrowleaf filago Filago gallica / 21 71 r California-aster Lessingia filaginifolia var. filaginifolia / 27 l Somewhere around here there is a sign: "Galium aparine" at the location of a Galium angustifolium! 72 ? Stephanomeria sp.? / 73 l common phacelia Phacelia distans / 5 74 r Chinese houses Collinsia heterophylla / 8 75 r ~ southern suncup Camissonia bistorta / 5 76 r California poppy Eschscholzia californica / 14 77 long-stemmed buckwheat Eriogonum elongatum var. elongatum / 12 78 r *windmill pink Silene gallica / 14 79 r sea dahlia Coreopsis maritima / 1 80 r ~ purple snapdragon Antirrhinum nuttallianum ssp. nuttallianum / 2 81 golden yarrow Eriophyllum confertiflorum var. confertiflorum / 24 82 l *crystalline ice plant Mesembryanthemum crystallinum / 2 83 r white fiesta flower Pholistoma membranaceum / 2 84 blue elderberry Sambucus mexicana / 25 85 bicolored everlasting Gnaphalium bicolor / 14 86 threadstem Pterostegia drymarioides / 9 87 sp *common cudweed Gnaphalium luteo-album / 3 88 r sp cotton-batting plant Gnaphalium stramineum / 2 89 *redstem filaree Erodium cicutarium / 27 90 l ~ *dwarf nettle Urtica urens / 1 91 ~ *common chickweed Stellaria media / 13 92 r *Crete weed Hedypnois cretica / 7 r Sign closing trail on right: "Area beyond this sign closed"; continue straight ahead. 93 r *hedge mustard Sisymbrium officinale / 8 Guide interrupted here; it resumes on the lagoon trail at a point directly north of this location, heading west, back to car. 94 r *sickle grass Parapholis incurva / 1 95 r saltgrass Distichlis spicata / 8 96 r Parish's pickleweed Salicornia subterminalis / 1 97 r pickleweed Salicornia virginica / 1 98 r alkali weed Cressa truxillensis / 1 99 r *Italian rye-grass Lolium multiflorum / 4 100 r alkali heath Frankenia salina / 1 101 r marsh jaumea Jaumea carnosa / 2 102 r *California burclover Medicago polymorpha / 22 103 r western ragweed Ambrosia psilostachya / 19 104 *sourclover Melilotus indica / 7 105 r ssp saltmarsh dodder Cuscuta salina / 1 106 l *asparagus Asparagus officinalis ssp. officinalis / 1 107 r *brass-buttons Cotula coronopifolia / 3 108 r spiny rush Juncus acutus ssp. leopoldii / 1 109 r *rabbits-foot grass Polypogon monspeliensis / 7 110 r ~ California tule Scirpus californicus / 1 111 r ? unk annual Atriplex triangularis? / 112 l ~ slender tarweed Hemizonia fasciculata / 9 113 r *New Zealand spinach Tetragonia tetragonioides / 1 114 r ~ *four-leaf polycarp Polycarpon tetraphyllum / 4 Sign: "Opuntia littoralis" 115 l sp Opuntia sp. with 1-4 spines / 116 l ? unk grass Ehrharta calycina? / Jct. with original trail; turn right and return to car. Selected plants along trail to west of Rios Avenue. 117 l ? prostrate myoporum? Myoporum parvifolium? / 118 r big saltbush Atriplex lentiformis ssp. breweri / 1 Take path to right into Lagoon. 119 r dwarf lupine Lupinus bicolor / 12 120 r shoregrass Monanthochloe littoralis / 1 121 r *slender-leaved ice plant Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum / 1 122 l ~ slender pickleweed Salicornia europaea 1 123 r *broad-leaved pepper-grass Lepidium latifolium / 1 End trail; return to car.
Comments On Specific Species
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