This page contains observations from 27 May 2001 to 27 July 2001.
27 May - 9 June observations: 27, 31 May; 4 and 9 June on Vernal Pool, S. Los Santos, Multiuse (Wiashal), S. Trans Preserve, and Granite Loop Trails; Hidden Valley Road.
Plants in bloom:
The current bloom is now well past its peak overall except at the Pool. In the grasslands, annual grasses obscure many of the flowers. The chaparral areas have the best overall blooms. Although the best displays are over, there are still new beautiful species coming into bloom every day, and ~70 different species of flowers in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves.
Best displays:
- The downingia at the Main Vernal Pool.
- The creamy white blooms of chamise along the Multiuse, Granite Loop, Vernal Pool and Punta Mesa Trails.
New species beginning bloom recently (dates are when I first observed them):
- 9 June: yellow Mariposa lily, poison oak (red leaves), coyote thistle (San Diego button celery), San Diego tarweed, California everlasting ("dried flowers").
- 4 June: loosestrife, downy monkeyflower, showy penstemon, Turkish rugging, violet snapdragon, yellow and white pincushion flowers, chaparral beard-tongue.
- 31 May: narrow-leaved bedstraw (seed), white-flowering currant (berries), soap plant, holly-leaf skunkweed, unk 1" high yellow flower.
- 27 May: canchalagua, wild rock rose, mustang mint, fringed Indian pink, redberry (berries), vervain, branching phacelia, salsify.
There are currently 17 species not yet at full bloom, another 38 species in full bloom, 27 species ending their bloom, and 87 species that are finished blooming.
The lovely blue downingia is producing patches of color and a pleasant smell along the boardwalk at the Main Pool. Grasses are producing a brown ring at the edge of the Pool, and slender tarweed is forming a yellow ring just outside that. The coyote thistle (San Diego button celery) is just beginning to bloom and give off its bologna smell.
List of plants in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves:
- Beginning: California buckwheat, chaparral beard-tongue, white-flowering currant (berries), California everlasting ("dried flowers"), two-tone everlasting, hollyleaf redberry (green berries), wild honeysuckle, loosestrife, yellow Mariposa lily, poison oak (red leaves), prickly pear, redberry (berries), white sage, soap plant, sticky tarweed, cobwebby (purple) thistle, coyote thistle (San Diego button celery).
- Full: narrow-leaved bedstraw (seed), canchalagua, chamise, Spanish clover, curly dock (red stem and seeds), leafy daisy, deerweed, dodder (orange stem), downingia, lanceleaf dudleya, elderberry, California everlasting (flowers), gray linear-leaf everlasting, fringed Indian pink, wild heliotrope, horehound, locoweed (seeds), mission manzanita (red and black berries), mustang mint, branching phacelia, yellow and white pincushion flowers, purple needle grass, rattlesnake weed (Chamaesyce), redberry (flowers), salsify, holly-leaf skunkweed, hooked skunkweed, slender madia, violet snapdragon, spike rush, slender tarweed, three spot, tocalote (Maltese star thistle), Turkish rugging, vervain, wild rock rose, dwarf woolly marbles.
- Ending: narrow-leaved bedstraw (flowers), bee plant, black sage, brass buttons, earth brodiaea, California poppy, winecup clarkia, common cryptantha, narrow-leaf filago, redstem filaree, golden stars (yellow star lily), blue larkspur, splendid mariposa lily, downy monkeyflower, morning glory, mustard, hedge mustard, foothill penstemon, showy penstemon, scarlet pimpernel, pineapple weed, popcorn flower sp., short popcorn flower at pools, hollyleaf redberry (flowers), silver puffs, golden yarrow, yerba santa.
- Ended: angel's gilia, baby blue eyes, balloon clover, bedstraw, blennosperma, blue dicks, blue-eyed grass, threadleaved brodiaea, California buttercup, wild Canterbury bells, hoaryleaf ceanothus, checkerbloom, chia, Chinese houses, chocolate lilies, cinquefoil, bur-clover, tree clover, yellow clover, an unknown clover, cottonweed, Crete weed, wild cucumber, white-flowering currant (flowers), eucrypta, fairy lantern (white globe lily), fiddleneck, fiesta flower, cut-leaved geranium, goldentop, goldfields, ground pinks, johnny-jump-up, Ramona lilac, linanthus sp.?, locoweed (flowers), common lomatium (flowers), common lomatium (purple seeds), single yellow flower lotus sp., multiflowered lotus, arroyo lupine, collar lupine, bush lupine, Coulter's lupine, dwarf lupine, white-whorled lupine, Eastwood manzanita, mission manzanita (flowers), milkmaids, miner's lettuce, bush monkeyflower, California sweet cicely, muilla, coast live oak, Engelmann oak, scrub oak, poison oak, red-skinned onion, owl's clover (two species), wild pea, California peony, common phacelia, purple nightshade, rattlesnake weed (daucus), Pacific sanicle, purple sanicle, yellow sanicle, redmaids, sand spurrey, shepherd's purse (seeds), shining peppergrass (seeds), shooting star, smooth cat's ear, wild sorrel, spoked fringe pod (seeds), squaw bush, sugarbush (flowers), sugarbush (pink fruit), elk thistle, sow thistle, blue toadflax, vetch, water crowfoot, windmill pink (common catchfly), chaparral yucca (Our Lord's Candle), (unknown low vine growing in shade along VP trail).
12-25 June observations: 12, 17, 21 and 25 June on Punta Mesa, Vernal Pool, Multiuse (Wiashal), S. Trans Preserve, Vista Grande and Granite Loop Trails; Waterline, Monument Hill and Hidden Valley Roads.
Plants in bloom:
The current bloom is now well past its peak overall everywhere. In the grasslands, annual grasses obscure many of the flowers. The chaparral areas have the best overall blooms. Although the best displays are over, there are still new beautiful species coming into bloom every day, and ~80 different species of flowers in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves.
Best display: the many different species in bloom along the Granite Loop Trail.
New species beginning bloom recently (dates are when I first observed them):
- 25 June: knotweed
- 21 June: sticky tarweed, doveweed, squaw bush (red leaves), toyon, California matchweed, hedge nettle, Hooker's evening primrose, seep monkeyflower, Durango root.
- 17 June: poison oak (white berries), prickly lettuce, heart-leaved penstemon, Eastwood manzanita (berries), Himalaya berry, Indian milkweed, bush mallow.
- 12 June: narrow-leaf milkweed, wild honeysuckle (berries), laurel sumac, squawbush (berries).
There are currently 22 species not yet at full show, another 31 species in full show, 27 species ending their show, and 109 species that are finished with their display.
At the Main Pool, the coyote thistle (San Diego button celery) is almost in full bloom and is giving off its bologna smell. All other plants there are ending their bloom.
List of plants in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves:
- Beginning: white-flowering currant (berries), doveweed, California everlasting ("dried flowers"), Himalaya berry, hollyleaf redberry (green berries), wild honeysuckle (berries), knotweed, laurel sumac, bush mallow, Eastwood manzanita (berries), yellow Mariposa lily, California matchweed, Indian milkweed, heart-leaved penstemon, poison oak (red leaves), poison oak (white berries), prickly lettuce, squawbush (red leaves and berries), San Diego tarweed, sticky tarweed, coyote thistle (San Diego button celery), toyon.
- Full: narrow-leaved bedstraw (seed), California buckwheat, chaparral beard-tongue, curly dock (red stem and seeds), dodder (orange stem), downy monkeyflower, Durango root, elderberry, California everlasting (flowers), hedge nettle, wild heliotrope, wild honeysuckle (flowers), loosestrife, mission manzanita (red and black berries), narrow-leaf milkweed, seep monkeyflower, mustang mint, prickly pear, Hooker's evening primrose, purple needle grass, rattlesnake weed (Chamaesyce), redberry (berries), white sage, holly-leaf skunkweed, hooked skunkweed, slender madia, vining snapdragon, soap plant, cobwebby (red) thistle, Turkish rugging, dwarf woolly marbles.
- Ending: narrow-leaved bedstraw (flowers), canchalagua, chamise, winecup clarkia, Spanish clover, common cryptantha, deerweed, downingia, lanceleaf dudleya, horehound, fringed Indian pink, leafy daisy, locoweed (seeds), splendid mariposa lily, mustard, hedge mustard, foothill penstemon, showy penstemon, yellow and white pincushion flowers, hollyleaf redberry (flowers), wild rock rose, salsify, slender tarweed, three spot, tocalote (Maltese star thistle), vervain.
- Ended: angel's gilia, baby blue eyes, balloon clover, bedstraw, bee plant, black sage, blennosperma, blue dicks, blue-eyed grass, brass buttons, earth brodiaea, threadleaved brodiaea, California buttercup, California poppy, wild Canterbury bells, hoaryleaf ceanothus, checkerbloom, chia, Chinese houses, chocolate lilies, cinquefoil, bur-clover, tree clover, yellow clover, an unknown clover, cottonweed, Crete weed, wild cucumber, white-flowering currant (flowers), eucrypta, fairy lantern (white globe lily), fiddleneck, fiesta flower, narrow-leaf filago, redstem filaree, cut-leaved geranium, goldentop, golden stars (yellow star lily), goldfields, ground pinks, johnny-jump-up, blue larkspur, Ramona lilac, linanthus sp.?, locoweed (flowers), common lomatium (flowers), common lomatium (purple seeds), single yellow flower lotus sp., multiflowered lotus, arroyo lupine, collar lupine, bush lupine, Coulter's lupine, dwarf lupine, white-whorled lupine, Eastwood manzanita, mission manzanita (flowers), milkmaids, miner's lettuce, bush monkeyflower, Southern California morning glory, California sweet cicely, muilla, coast live oak, Engelmann oak, scrub oak, branching phacelia, scarlet pimpernel, pineapple weed, poison oak, red-skinned onion, owl's clover (two species), wild pea, California peony, common phacelia, popcorn flower sp., short popcorn flower at pools, purple nightshade, rattlesnake weed (daucus), redberry (flowers), Pacific sanicle, purple sanicle, yellow sanicle, redmaids, sand spurrey, shepherd's purse (seeds), shining peppergrass (seeds), shooting star, silver puffs, smooth cat's ear, wild sorrel, spike rush, spoked fringe pod (seeds), squaw bush, sugarbush (flowers), sugarbush (pink fruit), California thistle, elk thistle, sow thistle, blue toadflax, vetch, water crowfoot, windmill pink (common catchfly), golden yarrow, yerba santa, chaparral yucca (Our Lord's Candle), (unknown low vine growing in shade along VP trail).
29 June - 12 July observations: 29 June; 3, 7 and 12 July on Vernal Pool, Multiuse (Wiashal), Vista Grande and Granite Loop Trails; Waterline Road.
Plants in bloom:
The current bloom is less than half its peak overall everywhere. Annual grasses obscure many of the few flowers blooming in the grasslands. The chaparral areas have the best overall blooms. There are still ~40 different species of flowers in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves.
New species beginning bloom recently (dates are when I first observed them):
- 12 July: (none)
- 7 July: alkali mallow, mountain? monardella, dodder (flowers)
- 3 July: ragweed, bristly ox-tongue, gourd (calabazilla)
- 29 June: spike primrose (dense boisduvalia), sacopellote (perezia), bird's beak.
There are currently 9 species not yet at full show, another 26 species in full show, 10 species ending their show, and 153 species that are finished with their display.
At the Main Pool, the coyote thistle (San Diego button celery) is in full bloom and is giving off its bologna smell. All other plants there have ended their bloom.
List of plants in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves:
- Beginning: bird's beak, alkali mallow, white-leaf monardella, California matchweed, poison oak (red leaves and white berries), ragweed, squawbush (red leaves and berries), San Diego tarweed, sticky tarweed.
- Full: bristly ox-tongue, California buckwheat, bush mallow, curly dock (red stem and seeds), white-flowering currant (berries), dodder (flowers), doveweed, Durango root, California everlasting ("dried flowers"), gourd (calabazilla), hedge nettle, wild heliotrope, hollyleaf redberry (green berries), wild honeysuckle (berries), knotweed, loosestrife, Eastwood manzanita (berries), mission manzanita (red and black berries), prickly lettuce, redberry (berries), sacopellote, southern skullcap, spike primrose, white sage, bull thistle, coyote thistle (San Diego button celery).
- Ending: narrow-leaved bedstraw (seed), dodder (orange stem), elderberry, Indian milkweed, narrow-leaf milkweed, mustang mint, mustard, slender tarweed, three spot, toyon.
- Ended: angel's gilia, chaparral beard-tongue, narrow-leaved bedstraw (flowers), baby blue eyes, balloon clover, bedstraw, bee plant, Himalaya berry, black sage, blennosperma, blue dicks, blue-eyed grass, brass buttons, earth brodiaea, threadleaved brodiaea, California buttercup, California poppy, canchalagua, wild Canterbury bells, hoaryleaf ceanothus, chamise, checkerbloom, chia, Chinese houses, chocolate lilies, cinquefoil, winecup clarkia, bur-clover, Spanish clover, tree clover, yellow clover, an unknown clover, cottonweed, Crete weed, common cryptantha, wild cucumber, white-flowering currant (flowers), deerweed, downingia, lanceleaf dudleya, eucrypta, California everlasting (flowers), fairy lantern (white globe lily), fiddleneck, fiesta flower, narrow-leaf filago, redstem filaree, cut-leaved geranium, goldentop, golden stars (yellow star lily), goldfields, ground pinks, wild honeysuckle (flowers), horehound, fringed Indian pink, johnny-jump-up, blue larkspur, laurel sumac, leafy daisy, Ramona lilac, linanthus sp.?, locoweed (flowers), locoweed (seeds), common lomatium (flowers), common lomatium (purple seeds), single yellow flower lotus sp., multiflowered lotus, arroyo lupine, collar lupine, bush lupine, Coulter's lupine, dwarf lupine, white-whorled lupine, slender madia, Eastwood manzanita, mission manzanita (flowers), splendid Mariposa lily, yellow Mariposa lily, milkmaids, miner's lettuce, bush monkeyflower, downy monkeyflower, seep monkeyflower, Southern California morning glory, California sweet cicely, muilla, hedge mustard, coast live oak, Engelmann oak, scrub oak, foothill penstemon, showy penstemon, branching phacelia, scarlet pimpernel, yellow and white pincushion flowers, pineapple weed, poison oak, prickly pear, Hooker's evening primrose, red-skinned onion, owl's clover (two species), wild pea, heart-leaved penstemon, California peony, common phacelia, popcorn flower sp., short popcorn flower at pools, purple needle grass, purple nightshade, rattlesnake weed (Chamaesyce), rattlesnake weed (daucus), redberry (flowers), hollyleaf redberry (flowers), wild rock rose, Pacific sanicle, purple sanicle, yellow sanicle, redmaids, salsify, sand spurrey, shepherd's purse (seeds), shining peppergrass (seeds), shooting star, holly-leaf skunkweed, hooked skunkweed, silver puffs, smooth cat's ear, soap plant, vining snapdragon, wild sorrel, spike rush, spoked fringe pod (seeds), squaw bush, sugarbush (flowers), sugarbush (pink fruit), California thistle, cobwebby (red) thistle, elk thistle, sow thistle, blue toadflax, tocalote (Maltese star thistle), Turkish rugging, vervain, vetch, water crowfoot, windmill pink (common catchfly), dwarf woolly marbles, golden yarrow, yerba santa, chaparral yucca (Our Lord's Candle), (unknown low vine growing in shade along VP trail).
16 - 27 July observations: 3, 7, 12, 16, 21 and 27 July on Vernal Pool, Multiuse (Wiashal), Vista Grande, Trans Preserve and Granite Loop Trails; Waterline Road.
Plants in bloom:
The current bloom is much less than half its peak overall everywhere. Annual grasses obscure many of the few flowers blooming in the grasslands. The chaparral areas have the best overall blooms. There are still ~40 different species of flowers in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves.
New species beginning bloom recently (dates are when I first observed them):
- 27 July: wand buckwheat
- 21 July: California aster
- 16 July: vinegar weed (Trichostema lanceolatum), white sweet clover, mountain mahogany (seeds).
There are currently 6 species not yet at full show, another 23 species in full show, 10 species ending their show, and 166 species that are finished with their display.
At the Main Pool, only the alkali mallow is coming into bloom. All other plants there have ended their bloom.
List of plants in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves:
- Beginning: California aster, wand buckwheat, white sweet clover, alkali mallow, ragweed, sticky tarweed.
- Full: bird's beak, California buckwheat, bush mallow, doveweed, California everlasting ("dried flowers"), gourd (calabazilla), wild heliotrope, hollyleaf redberry (red berries), wild honeysuckle (berries), knotweed, loosestrife, Eastwood manzanita (berries), mission manzanita (red and black berries), California matchweed, San Diego mountain mahogany (seeds), poison oak (red leaves and white berries), prickly lettuce, redberry (berries), southern skullcap, spearmint, squawbush (red leaves), San Diego tarweed, vinegar weed (Trichostema lanceolatum).
- Ending: narrow-leaved bedstraw (seed), bristly ox-tongue, hedge nettle, narrow-leaf milkweed, mustard, sacopellote, white sage, spike primrose, bull thistle, coyote thistle (San Diego button celery).
- Ended: angel's gilia, chaparral beard-tongue, narrow-leaved bedstraw (flowers), baby blue eyes, balloon clover, bedstraw, bee plant, Himalaya berry, black sage, blennosperma, blue dicks, blue-eyed grass, brass buttons, earth brodiaea, threadleaved brodiaea, California buttercup, California poppy, canchalagua, wild Canterbury bells, hoaryleaf ceanothus, chamise, checkerbloom, chia, Chinese houses, chocolate lilies, cinquefoil, winecup clarkia, bur-clover, Spanish clover, tree clover, yellow clover, an unknown clover, cottonweed, Crete weed, common cryptantha, wild cucumber, curly dock (red stem and seeds), white-flowering currant (flowers), white-flowering currant (berries), deerweed, dodder (orange stem and flowers), downingia, lanceleaf dudleya, Durango root, elderberry, eucrypta, California everlasting (flowers), fairy lantern (white globe lily), fiddleneck, fiesta flower, narrow-leaf filago, redstem filaree, cut-leaved geranium, goldentop, golden stars (yellow star lily), goldfields, ground pinks, wild honeysuckle (flowers), horehound, fringed Indian pink, johnny-jump-up, blue larkspur, laurel sumac, leafy daisy, Ramona lilac, linanthus sp.?, locoweed (flowers), locoweed (seeds), common lomatium (flowers), common lomatium (purple seeds), single yellow flower lotus sp., multiflowered lotus, arroyo lupine, collar lupine, bush lupine, Coulter's lupine, dwarf lupine, white-whorled lupine, slender madia, Eastwood manzanita, mission manzanita (flowers), splendid Mariposa lily, yellow Mariposa lily, milkmaids, Indian milkweed, miner's lettuce, white-leaf monardella, bush monkeyflower, downy monkeyflower, seep monkeyflower, Southern California morning glory, California sweet cicely, muilla, mustang mint, hedge mustard, coast live oak, Engelmann oak, scrub oak, foothill penstemon, showy penstemon, branching phacelia, scarlet pimpernel, yellow and white pincushion flowers, pineapple weed, poison oak, prickly pear, Hooker's evening primrose, red-skinned onion, owl's clover (two species), wild pea, heart-leaved penstemon, California peony, common phacelia, popcorn flower sp., short popcorn flower at pools, purple needle grass, purple nightshade, rattlesnake weed (Chamaesyce), rattlesnake weed (daucus), redberry (flowers), hollyleaf redberry (flowers), wild rock rose, Pacific sanicle, purple sanicle, yellow sanicle, redmaids, salsify, sand spurrey, shepherd's purse (seeds), shining peppergrass (seeds), shooting star, holly-leaf skunkweed, hooked skunkweed, silver puffs, smooth cat's ear, soap plant, vining snapdragon, wild sorrel, spike rush, spoked fringe pod (seeds), squaw bush (flowers and red berries), sugarbush (flowers), sugarbush (pink fruit), slender tarweed, California thistle, cobwebby (red) thistle, elk thistle, sow thistle, three spot, blue toadflax, tocalote (Maltese star thistle), toyon, Turkish rugging, vervain, vetch, water crowfoot, windmill pink (common catchfly), dwarf woolly marbles, golden yarrow, yerba santa, chaparral yucca (Our Lord's Candle), (unknown low vine growing in shade along VP trail).
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