This page contains observations from August - December 2001.
1-17 August observations: 1, 6, 12 and 17 August on Vernal Pool, Trans Preserve, Punta Mesa and Granite Loop Trails; Waterline and Monument Hill Roads. See Observations With Locations for the locations of each identification.
Plants in bloom:
The current bloom is at about one-fourth its peak overall everywhere. All "fields of flowers" are finished except for patches of yellow/green from tarweeds. There are still ~40 different species of flowers in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves.
New species beginning their show recently (dates are when I first observed them):
- 17 August: wild honeysuckle (orange berries)
- 12 August: Engelmann oak (acorns), white everlasting, elderberry (blue berries), wand chicory, flax-flowered linanthus, bristly goldenaster.
- 6 August: horseweed, saw-toothed goldenbush, mugwort, goldenrod.
- 1 August: California fuchsia.
There are currently 12 species not yet at full show, another 17 species in full show, 15 species ending their show, and 177 species that are finished with their display.
At the Main Pool, only the alkali mallow is in bloom. All other plants there have ended their bloom.
List of plants in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves:
- Beginning: California aster, California buckwheat (rust-color dried flowers), wand buckwheat, saw-toothed goldenbush, goldenrod, horseweed, Engelmann oak (acorns), white everlasting, elderberry (blue berries), bristly goldenaster, wild honeysuckle (orange berries), ragweed.
- Full: wand chicory, doveweed, California fuchsia, gourd (calabazilla), alkali mallow, mugwort, hollyleaf redberry (red berries), wild honeysuckle (green berries), knotweed, Eastwood manzanita (berries), mission manzanita (red and black berries), San Diego mountain mahogany (seeds), San Diego tarweed, scrub oak (acorns), sticky tarweed, vinegar weed (Trichostema lanceolatum), Southern California virgin's bower (seeds).
- Ending: narrow-leaved bedstraw (seed), bird's beak, California buckwheat (white flowers), white sweet clover, California everlasting ("dried flowers"), wild heliotrope, flax-flowered linanthus, California matchweed, narrow-leaf milkweed, mustard, poison oak (red leaves and white berries), redberry (berries), spearmint, squawbush (red leaves).
- 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), loosestrife, single yellow flower lotus sp., multiflowered lotus, arroyo lupine, collar lupine, bush lupine, Coulter's lupine, dwarf lupine, white-whorled lupine, slender madia, bush mallow, 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, hedge nettle, 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 lettuce, prickly pear, Hooker's evening primrose, red-skinned onion, owl's clover (two species), bristly ox-tongue, 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, sacopellote, white sage, 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, southern skullcap, spike primrose, spike rush, spoked fringe pod (seeds), squaw bush (flowers and red berries), sugarbush (flowers), sugarbush (pink fruit), slender tarweed, bull thistle, California thistle, cobwebby (red) thistle, , coyote thistle (San Diego button celery), 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).
17-29 August observations: 17, 22 and 29 August on Vernal Pool, Lomas, Oak Tree, Trans Preserve, Vista Grande and Granite Loop Trails; Waterline and Faultline Roads. See Observations With Locations for the locations of each identification.
Plants in bloom:
The current bloom is at about one-fourth its peak overall everywhere. All "fields of flowers" are finished except for patches of yellow/green from tarweeds. There are still ~40 different species of flowers in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves.
New species beginning their show recently (dates are when I first observed them):
- 29 August: telegraph weed, white everlasting ("dried flowers"), slender buckwheat.
- 22 August: Siskiyou Aster
There are currently 9 species not yet at full show, another 20 species in full show, 11 species ending their show, and 183 species that are finished with their display.
At the Main Pool, only the alkali mallow is in bloom. All other plants there have ended their bloom.
List of plants in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves:
- Beginning: California aster, Siskiyou Aster, white everlasting ("dried flowers"), saw-toothed goldenbush, horseweed, Engelmann oak (acorns), elderberry (blue berries), bristly goldenaster, telegraph weed.
- Full: California buckwheat (rust-color dried flowers), slender buckwheat, wand buckwheat, wand chicory, doveweed, white everlasting (flowers), California fuchsia, goldenrod, gourd (calabazilla), alkali mallow, wild honeysuckle (orange berries), Eastwood manzanita (berries), mission manzanita (red and black berries), San Diego mountain mahogany (seeds), ragweed, San Diego tarweed, scrub oak (acorns), sticky tarweed, vinegar weed (Trichostema lanceolatum), Southern California virgin's bower (seeds).
- Ending: narrow-leaved bedstraw (seed), California buckwheat (white flowers), California everlasting ("dried flowers"), wild heliotrope, knotweed, flax-flowered linanthus, mugwort, mustard, poison oak (red leaves and white berries), hollyleaf redberry (red berries), squawbush (red leaves).
- Ended: angel's gilia, baby blue eyes, chaparral beard-tongue, narrow-leaved bedstraw (flowers), balloon clover, bedstraw, bee plant, Himalaya berry, bird's beak, 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, white sweet 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 (flowers), 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), loosestrife, single yellow flower lotus sp., multiflowered lotus, arroyo lupine, collar lupine, bush lupine, Coulter's lupine, dwarf lupine, white-whorled lupine, slender madia, bush mallow, Eastwood manzanita, mission manzanita (flowers), splendid Mariposa lily, yellow Mariposa lily, California matchweed, milkmaids, Indian milkweed, narrow-leaf 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, hedge nettle, 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 lettuce, prickly pear, Hooker's evening primrose, red-skinned onion, owl's clover (two species), bristly ox-tongue, 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), redberry (berries), hollyleaf redberry (flowers), wild rock rose, sacopellote, white sage, 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, southern skullcap, spearmint, spike primrose, spike rush, spoked fringe pod (seeds), squaw bush (flowers and red berries), sugarbush (flowers), sugarbush (pink fruit), slender tarweed, bull thistle, California thistle, cobwebby (red) thistle, , coyote thistle (San Diego button celery), 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).
6-18 September observations: 6, 12 and 18 September on Vernal Pool, Trans Preserve, Punta Mesa, Wiashal (Multiuse) and Granite Loop Trails; Waterline and Monument Hill Roads. See Observations With Locations for the locations of each identification.
Plants in bloom:
The current bloom is at about one-fourth its peak overall everywhere. All "fields of flowers" are finished except for patches of yellow/green from tarweeds. There are still ~40 different species of flowers in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves.
New species beginning their show recently (dates are when I first observed them):
- 18 September: coastal goldenbush.
- 12 September: (none).
- 6 September: (none).
There are currently 2 species not yet at full show, another 16 species in full show, 20 species ending their show, and 186 species that are finished with their display.
At the Main Pool, only the alkali mallow is in bloom. All other plants there have ended their bloom.
List of plants in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves:
- Beginning: coastal goldenbush, Engelmann oak (acorns).
- Full: Siskiyou Aster, California buckwheat (rust-color dried flowers), slender buckwheat, wand buckwheat, white everlasting ("dried flowers"), California fuchsia, bristly goldenaster, saw-toothed goldenbush, wild honeysuckle (orange berries), horseweed, mission manzanita (brown berries), San Diego mountain mahogany (seeds), ragweed, scrub oak (acorns), telegraph weed, Southern California virgin's bower (seeds).
- Ending: California aster, California buckwheat (white flowers), wand chicory, doveweed, elderberry (blue berries), California everlasting ("dried flowers"), white everlasting (flowers), goldenrod, gourd (calabazilla), wild heliotrope, knotweed, flax-flowered linanthus, alkali mallow, Mediterranean mustard, poison oak (red leaves and white berries), hollyleaf redberry (red berries), squawbush (red leaves), San Diego tarweed, sticky tarweed, vinegar weed (Trichostema lanceolatum).
- Ended: angel's gilia, baby blue eyes, chaparral beard-tongue, narrow-leaved bedstraw (flowers and seeds), balloon clover, bedstraw, bee plant, Himalaya berry, bird's beak, 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, white sweet 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 (flowers), 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), loosestrife, single yellow flower lotus sp., multiflowered lotus, arroyo lupine, collar lupine, bush lupine, Coulter's lupine, dwarf lupine, white-whorled lupine, slender madia, bush mallow, Eastwood manzanita (flowers and berries), mission manzanita (flowers), splendid Mariposa lily, yellow Mariposa lily, California matchweed, milkmaids, Indian milkweed, narrow-leaf milkweed, miner's lettuce, white-leaf monardella, bush monkeyflower, downy monkeyflower, seep monkeyflower, Southern California morning glory, California sweet cicely, mugwort, muilla, mustang mint, hedge mustard, hedge nettle, 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 lettuce, prickly pear, Hooker's evening primrose, red-skinned onion, owl's clover (two species), bristly ox-tongue, 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), redberry (berries), hollyleaf redberry (flowers), wild rock rose, sacopellote, white sage, 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, southern skullcap, spearmint, spike primrose, spike rush, spoked fringe pod (seeds), squaw bush (flowers and red berries), sugarbush (flowers), sugarbush (pink fruit), slender tarweed, bull thistle, California thistle, cobwebby (red) thistle, , coyote thistle (San Diego button celery), 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).
26 September - 13 October observations: 26 September; 2, 8 and 13 October on Vernal Pool, S. Los Santos and Granite Loop Trails; and Ranch Road. See Observations With Locations for the locations of each identification.
Plants in bloom:
This year's bloom is nearly finished everywhere. However, there are still ~20 different species of flowers in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves.
New species beginning their show recently (dates are when I first observed them):
- 13 October: Palmer goldenbush
- 8 October: coyote bush
- 2 October: common sunflower (a few plants on Waterline Road at Cole Creek)
- 26 September: (none).
There are currently 1 species not yet at full show, 6 species in full show, 21 species ending their show, and 201 species that are finished with their display.
At the Main Pool, only the alkali mallow is in bloom. All other plants there have ended their bloom.
List of plants in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves:
- Beginning: Palmer goldenbush.
- Full: coyote bush, Palmer goldenbush, mission manzanita (brown berries), Engelmann oak (acorns), scrub oak (acorns), Southern California virgin's bower (seeds).
- Ending: California aster, Siskiyou Aster, California buckwheat (rust-color dried flowers), slender buckwheat, wand buckwheat, wand chicory, doveweed, white everlasting ("dried flowers"), California fuchsia, coastal goldenbush (a single plant on the Punta Mesa Trail), wild heliotrope, knotweed, flax-flowered linanthus, alkali mallow, San Diego mountain mahogany (seeds), Mediterranean mustard, squawbush (red leaves), common sunflower (a few plants on Waterline Road at Cole Creek), tarragon, sticky tarweed, vinegar weed (Trichostema lanceolatum).
- Ended: angel's gilia, baby blue eyes, chaparral beard-tongue, narrow-leaved bedstraw (flowers and seeds), balloon clover, bedstraw, bee plant, Himalaya berry, bird's beak, black sage, blennosperma, blue dicks, blue-eyed grass, brass buttons, earth brodiaea, threadleaved brodiaea, California buckwheat (white flowers), 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, white sweet 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 (flowers and blue berries), eucrypta, California everlasting (flowers and dried flowers), white everlasting (flowers), fairy lantern (white globe lily), fiddleneck, fiesta flower, narrow-leaf filago, redstem filaree, cut-leaved geranium, bristly goldenaster, saw-toothed goldenbush, goldenrod, goldentop, golden stars (yellow star lily), goldfields, gourd (calabazilla), ground pinks, wild honeysuckle (flowers and orange berries), horseweed, 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), loosestrife, single yellow flower lotus sp., multiflowered lotus, arroyo lupine, collar lupine, bush lupine, Coulter's lupine, dwarf lupine, white-whorled lupine, slender madia, bush mallow, Eastwood manzanita (flowers and berries), mission manzanita (flowers), splendid Mariposa lily, yellow Mariposa lily, California matchweed, milkmaids, Indian milkweed, narrow-leaf milkweed, miner's lettuce, white-leaf monardella, bush monkeyflower, downy monkeyflower, seep monkeyflower, Southern California morning glory, California sweet cicely, mugwort, muilla, mustang mint, hedge mustard, hedge nettle, coast live oak, Engelmann oak, scrub oak, foothill penstemon, showy penstemon, branching phacelia, scarlet pimpernel, yellow and white pincushion flowers, pineapple weed, poison oak (flowers, white berries and red leaves), prickly lettuce, prickly pear, Hooker's evening primrose, red-skinned onion, owl's clover (two species), bristly ox-tongue, wild pea, heart-leaved penstemon, California peony, common phacelia, popcorn flower sp., short popcorn flower at pools, purple needle grass, purple nightshade, ragweed, rattlesnake weed (Chamaesyce), rattlesnake weed (daucus), redberry (flowers), redberry (berries), hollyleaf redberry (flowers and red berries), wild rock rose, sacopellote, white sage, 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, southern skullcap, spearmint, spike primrose, spike rush, spoked fringe pod (seeds), squaw bush (flowers and red berries), sugarbush (flowers), sugarbush (pink fruit), San Diego tarweed, slender tarweed, telegraph weed, bull thistle, California thistle, cobwebby (red) thistle, , coyote thistle (San Diego button celery), 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).
20 October - 3 November observations: 20 and 27 October; 3 November on Adobe Loop, Vernal Pool, Vista Grande, S. Los Santos, S. Trans Preserve (only a small portion of the south end of the last two trails), and Granite Loop Trails; Waterline and Tenaja Roads.
Plants in bloom:
This year's bloom is nearly finished everywhere. However, there are still ~20 different species of flowers in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves.
New species beginning their show recently (dates are when I first observed them):
- 3 November: (none)
- 27 October: California sagebrush (only on Adobe Loop Trail), toyon (red berries)
- 20 October: Jepsonia
There are currently 1 species not yet at full show, 8 species in full show, 20 species ending their show, and 202 species that are finished with their display.
At the Main Pool, only the alkali mallow is in bloom. All other plants there have ended their bloom.
List of plants in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves:
- Beginning: toyon (red berries).
- Full: coyote bush, Palmer goldenbush, Jepsonia, mission manzanita (brown berries), Engelmann oak (acorns), scrub oak (acorns), California sagebrush (only on Adobe Loop Trail), Southern California virgin's bower (seeds).
- Ending: California aster, California buckwheat (rust-color dried flowers), slender buckwheat, wand buckwheat, wand chicory, doveweed, white everlasting ("dried flowers"), California fuchsia, coastal goldenbush (a single plant on the Punta Mesa Trail), wild heliotrope, knotweed, flax-flowered linanthus, alkali mallow, San Diego mountain mahogany (seeds), Mediterranean mustard, squawbush (red leaves), common sunflower (a few plants on Waterline Road at Cole Creek), tarragon, sticky tarweed, vinegar weed (Trichostema lanceolatum).
- Ended: angel's gilia, Siskiyou Aster, baby blue eyes, chaparral beard-tongue, narrow-leaved bedstraw (flowers and seeds), balloon clover, bedstraw, bee plant, Himalaya berry, bird's beak, black sage, blennosperma, blue dicks, blue-eyed grass, brass buttons, earth brodiaea, threadleaved brodiaea, California buckwheat (white flowers), 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, white sweet 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 (flowers and blue berries), eucrypta, California everlasting (flowers and dried flowers), white everlasting (flowers), fairy lantern (white globe lily), fiddleneck, fiesta flower, narrow-leaf filago, redstem filaree, cut-leaved geranium, bristly goldenaster, saw-toothed goldenbush, goldenrod, goldentop, golden stars (yellow star lily), goldfields, gourd (calabazilla), ground pinks, wild honeysuckle (flowers and orange berries), horseweed, 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), loosestrife, single yellow flower lotus sp., multiflowered lotus, arroyo lupine, collar lupine, bush lupine, Coulter's lupine, dwarf lupine, white-whorled lupine, slender madia, bush mallow, Eastwood manzanita (flowers and berries), mission manzanita (flowers), splendid Mariposa lily, yellow Mariposa lily, California matchweed, milkmaids, Indian milkweed, narrow-leaf milkweed, miner's lettuce, white-leaf monardella, bush monkeyflower, downy monkeyflower, seep monkeyflower, Southern California morning glory, California sweet cicely, mugwort, muilla, mustang mint, hedge mustard, hedge nettle, coast live oak, Engelmann oak, scrub oak, foothill penstemon, showy penstemon, branching phacelia, scarlet pimpernel, yellow and white pincushion flowers, pineapple weed, poison oak (flowers, white berries and red leaves), prickly lettuce, prickly pear, Hooker's evening primrose, red-skinned onion, owl's clover (two species), bristly ox-tongue, wild pea, heart-leaved penstemon, California peony, common phacelia, popcorn flower sp., short popcorn flower at pools, purple needle grass, purple nightshade, ragweed, rattlesnake weed (Chamaesyce), rattlesnake weed (daucus), redberry (flowers), redberry (berries), hollyleaf redberry (flowers and red berries), wild rock rose, sacopellote, white sage, 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, southern skullcap, spearmint, spike primrose, spike rush, spoked fringe pod (seeds), squaw bush (flowers and red berries), sugarbush (flowers), sugarbush (pink fruit), San Diego tarweed, slender tarweed, telegraph weed, bull thistle, California thistle, cobwebby (red) thistle, , coyote thistle (San Diego button celery), 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).
3 - 26 November observations: 3, 10, 17 and 26 November on Adobe Loop, Vernal Pool, S. Los Santos (only a small portion of the south end of this trails), S. Trans Preserve, and Granite Loop Trails; Ranch and Waterline Roads.
Plants in bloom:
This year's bloom is nearly finished everywhere. However, there are still ~20 different species of flowers in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves.
New species beginning their show recently (dates are when I first observed them):
- 3, 10, 17 and 26 November: (none)
There are currently 0 species not yet at full show, 3 species in full show, 14 species ending their show, and 214 species that are finished with their display.
All plants at the Main Pool have ended their bloom.
List of plants in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves:
- Beginning: (none).
- Full: mission manzanita (brown berries), toyon (red berries), Southern California virgin's bower (seeds).
- Ending: California aster, California buckwheat (rust-color dried flowers), wand buckwheat, wand chicory, California fuchsia, Palmer goldenbush, wild heliotrope, Jepsonia, knotweed, San Diego mountain mahogany (seeds), Mediterranean mustard, Engelmann oak (acorns), scrub oak (acorns), sticky tarweed.
- Ended: angel's gilia, Siskiyou Aster, baby blue eyes, chaparral beard-tongue, narrow-leaved bedstraw (flowers and seeds), balloon clover, bedstraw, bee plant, Himalaya berry, bird's beak, black sage, blennosperma, blue dicks, blue-eyed grass, brass buttons, earth brodiaea, threadleaved brodiaea, California buckwheat (white flowers), slender buckwheat, 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, white sweet clover, yellow clover, an unknown clover, cottonweed, coyote bush, 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), doveweed, downingia, lanceleaf dudleya, Durango root, elderberry (flowers and blue berries), eucrypta, California everlasting (flowers and dried flowers), white everlasting (flowers and dried flowers), fairy lantern (white globe lily), fiddleneck, fiesta flower, narrow-leaf filago, redstem filaree, cut-leaved geranium, bristly goldenaster, coastal goldenbush (a single plant on the Punta Mesa Trail), saw-toothed goldenbush, goldenrod, goldentop, golden stars (yellow star lily), goldfields, gourd (calabazilla), ground pinks, wild honeysuckle (flowers and orange berries), horseweed, horehound, fringed Indian pink, johnny-jump-up, blue larkspur, laurel sumac, leafy daisy, Ramona lilac, linanthus sp.?, flax-flowered linanthus, locoweed (flowers), locoweed (seeds), common lomatium (flowers), common lomatium (purple seeds), loosestrife, single yellow flower lotus sp., multiflowered lotus, arroyo lupine, collar lupine, bush lupine, Coulter's lupine, dwarf lupine, white-whorled lupine, slender madia, alkali mallow, bush mallow, Eastwood manzanita (flowers and berries), mission manzanita (flowers), splendid Mariposa lily, yellow Mariposa lily, California matchweed, milkmaids, Indian milkweed, narrow-leaf milkweed, miner's lettuce, white-leaf monardella, bush monkeyflower, downy monkeyflower, seep monkeyflower, Southern California morning glory, California sweet cicely, mugwort, muilla, mustang mint, hedge mustard, hedge nettle, coast live oak, Engelmann oak, scrub oak, foothill penstemon, showy penstemon, branching phacelia, scarlet pimpernel, yellow and white pincushion flowers, pineapple weed, poison oak (flowers, white berries and red leaves), prickly lettuce, prickly pear, Hooker's evening primrose, red-skinned onion, owl's clover (two species), bristly ox-tongue, wild pea, heart-leaved penstemon, California peony, common phacelia, popcorn flower sp., short popcorn flower at pools, purple needle grass, purple nightshade, ragweed, rattlesnake weed (Chamaesyce), rattlesnake weed (daucus), redberry (flowers), redberry (berries), hollyleaf redberry (flowers and red berries), wild rock rose, sacopellote, white sage, California sagebrush (only on Adobe Loop Trail), 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, southern skullcap, spearmint, spike primrose, spike rush, spoked fringe pod (seeds), squaw bush (flowers, red leaves and red berries), sugarbush (flowers), sugarbush (pink fruit), common sunflower (a few plants on Waterline Road at Cole Creek), tarragon, San Diego tarweed, slender tarweed, telegraph weed, bull thistle, California thistle, cobwebby (red) thistle, coyote thistle (San Diego button celery), elk thistle, sow thistle, three spot, blue toadflax, tocalote (Maltese star thistle), toyon, Turkish rugging, vervain, vetch, vinegar weed (Trichostema lanceolatum), 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).
1-23 December observations: 1, 8, 15 and 23 December on Vernal Pool, S. Los Santos, N. Vista Grande and Granite Loop Trails; Ranch and Waterline Roads.
The 2000-2001 show is nearly finished everywhere, and nothing has begun blooming so far in 2001-2002. There are only 9 different species of flowers in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves from the 2000-2001 bloom.
New species beginning their show recently (dates are when I first observed them):
- 1, 8, 15 and 23 December: (none)
There are currently 0 species not yet at full show, 4 species in full show, 5 species ending their show, and 224 species that are finished with their 2000-2001 display.
All plants at the Main Pool have ended their bloom.
List of plants in bloom or displaying colorful seeds, fruit or leaves:
- Beginning: (none).
- Full: mission manzanita (brown berries), western sycamore (yellow leaves), toyon (red berries), arroyo willow (yellow leaves).
- Ending: California buckwheat (rust-color dried flowers), wand chicory, San Diego mountain mahogany (seeds), Mediterranean mustard, Southern California virgin's bower (seeds).
- Ended recently: California aster, wand buckwheat, California fuchsia, Palmer goldenbush, wild heliotrope, Jepsonia, knotweed, Engelmann oak (acorns), scrub oak (acorns), sticky tarweed. (see November bloom summary for the list of plants that previously finished their 2000-2001 show).
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