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Ginger and Connie went on a Mid-Peninsula Open Space District sponsored hike in Edgewood County Park called Explorer Hike: Edgy Wildflowers. Here is the description: Celebrate spring with docents Lynn Jackson, Laura Levin, Kate Gudmundson, and Dennis Smith on this moderately-paced hike with an approximately 400-foot elevation gain on the way to your lunch spot. Edgewood County Park is renowned for it's many beautiful and unusual wildflowers. Trails and route for this exploration will be chosen based on seasonal flower bloom. Click Here for the MAP of Edgewood County Park. Wildflower References
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video of a raven at Edgewood County Park, click to play
California Buckeye Aesculus californica
California Bee Plant, California figwort Scrophularia californica
Rigid Hedge Nettle Stachys rigida
Silver Bush Lupine Lupinus albifrons
Silver Lupine closeup Lupinus albifrons
Fairy-Lantern, White Globe Lily Calochortus albus
Coffee Fern Pellaea andromedifolia
California Polypody Polypodium californicum
Common Snowberry Symphoricarpos albus
San Francisco Collinsia Collinsia multicolor
San Francisco Collinsia closeup Collinsia multicolor
Goldback Fern Pentagramma triangularis
California's State Lichen: Lace Lichen Ramalina menziesii
Lace Lichen closeup Ramalina menziesii
Holly Leaf Cherry Prunus illicifolia
Pink Honeysuckle Lonicera hispidula
Ithuriel's Spear Triteleia laxa
Ithuriel's Spear closeup Triteleia laxa
Harvest Brodiaea Brodiaea elegans
Blue Elderberry Sambucus nigra ssp. cerulea
Blue Elderberry closeup Sambucus nigra ssp. cerulea
California Goldfields Lasthenia californica
Tidy Tips Layia platyglossa
Mediterranean Linseed Bellardia trixago (non-native)
Connie at our lunch stop
Ginger at our lunch stop
part of our group having lunch
large patch of Rose Clover by our lunch stop, Trifolium hirtum (non-native)
Common Catchfly Silene gallica (non-native)
Common Catchfly closeup Silene gallica
California Broom, Deerweed Acmispon glaber
Four-Spot Clarkia purpurea ssp. quadrivulnera
Ruby Chalice Clarkia Clarkia rubicunda
California Cudweed Pseudognaphalium californicum
Cutweed closeup (flowers not open yet)
Narrow-Leaved Flax Linum bienne (non-native)
Purple Owl's Clover Castilleja exserta
Flax-flowered Linanthus (white flowers) Leptosiphon liniflorus
Flax-flowered Linanthus closeup Leptosiphon liniflorus
Yellow Cream Sacs Castilleja rubicundula ssp. lithospermoides
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