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Ginger and Connie went on a Mid-Peninsula Open Space District sponsored hike in Windy Hill Open Space Preserve. Here is the official description of the hike: If you enjoy looking at native wildflowers up close then this is the hike for you. This Preserve is host to a variety of habitats, landscapes, and elevation changes that all help determine the variety or absence of wildflowers. Docents Marilyn and Bill Bauriedel will point out some wildflowers that are special to this Preserve such as creek dogwood, and perhaps globe lilies and white trillium on this walk along the Betsy Crowder, Spring Ridge, and Hamms Gulch Trails. Click Here for preserve map. Wildflower References All photos copyright Ginger Wolnik |
Meeting at the Portola Road Parking Lot
Sausal Pond
Western Pond Turtles Actinemys marmorata sunning themselves on a log
closeup of Western Pond Turtles Actinemys marmorata
interpretive sign for Sausal Pond
Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
closeup of Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
Rose Clover Trifolium hirtum (non-native)
White Clover Trifolium repens (non-native)
Poison Hemlock Conium maculatum (non-native)
Ithuriel's Spear Triteleia laxa
Ithuriel's Spear Triteleia laxa
White Globe Lily Calochortus albus
closeup of White Globe Lily Calochortus albus
more White Globe Lilies Calochortus albus
Pale Flax Linum bienne (non-native)
field of Pale Flax Linum bienne
Prickly Goldenfleece Urospermum picroides (non-native)
closeup of Prickly Goldenfleece Urospermum picroides
Prickly Goldenfleece Urospermum picroides showing bud
Prickly Goldenfleece Urospermum picroides showing leaves
Pink Honeysuckle Lonicera hispidula showing encircling leaf
Pink Honeysuckle Lonicera hispidula
Rattlesnake Grass Briza maxima (non-native)
closeup of Rattlesnake Grass Briza maxima (non-native)
Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
Forget Me Not Myosotis latifolia (non-native)
closeup of Forget Me Not Myosotis latifolia (non-native)
closeup of Forget Me Not Myosotis latifolia (non-native)
Woodland Strawberry Fragaria vesca
hiking down a switchback
Wood Mint Stachys bullata
Wood Mint Stachys bullata
Creek Dogwood Cornus sericea
Creek Dogwood Cornus sericea
Western Coltsfoot Petasites frigidus leaves
Western Coltsfoot with Forget Me Nots
Fringe Cups Tellima grandiflora
Fringe Cups Tellima grandiflora
Fringe Cups Tellima grandiflora
Fringe Cups Tellima grandiflora
Fringe Cups Tellima grandiflora
closeup of Fringe Cups Tellima grandiflora
macro of Fringe Cups Tellima grandiflora
Thimbleberry Rubus parviflorus
Blue-eyed Grass Sisyrinchium bellum
closeup of Blue-eyed Grass Sisyrinchium bellum
Scarlet Pimpernel Lysimachia arvensis (non-native)
closeup of Scarlet Pimpernel Lysimachia arvensis
Sun Cup Taraxia ovata
closeup of Sun Cup Taraxia ovata
Connie straddling Sun Cups in the trail
Sticky Cinquefoil Drymocallis glandulosa
closeup of Sticky Cinquefoil Drymocallis glandulosa
Western Verbena Verbena lasiostachys
Western Verbena Verbena lasiostachys
closeup of Western Verbena Verbena lasiostachys
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