Thursday, April 17, 2014

Flowers on Homestead Hoffman Trail, O'Neill Regional Park

We hiked along Homestead Hoffman trail in O'Neill Regional Park, a trail with a lot of poison oak, but worth the trouble if you can manage to avoid it. It's one of the cooler trails covered by oaks and vegetation, but less remote since it runs parallel to the road most of the way. 


You never know what you're going to find on the underside of a leaf. This looked like an interesting bug at first.


But when you look close it's actually some kind of bug's molted exterior.



Here's a close up of witch's hair (dodder). You can actually see its suckers in the lower part of the picture. Sometimes our kids try to save plants from dodder; such a noble act, don't you think?


Fresh, pink, fuzzy oak leaves. Why do they look so different?


Chaparral Sweet Pea was abundant, mostly leaves with flowers just beginning to show.


Caterpillar Phacelia was also abundant.


I'll have to come back and identify this one. 



 Chickweed



Blue eyed grass



A mystery flower that looks like it already bloomed and lost its petals or is still in process. Maybe a native lily? Timing is everything isn't it?



Blue dicks


Indian Pink



Purple Clarkia?



I've seen this before and I still can't identify it. Any idea?





















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