The National Park Service website for the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area has this to say about Arroyo Sequit: "Accessed from Mulholland Highway, Arroyo Sequit features an intermittent stream, a loop trail, and meadows that are blanketed with wildflowers in the spring. Arroyo Sequit is a small site that may be easy to overlook, but provides for intimate, relaxing strolls. It is also a favorite among evening stargazers." I visited this area years ago when I was just beginning my botanical explorations, and found it to be a delightful location with rolling grasslands and chaparral that somehow I never managed to return to. This area is regrettably now closed and has been since the Woolsey Fire of 2018. The NPS page on the fire says this: "The Woolsey Fire burned more acres within SMMNRA than any other fire in recorded history. More than 21,000 acres of National Park Service land burned, which represents 88% of NPS land within SMMNRA. Most of Western Town at Paramount Ranch was destroyed, as well as the 1927 Peter Strauss Ranch house, the Rocky Oaks ranger residence and museum building, the Arroyo Sequit ranger residence, and most of the UCLA La Kretz Field Station." I should hve thought that the area would have been reopened well before this date (March, 2025) and I have no idea when it will reopen. I depended strongly in this early stage of my botanical explorations on two guidebooks, Wildflowers of the Santa Monica Mountains by Milt McAuley and Flowering Plants by Nancy Dale. An asterisk after the common name indicates a non-native species.

Star lily
Toxicoscordion fremontii
Melanthiaceae
[Named for John Charles Frémont, 1813-1890]

Slender tarplant
Deinandra fasciculata
Asteraceae

Btistly bird's beak
Cordylanthus rigidus ssp. setiger
Orobanchaceae

Feltleaf everlasting
Pseudognaphalium microcephalum
Asteraceae

Intermediate sun cup
Camissoniopsis intermedia
Onagraceae

Greenbark ceanothus
Ceanothus spinosus
Rhamnaceae

Western goldenrod
Euthamia occidentalis
Asteraceae

Wild tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
Asteraceae

Shiny lomatium
Lomatium lucidum
Apiaceae