| BACKBONE TRAIL, SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS SPRING 2002 PAGE TWO |
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Blue-eyed grass Sisyrinchium bellum Iridaceae |
Big-pod ceanothus Ceanothus megacarpus var. megacarpus Rhamnaceae |
California goldenrod Solidago californica Asteraceae |
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| Blue dicks Dipterostemon capitatus var. capitatus Themidaceae |
California blackberry Rubus ursinus Rosaceae |
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Milt told us a wonderful story regarding this species that illustrates the kind of gentle character that he had.. He was leading a group one day and there was this guy from Texas who kept bragging about how all the wildflowers in Texas were bigger than the ones he was seeing here. Finally Milt had had enough, and he told the group that they were going through an area that was rife with rattlesnakes so they had to keep looking down. Milt knew that up ahead there was a huge bush lupine about 10' tall. He practically led the guy right up to it before quietly remarking, "Now here's one of our lupines." He said the guy didn't say much after that. And yes, that picture at lower right is part of a bush lupine 'stem.' |
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California poppy Eschscholzia californica Papaveraceae [Named for Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholtz, 1793-1831] |
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California-aster Coreothrogyne filaginifolia Asteraceae |
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California figwort
Scrophularia californca Scrophulariaceae |
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Canyon sunflower Venegasia carpesioides Asteraceae [Named for Padre Miguel Venegas, 1680-1764] |
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| Climbing bedstraw Galium nuttallii ssp. nuttallii Rubiaceae [Named for Thomas Nuttall, 1786-1859] |
Coastal sticky cinquefoil Drymocallis glandulosa var. wrangelianus Rosaceae [Named for Ferdinand Friedrich Georg Ludwig von Wrangell, 1796-1870] |
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Coast range melic Melica imperfecta Poaceae |
California everlasting Pseudognaphalium californicum Asteraceae |
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