BIG SYCAMORE CANYON, SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS
2002/2003 PAGE THREE

   
Fragrant pitcher sage
Lepechinia fragrans
Lamiaceae

[Named for Ivan Ivanovich Lepekhin, 1737-1802]
 
Crimson pitcher sage
Salvia spathacea
Lamiaceae
 


   
Common celery *
Apium graveolens
Apiaceae



 
 
Hoary or stinging nettle
Urtica dioica ssp. holosericea
Urticaceae
 
 
 
 
Bush mallow
Malacothamnus fasciculatus
Malvaceae
Southern honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata var. denudata
Caprifoliaceae

[Named for Adam Lonitzer, 1528-1586]
 
 


 
Curly dock *
Rumex crispus
Polygonaceae



   
Toyon
Heteromeles arbutifolia
Rosaceae

[Middle picture with a Lorquin's admiral butterfly, Limenitis lorquini, named after the French entomologist Pierre Joseph Michel Lorquin, 1797-1873, who came to California during the Gold Rush]


 
Creeping snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
Caprifoliaceae


 
 
 
Round-leaved boykinia
Boykinia rotundifolia
Saxifragaceae

[Named for Samuel Boykin, 1786-1848]
 
 



 
Smooth winter vetch *
Vicia villosa ssp. varia
Fabaceae
  Corn chamomile *
Anthemis arvensis
Asteraceae


   
Fremont's cottonwood
Populus fremontii ssp. fremontii
Salicaceae

[Named for John Charles Frémont, 1813-1890]
 
   
Scarlet monkeyflower
Erythranthe cardinalis
Phrymaceae
Laurel sumac
Malosma laurina
Anacardiaceae


 
Greenbark ceanothus
Ceanothus spinosus
Rhamnaceae


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CALIFORNIA PLANT NAMES: LATIN AND GREEK MEANINGS AND DERIVATIONS
VIRGINIA PLANT NAMES: LATIN AND GREEK MEANINGS AND DERIVATIONS