Join the San Gabriel Mountains Chapter of the California Native Plant Society and the Wildland Weed Warriors on Saturday, May 4, from 8:30 to noon as we take a serious dive into the plants and animals of Elsmere Canyon. Help us add as many observations as we can.
After reviewing Research Grade iNaturalist observations for our project area from June 24, 2017 to May 4, 2024, it appears that the Bioblitz resulted in 27 new plant species being recorded, all of them in Elsmere Canyon:
California Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum jordanii)
California False Indigo (Amorpha californica)
Rancher's Fiddleneck (Amsinckia menziesii intermedia)
Chaparral Coyote Brush (Baccharis pilularis consanguinea)
Compact Brome (Bromus madritensis)
Peak Rushrose (Crocanthemum scoparium)
Sand Pygmyweed (Crassula connata)
Durango Root (Datisca glomerata)
Wide-Throated Yellow Monkeyflower (Diplacus brevipes)
Stretchberry (Forestiera pubescens)
Shortpod Mustard (Hirschfeldia incana)
Smooth Cat's Ear (Hypochaeris glabra)
Chilicothe (Marah macrocarpa)
California Saxifrage (Micranthes californica)
Smallflower Melicgrass (Melica imperfecta)
Foothill Needle Grass (Nassella lepida)
Purple Needle Grass (Nassella pulchra)
Sleeping Combseed (Pectocarya penicillata)
Two-Color Rabbit Tobacco (Pseudognaphalium biolettii)
California Chicory (Rafinesquia californica)
Ribes californicum hesperium
Goodding's Willow (Salix gooddingii)
Tall Tumblemustard (Sisymbrium altissimum)
Eastern rocket (Sisymbrium orientale)
Common Sow-Thistle (Sonchus oleraceus)
Saltcedar (Tamarix ramosissima)
Hairy Horsebrush (Tetradymia comosa)
Thank you to everyone who helped in this effort, the observers and the identifiers!
