Natural Space Observations

I went further up the Mariposa Trail off the Irish Foothills nat reserve. So these pictures are from the Oak woodland; as you go up the trail, the plant community phases into chaparral. I feel like when you enter, you're in an oak woodland/riparian area (but the stream is intermittent). And then the ecotone between woodland and chaparral it a grassland area with annual grasses and flowers. I only ID the genus for some of my plants because I couldn't determine the specific sp. I thought maybe the Deervetch is Deerweed: Acmispon glaber. I could not determine which kind of checker-bloom the pink/purply flowering plant is.

Posted on May 7, 2020 06:40 PM by nakjoy