3. These plants grow in
grasslands as tall as up
to 6 feet. Flowers stem
from the top as they
grow. These are most
commonly found on
roadsides.
4. Thistle Plant
Thistle plants come in many
colors. In this instance, it
was a creamy thistle plant.
These plants are
characterized by leaves with
sharp prickles on the
margins. The average thistle
plant produces in excess of
10,000 seeds per plant.
5. I believe I got a picture
of a dried out
Paepalanthus plant.
Paepalanthus is a
genus with about 485
species, in the family
Eriocaulaceae.
6.
7. Fallen
California
Oak Branch
California Oaks are widespread throughout California.
Worldwide there are 500-to-600 species of oak.
Half of California's native oak species are trees. A third
are shrubs. The rest can be shrub-like or tree-like.
8. Heteromeles
Heteromeles
arbutifolia, more
commonly known as
Toyon, is a common
perennial shrub native
to California down to
Baja California. Toyon is
a prominent component
of the coastal sage scrub
plant community, and is
a part of drought-
adapted woodland
habitats. It is also known
by the common names
Christmas berry and
California holly.
9. The Cumberland rock-shield is
a foliose, yellow-green lichen
which is found across much of
North and South America. It is a
relatively large lichen and grows
attached to rocks, where it is
tightly attached and difficult to
removed. Boulders and smaller
rocks close to the ground tend
to be its main habitat. It can
also be found at a variety of
altitudes. Some studies have
found it growing upon siliceous
granite gravestones; practically
any rock surface is suitable for
cumberland to thrive.
Cumberland Rock Shield
10.
11. Yellow Clematis
There are several species
of clematis that produce
yellow blooms. It is
important to note that
clematis blooms may
vary in color from season
to season. One type of
yellow clematis is the
Tibetana. This yellow
clematis will produce
bright yellow blooms
from July all the way to
late autumn. These
yellow clematis are most
successful when planted
in sunny or partly shady
regions
12. Mountain Alder
Mountain Alder is a small to
medium size tree with
smooth grey bark even in old
age, its life span being a
maximum of 60-100 years.
The oval leaves are
alternate, serrate, and often
shallowly lobed. These are
coarse shrubs or small
deciduous trees, 2 to 10
meters tall and they often
occur in clumps.
13. Monkey flowers are named for their funny-face-flowers that look like grinning Monkeys.
These plants like dry rocky slopes. They can often be found growing in almost solid rock
with very little moisture even on south facing slopes. They will often survive drought by
going summer deciduous. Monkey flowers are more floriferous in full sun but will
tolerate part or even full shade.
Common Monkey Flower
14.
15. Lichen plants are composite organisms consisting of a symbiotic organism
composed of a fungus with a photosynthetic partner, usually either a green alga
or cyan bacterium. The morphology, physiology and biochemistry of lichens are
very different from those of the isolated fungus and alga in culture. Lichens occur
in some of the most extreme environments on Earth. However, they are also
abundant on leaves and branches in rain forests, on bare rock, including walls and
gravestones, and on exposed soil surfaces.
16. Valley Oak
Valley Oak grows only in
California , generally below
2,500 feet elevation.
Valley Oaks are the largest
of all oak trees in North
America. They can rise
more than 100 feet above
the ground and have trunks
6 or 7 feet in diameter. A
young valley oak's tap root
can reach 60 feet deep, to
search for groundwater.
But as the tree
matures, the tap root
sloughs off and the tree
develops a tiered root
system with feeder and
sinker roots that permeate
different layers in the soil
profile, generally from two
to four feet below the soil
17. I spotted this wild horse out on the other side f the mountain. While most horses are
domestic, others remain wild. Feral horses are the descendents of once-tame animals
that have run free for generations. Groups of such horses can be found in many places
around the world.
