Marin Headlands Guidebook

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By: Mani, Noah, Kexin,
Srujana

2. Plant Agenda
Gum Plant
Sea-Rocket
Beach Strawberry
Sea Fig
Bermuda Buttercups

3. Gum Plant
Common names are Broad-leaf Gum plant, sticky
head, August flower.
The gum plant grows in California.
The height of the stem is 1 ½ feet and leaf length is
1 inch
The part used are leaves and flower tops to treat
cold, cough and asthma.

4. Sea-Rocket
Sea Rockets grows on sandy beaches above
high tides line. Stems and leaves are fleshy.
Height is 6-20 inches
Flower Size is¼ inches across
Flower Color is pale lavender
Flower time is July to September

5. Flower time is all Spring and Summer
Found in Olympic NP
The height is mat
Beach Strawberry

6. Sea Fig
The height is 6-12 inches (15-30 cm)
They need space 18-24 inches(45-60 cm)
They category is Groundcovers and Perennials
There in the Aizoaceae (ay-zoh-AY-see-ee)
The species is Carpobrotus (kar-poh-BROH-tus)
The scientific name is
Sea Fig (which is blooming)

7. Bermuda Buttercups
exotic perennial species is from South Africa
Funnel-shaped yellow with 5 petals
Leaves are edible and are often put in salads.
Blooms in March-May

8. Agenda Plant Kexin Zhou
ice plant
sand verbena
beach morning glory
beach grass
silver beach weed

9. What is ice
plant?Ice Plant is found
on the California
coast,
along roads, and in
landscapes under at 500
feet in elevation. The
two species of ice plant
commonly seen in
California occur
naturally only in South
as Fig Marigold or
Hottentot fig, its
fruit is dried or
made into jams,
and the gelatinous
juice inside its
leaves has been
used for

10. What does it look like?
What does it look like?
Ice plant is easily
identified by its thick,
three-sided, spear-
shaped, succulent
green leaves. Each
spear is 4-5 inches long.
Ice plant is usually seen
as a dense carpet
of green spears covering
Extensive areas.
The spring flowers are
2-6 inches across
and colored white,
yellow, pink or deep
magenta.

11. Beach Grass
European Beach Grass is a very hardy plant, able
to live in even the most arid milieu. the
surroundings or conditions in which
a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.

12. Silver Beach Weed
some like lizard-tail

13. Animal Agenda
Mani
● Hermit Crab
● Chiton
● Gooseneck Barnacle
● Sculpin
● Nudibranch
(Mani and Noah)
Noah
● Sea Anemone
● Limpet
● Sea Star
● Mussel

14. Hermit Crab
The Hermit Crab is only one
of 600 species of its kind. They
primarily live on land. It does not
have a hard abdomen
like other crabs. To protect its
body, it has a shell. The shell
also collects water for the crab.
The crab always sheds its shell.
It sheds its shell when it
outgrows its shell.s

15. Chiton
A Chiton is a mollusk. It
is in a group called
Polyplacophora. It is a type of
sea snail.It has a soft and
squishy body. Its body is the
only protection it has.

16. Gooseneck Barnacle
The Gooseneck Barnacle
and its scientific name
Pedunculata are filter feeding
crustaceans. They are
attached to hard rocks
flotsam. Flotsams are shipwrecks.
They also live in the Intertidal
zone. It is on the shore where the
waves hit.
(Gooseneck
Barnacle)

17. Sculpin
Sculpin is a fish that is in the
superfamily called Cottoidea.
It is in the order of
Scorpaeniformes. Its only
one of 756 species! It is found in
both freshwater and saltwater.
(Sculpin)

18. Nudibranch
The Nudibranch is a type of marine gastropod mollusk.
Its scientific name is Nudibranchia. It lives deep
underwater. Its widely known for its extraordinary glow
in the dark color. Some Nudibranch are toxic. It
concentrates the toxins on its prey with its tentacles.
There are also more than 3,000 species of
nudibranch.

19. Sea Anemone
The sea anemone work together with clownfish. It catches
its prey when it touches its tentacles. The prey is
paralyzed and the anemone’s tentacles pull its food into
the anemone’s mouth. The sea anemone protects the
clownfish and the anemone eats the scraps the clown-
fish eats. They are as small as half an inch or as big as 6 feet.
They usually stick on a rock on the sea bottom or on coral reefs

20. Limpet
Limpets are molluscs (slug, snail, etc) with a
dome-shaped shell. Limpets are also herbivorous
that eat algae. The limpet’s teeth are super strong.
They are stronger than a spider’s web! Limpets are
usually 3-8 inches long. Patellogastropoda is the
scientific name for limpet.
Keyhole Limpet

21. Sea Star
Starfish or sea stars eat clams or oysters. They use
tiny suction cupped feel to break open the shell.
Then there stomach comes out from its mouth and
goes into the shell. Next, the stomach closes to digest it. The
starfish is close to the sea urchins and sand dollars.
They are also 12-24 cm. Asteroidea is the scientific name for
starfish.
Sugar Starfish

22. Mussel
Mussels are molluscs like the limpet. They also move
slow like a snail. Mussels only have one foot. They use
that foot by sticking their foot out and pull themselves
along. On the mussel’s shell, there are growth lines on
them like the tree trunk. The lines mean the years in the
mussel’s life.
Boston Bay Black Mussel

23. Noah’s Bibliography
Sea Anemone Pic: http://www.auduboninstitute.org/animals/living-water/sea-anemone-302
Limpet Pic:
http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/Find+out+about/Animals+of+Queensland/Molluscs/Gastropods/Marine+snails/Jukes+Keyhole+Limpet#.VQdE2FX
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Sea StarPic: http://www.qualityshells.com/sugar-starfish.html
Mussel Pic: http://www.rgbstock.com/bigphoto/mxPIXGW/mussels
Sea Anemone Research: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/sea-anemone/
Limpet Research: http://www.theseashore.org.uk/theseashore/SpeciesPages/Limpets.jpg.html http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-
31500883
Starfish Research: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/starfish/
Mussel Research: http://molluskconservation.org/MUSSELS/What_Mussel.html
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/64335/#b
Nudibranch Research: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/nudibranch/
Golden Gate Bridge Pic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GoldenGateBridge-001.jpg

24. Mani’s Bibliography :
Hermit Crab: http://pethermitcrabs.org/
Hermit Crab: https://www.google.com/search?q=hermit+crab&rlz=1CASMAE_enUS631US631&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=W0UHVbznN4-
zoQTXvYKQCg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=657#imgdii=_&imgrc=HIg2AJqqFW-
kTM%253A%3B9RQxprUn87iDLM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.neaq.org%252Fconservation_and_research%252Fprojects%252Fproject_pages%2
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%252Fhermitcrabs.php%3B480%3B361
Nudibranch Research: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/nudibranch/

25. Websites
https://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/herbhunters/gumplant.html
http://www.nps.gov/prsf/learn/nature/bermuda-buttercup.htm
http://medicinalherbinfo.org/herbs/GumPlant.html
http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/cakileeden.html
Picture
http://www.mediahex.com/Bermuda_Buttercup
http://www.wildflowersofireland.net/image_uploads/flowers/Rocket-Sea-1.jpg
http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/2004/04/06/RichSwanner/f9ec7f.jpg
http://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/interns-2003/eucalyputs-pauciflora-cu-250.jpg
http://www.redorbit.com/media/uploads/2012/06/frch_001_php-360x300.jpg
http://www.pnwflowers.com/flower/fragaria-chiloensis
Srujana’s Bibliography

26. Bibliography
1920 × 1080 - socialphy.com
http://www.mediahex.com/Bermuda_Buttercup
https://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/herbhunters/gumplant.html
http://www.beachwatchers.wsu.edu/ezidweb/shoreplants/Ambrosia.htm
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/80992682/
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/530171/sculpin
http://www.wildflowersofireland.net/image_uploads/flowers/Rocket-Sea-1.jpg