| California Redwoods and Waterfalls:
Big Basin Berry Creek Falls in July
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July on
the Berry Creek Falls Loop (BCFL) Trail
in the Forest of Big Basin State Park.
[Route was clockwise except where stated otherwise.
Report is by Joan Zimmerman except where stated otherwise.]
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Redwood Region Flower Finder:
A Guide to Identifying Wildflowers
of The Coastal Fog Belt of California
by Phoebe Watts, Sarah Ellen Watts (Illustrator).
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Glossary:
A, B,
C, D,
E, F,
G, H,
I, J,
K, L,
M, N,
O, P,
Q, R,
S, T,
U, V,
W, X,
Y, Z.
Monthly reports:
January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June.
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December.
Wilderness Preservation from Bikes.
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Designation of "unique":
In these reports, "unique" refers to any
species that was seen in a single location on the reported day.
Designation of "early":
In these reports, "early" refers to any species that we are seeing this month on this trail
for the first time since we started this record.
Note that these flowers have often been reported by others this early.
They are, however, early for us.
Designation of
:
In these reports,
("New")
refers to a flower that was not spotted by us in previous years.
Report by Joan Zimmerman.
2-layer fresh to start the day; 1-layer hot and sweaty fairly quickly; temperature over 90°C;
98°C recorded at Park Head Quarters.
(9:00 a.m. - 6:25 p.m.)
Team of three observers; met 64 people.
Waterfalls pretty but reduced from their spring splendor.
Only 8 Banana Slugs; probably the high air temperature discouraged them from venturing above ground.
52 different flower species in bloom.
(Access Scott's Flower Photos in his on-line portfolio.)
(Look at slug and flower count graph in a new window.)
17 Aquatic Newts, several of which were newt juveniles (shorter than adults; disproportionately short legs).
Many fingerlings in Waddell Creek and fish up to 6"; a 6-inch trout was spotted by
Don Maier.
Many butterflies, particularly California Sisters; one yellow spotted millipede.
Lots of dragonfly including a SPECTACULAR yellow-headed and yellow-and-black-ringed dragonfly,
possibly the Pacific Spiketail (Cordulegaster dorsalis).
Alligator lizard: 12-inch; slinky, blue-tailed, flash of blue; at connector to Sunset Camp.
A quite beautiful western aquatic garter snake, about two feet long.
Green cones of the redwoods on the trees and fallen on the forest floor already.
We list the flowers below in the order that we encountered them
for the first time on the hike.
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Starting with the flowers (alphabetically) at Ranger Station HQ (many of which are seen on the loop trail also):
- [ALIEN]
Broad-leaved helleborine (Epipactis helleborine).
- [ALIEN]
["unique"]
Bur chervil (Anthriscus caucalis).
- California hedge nettle (Stachys bulleta)
Not a true nettle, so you may touch it painlessly.
Rose/blue/purplish flowers.
- [ALIEN]
["unique"]
Foxglove.
- ["unique"]
Golden Brodiaea
(Brodiaea lutea).
- Hawkweed (white; similar growth pattern to madia).
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Spreading or Common Rush, Juncus patens.
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Pacific or Western Rush, Juncus occidentalis. Flower is a fuzzy ball.
- ["unique"]
Sedge (reddish flowers on a single spike).
- ["unique"]
Star lily or Fremont's star lily
(Zygadenus fremontii).
- ["unique"]
Stinging nettle (pale green). [*OUCH* do not *TOUCH*]
- Western azalea (cream; the most delicious honey-like perfume).
- Woodland madia (a.k.a. tarweed) (Madia madioides).
- Yerba buena (pale blue).
Taking Dool Trail toward Sunset Trail - beginning our counter-clockwise exploration.
By Middle Ridge Fire Road: 0 slugs.
- California Broom a.k.a. deerweed,
Lotus Scoparius (yellow and red).
- California Harebell, Asyneuma prenanthoides (white).
By Sky-Line-to-the-Sea Trail Connector on Sunset Trail: 0 slugs.
- Coffee berry (green, 5-pointed, small flower).
- Orange sticky monkey flower (orange).
- Two-eyed violet (white with purple eye spots and purple back to top two petals).
- Wintergreen, Pyrola picta var. aphylla (red).
- ["unique"]
Hairy Honeysuckle (Lonicera hispidula) (pink)
- California milkwort,
Polygala californica (rose-purple pea-like flowers on a herbaceous plant with dark leaves).
Abandoned hornet's nest on the ground; beautiful thin paper layers of various pale browns.
- Redwood violet (yellow).
- Yerba de Selva (white).
By West Waddell Creek Bridge on Sunset Trail: 3 new slugs; 3 total.
- Nut sedge (a.k.a. Tall Cyperus), Cyperus eragrostis.
Umbel of green flowers on top of long stem.
By Timms Creek Trail on Sunset Trail: 0 new slugs.
- ["unique"]
Pearl orchid (Piperia candida); white flower and white-greenish stem; no tail to the flower.
["The Pearl Orchid has no 'Tail'; otherwise it is like the Rein Orchid." Scott Peden.]
- ["unique"]
Rein orchid (Habenaria unalascensis); white flower and white-greenish stem; tail to the flower.
[Larger than the somewhat similar pearl orchid.]
- ["early"]
Cudweed (Gnaphalium).
- Sugar scoop (saxifrage, sometimes called False Mitrewort), Tiatella unifoliata (white).
By East Berry Creek Bridge: 1 new slug; 4 total. 11 aquatic newts (including juveniles of 2" with very short legs)
in the stream.
- ["unique"]
Salal, Gaultheria shallon
- Golden Chinquapin. Both flowers and fruit.
- Chamise (white).
- Bush poppy (yellow).
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["unique"]
California ground cone (Boschniakia strobilacea).
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Slender tarweed (a.k.a. grassy tarweed) (Madia gracilis).
5-petal yellow flower; thin alternate leaves.
[Identified by Scott Peden.]
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["unique"]
California nutmeg flowers.
[Identified by Scott Peden.]
- ["unique"]
Scrub oak flowers (Quercus dumosa).
[Identified by Scott Peden.]
- ["unique"]
Golden yarrow, Eriophyllum confertiflorum. [Identified by Tim Hyland from photographs by
Scott Peden.]
By Sunset camp connector trail: 0 new slugs. 0 new newts.
- Ocean spray (white).
- Coast Boykinia (a.k.a. Brook Foam), Boykinia Elata (5 open white petals).
- Trail Plant (Adenocaulon bicolor)
(cluster of very tiny 5-petaled white flowers. Bring your magnifying glass!!).
- ["unique"]
Wild Ginger (maroon).
- Elk's Clover a.k.a. Spikenard (white flowers, huge leaves, always near water).
- Bedstraw
a.k.a. Cleavers (Galium aparine).
Tiny white flowers.
- Redwood sorrel (pink).
By Silver Falls: 0 new slugs.
3 aquatic newts (2 at Golden Falls, 1 at Silver Falls); 14 total.
- Alum root (a.k.a. small-flowered Heuchera) (white).
By Berry Creek Falls Bench and Viewing Platform: 0 new slugs.
2 new newts; 16 total.
- ["unique"]
Tiger lily (a.k.a. Panther lily or Leopard lily), Lilium pardalinum. Orange.
By Berry Creek Falls view from Seat: 0 new slugs. 0 new newts.
By West Waddell Creek Bridge: 0 new slugs.
- ["unique"]
Burning Bush near stream (brownish red flowers hide under the outermost leaves).
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New Zealand fireweed (Erichtides minima). [Identified by Tim Hyland from photographs by
Scott Peden.]
Tiny yellow composites on tall (4 or 5 feet) plant with alternate 4-plus-inch leaves (half-inch wide).
By Timms Creek Trail: 0 new slugs. 1 new newt; 17 total newts.
By West (Lower) End of connector trail: 1 new slug; 5 total.
By East (Upper) End of the connector trail: 0 new slugs.
By Kelly Creek Bridge: 0 new slugs.
- Blue brodia (Triteleia laxa). [Compare with Golden brodia at HQ.]
- ["unique"]
Wood rose (Rosa gymnocarpa).
- ["unique"]
California blackberry (white).
By Sunset connector: 3 new slugs; 8 total.
By Middle Ridge Fire Road: 0 new slugs.
Yellow jacket swarm at one of the rare areas of damp earth.
Arriving back at Park Head Quarters: 0 new slugs; 8 total. 0 new newts; 17 total newts.
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Report by Joan Zimmerman.
Wildflowers visible by the Ranger Station HQ:
- Bedstraw
a.k.a. Cleavers (Galium aparine).
Tiny white flowers.
- Broad-leaved helleborine (Epipactis helleborine) (ALIEN).
- California hedge nettle (Stachys bulleta).
Not a true nettle, so you may touch it painlessly.
- ["unique"]
Forget-me-not (ALIEN).
- Golden Brodiaea (Triteleia ixioides).
- Western azalea (cream).
- Woodland madia (a.k.a. tarweed) (Madia madioides).
- Yerba buena (light blue).
Take Sky-Line-to-the-Sea Trail toward Middle Ridge Fire Road. Slug count so far is 0.
- Redwood violet (a.k.a. Evergreen violet) (Viola sempervirens).
- Alum root (a.k.a. crevice heuchera or small-flowered heuchera) (Heuchera micrantha).
The petals of this flower curl back.
- California milkwort (Polygala californica).
Rose/blue/purplish flowers.
- Wintergreen (Pyrola picta var. aphylla) (red).
- Hawkweed (white; leaves alternate; otherwise similar growth pattern to madia).
By Middle Ridge Fire Road: 7 new slugs, 7 total.
- Hairy Honeysuckle (Lonicera hispidula) (pink)
- Orange Sticky Monkey Flower (Diplacus aurantiacus).
- California Harebell, Asyneuma prenanthoides (white).
By Sunset Connector Trail junction: 24 new slugs, 31 total.
- Blue brodia (Triteleia laxa). [Compare with Golden brodia at HQ.]
- Two-eyed violet (Viola ocellata).
- Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus).
By Kelly Creek Bridge: 23 new slugs, 54 total.
By East End (upper) of the side trail: 5 new slug, 59 total.
- Yerba de selva (a.k.a. Weed of the Woods) (Whipplea modesta).
By West End (lower) of the side trail: 6 new slugs, 65 total.
- Sugar scoop (saxifrage, sometimes called False Mitrewort), Tiatella unifoliata (white).
By Timms Creek Trail: 7 new slugs, 72 total.
- Coast Boykinia (Boykinia Elata) (white). Aka Brook Foam. (5 open white petals).
- Trail Plant (white)
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Burning Bush near stream: brownish red flowers hide under the outermost leaves.
By West Waddell Creek Bridge: 5 new slugs, 77 total.
By Berry Creek Falls first view (at Seat): 1 new slug, 78 total.
- Tiger lily (a.k.a. Panther or Leopard lily) (Lilium pardalinum) Orange.
By Berry Creek Falls viewing platform and bench: 1 new slug, 79 total.
By Silver Falls: 1 new slug, 80 total. 1 aquatic NEWT.
By Sunset Camp Connector Trail junction with Sunset Trail: 3 new slugs, 83 total.
- Coffee berry (Rhamnus californica). Greenish-lemonish white flowers in clusters.
- Small-flowered Trefoil (Lotus micranthus).
- Chamise (Adenostoma fasiculatum).
- Bush Poppy. Yellow.
- SYCs: Small Yellow composites.
- Salal (Gaultheria shallon).
By East Berry Creek Bridge: 0 new slugs, 84 total.
- Spotted Coral Root Orchid.
- Pearl orchid (Piperia candida); white flower and white-greenish stem; no tail to the flower.
["The Pearl Orchid has no 'Tail'; otherwise it is like the Rein Orchid." Scott Peden.]
By Timms Creek Trail junction with Sunset Trail: 2 new slugs, 86 total.
By West Waddell Creek Bridge: 0 new slugs, 86 total.
- Redwood sorrel (Oxalis oregana).
White; sometimes mauve, pinkish, or bluish.
- ["unique"]
Rein orchid (Habenaria unalascensis); white flower and white-greenish stem; tail to the flower.
[Larger than the somewhat similar pearl orchid.]
By Sky-Line-to-the-Sea Trail Connector junction with Sunset Trail: 8 new slugs, 94 total.
By Middle Ridge Fire Road: 1 new slug, 95 total.
By Dool Trail: No additions.
By HQ: No additions.
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Report by Joan Zimmerman.
Lots of wildflowers visible by the Ranger Station HQ:
- Bedstraw
a.k.a. Cleavers (Galium aparine).
Tiny white flowers.
- Blue brodia (light blue).
- ["unique"]
Broad Leaved Helleborine (Epipactis helleborine) (ALIEN).
- ["unique"]
Bur chervil (Anthriscus caucalis) (ALIEN).
5 small white wedge-shaped petals with straight wide ends.
- California hedge nettle (Stachys bulleta).
Not a true nettle, so you may touch it painlessly.
- ["unique"]
Common or Bull thistle (ALIEN).
- ["unique"]
Forget-me-not (ALIEN).
- Golden Brodiaea (Triteleia ixioides).
- Miner's Lettuce (Montia perfoliata).
- Redwood sorrel (Oxalis oregana).
White; sometimes mauve, pinkish, or bluish.
- Smooth cat's ear (yellow composite) (ALIEN).
- Sow thistle (yellow composite) (ALIEN). Smooth, branched stem; leaves have prickly edges.
- Stinging nettle (ALIEN).
- Western azalea (cream).
- Woodland madia (a.k.a. tarweed) (Madia madioides).
- Yerba buena (light blue).
Take Sky-Line-to-the-Sea Trail toward Middle Ridge Fire Road. Slug count so far is 0.
- Redwood violet (a.k.a. Evergreen violet) (Viola sempervirens).
- Alum root (a.k.a. crevice heuchera or small-flowered heuchera) (Heuchera micrantha).
The petals of this flower curl back.
- California milkwort (Polygala californica).
Rose/blue/purplish flowers.
- Hawkweed (white; leaves alternate; otherwise similar growth pattern to madia).
By Middle Ridge Fire Road: 9 new slugs, 9 total.
- Orange Sticky Monkey Flower (Diplacus aurantiacus).
- Hairy Honeysuckle (Lonicera hispidula) (pink)
- Two-eyed violet (Viola ocellata).
- Toothwort (Dentaria californica, var. integrifolia).
White, sometimes with lavender tinge.
By Sunset Connector Trail junction: 15 new slugs, 24 total.
Dark blue brodia seen here but not counted as different from paler brodia at HQ.
- California strawberry (Fragaria californica).
- ["unique"]
Douglas' Nightshade (Solanum douglasii). White.
- ["unique"]
Ocean spray (white).
- California Harebell, Asyneuma prenanthoides (white).
- Wintergreen (Pyrola picta var. aphylla) (red).
By Kelly Creek Bridge: 13 new slugs, 37 total.
- Elk's Clover a.k.a. Spikenard (white flowers, huge leaves, always near water).
By East End (upper) of the side trail: 9 new slug, 46 total.
- Yerba de selva (a.k.a. Weed of the Woods) (Whipplea modesta).
- Trail Plant (white)
By West End (lower) of the side trail: 11 new slugs, 57 total.
- Sugar scoop (saxifrage, sometimes called False Mitrewort), Tiatella unifoliata (white).
By Timms Creek Trail: 8 new slugs, 65 total.
- Coast Boykinia (Boykinia Elata) (white). Aka Brook Foam. (5 open white petals).
- Tiger lily (a.k.a. Panther or Leopard lily) (Lilium pardalinum) Orange.
- Small-leaved montia (Montia parvifolia) (white, 5 petals, small alternate leaves and basal rosette; delicate).
- ["unique"]
Burning Bush near stream (brownish red flowers hide under the outermost leaves)
By West Waddell Creek Bridge: 15 new slugs, 80 total.
By Berry Creek Falls first view (at Seat): 0 new slugs, 80 total.
By Berry Creek Falls viewing platform and bench: 0 new slugs, 80 total.
By Silver Falls: 4 new slugs, 84 total.
By Sunset Camp Connector Trail junction with Sunset Trail: 0 new slugs, 84 total.
- Trefoil: Small-flowered Trefoil (Lotus Micranthus).
- Bush Poppy. Yellow.
- Chamise (Adenostoma fasiculatum).
- Pearly Everlasting.
- SYCs: Small Yellow composites.
- Salal (Gaultheria shallon).
By East Berry Creek Bridge: 0 new slugs, 84 total.
- ["unique"]
Pearl orchid (Piperia Candida).
By Timms Creek Trail junction with Sunset Trail: 1 new slugs, 85 total.
By West Waddell Creek Bridge: 1 new slugs, 86 total.
By Sky-Line-to-the-Sea Trail Connector junction with Sunset Trail: 5 new slugs, 91 total.
- ["unique"]
Wood rose (Rosa gymnocarpa).
By Middle Ridge Fire Road: 2 new slugs, 92 total.
By Dool Trail: No additions.
By HQ: No additions.
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Report
by Joan Zimmerman
and Scott Peden.
121 Banana Slugs. (We enjoyed mist, condensation, and low temperatures for July.)
54 different flower species in bloom.
(Access Scott's Flower Photos in his on-line portfolio.)
(Look at slug and flower count graph in a new window.)
Also, 20 Newts; 1 yellow and black dragonfly (3 inches).
Found a Raven's Feather and another from a Western Screech Owl.
(Identified by our companion Jerry Granger, the wild-life photographer.)
We list the flowers below in the order that we encountered them
for the first time on the hike.
We encountered every Orchid that Scott knows of, all at bloom at one time in the Park:
3 Corallorhiza's, 2 Piperia's (Candida and Transversa),
the Epipactis Helleborine (Broad Leaved Helleborine, the introduced species),
and an Epipactis Gigantea (Native Stream Orchid)!
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Designation of "unique":
In this report, the designation of "unique" is given to those
species that were seen in a single location.
Starting with the flowers at Ranger Station HQ:
- ["unique"]
Triplet Lily. (a.k.a. Common Triteleia, Grass Nut, or Ithuriel's Spear), Brodiaea laxa (yellow).
- ["unique" and alien]
Broad Leaved Helleborine, Epipactis helleborine.
- Madia, Madia exigua (yellow flower; leaves are alternate).
- One-Leaved Onion, Allium unifolium (mauve).
- Rush.
- ["unique"]
Stinging nettle (pale green). [*OUCH* do not *TOUCH*]
- Western azalea (cream).
- Woodland madia or tarweed, Madia madioides (yellow flower; leaves are opposite).
- ["unique"]
Yerba buena (light blue).
Taking Sky-Line-to-the-Sea Trail, by Middle Ridge Fire Road: Nanner count so far is 4.
- Purple Nutsedge (brown flowers).
- Redwood violet (yellow).
- Alum root (white). [Aka small-flowered Heuchera.]
By Sunset connector: 7 new nanners, 11 total.
- Hawkweed (white; similar growth pattern to madia).
- Orange sticky monkey flower (orange).
- California Hedge nettle (pink).
- California Harebell, Asyneuma prenanthoides (white).
- ["unique"]
Blue witch (blue with gold center).
By Kelly Creek Bridge: 22 New Nanners, 33 total.
- ["unique"]
Douglas nightshade (white with gold center).
- ["unique"]
Ocean spray (white).
- Wild Strawberry (white).
- Yerba de Selva (white).
- Wintergreen, Pyrola picta var. aphylla (red).
By East (upper) End of the connector trail: 17 New Nanners, 50 total.
- Elks Clover a.k.a. Spikenard (white flowers, huge leaves, always near water).
- Coast Boykinia, Boykinia Elata (white). Aka Brook Foam. (5 open white petals).
By West (lower) End of the connector trail: 9 New Nanners, 59 total; 1 new terrestrial newt.
- ["unique"]
Hairy Honeysuckle, Lonicera hispidula (pink).
- Tan oak (male and female flowers on the trees).
- Trail Plant (Adenocaulon bicolor).
Cluster of very tiny 5-petaled flowers. Bring your magnifying glass!!
By Timms Creek Trail: 12 New Nanners, 71 total.
- Milkwort (rose-purple pea-like flowers on an herbaceous plant).
- Sugar scoop (saxifrage, sometimes called False Mitrewort), Tiatella unifoliata (white).
- Small-leaved montia, Montia parvifolia (white, 5 petals, small alternate leaves and basal rosette).
- ["unique"]
Hazelnut (male catkins and small female flowers).
- ["unique"]
Stream orchid, Epipactis gigantea (yellow-green flower with orange lower lip
striped with red; broad leaves with strong parallel veins that clasp the stem).
- ["unique"]
Burning Bush near stream (brownish red flowers hide under the outermost leaves).
By BC Falls first view at Seat: 17 New Nanners, 88 total.
Also Jerry spotted a belted kingfisher.
- ["unique"]
Tiger Lily (orange).
- California blackberry (white).
- Salal, Gaultheria shallon (white flowers; big shiny leaves).
By Silver Falls. 20 New Nanners, 108 total; 19 new newts (mostly aquatic by Silver Falls) so total is 20 newts.
- ["unique"]
Wild Ginger (maroon).
- ["unique"]
Golden yarrow, Eriophyllum confertiflorum (yellow, 5 petals, 2 lines down length of petal).
- ["unique"]
Bush poppy (yellow).
- ["unique"]
Chamise (white).
- ["unique"]
Toyon (green-white).
- ["unique"]
California broom (yellow).
- ["unique"]
Lupine (blue).
- ["unique"]
Yerba santa (blue).
- ["unique"]
Wood rose (red).
- ["unique"]
Two-eyed violet (white with purple eye spots and purple back to top two petals).
By Sunset Camp connector trail: 3 New Nanners, 111 total.
Also Jerry spotted a band-tailed pigeon.(largest pigeon; broad grey tip to fan tail;
yellow beak; white neck band).
By East Berry Creek Bridge: 0 New Nanners, 111 total.
- ["unique"]
Pearl orchid, Piperia candida (white flower and white-greenish stem).
- ["unique"]
Spotted coral root Orchid (red flower, red spots on the white lower lip).
- ["unique"]
Spotted coral root without spots on the white lip (red flower).
- ["unique"]
Spotted coral root orchid (yellow, no spots on white lower lip).
By Sunset trail at Timms Creek Trail: 2 New Nanners, 113 total.
By Sunset trail at West Waddell Creek Bridge: 1 New Nanner, total 114.
- ["unique"]
Green Wintergreen (pale green flowers and stem).
- ["unique"]
Coffee berry (5-pointed small white star).
- ["unique"]
White Rein or royal orchid, Piperia transversa.
By Sky-Line-to-the-Sea Trail Connector/on Sunset Trail: 6 New Nanners, 120 total.
By Middle Ridge Fire Road: 1 New Nanner, 121 total.
By Dool Trail: 0 New Nanners, 121 total.
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Notes
by Joan Zimmerman.
20 banana slugs and 15 flower species blooming.
(Look at slug and flower count graph in a new window.)
Species seen in blossom (alphabetically):
Alum Root (white)
Bush Poppy (yellow)
California False Lupine (yellow)
California Harebell (blue)
California Hedge Nettle (pink)
Coyote Brush (cream)
White Hawkweed (white)
One Leaved Onion (blue)
Redwood Violet (yellow)
Sugar Scoop (white)
Tarweed (yellow)
Tiger Lily (magnificent orange)
Trail Plant (white)
Western azalea (cream)
Wintergreen (Pyrola picta) (pink)
Report
by Scott Peden.
Thank You, the un-thanked, who help us keep this trail clean.
We collected 3 garbage bags full of trash on the walk,
and all were exhausted by the time we got back.
Since this isn't flat terrain, you guessed it, the trash was always down hill.
PLEASE carry out your litter - bottles, tissues, towels, shorts, gloves,
hats, silver foil torn off snack food and candies, and (horrors!) cigarette butts.
There isn't a Park Maintenance person who is paid to pick up trash outside of the HQ and Campgrounds areas.
Such cleanup is almost exclusively by volunteers, some of them,
of course being
those of you who had hoped to be out there for a relaxing time in the mountainous forest.
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Meanwhile, when we weren't picking up trash ...
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2002. This Glorious Day held THESE HIGHLIGHTS.
From the Ranger Station/HQ, across the road ...
Meadow by the Parking Kiosk
1. Golden Brodiaea
Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail to Middle Ridge Fire Road
2. Redwood Violet
3. Pacific Starflower
4. Wintergreen, Pyrolia Picta
5. Tarweed
6. Hawkweed
Middle Ridge Fire road to the Sunset Trail Connector
Tarweed
Pyrolia Picta
Hawkweed
7. Two Eyed Violet
8. California Hedge Nettle
9. Redwood Sorrel
* Huge 8" diameter Mushroom, looks like cracked glazing on its top.
Banana Slugs 5
Sunset Trail Connector to Kelly Creek bridge
10. Milkwort
* Yellow Spotted Millipede
(hillside meadow)
Tarweed
Ca Hedge Nettle
* Banana Slug in a Maiden Fern, I'm dubbing this one, 'Lady Godiva'.
11. Blue Witch (one lone flower again!)
12. Ocean Spray
13. Blackberry
14. Dannie's Skullcap (Scutellaria tuberosa
Two Eyed Violet
(end of meadow)
Redwood Sorrel
* opening seed pods of Western Wake Robin, Trillium Ovatum,
15. Alum Root, or Crevis Heuchera
* seed pods on spotted? Coral Root Orchid
* interesting seed heads on the Yerba de Selva
* reddish bronze seeds on the end of the Fat (False) Solomon's Seal
Banana Slugs 10, total 15
Kelly Creek Bridge to east end of Loop Trail
16. Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus).
Redwood Violet
Hawkweed
17. Yerba De Selva
18. Yerba Buena
Milkwort
Ca Hedge Nettle
Redwood Sorrel
Alum Root
Banana Slugs 5, 20 total
East end of Loop Trail to west end of Loop Trail
Ca hedge Nettle
Alum Root
* Aquatic Garter Snake (single yellow stripe on his back, probably 2 to 2-1/2 feet long)
19. Toothwort, with one decaying flower
Yerba de Selva
Banana Slugs 8, total 28
West end of Loop Trail to Timms Creek Trail
20. Trail Plant (Adenocaulon bicolor)
Redwood Sorrel
21. Brook Foam, or Coast Boykinia, Boykinia Elata
Yerba de Selva
Banana Slugs 11, total 39
Timms Creek Trail to Berry Creek Falls viewing bench
(Timms Creek Trail was named after a Mr. Timms, the trail follows the West Branch
of the Waddell Creek up to Sunset Trail)
Brook Foam
22. Elks Clover/Spikenard
Redwood Sorrel
Ca Hedge Nettle
Trail Plant (Adenocaulon bicolor)
Redwood Violet
Alum Root
Burning Bush
23. Western azalea
Hawkweed
Banana Slugs, 13, total 52, They are taking over, and I haven't seen one with a note book
and pen yet!
Berry Creek Falls viewing bench to Silver falls
Redwood Violet
24. Tiger Lily
25. Sugar Scoop/False Mitrewort
Ca Hedge Nettle
* Clintonia with seed heads, I counted 50 individual pods.
Brook Foam (Boykinia Elata)
26. Mountain Boykinia? Boykinia major
Pacific Starflower
* Lady Ferns by the stream are so spectacular
Wintergreen, Pyrolia Picta
Banana Slugs none, total stands at 52
Silver Falls to the Sunset Trail Camp marker
* water flow is noticeable less in West Berry Creek from last month
Milkwort
Hawkweed
No Banana Slugs
Sunset Trail Camp marker to east Berry Creek bridge
(This is a chaparral area, till noted again)
27. California False Lupine, Thermopsis macrophylla
Tarweed
Hawkweed
28. Bush Lupine
29. Chamise
30. Toyon
* Green cones on the young Knobcone Pines, that have grown up since the fire about 4 years ago.
31. Yerba Santa
(End of chaparral area)
Ca Hedge Nettle
32. Wintergreen, Pyrola Bracteata
No Banana Slugs still, since crossing the West Waddell, and going up to the viewing bench
East Berry Creek bridge to Timms Creek Trail
Sugar-Scoop/False Mitrewort
33. The last of the Globe Lilies. This one also has the three-sided seeds on it.
Hawkweed
Milkwort
Wintergreen, Pyrola Picta
Redwood Sorrel
Alum Root
Pyrola Picta and Pyrola Bracteata together
Two Eyed Violet
Tarweed
34. White Milkwort
35. Spotted Coral Root Orchid "unspotted, yellow variety"
Banana Slugs, 2, total now 54
Timms Creek Trail to West Waddell Creek bridge
Spotted Coral Root Orchid "unspotted yellow variety"
* several 4" to 8" diameter Mushrooms, with the 'Cracked Glazing' on top
Spotted Coral Root Orchid, 'unspotted red variety'
Banana Slugs 1, 55 total
West Waddell Creek bridge to Skyline to the Sea Trail connector
Sugar-scoop/False Mitrewort
Milkwort
Spotted Coral Root Orchid "unspotted yellow variety"
Redwood violet
Wintergreen, Pyrolia Picta
36. Harebell
* A Raven on the ground, and he is letting me point my silver-cased camera at him! (most animals
seem to hate my silver-cased camera, my black one doesn't seem to bother most, even when it
flashes.)
Two Eyed Violet
37. Helleborine (European equivalent of the Stream Orchid)
38. Pearly Everlasting
39. Hairy Honeysuckle
(another hillside meadow)
Tarweed
40. Wild Strawberry
41. Orange Sticky monkey Flower
42. Coyote Mint
(end of meadow)
* bulging seed pods of spotted Coral Root Orchid
Ca Hedge Nettle
Wintergreen, Pyrola Bracteata
Two Eyed Violet
43. One Leaved Onion
Banana Slugs 5 more, total 60!
Sunset/Skyline to the Sea Connector Trail to Middle Ridge Fire Road
One Leaved Onion
Ridge Fire Road to Park HQ
No more flowers on the trail down back into the Park basin
* Acorn Woodpecker near the parking Kiosk, is gathering small grains of gravel, and letting me
take pictures, though he is a bit unsure of me at even 25 feet.
As always, my thanks to
the Trail crews of the State Park System,
and the several volunteer trail crews,
some of whom have been at this for 30 years.
There is a huge amount of unseen work that they do to make this part of the park accessible to us.
The crews are usually unseen in the background,
keeping these trails open for us.
I know personally, that there is a lot of maintenance that happens on these trail, that most of us wouldn't even notice.
Take these hikes in the winter and spring months, after the storms have knocked down dozens
of trees across each trail, and see what a difference it is!
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