Out about two hours. Arrive before ten a. m. 45 keepers.
I wanted to get out in the morning to verify that some of the plants I couldn’t catch in bloom in the evening closed in the heat of the day and it was so.
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We drove to the west end of the park to improve the photos of Eriogonum niveum, snow buckwheat and couldn’t find a blossom.
We walked past a blossoming Lactuca serriola, prickly lettuce entering the park thinking we would photograph it later and it was closed when we returned, before ten o’clock in the morning.
However, we found several at the other end of the park, later that were still open.
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April photographed Eriogonum umbellatum, sulfur buckwheat and Artemisia tridentata, tall sagebrush while I recorded Chondrilla juncea, rush skeleton weed and chatted with a photographer that lives near the park. The tall sagebrush is in bud but will not bloom for weeks.
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I asked April to see if she could make any sense of the white specks on the green-stemmed ground-hugger. Some of them are buds. No blossoms as yet.
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We drove to the north entrance of the park to check on the rush skeleton weed there. Some were in bloom. Most were either closed or not yet in bloom.
Some with the most sun were full of blossoms, seed-heads and husks. They’ve been in bloom for awhile.
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I asked April to get better images of the ‘filmy’ possible Epilobium brachycarpum, autumn willow rush. They are either still in bud or have bell flowers.
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We drove to the east access to the park to check Madia glomerata, stinking tarweed for blossoms. Some were blossoming. Most were past bloom.
I have wondered about their asymmetric ray flowers. This from Burke: “… rays inconspicuous, 2 mm. long, usually 1-3 or wanting; … “I don’t find them inconspicuous. I do see them with one, two and three ray flowers … have last year.
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I showed April the Lythrum salicaria and asked for a photo of a bud.
We walked down the main trail and noticed that Asclepias speciosa, showy milkweed is still blooming. I looked for seeds but didn’t find any. They have been blooming for a long time.
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I asked April to see what she could do with a white speck in a Portulaca oleraceae, little hogweed. It was only some kind of detritus. I’m sure they are blossoming elsewhere in the city.
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| Chondrilla juncea, Rush skeletonweed |
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| Most plants have no blossoms some were full of blossoms, seedheads and husks |
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| Eriogonum umbellatum, sulfur buchwheat |
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| Artemisia tridentata, tall sagebrush |
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| Lactuca serriola, prickly lettuce |
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| undernourished Epilobium brachycarpum or unidentified? |
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| Madia glomerata, stinking tarweed |
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| Burke says one to three ray flowers or none |
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| Madia glomerata, purple loosestrife said to be a noxious weed of wet ground or standing water |
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| Asclepias speciosa, showy milkweed |
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| A very complicated blossom |
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