Studied by 5 peopleNemophila menziesii (Baby blue eyes)
Deeply lobed leaves
Oak woodland/grassland
Lupinus bicolor (Miniature Lupine)
Pea family (LEGUMESSSS)
Palmate leaves
Poa secunda (Common Bluegrass)
Lacks awns
Lasthenia gracilis (Goldfields)
Grassland and oak woodlands
Small, native bee pollinators
Phoradendrin villosum (Oak mistletoe)
Lives on oak trees
Seeds get stuck to bird butt and birds wipe on branch
Populus fremontii (Fremont Cottonwood)
Riparian
Huge
Catkins
Wet soil required for seeds (flood years)
Quercus douglasii (Blue Oak)
Nearly endemic to CA
Deciduous
Bluish tint
Toothed margin
Very drought resistant
Slopes w/ thin/rocky soil
Lomatium utriculatum (Spring biscuit root)
Adenostoma fasciculatum (Chamise)
Chaparral dominant
Evergreen, needle-like leaves in bundles
Bromus rubens (red brome)
long red ripped awns
Annual
Bromus diandrus (Ripgut brome)
Long awns
Barbs
Stipa pulchra * (Purple needle grass)
Native, perennial bunch grass
Long awns, smooth
Bromus hordeaceus (Soft chess brome) *
Non-native
Annual grass
Arectostaphylos obispoensis (Oso Manzanita)
Grows in chromite mine, recolonized
Ecological succession
Ranunculus californicus * (California buttercup)
Leaves deeply divided at base, perennial
Specialist bees
10 merous
Ecotone grassland, wet woodland
Avena fatua
Non-native
Fat spikelets
Long awns
Quercus agrifolia (Coast live oak)
woody tree, evergreen
California Floristic Province
Hair tufts on underside, cup shaped
Oak woodland
Mite commensalism
Quercus durata (Leather oak)
Endemic to serpentine soil
Rare
Rough surface, cup shaped, thick leaves
Serpentine chaparral dominant
Layia platyglossa (Common Tidy Tips)
Large ray flowers
Grassland
Amsinkia sp. (Fiddleneck)
Scorpioid cyme
Stiff, pokey hairs
Annual
Salix laevigata (Red Willow)
Smooth upper leaf surface
Lower surface hairy
Shrubby tree
Wind and bee pollinated
Catkins nectar
Quercus lobata (Valley Oak)
CFP
Flatter, flood plain areas
Deeply lobed leaves
Dark bark
Heteromeles arbutifolia (Toyon)
Evergreen leaves, leathery
Chaparral
Acmispon glabar (Deerweed)
Leaves divided to 3 leaflets
Subshrub
Coastal scrub dominant
Diplacus aurantiacus (Sticky monkeyflower)
Opposite sticky evergreen leaves
Curved margin
Carex obispoensis (San Luis Obispo sedge)
Dangling spikelets (catkins)
Endemic to serpentine and SLO
Frangula californica * (Coffee berry)
Evergreen, toothed serrate leaves
Raised veins
Riparian areas
Native
Salvia mellifera (Black Sage)
Coastal shrub
Toothed rounded leaves
White hairs on underside
Artemisia californica (California sagebrush)
Baccharis pilularis (Coyote brush)
Evergreen
Leafs toothed margin, wedge shaped
Coastal shrub, chaparral
Ceanothus cuneatus (Buckbrush)
Collinsia heterophylla (Purple Chinese Houses)
Bilaterally symmetric
Bee pollinated (know how to orient)
Mostly specialist (oligolectic bees: only feed that certain family/genus pollen to young)
Lysimachia latifolia (Pacific Starflower)
Very rare in SLO
From Lopez Lake to Canada
Wet like Pacific Northwest
Ecological niche for population to survive and reproduce
Erythranthe Guttata (Seep monkeyflower)
Chlorogalum pomeridianum (Common soap plant)
Lather for soap
Fish poison
Undulating margin
Long linear leaves
Flowers open in late afternoon/early evening
Moth pollinated white flower
Selaginella bigelovii (Bushy spikemoss)
Native
Dominant in rock outcrops
Looks like moss
Reproduces by spores
Very old lineage
Resurrection plant
Bloomeria crocea (Common goldstar)
Geophyte
Flowers in umbel
Yellow
Dark stripe on underside
Vicia villosa (Hairy vetch)
Purple sprays, fabaceae, non-native
Planted as ground cover
Cover crop for nitrogen fixation
Fruit shatters to release seeds
Self seeds very quickly
Huge in riparian areas
Calystegia macrostegia (Coast morning glory)
Native
Reproduction underground rhizomes & seeds
Flowers very short lived (1 day)
Very fused petals with pollen/stigma inside
Cordate leaf shape (arrowhead)
Vines
Coast of California
Coastal scrub, grassland, rock outcrops
A TON of flowers!
Sysirinchium bellum (Blye eyed grass)
Purple w/ yellow eye
Iridaceae
Native
Rocky outcrops & grasslands
Hesperoyucca whipplei (Chaparral yucca)
Endemic to CFP
Leaves bayonets, spine-tipped (can pierce to bone)
Pollinated exclusively by yucca moth
-exclusive mutualism, fleshy stamen produces a lil pollen and tiny white moths wipe the pollen and place their eggs inside flower
-once pollinated, the babies hatch and eat flower from inside for a couple weeks
-war! if flower senses it has tooooo many babies, it will EJECT!
-if moth is greedy, plant thinks it’s parasitism
-occurs in all 40 spp
Hemizonia congesta (Hayfield tarweed)
Related to Hawaiian silverswords
Wet, riparian areas
Full sun
Parallel radiation to sticky monkeyflower
Primarily pollinated by large bees
Snaps stigma shut
Yellow corolla with closed throat
Umbellularia californica (California bay)
Related to tropics
Very aromatic leaves with antimicrobial properties
Riparian corridors
Humid, cooler, shadier
Calochortus albus (White fairy lantern)
Mariposa lillies
Underground as bulbs in the winter
Small native bee pollinated
Salix lasiolepis (Arroyo Willow)
Leaf veins less prominent than red willow
More shrubby (red willow more like tree)
Dioecious, wind/insects must move pollen
Ericameria ericoides (Mock heather)
Native
Only a few miles within ocean
Dominant species in dune scrub
Needle-like small leaves, glaucous
Endemic
Reduce herbivory, UV damage, temperature regulation
Eucalyptus globulus (Blue Gum)
US planted when running out of timber
Wood grows terribly here!
Too fast and soft or too slow to grow
2 Kinds of Leaves:
-Opposite/Sessile/Glaucous Lower Down
-Alternate/petioles/Glabrous
Rubus ursinus (Common blackberry)
Stems armed with prickles
Leaves 3 lobed
Produces great fruits
Generalist in many communities
Croton californicus (California croton)
Dioecious
Euphorbiaceae
Leaves covered in silvery, stellate hairs
Coastal dune scrub/pioneer
Sandy, low nutrient soils
Ehrharta calycina (Veldt grass)
Inflorescence fall to one side
Reddish tint
Reproduce primarily by seed
native to South Africa
Introduced to Davis and fine there
VERY invasive on central coast
Dune scrub
Eschscholzia californica (California Poppy)
Yellow
Shorter foliage in dune
Form only found on coast
Castilleja exserta (Owl’s Clover)
Highly variable
Hemi parasite (like oak mistletoe)
Still makes chlorophyll, but uses host to steal nutrients (water)
Southern most tip of Morro Bay (salt brush community)
Back dune = no wind
Abronia umbellata (Pink sand verbena)
Umbel cluster of flowers
Long nectar tubes for bees and moths
Pioneer/coastal dune scrub
Sticky, covered in sand to prevent herbivory
Moth eggs → larvae can’t eat new growth
Marah fabacea (Manroot)
Vine, palmately lobed leaves
Tendrils
Wide range of habitats
Above and underground stems (tubers size of corpse)
Eriogonum parvifolium (Coastal buckwheat)
White woody leaves underneath
Same geographic range as mock heather
Dominant species in dune scrub
Lupinus chamisonis (Dune brush lupine)
Ornate flowers change color after pollination
Carpobrotus edulis (Iceplant)
Opposite leaves
Edible fleshy fruits
Native to South Africa
Competitive release
Fungal infections - black spores instead of seeds
Conicosia pungioniformis (Narrow leaved iceplant)
Nom-native, less impact than common iceplant
Dune scrub
Yellow petals
Native to South Africa
Neither type can tolerate freezing
Centaurea solstitialis (Yellow starthistle)
Centaurea melitensis (Tocalote)
Hazardia squarrosa (Saw toothed goldenbush)
Foeniculum vulgare (Sweet fennel)
Scropularia californica (California figwort)
Lonicera hispidula (California honeysuckle)
Hordium murinum (Foxtail barley)
Stachys bullata (California hedgenettle)
Eriophyllum confertifbrum (Golden yarrow)
Achilea millefolium (Yarrow)
Calochortus argillosus (Clay mariposa lily)
Chorizanthe sp. (Spineflower)
Salix breweri (Serpentine Willow)
Elymus condensatus (Giant wild rye)
Hesperocyparis macrocarpa (Monterey Cypress)
Pinus attenuata (Knobcone pine)
Atriplex prostrata
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