Plants Of San Diego

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Lies prostrate on open slopes.

After the rains have stopped, the shoots turn greyish and dormant.

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Selaginella cinerascens (Selaginellaceae)

Mesa Spike-Moss

Front 2

When the weather dries up, the shoots go dormant.

Back 2

Selaginella bigelovii Bigelow's Spike-Moss --- Selaginellaceae

Front 3

Close-up of shoots, with narrowly triangular microphylls.

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Selaginella bigelovii --- Bigelow's Spike-Moss --- Selaginellaceae

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Adenostoma fasciculatum --- Chamise --- Rosaceae

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Close-up of linear, semi-terete leaves in fascicles.

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Adenostoma fasciculatum --- Chamise --- Rosaceae

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Adenostoma fasciculatum --- Chamise --- Rosaceae

Front 7

Twigs end in unspecialized thorns.

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Rhamnus crocea --- Spiny Redberry --- Rhamnaceae

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Leaves are elliptic, coriaceous, usu. denticulate. Note yellow flowers with no petals (perianth is a calyx).

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Rhamnus crocea --- Spiny Redberry --- Rhamnaceae

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Ceanothus tomentosus --- Ramona-Lilac --- Rhamnaceae

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Note stipules and denticulate leaf margin.

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Ceanothus tomentosus --- Ramona-Lilac --- Rhamnaceae

Front 11

Note mucronate, revolute leaflets in groups of 3, resembling a bird's foot.

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Pellaea mucronata var. mucronata --- Bird's Foot Cliff-Brake --- Pteridaceae

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Pellaea mucronata var. mucronata --- Bird's Foot Cliff-Brake --- Pteridaceae

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Diplacus puniceus [Mimulus aurantiacus] --- Coast Monkey Flower --- Phrymaceae

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Yellowish flower form. Note opposite, revolute (and viscid) leaves.

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Diplacus puniceus [Mimulus aurantiacus] --- Coast Monkey Flower --- Phrymaceae

Front 15

Plant is prostrate. White structures are bracts of cyathia, not petals.

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Euphorbia polycarpa [Chamaesyce polycarpa] --- Rattlesnake-weed --- Euphorbiaceae

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The bark is smooth, red-brown

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Xylococcus bicolor --- Mission Manzanita --- Ericaceae, resembling Arctostaphylos, to which it is closely related.

Front 17

Flower corollas are urceolate (urn-shaped).

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Xylococcus bicolor --- Mission Manzanita --- Ericaceae

Front 18

Leaves are tomentose abaxially. Note bicolored fruits.

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Xylococcus bicolor --- Mission Manzanita --- Ericaceae

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Ferocactus viridescens var. viridescens --- Barrel Cactus, Visnaga --- Cactaceae

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Ferocactus viridescens var. viridescens --- Barrel Cactus, Visnaga --- Cactaceae
Stems are much shorter than the Desert Barrel Cactus (F. cylindraceus).

Front 21

Note linear leaves & yellow-flowered heads with ray & disk flowers.

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Gutierrezia sarothrae --- Broom Matchweed/Snakeweed --- Asteraceae

sarothrae = sah-ROW-three

Front 22

Heads have disk and ray flowers.

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Bahiopsis laciniata [Viguiera laciniata] --- San Diego Sunflower --- Asteraceae

Front 23

Note leaves are irregularly pinnately divided (laciniate).

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Bahiopsis laciniata [Viguiera laciniata] --- San Diego Sunflower --- Asteraceae

Front 24

Female plant, with pistillate heads (capitulae), the fruits with silver pappus bristles.

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Baccharis sarothroides --- Broom Baccharis --- Asteraceae

sarothroides = sah-row-throw-OID-ees

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Baccharis sarothroides --- Broom Baccharis --- Asteraceae

sarothroides = sah-row-throw-OID-ees

Front 26

Male plant at left (heads yellow-brown) and female plant at right (with silver pappus bristles).

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Baccharis sarothroides --- Broom Baccharis --- Asteraceae

sarothroides = sah-row-throw-OID-ees

Front 27

Male plant with staminate heads (capitulae).

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Baccharis sarothroides --- Broom Baccharis --- Asteraceae

sarothroides = sah-row-throw-OID-ees

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Hesperoyucca whipplei --- Our Lord's Candle --- Agavaceae

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Vegetative stem is acaulescent. Only the inflorescence stalk is above ground.

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Hesperoyucca whipplei --- Our Lord's Candle --- Agavaceae

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Eriogonum fasciculatum var. fasciculatum --- California Buckwheat --- Polygonaceae

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Note short shoots (fascicles) with alternate-fasciculate leaf arrangement, leaves narrowly elliptic to linear with revolute margins and whitish-tomentulose abaxial surface.

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Eriogonum fasciculatum var. fasciculatum --- California Buckwheat --- Polygonaceae

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Shrub, 2-3 feet tall.

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Eriogonum fasciculatum var. fasciculatum --- California Buckwheat --- Polygonaceae

Front 33

Note the rugose leaf surface and crenate margins.

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Salvia mellifera --- Black Sage --- Lamiaceae

Front 34

Close up of the verticillaster, a thyse of very congested cymes (flowers appear whorled at nodes).

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Salvia mellifera --- Black Sage --- Lamiaceae

Front 35

Fascicle of papilionaceous flowers.

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Acmispon glaber var. glaber [Lotus scoparius] --- Deerweed --- Fabaceae

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Note trifoliolate (sometimes pinnate) leaves.

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Acmispon glaber var. glaber [Lotus scoparius] --- Deerweed --- Fabaceae

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Sub-shrub.

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Acmispon glaber var. glaber [Lotus scoparius] --- Deerweed --- Fabaceae

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Vine growing in chaparral. Leaves are palmately cleft.

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Marah macrocarpa --- Wild-Cucumber --- Cucurbitaceae

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Marah macrocarpa --- Wild-Cucumber --- Cucurbitaceae

Front 40

Close up of inflorescence, showing male heads.

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Artemisia californica --- Coastal Sagebrush --- Asteraceae

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Close-up of leaves, ranging from simple to ternate to pinnate, segments linear.

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Artemisia californica --- Coastal Sagebrush --- Asteraceae

Front 42

Whole plant in flower.

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Artemisia californica --- Coastal Sagebrush --- Asteraceae

Front 43

Leaves are coriaceous, pungent, and conduplicate.

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Malosma laurina --- Laurel Sumac --- Anacardiaceae

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Inflorescence, a panicle.

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Malosma laurina --- Laurel Sumac --- Anacardiaceae