07 April 00 - Marin Stables to Portrero Meadows

Leave 11; Barn to Canyon Tail, to Concrete Pipeline Fire Road to Taylor Trail, Sky Oaks Road to Bon Tempe Dam to ? to Rocky Ridge Fire Road to (rest about noon, leave 12:30) Rock Springs - Lagunitas to Portrero Meadows (about 12:50), leave at 1:00 back down Rock Springs Lagunitas to Phoenix Lake (around two), Pumpkin Ridge (lower) to Shaver (upper), Deer Park Fire Road, Moore Trail, Canyon Trail, Barn (around three).


Here are the flowers I saw (Source : CalFlora, a botanical resource for California on the internet.  Virtually all the photos are by Brother Alfred Brousseau)

Lily

Star Lily, Slim Solomon's SealBlue Dicks

Iris

Blue-eyed Grass, Ground Iris

Orchid

new.gif (117 bytes)Striped Coral Root

Purslane

Miner's Lettuce

Buttercup

California Buttercup

Poppy

California Poppy

Mustard

Milk Maids

Saxifrage

Rose

Wood Strawberry

Pea

Lupine, new.gif (117 bytes)Gully Lupine, Dove Lupine,American Vetch, Hillside Pea

Wood Sorrel

Yellow Sorrel

Meadow Foam

Mallow

Checker Bloom

Violet

Loasa

Evening Primrose

Parsley

Sanicle, Purple Sanicle

Primrose

Shooting Star, Star Flowers haven't come out yet, Scarlet Pimpernel

Morning Glory

Phlox

Phacelia

Baby Blue Eyes

Borage

Hound's Tongue has all faded, Common Fiddleneck, Valley Popcorn Flower

Mint

Nightshade

Plaintain

Sticky Monkey Flower, Indian Warrior

Valerian

Cucumber

Sunflower

Geranium

Madder

Philadelphaceae

Modesty