Tilden Regional Park plant naming with Vera
Sunday was our last opportunity for a hike while Vera was staying with us for a couple of weeks. Alan suggested Berkeley, so I made a plan to hike up to Wildcat Peak and also to check out an old missile launch site in the Berkeley Hills. Because we hiked near there with Remi before, I didn’t think to confirm whether dogs were allowed. Needless to say, we found “No dogs” signs upon entering Tilden Nature Preserve, which is the subset of Tilden Regional Park we hoped to hike through. We thus diverted back to the Meadows Canyon Trail we hiked a year or two before with Ricky, and had a fine time. I attempted to take some photos of plants while we were there. I need to practice more.
Bee on a wild blackberry, maybe Himalayan blackberry, Rubus armeniacus
Blue eyed grass, Sisyrinchium bellum
Some kind of Wyethia, mule ears
Pacific poison oak, Toxicodendron diversilobum
Some type of orange rust, a systemic fungal disease. It supposedly does not usually kill the plants but they are infected for life and likely won't produce fruit.
Alan giving Vera some water. She didn't seem to be drinking much, but it also wasn't too hot.
Might be something like Geranium pyrenaicum (hedgerow cranesbill), though CalFlora didn't show this existing where I found it. Could also be an erodium. In any case, Alan said it was a weed, but I liked it.
I think this is Mediterranean lineseed, Bellardia trixago
Castilleja exserta
Meadows Canyon Trail in Tilden Regional Park, near Berkeley.
Forget me nots, maybe Myosotis discolor
Vera in her glorious 13th year.
Some fungus growing on a fungus, I think.
View of the San Francisco Bay from Grizzly Peak Boulevard in Berkeley.
View of the San Francisco Bay from Grizzly Peak Boulevard in Berkeley.
