Borges Ranch Flowering Plants

May 25, 2004

This "trail" starts at the back right end of the gravel parking lot located at the far end and above the Boundary Oaks Golf Course parking lot. Take the road leading to the shooting range and bear right into this gravelly lot. Start at the sign, walk to the road above and turn left. Cross the road under the high-tension lines and continue at the same elevation across the road. This path eventually takes you to a level area after two or three short slippery downhill patches. Continue on this level for about 3/4 of a mile and then take the sharp steep path up to the next level. Here, there are several flowers and from there you may re-trace your path back to your car.

			(1)(2)(3)
Common Name	Color	Scientific Name	Peterson Refs.	Where Seen
Castor Bean	-----	-----	-----	In parking lot
Poison Oak	-----	Toxicodendron diversilobum	K 112	Just starting to bloom
Sagebrush	-----	Artemisia vulgare	K86	All over
Sweet Fennel	-----	Foeniculum vulgare	170	Not in bloom yet
Blue dicks	Blue	Dichelostemma pulchellum	352	Lucky to see one
Blue-eyed Grass	Blue	Sisyrinchium bellum	350	One seen
Purple Nightshade	Blue	Solanum xanthi	382	Road sides
Blue Oak	Blue leaves	Quercus douglasii	K40	Road sides
Coulter's Thistle	Pink	Cirsium coulteri	328	Quarry area
Italian Thistle	Pink	Cirsium arvense	328	All over
Owls Clover	Pink	Orthocarpus purpurascens	240	A few left
Scarlet Pimpernel	Pink/Orange	Anagallis arvensis	304	Trail and road
Arroyo Lupine	Purple	Lupinus succulentus	376	Trail--a few left
Filaree—storksbill	Purple	Erodium moschatum	286	Road sides
Coyote Mint	Purple	Monardella odoratissima	314	All over
Lemmon's Paintbrush	Red	Castilleja lemmonii	244	Hundreds--Quarry area
Scarlet Bugler	Red	Penstemon centranthifolius	238	Canyon
Black Sage	White	Salvia californica	K 100	Road sides--ending
Buckeye	White	Aesculus californica	K48	Beyond their best now
Chamise	White	Adenostoma fasciculatim	K106	Full bloom now
Common Yarrow	White	Achillea millefolium	108	A few
Curly Dock	White	Rumex crispus	276	A few left
Mariposa tulips	White	Calochortus venustus	16	A few in Quarry area
Pyrocantha bush	White	Pyrocantha augustifolia	BK316	Not in bloom now
Sagebrush	White	Artimesia californica	K86	Not in bloom yet
Wavy Leaf Soap Plant	White	Chlorogalum pomeridianum	12	Blooms in afternoons
Bellardia	White/Pink	Bellardia trixago	310	Just a few left
Radish	White/Purple	Raphanus raphanistrum	K240	All over
Common Dandelion	Yellow	Taraxacum officinale	220	By power road
Elderberry	Yellow	Sambucus racemosa	K48	Two in bloom
Great ValleyGum Plant	Yellow	Grindelia camporum	212	At their best now
Hop Bush	Yellow	Ptelea crenulata	K112	Two in bloom
Mustard	Yellow	Brassica geniculata	140	All over
Red Alder	Yellow	Alnus rhombifolia	K 42	Road sides
Common Sow Thistle	Yellow	Sonchus oleraceus	218	All over
Yellow DYC	Yellow	?????
Yellow Star Thistle	Yellow	Centaurea solstitialis	210	All over
Yellow Sweet Clover	Yellow	Melilotus indica	178	Fading fast

(1) Peterson's "Pacific States Wildflowers"--all non-lettered references.
(2) Keater, "Plants of the East Bay Parks"--all "K" references.
(3) Beidleman & Kozloff, "Plants of the San Francisco Bay Region"--the "BK" references.