FERNANDEZ RANCH 
CIRCUMFERENCE TRAILS
May 21, 2013
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Hike Description:
This was our first revisit in two years, and in spite of the lack of rain, the park was still verdant.
We took our usual clockwise loop, and were just in time for a nice lunch at our regular spot, the Oak Knoll Bench. Our luck held out, the poison oak around the sitting logs from last year was gone.. now replaced by stinging nettles.

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Blooming Plants Not Photographed:
NN=Non Native
Acmispon brachycarpus (Short Podded Lotus)
Amsinckia intermedia (Fiddle Head)
Brassica nigra (Black Mustard)NN
Capsella bursa-pastoris (Shepard’s Purse)NN
Cardamine californica (Milk Maids)
Castilleja sp. (Purple Owl’s Clover)
Cerastium glomeratum (Chickweed)NN
Claytonia perfoliata (Miner’s Lettuce)
Conium maculatum(Poison Hemlock)NN
Dichelostemma capitatum (Blue Dicks)
Dodecatheon hendersonii (Henderson’s Shooting Star)
Erodium botrys (Long Beaked Filaree)NN
Erodium cicutarium (Red Stemmed Filaree)NN
Galium aparine (Bed Straw)
Geranium dissectum (Cut Leaf Geranium)NN
Geranium molle (Doves Foot Geranium )NN
Lepidium nitidum (Pepper Grass)
Lupinus nanas (Sky Lupine)
Marah fabaceous (Wild Cucumber)
Medicago polymorpha (Bur Clover)NN
Maianthemum stellatum (False Solomon’s Seal)
Matricaria discoidea (Pineapple Weed)NN
Nemophila heterophylla (Canyon Nemophila)
Quercus agrifolia (Coast Live Oak)
Ranunculus californicus (Calif. Buttercup)
Rumex acetosella (Sheep Sorrel)NN
Salix lasiolepis (Arroyo Willow)
Sanicula bipinnata (Poison Sanicle)
Sanicula bipinnatifida (Purple Sanicle)
Sanicula crassicaulis (Snakeroot)
Senecio vulgaris (Common Groundsel)NN
Sisyrinchium bellum (Blue Eyed Grass)
Sonchus asper (Prickly Sow Thistle)NN
Stellaria media (Common Chickweed)NN
Trifolium subterraneum (Subterranean Clover)NN
Triphysaria pusilla (Dwarf Owl’s Clover)
Triphysaria versicolor ssp. faucibarbata (Yellow Owl’s Clover)
Umbellularia californica (California Bay)
Urtica urens (Dwarf Nettle)NN
Vicia sativa (Vetch)NN


Ferns & Allies Not Photographed:
Dryopteris arguta (Wood Fern)
Pentagramma triangularis (Gold Back Fern)
Polystichum munitum (Sword Fern)