Fortuna Hike

The yellow mariposa lilies are blooming now, something I look forward to every year. These ones are from Fortuna Mountain, Mission Trails.

There were still many other flowers blooming along the way. It was a great hike.
Other flowers were broom, California poppies, pink gentian, yerba mansa (saururaceae), and the purple mariposa lily.

Calochortus weedii var weedii,
aka Yellow Mariposa Lily.




















In other news, I joined the California Native Plant Society, and bought Margaret Fillius's Native Plants , so now I can go back through these pictures and find out what I was looking at.

Cowles Mountain Hike

We got married on Saturday and took two days off work afterwards. On the Tuesday afternoon, we did a quiet little hike up Cowles mountain. I remembered that there were yellow Mariposa lilies up there, and I really wanted to see some. It proved to be a bit too early in the season, but there was other fun stuff to see.

Besides the photos below, we saw manzanita, red and orange monkey flower, California poppy, broom, sage, dodder, and lots of invasive mustard.





A climbing pink snapdragon in the shade of a rock







White Pincushion (an aster)
Chaenactis artemisiiflioa








Parry's Larkspur
Delphinium parryi









Bicolor Everlasting (an aster)
Pseudognaphalium bioletti









Canchalagua, a Gentian
Zeltnera venusta









Mariposa lily leafs and buds,
still not ready to flower.









Quail at the trail head