Borges Ranch Flowering Plants

April 30, 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)
Common Name	Color	Scientific Name	Peterson Refs.	Where Seen
Castor Bean	-----	-----	-----	In parking lot
Poison Oak	-----	Toxicodendron diversilobum	K 112	Just starting to bloom
Sweet Fennel	-----	Foeniculum vulgare	170	Not in bloom yet
Blue dicks	Blue	Dichelostemma pulchellum	352	All over
Purple Nightshade	Blue	Solanum xanthi	382	Road sides
Wally basket	Blue	Triteleia laxa	352	Start of trail
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	Hill tops
Rose Clover	Pink	Trifolium hirtum	K254	On Roadsides
Scarlet Pimpernel	Pink	Anagallis arvensis	304	Trail
Arroyo Lupine	Purple	Lupinus succulentus	376	Trail
Filaree—storksbill	Purple	Erodium moschatum	286	Road sides
Lemmon's Paintbrush	Red	Castilleja lemmonii	244	Hundreds--Quarry area
Scarlet Bugler	Red	Penstemon centranthifolius	238	Canyon
Bedstraw	White	Galium spp.	K228	Quarry area
Black Sage	White	Salvia californica	K 100	Road sides
Buckeye	White	Aesculus californica	K48	At their best now
Chamise	White	Adenostoma fasciculatim	K106	Full bloom now
Common Yarrow	White	Achillea millefolium	108	All over
Manroot	White	Marah organus	98	Arroyo area
Mariposa tulips	White	Calochortus venustus	16	Quarry area
Pyrocantha bush	White	Pyrocantha augustifolia	BK316	Power Tower Road
Radish	White	Raphanus raphanistrum	K240	All over
Sagebrush	White	Artimesia californica	K86	Not in bloom yet
Wavy Leaf Soap Plant	White	Chlorogalum pomeridianum	12	Not in bloom yet
Bellardia	Whte/Pink	Bellardia trixago	310	All over
Elderberry	Yellow	Sambucus racemosa	K48	Two in bloom
Golden Fairy Lantern	Yellow	Calochortus amabilis	122	About 100-Arroyo area
Great ValleyGum Plant	Yellow	Grindelia camporum	212	Just starting to bloom
Hop Bush	Yellow	Ptelea crenulata	K112	Two in bloom
Mustard	Yellow	Brassica geniculata	140	All over
Pineapple Weed	Yellow	Matricaria matricarioides	210	Road sides
Red Alder	Yellow	Alnus rhombifolia	K 42	Road sides
Telegraph Weed	Yellow	Heterotheca grandiflora	214	A few in Canyon
Yellow Star Thistle	Yellow	Centaurea solstitialis	210	All over
Yellow Sweet Clover	Yellow	Melilotus indica	178	All over

(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.