Flora Friday: Wild One
Wild Carrot (Daucus carota) The Wild Carrot (Daucus carota) is the great-grandmother of the edible carrots we know from our
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Flora Friday: Tough Ones
Late summer brings out the tough ones among plants, the ones that thrive despite going for months without rain. Tall
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Flora Friday: Two Cal Bloomers, Plus Plus
This week Flora has two California natives now in bloom. One that’s new to the Chavez Park Botanical Census and
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Flora Friday: Two New Natives
Tall Willowherb (Epilobium brachycarpum) Jutta found this Tall Willowherb (Epilobium brachycarpum) on the east side of the park in the
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Flora Friday: Two Familiars
These two additions to the Chavez Park Botanical Census will be familiar to almost everyone. They’re common garden invitees and,
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Flora Friday: Three More!
Summer is a tough time to find new species in the park. Nature is pretty much done pushing up the
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Flora Friday: Plants Revisited
The Oregon Gumplant, aka Gumweed, scientifically known as Grindelia stricta, is blooming again near the northwest corner of the park,
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Flora Friday: Another Native
Flora Friday had intended to take a break this week, but with the discovery of a new native she had
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Flora Friday: Three More
Finding new species has become seasonally more difficult. The park’s mowers have slashed, flattened, and buried a lot of the
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Flora Friday: 128 Plus
This week we introduce Park Species No. 128 and counting. Fiddle Dock Fiddle Dock (Rumex pulcher) is one of the
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Flora Friday: OMG More Species!
The first Flora Friday appeared on February 22 this year. Today’s is the sixteenth weekly installment. Today we’re also officially
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Flora Friday: Yet More Species
Pink Rock Rose This Rock Rose (Cistus incanus) grows on the west side of the park on the edge of
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Flora Friday: Even More Species
Little Robin Yet another geranium! Wikipedia has almost nothing on this plant, but the Cal Invasive Plant Council says Geranium
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Flora Friday: Still More Species
With every venture into the park’s 90 acres, additional plant species get discovered. The list is now well over 100
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Flora Friday: More Species
Today’s featured plants have one thing in common: they’re additional species, not previously published, on top of the more than
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Flora Friday: Two New
Flora Friday co-directors Jutta Burger and Bob Huttar, who have been photographing and identifying just about everything that grows in
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Flora Friday: Eat This
Both Jutta and Bob were out of town and/or snowed under this week, so Flora Friday today focuses on just
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Flora Friday: Bloom, Bloom, Bloom
It’s bloom, bloom, bloom all over the park now. From tiny clovers to exotic cherry trees, almost everything that contains
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Flora Friday: Foxtail & Friends
Foxtail We begin this episode in the Game of Thorns drama with one of the great botanical villains of the
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Flora Friday: More Bloomers
In today’s Flora Friday, we feature more bloomers. At this time, the park is thick with blooming plants. Not all
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Flora Friday: Bloomers
This Friday’s featured flora focuses on some of the park’s many bloomers. We can’t do them all in one post,
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Flora Friday: Stingers, Snappers, Clawers
This week’s Flora starts with four plants with names that may alert you to be careful around them. There’s the
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Flora Friday: Edibles?
This week’s Flora Friday feature is “edibles” with a question mark. The group includes a series of plants whose common
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Flora Friday: Five Evergreen Trees
This week features five evergreen trees, namely the Bishop Pine, the Monterey Cypress, the Sitka Spruce, the Torrey Pine, and
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