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Naturalist Scott Peden leads this leisurely four-mile, four-hour walk to visit the blooming plants of Big Basin State Park. Spring is about to begin, flowers and plants of all types will be putting on colorful displays. Peden has spent several years in Big Basin and knows it intimately. Here is what he expects to see:
Possibly Alligator and Fence Lizards,
Banana Slugs,
California Sister butterfly,
Syrphid Flies (Bee flies)
California Polypody
Moss fruiting bodies
Cladonia Lichens
Toothwort
Broadleaved Orchid
Pepper Grass
Redwood Violet
Huckleberry
Two Eyed Violet
Yerba de Selva
California Blue Bush (Ceanothus)
Redwood Sorrell
Western Wakerobin
Brittle leaved Manzanita
Buckbrush (Ceanothus)
Henderson's Shooting Stars aka Mosquito bills
Nemophylia
Mouse Eared Chickweed
Woodland Star
Plectritis
Geranium species
Buttercup
Danni's Skullcap
California Saxifradge
Meet at Park Headquarters, Big Basin Redwoods State Park, 9 miles outside Boulder Creek on Hwy 236. 10am-2pm. Free, but parking is $10.
Photo by Eugene Zelenko on Wikimedia Commons.
