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Silverwood
Wildlife Santuary near Ramona California is an excellent
example of a Foothills Chaparral community
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Chamise
with old flowers and seeds
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Coast Manzanita
with
closeup of bark
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Bigberry Manzanita with "little apples"
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Holly Leaf Cherry
with
closeup of "artificial" leaves
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Mountain Mahogany with white flowers and closeup of feathery fruits
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Scrub oak with
acorn
and "oak apple" gall made by wasp
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Whipple's yucca with closeup of seed pods and seeds! (Pollenated by moths)
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Sugarbush - a
close
relative of Lemonadeberry that is found in the higher
foothills because
it requires more water & is frost tolerant
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Whitebark
ceanothus
with flowers
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Hairy ceanothus with closeup of 3-veined leaf
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Hairy ceanothus (left) - Hoary-leaf ceanothus (right) with white flowers and wooly leaf undersides
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Wild cucumber with green fruit and old fruit on shriveled vine at end of summer
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Chaparral
recovery
after
2003
Cedar
fire -
Scrub Oak resprouting, Whipple's Yucca flowering, and
"Fire endemic" herbs
such as Golden
Eardrops (poppy family) (right)
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Shrubs resprouting after 2003 Cedar fire - Chamise (left) and Whitebark Ceanouthus (right)
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Pacific Rattlesnake