Pinnacles NP
Observed near the intersection of the high peaks trail and the condor gulch trail a couple years ago, before I was aware of iNaturalist.
Initially i had hoped it might be gabilanensis. However, the leaves lack the glaucous surface gabilanensis should have.
Leaves are much more verdant and less pointed than pajaroensis, also lacking the shreddy grey bark
-somewhat clasping leaves, petioles mostly present
-no basal burl
-fruit had fused stones
-leaves are bright green with lobed bases
-new growth was glabrous, leaves were glabrous as well
Same plant as:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/148161528
@morganstickrod. Any help IDing this?
@paulexcoff
Maybe gavilanensis? It doesn’t come up when I input it.
Fits species crustacea except for shreddy bark. Fits subspecies crustacea again except for shreddy bark.
Certainly a tetraploid burl-former, though I didn't capture the burl well.
Plants in this area mostly fit crustacea crustacea perfectly, though a significant minority have tomentose abaxials.
One or two other plants in this group had persistent bark like this one, but overall the majority was typical for crustacea crustacea
Short glandular hairs on the nascent inflorescence; short non-glandular hairs on the rest of the branchlets and leaves
Leaf abaxially tomentose, grey shreddy bark
Here is the path I followed on Jepson (Keybase CW) to get to glandulosa:
Sorry I did not bring my good camera for the black glandular hairs but you should be able to make them out.
https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=49170
Also looks a great deal like the photos on page xx of David Stryer's "Flora of Fort Ord" (2019), his "key:"
Burl present [???]
Note that the leaf petioles are more than 5mm
Comments/disputes welcome as always!
All photos of leaves, twigs, & inflorescences are from different twigs i.e. in an attempt to sample variation within the same plant.
Photo 2 is 20x adaxial.
Photo 3 is 10x adaxial.
Photo 4 is 10x abaxial.
All photos of twigs, infls, and lvs are from different twigs.
All twig and inflorescence photos are from different twigs. Same with the leaf photos.
Possibly A. hooveri x glauca? In a population of otherwise typical A. hooveri. Leaf bases unlobed, glaucous, fruits large and glandular with fused nutlets, no burl, twigs and infls glandular.
This one was an interesting find for me. I was curious and decided to see if I could figure out what this was. I’ve seen it during the season with little berries, but wanted to see what this actually was. These seem to be popular near the coastal areas so I would consider these being native plants. As well as they are not in season since I usually only see them during the spring time.
Lacking setose hairs on the branchlets.
Multiple individuals exhibiting 'typical' setose hairs on the branchlets ~30 yards from these plants.
all in Garland Ranch Park, but locations are relatively general, recorded nearly 4 months after with few reliable reference points.
Rare plant with smooth bark instead of shaggy
Beautiful, arid and dry as a bone!
Hillside full of them! In an intact patch of stipa grassland with several other native forbs (t. laxa, wyethia angustifolia, chlorogalum pomeridianum, hemizonia congesta lutescens, etc), surrounded by invasive s and ATV scars