DATE: MARCH 22 2018

LOCATION: San Bruno State Park

ADDRESS: 555 Guadalupe Canyon Pkwy, Brisbane, CA 94005

LATITUDE & LONGITUDE: 37.699002, -122.432476

ELEVATION: 250 ft. to 1,314 ft.

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SITE DESCRIPTION

This trail overlooked San Francisco from the Brisbane area as well as Guadalupe Canyon Parkway. Though there are various trails one can take, the two trails we walked on were mostly flat with both trails requiring us to walk down. It was a fairly easy hike with many shrubs and grassy areas, though we did not observe many tree species. Some species in this area include, the Coffee Berry and Ericaceae.

SPECIES

“California golden violet”

This species is called the Viola pedunculata and is in the Violaceae family. It is a perennial herb that has an axillary inflorescence with 5 yellow petals and has a brown center. The leaves are simple and can be serrated. The sepals are lanceolate and is normally found in grassy areas, open areas, and generally is exposed to the sun. The fruit is also elliptic and glabrous.

“Oxe eye daisy”

This species is called Leucanthemum vulgare and is an invasive plant in the Asteraceae family. The leaves are obovate, has pinnate venation and can be toothed. The fruit it generally crown like and the ray flowers have white petals. It is normally found in disturbed areas such as meadows or seeps. It usually flowers between June until August and is native to Europe.

“Butter n Eggs”

This species is called Triphysaria eriantha ssp. eriantha and is part of the Orobanchaceae family. This species is normally found in grasslands and foothills. It has unique flowers where the flowers are white or yellow that are 5mm big and small anthers of 0.5mm. It normally flowers from March to May.

NARRATIVE

We left the USF campus at approximately 1:00PM to San Bruno and arrived in approximately 30 minutes. Fortunately, the weather was warm and clear blue skies when we began our trip and remained constant throughout the trip though it was supposed to shower that day. However, there were high winds that day that made the hike chilly. Though a substantial amount of species were observed that day, many of them were smaller shrub species with small flowers.

Botany Field Journal

3/22/18 San Bruno State Park (Brisbane, CA)