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Date: 2/15

Location: Presidio, San Francisco

Coordination: 37.7989° N, 122.4662° W

Approx. Elevation: 243 feet

Site description:

The Presidio is a 1,500-acre park on a former military post, is a major outdoor recreation hub. It has forested areas, miles of trails and a golf course. This site has beautiful scenery and you can see Marshall’s Beach during the hike. The habitat  for this site is an open habitat and for this reason, many wildlife corridors are created in this site. Presidio  is home to a high density of rare and endangered species, in spring and summer the more dominant species are wildflowers.

Species Description: 

 

Overall plant and its habitat: bulbous perennial, the plant was not too tall and was around 0.2 m.

Leaves: clover like leaf shape, leaflets usually fused below

Flowers:  generally bisexual, radial; sepals 5, free or fused at base; 5 anthers, sepals have a tiny organ dot and are radially symmetric, ovary is superior.

Stem: The stems is erect.

This plant was seen in the early section of Presidio.

 

Overall plant and its habitat: It is a perennial  or annual plant that grows  13-152 tall.This plant is native to the United States and Mexico.

Leaves: highly dissected leaves, not compound,  flower color ranges through yellow

Flowers:  contain many stamens, usually 4 petals and 2 sepals.

Stem: erect

This plant was seen in the early section of Presidio.

 

Overall plant and its habitat: This is a perennial  daisy reaching heights between 5 and 30 centimeters. This plant is native to California.

Leaves: spade shape

Flowers:  the centers of the flower contain golden yellow disc florets and the edges are fringed with ray florets which may be long or quite short, 10-100 little flowers, inflorescence of many flowers, Their shades are deep blue and purple to lavender to nearly white.

Stem: The stem is erect and hairy.

This plant was seen in the midsection of Presidio.

 

Narrative:

We went to Presidio on 2/15 and got there around 2:45 pm. The scenery was beautiful and we first stopped at the immigrant view to look at the beautiful scenery of Marshall’s beach.  The weather was sunny and there was no wind. We hiked all the way to the top and stopped occasionally to look at views of Golden Gate bridge. We saw a variety of plants at different altitudes, while hiking. I took pictures of these species and uploaded some of them in this blog. Overall, this experience was very informative and enjoyable because of the gorgeous views. We left Presidio around 4 and got back to school at 4:15. Below, there is a video of the view we saw at the immigrant point.

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