Field Journal Entry #7 Marin Headlands

The Marin Headlands Sausalito, CA 94965

coordinates: 37.8262° N, 122.4997° W

The Marin Headlands is a hilly peninsula at the southernmost end of Marin County California. It is located just north of San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge. This place has beautiful view of Golden Gate Bridge and downtown skyline. The trail was not very hard, but it had some incline and long zigzag trails. This was where the filed quiz was taken so it wasn’t easy for me to take time and look around. The variety of plants such as lupinus, coffeeberry, and other flowering plants were there living in habitat of grasslands and coastal scrub.

Nemophila menziesii

Nemophila menziesii, also known as baby blue eyes, is a part of family Boraginaceae. It is a native plant with opposite leaves. The blade is linear-oblong to ovate with lobes around 5-13mm. It has entire or 1-3mm toothed. The inflorescence is pedicels 20-60mm and less than 70mm in fruit. The flower is calyx lobes 4-8mm, corolla 5-20mm wide with bowl shaped to rotate. The flower is bright blue in the circumference and white center generally blue-veined or black-dotted.

Franciscan Paintbrush

Franciscan Paintbrush is a native plant that is part of Orobanchaceae. It is very noticeable with the bright vibrant red petals. It is a bilaterally symmetrical flowers that has short axillary shoots in the stem. The leaves are lanceolate about 30-80mm and inflorescence is open and has bracts that are entire with the bright red tips on the petals.

Erythranthe guttata

Erythranthe guttata, also known as yellow monkey flower, is a native plant with ovate to round leaves. The leaves are abruptly reduced on distal stem. The inflorescence is raceme, generally flowers, and bracts ovate to cordate, not glaucous. The flower is open and calyx about 11-17mm, and asymmetrically swollen in fruit. They commonly live in wet area generally terrestrial.It lives at elevation less than 2500m.

Narrative:

We left the school at 1pm and arrived in 20minutes. It was a field quiz day and I was keep looking at notes on the way. It was surprising that the weather is good, despite the fact that it was raining all week. We looked at about 55 species (including the bonus questions) and got out little early about 30minutes. It started to rain again right after we arrived at school.

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