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Flowering Plants
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California Buttercups
Buttercup Fruit
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Wild Radish
Note the circled fruit that tastes like a radish.
Note the purple to yellow petals with dark
veins .
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Common Chickweed
Note the 5 white petals that are deeply divided.
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Miners Lettuce
Note the saucer shaped disk below the small white
flowers.
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Grass Nut
Note the long tube- like flowers that are
pollinated by butterflies.
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Close-up of bedstraw that show the sticky hairs.
The name bedstraw comes from early California
miners that use this plant to stick straw
together to make a mattress.
Bedstraw
Note the square stems and whorled leaves.
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Soap plant in summer.
Soap plant in spring.
Note the many long narrow leaves at the base
with a long stalk coming from the center of the
leaves.
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Spring vetch
Has innately compound leaves and two flowers in
the axil of the leaf.
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Winter Vetch
It also has pinnately compound leaves
with numerous flowers in a long spike.
Both vetches are very important to the
oak woodland because their roots have nodules
that contain nitrogen fixing bacteria. This is
how nitrogen moves from the air to the soil.
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Curly Dock
Brown in summer
Used in dry flower arrangements
Green in Spring