Plants
Northern California Manzanita (ArctostaphylosManzanita
Northern California Manzanita grows anywhere from 6 to 12 ft tall. It has a very wide distribution in northern California. It is found in the northern coast ranges from Contra Costa county up into Humbolt, Trinity and Shasta counties. It is also found along the foothills of the Sierras from Mariposa North. It is found in Chaparral, Central Oak Woodland, Northern oak woodland, and Yellow Pine Forest plant communities.)
Blue oak (Quercus douglasii)
What separates the Blue Oak from the Valley Oak is that the Blue Oak is a deciduous tree (loses its leaves) during the fall where as the Valley Oak is an Evergreen keeping its foliage all year.
California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
Grassy areas and disturbed sites throughout the Calif. Floristic Province and western areas east of the Sierra Nevada to the Mojave Desert.
Common Name unknown (Meesia triquetra )
Meesia triquetra, a bryophyte in the family Meesiaceae, is a moss that is native to California [Hrusa]. It is ranked by the California Native Plant Society as very rare [CNPS 1997]. http://www.calflora.org/index0.html
Spanish moss (Ramalina menziesii)
That commonly grows on blue oaks lives on moist air. One of many types of mosses in the area.
Dwarf Brodiaea (Brodiaea terrestris)
The basic parts of a typical flower are the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistil. In some species of flowering plants the stamens are modified into structures called staminodes which are rudimentary or sterile stamens that do not produce pollen. The broad incurved staminodes of Dwarf Brodiaea are attached to the petal-like sepals and alternate with the fertile stamens. Grasslands and open woodlands from the North Coast Ranges to central western California.