This gallery is composed of pictures taken along the Adobe Loop Trail during several visits in 2005. Tom Chester's description of the trail in his plant guide says: "The Adobe Loop Trail is, not surprisingly, a trail that loops around the Adobes. This guide describes a counter-clockwise traverse, beginning at the south entrance immediately south of the largest Adobe / Porta-Potty / parking lot. This trail is one of the shadiest trails at the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, traveling mostly through a coast live oak, Quercus agrifolia, forest. It travels briefly along Ranch Creek and then crosses the Creek shortly before its end at the Lomas Trail just north of the Adobes. The easiest way to get to the south trailhead is to hike the 1.7 mile Vernal Pool Trail to its end at Ranch Road, turn right onto Ranch Road and walk for 0.16 miles to the trailhead. The Adobe Loop Trail is 0.95 miles from one trailhead to the other, with ~100 feet of elevation gain and loss." An asterisk next to the common name indicates a non-native species, of which there are a lot along this trail. Tom's plant guide is here.

Blue dicks
Dipterostemon capitatus ssp. capitatus
Themidaceae

Common eucrypta
Eucrypta chrysanthemifolia var. chrysanthemifolia
Hydrophyllaceae

California plantain
Plantago erecta
Plantaginaceae

California poppy
Eschscholzia californica
Papaveraceae
[Named for Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholtz, 1783-1831]

Gambel's dwarf milkvetch
Astragalus gambelianus
Fabaceae
[Named for William Gambel, 1823-1849]

Common fiddleneck
Amsinckia intermedia
Boraginaceae
[Named for Wilhelm Amsinck, 1752-1831]