Thanks to several consecutive days of hiking a couple of weeks ago, I am now running two or three field trips behind in my posting of the photo galleries. This gallery is a follow-up to the one I did on this trail last November. I met Bob Allen and rode up a rough dirt road to the trailhead for the Holy Jim trail, where there were already more than a dozen vehicles haphazardly parked. Bob was loaded down with photographic equipment since our goal was to find in bloom the uncommon wart-leaved ceanothus, Ceanothus papillosus, that we knew to be growing about three miles up the trail. We were not disappointed, as the pictures in this gallery surely document. I have to come back during the summer to find the Calochortus weedii ssp. intermedia that is also fairly readily seen in this canyon. An upside-down V next to the common name indicates a taxon that was new to me when I photographed it on this field trip, and as always, an asterisk indicates a non-native species. Thanks to Bob Allen for assistance with identifications and generally for a good day.

California blackberry
Rubus ursinus
Rosaceae

Chinese houses
Collinsia heterophylla
Plantaginaceae
[Named for Zaccheus Collins, 1764-1831]

Morning glory
Calystegia macrostegia
Convolvulaceae

Canyon sweet pea
Lathyrus vestitus var. vestitus
Fabaceae

California chicory
Rafinesquia californica
Asteraceae
[Named for Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 1783-1840]

Wild oxalis
Oxalis californica
Oxalidaceae

Farewell-to-spring
Clarkia bottae
Onagraceae
[Named for William Clark, 1770-1838]

Woolly indian paintbrush
Castilleja foliolosa
Scrophulariaceae
[Named for Domingo Castillejo Muñoz, 1744?-1793]

California milkweed
Asclepias californica
Apocynaceae

Coffee fern
Pellaea andromedifolia
Pteridaceae

Golden stars
Bloomeria crocea
Themidaceae
[Named for Hiram Green Bloomer, 1819-1874]

Ramona clarkia
Clarkia similis
Onagraceae

Wild celery
Apiastrum angustifolium
Apiaceae

Splendid mariposa lily
Calochortus splendens
Liliaceae