FABACEAE - Legume Family

CN: western red bud

Leaf: cordate (heart)

Twig: Red, young

Flower: Red-Purple

FABACEAE - Legume Family

CN: california broom

Leaf: pinnately compund

Flower: yellow

FABACEAE - Legume Family

CN: silver lupine

Leaf: palmately compund, 6-10 leaflets,

silvery-silky (both sides)

Flower: purple

FABACEAE - Legume Family

CN: yellow bush lupine

Leaf: palmately compound

Flower: yellow

FABACEAE - Legume Family

CN: dune lupine

Leaf: palmately compound

FABACEAE - Legume Family

CN: chaparral pea

Leaf: palmately compound

Twig: spinose (twig=spine)

FABACEAE - Legume Family

CN: honey mesquite, mesquite

Leaf: bipinnate

Twig: 1-2 axillary thorns

SAPINDACEAE - Soapberry Family

CN: bigleaf maple

Leaf: opposite, cordate lobes

Fruit: double winged samara (steep)

SAPINDACEAE - Soapberry Family

CN: vine maple

Leaf: opposite, simple,

toothed, smaller lobes

Fruit: double winged samara (180, wide)

SAPINDACEAE - Soapberry Family

CN: mountain maple

Leaf: opposite, simple, 3-5 lobed,

smaller than big leaf, larger than vine

Fruit: samara

SAPINDACEAE - Soapberry Family

CN: box elder

Leaf: opposite, pinnately compound (weird),

3-5 leaflets, pubescent

Fruit: winged samara (60*-90*)

SAPINDACEAE - Soapberry Family

CN: california buckeye

Leaf: opposite, palmately compound (rare, largest)

Fruit: capsule (pear)

ANACARDIACEAE - Sumac/Cashew Family

CN: sugar bush

Leaf: alternate, simple,

glabrous and shiny, thick and leathery

Fruit: drupe

ANACARDIACEAE - Sumac/Cashew Family

CN: skunkbush

Leaf: alternate, pinnately compound, 3-5 parted

Fruit: drupe, reddish

ANACARDIACEAE - Sumac/Cashew Family

CN: western poison oak

Leaf: alternate, innately compound,

lop leaf larger, trifoliate

Fruit: drupe

RHAMNACEAE - Buckthorn Family

CN: buck brush

Leaf: opposite

Twig: opposite, unequal branches

Fruit: capsule

RHAMNACEAE - Buckthorn Family

CN: blue blossum

Leaf: alternate, simple, 3 veined (raised),

dark green, glabrous above

Twig: green

Flower: blue

RHAMNACEAE - Buckthorn Family

CN: california coffeeberry

Leaf: alternate, prominent midvein below

Twig: red

Fruit: drupe, black

RHAMNACEAE - Buckthorn Family

CN: spiny redberry

Leaf: serrate edges

Twig: stiff, spinescent

CORNACEAE - Dogwood Family

CN: mountain dogwood

Leaf: opposite, veins arcuate

Fruit: drupe, head-like clusters

CORNACEAE - Dogwood Family

CN: american dogwood, red osier

Leaf: opposite, veins arcuate

Twig: red-purple

Flower: showy

ERICACEAE - Heath Family

CN: manzanita

Leaf: thicj and leathery

Bark: red-brown to purple

Fruit: drupe, apple-like

Flower: white or pink

ERICACEAE - Heath Family

CN: pacific madrone

Leaf:evergreen, glabrous, leathery

Bark: modeled - many colors

Fruit: drupe, apple-like

Flower: white or pink

ERICACEAE - Heath Family

CN: salal

Leaf: evergreen, ovate-round, heart shape @ base

Twig: zig-zag

Flower: white or pink

ERICACEAE - Heath Family

CN: western azalea

Leaf: deciduous, thin surfaces, light green,

mid-vein yellowish-red

Flower: white or pink

ERICACEAE - Heath Family

CN: califronia huckleberry

Leaf: evergreen, glabrous and shiny, paler green below,

thick and leathery, serrate leaves

BORAGINACEAE - Borage Family

CN: california yerba santa

Leaf: serrate, rolled under, glabrous, felt-like below,

hairy, distinct nasty odor.

BORAGINACEAE - Borage Family

CN: trask's yerba santa, lamb's ear

Leaf: evergreen, alternate,

dense gray tomentum on both sides (hairy)

LAMIACEAE - Mint Family

CN: black sage

Leaf: evergreen, opposite,

dark green, arromatic

LAMIACEAE - Mint Family

CN: purple sage

Leaf: evergreen, opposite,

white, arromatic, base truncate

Flower: lavender

PHRYMACEAE -  Lopseed family

CN: northern moneky flower, sticky monkey flower

Leaf: evergreen, opposite, sticky

Flower: orange

CAPRIFOLIACEAE -  Honeysuckle Family

CN: california honeysuckle

Leaf: opposite, upper leaves joined at base, sessile,

thick and leathery

Twig: woody twining VINES

 Fruit: berry, bright red

CAPRIFOLIACEAE -  Honeysuckle Family

CN: twinberry

Leaf: opposite, point up, 

dark green above, paler pubescent below

CAPRIFOLIACEAE -  Honeysuckle Family

CN: snowberry

Leaf: opposite, glaborous, scattered hairs below

Fruit: berry, white with black spots on upper end

CAPRIFOLIACEAE -  Honeysuckle Family

CN: creeping snowberry, trip vine

Leaf: opposite, pubescent and green above, 

densly pubescent below

Twig: trailing or creeping, VINE

ADOXACEAE - Muskroot/ Elderberry Family

CN: blue elderberry

Leaf: opposite, pinnatley compund, 3-9 leaflets

Fruit: drupe, blue-black

GARRYACEAE - Silk Tassel Family

CN: coast silk tassel

Leaf: opposite, tassels, leathery, green, glaborous,

densely tomentose below

GARRYACEAE - Silk Tassel Family

CN: veatch silk tassel

Leaf: opposite, dark green above, felty below

ASTERACEAE [COMPOSITAE] - Sunflower Family

CN: california sagebrush

Leaf: alternate, filiform lobes, aleopathic, 

light green to gray, pungent sage-like odor

ASTERACEAE [COMPOSITAE] - Sunflower Family

CN: big sagebrush

Leaf: 3 dented, sessile

Baccharis pilularis subsp. consanguinea

ASTERACEAE [COMPOSITAE] - Sunflower Family

CN: coyote bush, chaparral broom

Leaf: wedged shaped, 3 prominent veins, 

toothed upper 2/3

Flower: numerous heads on branchlets, white

ASTERACEAE [COMPOSITAE] - Sunflower Family

CN: mule fat, seep willow

Leaf: alternate, lance-shaped

Twig: 5-6 angled

ASTERACEAE [COMPOSITAE] - Sunflower Family

CN: saw toothed golden bush

Leaf: alternate, sharply serrate margins,

leathery or stifflt papery, often resinous

ASTERACEAE [COMPOSITAE] - Sunflower Family

CN: heather goldenbush

Leaf: alternate, axillary clusters

ASTERACEAE [COMPOSITAE] - Sunflower Family

CN: rubber rabbitbush

Leaf: filiform, strong stinky odor