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July-August Bay Leaf July-August 2005 The Bay Leaf California Native Plant Society • East Bay Chapter • Alameda & Contra Costa Counties www.ebcnps.org CALENDAR OF EVENTS Native Here p. 6 Saturday July 16, 10:00 am, field Trip to Cedar Fridays, July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 and Aug 5, 12, 19, 26 Mountain Native Here Nursery open 9-noon Sunday July 24 at 2 pm, Pioneer Tree Trail, Samuel Saturdays, July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and Aug 6, 13, 20, Taylor State Park 27 nursery open 10-1 Saturday August 6 10:00 am, field trip onBlue Oak/ Tuesdays, July 5, 12, 19, 26 and Aug 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Spengler Trail to Chaparral in Briones Regional Native Here seed collecting, 9 am Park Wednesday August 24 6:30 pm, keying session at Plant Sale Activities p. 6 Native Here Nursery Tuesdays, July 5, 12, 19, 26, 9 am to 2 pm, Merritt College, Oakland Board of Directors’ Meeting Saturday, August 13th, 10 am, Merritt College, Oak- Field Trips p. 5 land Saturday, July 9, 2005, Field Trip to Calaveras Big Trees State Park and Environs MOUNT DIABLO BUCKWHEAT REDISCOVERED Eriogonum truncatum has been dubbed the “Holy Grail I was working on the Mount Diablo project and target- of the East Bay” by Barbara Ertter. For such a delicate ing areas favorable to unusual plants. Further, a close plant, this name is somewhat deceptive. When Seth eye was to be kept for the diabolically elusive Mount Adams of Save Mount Diablo was brought to the site, Diablo Buckwheat that I believed was present in some he was unable to perceive the plant though it stood difficult to reach spot on the mountain. In response to less than three feet away. The plant has acquired such my doubts that I would find it, Bruce quipped, “It’s a a reputation over the years that many, including Seth, matter of being at the right place at the right time.” believed it would stand out and project a strong pres- ence. Even with a well-formed search image, I still These were prophetic words indeed. Hours later, I was have trouble picking it out from among the grasses it standing over the pink flower clusters mulling over is found with. With slender, cobwebby branches eas- the find of a lifetime. No easy words come to mind ily camouflaged among grasses and dainty stature, it to describe what I was feeling. However, it is safe to eluded detection for 69 years. say that I was overcome by the implications of the discovery. Like many intense or dramatic moments, That all changed on May 10. On that morning I headed the scene is difficult to recreate with precision. But out to Mount Diablo to continue work on a floristic I recall spending a few futile moments attempting to project. The study was begun as an Honors Thesis disprove the identification and finally accepted that while an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley and it was indeed the famed wildflower. A flurry of nearly had carried over into graduate school as a side project. incompatible thoughts and feelings ran through my Just as I arrived in the vicinity, my major professor, mind. They ranged from exhilaration to concern over Bruce Baldwin called. He was curious to hear what the practical consequences of the find. I chose to es- I was doing that day and looking for an update on cape and continued work pretending that nothing of progress with a project studying the evolution of flower significance had occurred. size and self-pollination in Collinsia. I told Bruce that continued on page 2 continued from page 1 When the news was released, Barbara and I realized Department of Fish & Game, UC Botanical Garden, that we knew next to nothing about the plant. Had and Jepson Herbarium. We hope that seed collection the plant been present all along? Or had special en- is the first step towards maintaining a seed bank in vironmental circumstances cultivation as an insurance allowed for a “once in a life- policy. If propagation efforts time” bloom? How long will are successful in establish- the flowers bloom? These ing a large supply of viable were the types of ques- seed, then we may be able tions that reporters wanted to begin experiments that answers to. And sadly, we may yield valuable infor- were only able to speculate. mation on the life history However, subsequent moni- and reproductive ecology toring of the population has of Eriogonum truncatum. revealed that the flowers bloom from at least early In the meantime monitor- May to early June. The most ing efforts will continue recent visit on June 13 re- until this year’s plants have vealed few flowers, and seed given their seed to the earth had already been delivered around them, and only their to the ground. skeletons remain to serve as Eriogonum truncatum Photo by Michael Park a reminder of their former But now we have the unique glory. If we are lucky, new opportunity to seek answers to some of the remaining recruits will emerge next spring to take their place. questions. Plans to collect seed and protect the site Let’s hope this was not a once in lifetime bloom. have been implemented by a special management team created through the cooperative efforts of California Michael Park State Parks, US Fish & Wildlife Service, California ORCHIDS OF THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS Every year, I go with my friends Bob Ruhfel and Bruce off the trail at Cook and Green Pass that runs flat Goodchild to hunt for orchids in the Klamaths. We to a stream. There is another on the road cut a few typically start in Yreka and make our way west to miles from Happy Camp on the road that crosses the Cresent City, with particular attention to Seiad Val- Klamath. ley and Cook and Green Pass, and to Happy Camp. While we are happy to find any orchids, our true goal But the brownie is a problem: the books suggest it is is lady’s slippers. found on river banks and road cuts under dogwood trees. What they do not tell you (or do not make clear There are three lady’s slippers orchids found in enough) is how small it is compared to its sisters. The California: the California (Cypripedium californicum), mountain lady’s slipper has a pure white lip that is the mountain (C. montanum), and the clustered (C. one to two inches long and half as wide. You can see it fasciculatum), also known as the brownie. The Califor- 20 or 30 feet up a slope if you look hard enough. The nia lady’s slipper, though not common, is easy enough flower of the California is smaller, but each plant is tall, to find: look for seeps in the mountains and look for two feet at least, with several flowers, lip pure white Darlingtonia (pitcher plant) bogs. There is a seep on and yellow above, and in patches with many individu- the Root Creek Trail in Castle Crags State Park which als (likely mostly clones). But the lip of the brownie is reliably has dozens of C. californicum, along with Lilium purplish brown, just like much of the surroundings, pardalinum and Rhododendron occidentale. There and often not much bigger than a kernel of corn, and are numerous Darlingtonia bogs on Lone Mountain the plant is lucky if it is six inches from ground to tip. Road out of O’Brien Oregon, all with associated C. If you are looking for a bigger plant, you will miss a californicum (and also the green bog orchid, Platanthera dozen at your feet. sparsiflora). We had a clue though: last year we visited Happy Camp The mountain lady’s slipper is not so easy: you have in mid-June and a Forest Service botanist had shown know where to look. There is a nice patch a few yards us a brownie location just on the edge of town. The 2 THE BAY LEAF July-August 2005 plants had past flowering and the fruits were gone, but ried they would not be out, as we saw them in flower the leaves were still out, so we knew where and what in June last year): two perfect blooming specimens on to look for (a brownie in leaf looks very much like a the slope almost right at eye level. Listera orchid). Two down, and only C. californicum to go. We drove the So we left the Bay Area on Friday, May 20, driving up O’Brien, Oregon (north of Happy Camp) and out Lone I-5. We stopped at SR 20 at Williams for gas. We had Mountain Road. The bogs starts soon after the road seen patches of Downingia there before, close to the becomes unpaved and this pattern is repeated wher- freeway, so we looked and there was a large patch of ever it is wet next the road: Darlingtonia californica, D. insignis, blooming surprisingly late. In the patch Cypripedium californicum, Platanthera sparsiflora, were several albino flowers, white instead of blue, and Rhododendron occidentale, and sometimes Ledum several intermediate between white and blue. This was glandulosa. In a big bog, we also saw the rare Viola a promising start. primulifolia var. occidentalis, almost pure white. Later, but not this early, there will be Lilium bolanderi (last The C. californicum at Castle Crags were in bud but no year in June, we saw dozens). blooms yet. There were also ghost orchids (Cephalan- thera austiniae) right by the parking lot and coralroots We left O’Brien and drove to Cresent City.
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