There is poodle dog bush growing along the burned area near the top of the Mount Wilson trail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriodictyon_parryi
This is an opportunistic plant that tends to be one of the first colonizers of burned areas. It's extremely nasty if your skin touches it -- in my experience, it's much, much worse than poison oak. The stuff I saw yesterday was not flowering yet, which makes it a little harder to identify. It has dagger-shaped leaves growing around a central stem. The edges are slightly serrated, and the stems are hairy. It has a noticeable sweet odor as you're walking through the area.
Poodle dog bush on Wilson trail
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Why is it there? Was there a fire?
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Oh yeah, I remember that one now. It was contained to just that area.
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At first, I thought very funny Dima haha when I read your response but then I figured out you weren't joking. I thought you of all people would know why Poodle Dog was there. loldima wrote: Why is it there? Was there a fire?
btw what happened to my stickers?
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Was I supposed to do something with the stickers?
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I hiked through that area a few weeks ago on my Wilson loop and snapped a few pics of the burn and the poodle dog bush:
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Nice pics! I've been doing some work on the Wikipedia article on this species. Would it be OK with you if I adapted one or two of your pics and put them in the article? You would have to agree to license them under Wikipedia's CC-BY-SA license. You would be credited (as required by the "BY" attribution clause). A cropped version of the one showing the plant growing among burned trees would be nice as a way of showing its typical habitat. It would also be nice to have the one with a full-frame picture of the whole bush.davidwiese wrote: I hiked through that area a few weeks ago on my Wilson loop and snapped a few pics of the burn and the poodle dog bush:
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Sure thing, go ahead.bcrowell wrote:Nice pics! I've been doing some work on the Wikipedia article on this species. Would it be OK with you if I adapted one or two of your pics and put them in the article? You would have to agree to license them under Wikipedia's CC-BY-SA license. You would be credited (as required by the "BY" attribution clause). A cropped version of the one showing the plant growing among burned trees would be nice as a way of showing its typical habitat. It would also be nice to have the one with a full-frame picture of the whole bush.davidwiese wrote: I hiked through that area a few weeks ago on my Wilson loop and snapped a few pics of the burn and the poodle dog bush:
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Thanks for updating the article! Girl Hiker: I never received anything from simonov. If/when I get something, you're welcome to it.
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They sprouted very soon after that fire. I remember hiking through there early last year and it was already pretty dense along the trail.