EISPIRATEN

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.

Why is it there? Was there a fire?

dima wrote: Why is it there? Was there a fire?

Yes, it's a burn area. The fire was in October 2017.

Oh yeah, I remember that one now. It was contained to just that area.

dima wrote: Why is it there? Was there a fire?

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. lol
btw what happened to my stickers?

Was I supposed to do something with the stickers?

dima wrote: Was I supposed to do something with the stickers?

What's his name said he was sending you some old ones to forward to me. remember? you sent me an email lol

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:

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:

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.

bcrowell wrote:

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:

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.

Sure thing, go ahead.

davidwiese wrote:
Sure thing, go ahead.

Cool, I added the photos to the article. Thanks!

Thanks for updating the article! Girl Hiker: I never received anything from simonov. If/when I get something, you're welcome to it.

They sprouted very soon after that fire. I remember hiking through there early last year and it was already pretty dense along the trail.