Join Alf Fe ngler, Ken Himes and Helen Popper (author of California Native Gardening) for a prop er start of the spring wildflower season with a pleasant walk through this easily accessible Open Space Preserve. We often see over 1,000 individual w ildflowers in bloom this early in the season!
As experienced docents at Edg ewood, Alf and Ken will be able to point out some flowering plants in Pulga s Ridge that don’t occur at Edgewood, such as fetid adder’s ton gue (Scoliopus bigelovii) and coast man-root (Marah oreganus). This trip will be an easy 3-mi le loop hike through oak woodland, mixed evergreen woodland, chamise chapar ral, and coastal scrub, combined with a little bit of riparian woodland. If needed, we will split into two or three groups to provide a more individua lized experience.
The trip will include an elevation gain and loss of about 4 00 feet. Heavy rain cancels.