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Vinagrillo (Salicornia bigelovii)Observ.
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Annual and older pickleweed. Indicator of the low marsh. Leaves look like small oval shaped pickles. Closer to the ground is the newer germinated
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Saladilla (Batis maritima)Observ.
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Marsh cover plant low on the ground for ground cover. Waxy small leaves on vine like stems that are sparsely covering the zone near the water of the marsh and by the sand
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Caracol Burbuja Nebulosa (Bulla gouldiana)Observ.
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Sea snail with light orange coloring and a smooth shell with cream, brown, and black coloring. Slimy in texture
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Alfombrilla (Abronia maritima)Observ.
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Big plant located on slope of sand hill. Goes high higher to lower gradient location, large with small clustered fish is / bright purple flowers
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Abeja Melífera Europea (Apis mellifera)Observ.
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New pollinating a Red Verbana plant. Small with yellow and black coloring
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Large plant located on side of seacliff on the sandy beach. On a slope, going from high to low. Tiny leaves
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Ostra Rizada (Magallana gigas)Observ.
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Located on hard surface to hold onto. Many clustered together, covered with barnacles. Closed and visible in low tide. grayish in color
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Flor de Primavera de la Playa (Camissoniopsis cheiranthifolia)Observ.
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Bright yellow round petal flowers seen on edge of salt marsh. On the side of bluff right before the immediate sand starts. Small green light green leaves
Found on top of dune zone and in sandy habitat
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Bright vibrant yellow sunflower with lots of petals. Found alongside fence and upper gradient of the marsh. Big bushes with many flowers
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Mariposa Vanesa Pintada (Vanessa cardui)Observ.
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Butterfly in the Kendall Frost marsh located on edge of reserve. Spotted and a light brown color with black bits. On some yellow flowers
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Phacelia distansObserv.
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Seacliff Buckwheat with tiny lavender purple flowers with many petals. Small patch facing the ocean. This one was planted as ground cover
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Cabellos de Ángel (Género Cuscuta)Observ.
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Red or rust orange in color. A parasitic plant that isn’t green for photosynthesis. Connected to host plant for nutrients. Not many leaves but more vines
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Nopal del Litoral (Opuntia littoralis)Observ.
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Cholla with spikes and slightly dry. Medium in size off trail. Light green and brown in color
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Agave de la Costa (Agave shawii)Observ.
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Very large succulent plant. Grouped together on slope facing the sun. Close to the trail, spikey
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Amapola de California (Eschscholzia californica)Observ.
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The state flower - round light orange and yellow petals with a throng vase to the plant
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Siempreviva Hojas de Lanza (Dudleya lanceolata)Observ.
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Succulent species, deadpan green in color. waxy in texture with shallow petals
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tiny clusters of white to off white flowers. Many clustered on bush together, near edge of trail
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Berro Amargo Californiano (Cardamine californica)Observ.
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Small white flowers with lilac accents. Long green stems
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Flor de Borrego (Eriogonum fasciculatum)Observ.
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Coastal sage scrub species. Long stems with small waxy leaves.
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Pinus torreyanaObserv.
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Torrey Pine- large tree on trail loop, only found naturally here and Santa Rosa island. Having issues with bark beetles as well as drought. Green with spikey needles
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Suaeda taxifoliaObserv.
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Usually found in sea marsh, now adapted to be in full sand. Light deadpan green in color. Velvety rough in texture. Found alongside wall of beach and disturbed area
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Organism attached to a bean clam. Leached onto the hard surface. Growing off of the clam
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Alitta succineaObserv.
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Clam worm found in the Sand we looked through. Is bright neon green in color and small in size. Did not move much. Found in mid tidal zone
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Galleta de Mar Excéntrica (Dendraster excentricus)Observ.
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Small Sand dollar. Tiny in size smaller than a penny, more the size of the back of as pencil. Found in the sand we dug though. Very deep in the ground. Round in shape
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Animales (Reino Animalia)Observ.
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a potential worm. translucent pink in color. Very small and it went through the crack of the sifter. found midway in the sand after digging through
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Donax gouldiiObserv.
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Bean clam of many different colors found in the sand we sampled. Clustered at the surface of the sand as well. Many lumped together
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Gaviota Occidental (Larus occidentalis)Observ.
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A more brown colored bird walking along the beach. Colored is speckled not pure white.
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Moscas de Las Algas (Familia Coelopidae)Observ.
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kelp flies by the wrack and forms of kelp on the dry sand close to the top bluff by the houses ... look very similar to common house fly
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Different green colored more stringy wrack. In the dry part of the beach. Many different flies on it
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Kelp Gigante (Macrocystis pyrifera)Observ.
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A form of kept in the wrack of the beach. Tide was very low so it was close to the dry part of the sand. Covered in little flies