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Terra Wild California Native Plants for the Temecula Valley

Pteridium aquilinum | western brackenfern📍Kumeyaay land, May 2025
08/16/2026

Pteridium aquilinum | western brackenfern

📍Kumeyaay land, May 2025

08/03/2026

it’s August again…

Lilium humboldtii ssp. ocellatum | Humboldt Lily CRPR 4.2Catch em now along the Azaela Glen Trail at Cuyamaca Rancho Sta...
07/01/2026

Lilium humboldtii ssp. ocellatum | Humboldt Lily
CRPR 4.2

Catch em now along the Azaela Glen Trail at Cuyamaca Rancho State Park

It’s Sarcodes season! Sarcodes sanguinea | snow plant | is a mycoheterotrophic wildflower that is hard to miss with its ...
06/05/2026

It’s Sarcodes season!

Sarcodes sanguinea | snow plant | is a mycoheterotrophic wildflower that is hard to miss with its vivid red color peeking through the pine needles between 3k’ and 9k’.
These plants do not photosynthesize and are ectomycorrhizal parasites which “steal” nutrients from host trees by accessing their root systems via the mycorrhizae which are underground fungal fibers. This is why you will always find them underneath or nearby conifers.

I started to go down a rabbit hole on mycoheterotrophs, and think you should too - they’re so interesting!

Other *fun* facts about snow plant:
• it belongs in the Ericaceae family - the same fam as Manzanitas and blueberries!
• it’s scientific name roughly translates to “bloody-flesh-like-thing. 😳
• they only appear in the spring after the snow has melted
• they are protected and picking or disturbing them is off limits!

Happy Hunting!

Downingia bella | Hoover’s calicoflower | is adapted to the unique conditions of vernal pools like those found on the Sa...
06/02/2026

Downingia bella | Hoover’s calicoflower | is adapted to the unique conditions of vernal pools like those found on the Santa Rosa Plateau.
Catch them in bloom now from the boardwalk in the main pool area (which is now dried up.)

Remember to please stay on trail and don’t wander off into the vernal pools, as these are critically sensitive habitat.

Tomorrow we say, Adios! and thank you for 45 years of inspiration💚
05/02/2026

Tomorrow we say, Adios! and thank you for 45 years of inspiration💚

Since I’m always late for everything…Happy California Poppy Day ☀️….one day late 😅
04/07/2026

Since I’m always late for everything…Happy California Poppy Day ☀️….one day late 😅

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