USA - Pacific States forum: Simi Hills - May 2011 - Snake in the Grass
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This is called yerba santa. Yerba santa means holy herb. It has some medicinal use. It is also edible, at least in moderation. I like to chew on a young leaf. It is a little bit gummy and has bitter but minty taste. cobweb thistle  rose snapdragon   branching phacelia  DH was going to step over this rattlesnake. I told him that we were going to detour through the thistles.  bush mallow  mud drying in a strange way  I guess these are squirrel  raven or crow, maybe  Purple clarkia can be spotted or solid purple. The spotted ones are shown in the thread "There Ain't No Flies on Us".  chia  white snapdragon  I think this rock looks like an animal, a hippo maybe.  It's been a good year for black sage.  "Keep out or die"   spring vetch  looks like the West  I don't know what kind of grass this is, but I think it is pretty.  eucrypta  sugar bush berries  elderberry  |
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| So many neat pictures! I'm right behind you in the thistle patch, LOL! A small town has no secrets except itself |
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| Oh, yes. At least it was Italian thistle, which isn't very fierce. |
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| ROTFL!!! A small town has no secrets except itself |
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| I sometimes take photos of animal tracks as well. Many times it's as close as you'll get to seeing the animal. That "mud drying in a strange way" is actually algae. In wet times it coats the ground where water collects or seeps. Like mud, it shrinks as it dries and cracks up like that. The upper (sunny) side dries quicker than the underside hence the curling. Mud/clay will do the same thing, but usually in thicker layers. The closest I can get to ID for that grass is Poaceae.  |
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| I'm not very good with grasses. I don't have a very good guidebook on them and I haven't felt like learning all of the technical terminology. |
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| Great walk in the west, Kelli! "If you bring joy and enthusiasm to everything you do, people will think you're crazy" W. Haelfeli, New Yorker cartoon |
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| Thank you |
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