special feature Comprehensive Plant Checklist of Kaweah Oaks Preserve by: Robert Urtecho, Ph.D. Biology Instructor at the College of the Sequoias

click to view slides Flowers of Kaweah Delta Region

Herbs - Native Ammania (?) Bedstraw (N) Beggarticks (N) Buckwheat (N) Bursage, annual (N) Buttercup (N) Catnip (?) Cocklebur (N) Conzya, sticky (N) Crimson Monkeyflower(N) Cudweed (N) Dove Weed (N) Duckweed (N) False Daisy (N) Fiddleneck (N) Goldenrod - Calif (N) Gooseberry (N) Gumweed (N) Hedgenettle (N) Heliotrope - Alkali (N) Horseweed (N) Jimsonweed(N) Lessingia (N) Lupine, Bush (N) Lupine, Miniature (N) Marsh Primrose (N) Milkweed (N) Miner's Lettuce (N) Monkeyflower (N) Mosquito fern (N) Mugwort, California (N) Mule fat (N) Nitrophila   (N) Panicled Willow Herb (N) Popcorn Flower (N) Poppy, California (N) Red maids (N) Sacred Datura (N) Salt marsh baccharis (N) Sand spurrey   (N) Slim Aster (N) Smartweed, ladysthumb (N) Sticktight(N)     (Forget-Me-Nots) Spikeweed (N) Stephanomeria (N) Stinging Nettle (N) Stinking Gourd (N) Sunflower, annual (N) Telegraphweed (N) Waterprimrosewillow (N)       (see marsh primrose) Wild cucumber (N) Wild mint (N) Yerba Mansa   (N) Herbs - Non-Native Bassia -5 hook (NN) Bull Thistle (NN) Bur-chervil (NN) Burclover (NN) Bursage, skeletonleaf (NN) Cat's ear (NN) Chickweed (NN) Crassula (NN) Curly Dock (NN) Dwarf nettle (NN) Epazote (see Mexican Tea) Filaree (Storksbill) (NN) Geranium, cutleaf (NN) Goosefoot (NN) Groundsel (NN) Henbit (NN) Horehound (NN) Knotweed (NN) Lamb's Quarters (NN) London rocket (NN) Mallow (malva) (NN) Mexican Tea (NN) Milk Thistle (NN) Mustard, black (NN) Mustard, hedge (NN) Mustard, wild (NN) Nightshade (NN) Pennyroyal (NN) Peppermint Pigweed, red-stemmed (NN) Pineapple-weed (NN) Poison Hemlock (NN) Poke Weed (salad) (NN) Prickly Lettuce (NN) Puncture vine(NN) Red Sandspurry (NN) Shepherd's Purse (NN) Sow thistle (NN) Speedwell (NN) Spearmint (NN) Spiny Clocklebur (NN)  Sweet clover (NN) Tobacco, Indian(NN) Unknowns Vetch (NN) Water Speedwell (NN) Wild radish (NN) Wild watermelon (NN) Woolly Mullein (NN) Yellow Star Thistle (NN)

Grasses Alkali Barley  Alkali Sacaton (N)       (Bunch Grass) Barnyardgrass (NN) Bermuda Grass (NN) Creeping Wild Rye (N)  Dallisgrass (NN) Foxtail (Red Brome) (NN) Hare Barley (NN) Johnson Grass (NN) Nutsedge (NN) Perennial Rye Grass (?) Rabbitsfoot Grass (NN) Rice Cut Grass  Ripgut Brome (NN) Rye, annual  Saltgrass (N) Soft Cress (NN) Wild oats (NN) Witch Grass (N)   Rushes and Sedges Alkali Sedge   (N) Baltic Rush (N) Horsetail rush (N) Santa Barbara Sedge (N) Scouring Rush (N)    (see horsetail rush) Tule rush (N)

Shrubs - Vines Blackberry,      California (N)  Buckeye (N) Bush Lupine (N) Button Willow(N) Elderberry  (N) Himalayan        Berry (NN) Rose - Wild (N) Tobacco,       Tree(NN) Virgin's Bower      (Clematis)(N) Wild Grape  (N)

Trees Ash, Oregon (?) California      Sycamore (N) Chinese Tree of      Heaven (NN) Cottonwood      Fremont (N) Fig (NN) Osage Orange (NN) Pecan (NN) Valley Oak(N)      (Quercus  lobata) Wild plum Willow, Arroyo (N) Willow, Black (N) Willow, Red (N) Willow, White (N) Lichen     Galls of the  Valley Oak Trees click above to view  eight images of oak galls     click to view a visual display IMAGE GALLERY 130 plant images     click to view Species List  in html click for plant list in MS Excel format

Below are links to several excellent wildflower and weed resources for further study.

UC Berkeley flora images	UC Davis Weed Images	USDA Plant Databse
Botany.Com,  the Encyclopedia of Plants	Images of wildflowers - by Latin names, Coe Park, Calif	Las Pilitas Nursery Central Oak Woodland Community database
Wild Food Foraging by "Wildman" Steve Brill	California Native  Plant Society	California Wildflowers  by Color
Rutgers Weed Gallery	Sierra Plants Project	Western Wetland Flora
Botanical.com	Medicinal Plant Index
Monocots vs. Dicots	What Plant Family Is It?

Resource persons and references used for plant ID are: Dr. Robert Urtecho and Karen Kirkpatrick of the College of the Sequoias Dennis Haines, Agricultural Staff Biologist for the County of Tulare UC Berkeley and UC Davis online databases of California flora images "Weeds of the West" (1996) by Western Society of Weed Science in cooperation with the Western States Land Grant Universities Cooperative Extension Services. ...and many miscellaneous field guides Many thanks to the friends mentioned above for freely sharing their expertise and knowledge to make this site a better resource. It's a real treasure to have such fine scholars who are local, approachable and genuine. * * * Digital images of plants by Irene Lindsey, a former board member and volunteer at the oaks preserve in Exeter. * * * Note: Plant names are  subjective to the resource or reference that is used, therefore, some id's may not agree completely with other resources. Mung's is Mr. Haine's reference of choice and Jepson's is the reference of choice at COS.