Santa Rosa Island Plants - Michael Kauffmann

This is the last of my four posts about Santa Rosa Island. It is simply a photographic tour of plants that have not yet been highlighted in previous posts including other interesting, rare, endemic, and common Santa Rosa Island plants.

Santa Rosa Island Plant list I generated from CalFlora

California poppies (Eschscholzia californica) and beach sand verbena (Abronia umbellata) decorate the stabilized dunes adjacent to white sand beaches.

Santa Rosa Island plants — Floral displays abounded.

Beach evening-primrose (Camissoniopsis cheiranthifolia)

Catalina mariposa (Calochortus catalinae)

California boxthorn (Lycium californicum)

Distinct soil boundary between grasslands (left) and the calcareous soils where the endemic Santa Rosa Island manzanita (A. confertiflora) is now thriving.

Santa Rosa Island manzanita (Arctostaphylos confertiflora)

Resources

Channel Island Bird List
Santa Rosa Island Interpretive Guide
Hiking Santa Rosa Island
eBird list from my trip

Next Trip: Santa Cruz Island

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