Anthony Lombardi

I had a great time hiking with my friend Luke on Sunday May 2nd at Santa Teresa Park in south San Jose. The weather was perfect. We were there to help the California Native Plant Society find some rare plants. We got there late and ended up just doing our own thing, but I had the photos in my iPod Touch so we were able to do our own search anyway. Luke spotted this federally endangered plant called the Santa Clara Dudleya. We ended up running into the main group of people and they saw it too. We saw quite a few after the first one. It was easy to see why it’s endangered since it seemed to grow only among very rocky outcrops. It only grows in a couple very small areas in south San Jose.

Dudleya setchellli


This next one was also among the same type of soil. It’s interesting because it looks like there’s separate male and female flowers right next to each other. Either that or one type turns into the other type over time.

Claytonia exigua

This next one is some kind of Mallow I believe.

Among more common flowers we saw Sisyrinchium bellum

Triteleia Laxa (being pollinated)

Anagallis arvensis (Alien)

Luke had a really cool hiking GPS which kept track of everywhere we went. You can even see a graph of speed and elevation vs. distance. Hi-tech! Check out a link to the path here