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Lake Murray (California)
Lake Murray is a reservoir in San Diego, California, operated by the City of San Diego's Public Utilities Department. It is located within Mission Trails Regional Park. When full, the reservoir covers , has a maximum water depth of , and a shoreline of . The asphalt-paved service road lining roughly two-thirds of the lake's perimeter is a popular recreation site for the Navajo community. It lies south of Cowles Mountain and is an important reporting point for aircraft inbound to land at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport (identifier: KMYF). History The reservoir was formed in 1894 with the construction of an earthen dam, and was known as La Mesa Reservoir. In 1910 the dam and reservoir were bought by Ed Fletcher as part of his Cuyamaca Water Company. Following the great San Diego County flooding in 1916 (associated with the rainmaker Charles Hatfield), the reservoir was the principal source of water for the city of San Diego. In 1919, the dam was enlarged and the capacity of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Diego, California
San Diego ( , ; ) is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast of Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a 2020 population of 1,386,932, it is the List of United States cities by population, eighth most populous city in the United States and the county seat, seat of San Diego County, the List of the most populous counties in the United States, fifth most populous county in the United States, with 3,338,330 estimated residents as of 2019. The city is known for its mild year-round climate, natural deep-water harbor, extensive beaches and parks, long association with the United States Navy, and recent emergence as a healthcare and biotechnology development center. San Diego is the List of municipalities in California, second largest city in the U.S. state, state of California, after Los Angeles. Historically home to the Kumeyaay people, San Diego is frequently referred to as the "Birthplace of California", as it was the first site vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encelia Californica
''Encelia californica'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name California brittlebush. It is also commonly referred to as California coast sunflower and California bush sunflower. Distribution This shrub is native to southern California (U.S.) and northern Baja California (México). It is a member of the coastal sage plant community at the shoreline, and the chaparral and woodlands plant community on inland foothills in the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges. Description ''Encelia californica'' is a bushy shrub that reaches between 50–150 cm (20-60 inches) in height. It has many thin branches covered in widely spaced green leaves which are a rounded diamond shape. The solitary flower heads are daisy like, with 15 to 25 bright yellow ray florets 1 to 3 centimeters long around a center of protruding yellowish to purplish brown disc florets. The fruit is an achene 5 to 7 millimeters long, with no pappus. It blooms from February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamarix Ramosissima
''Tamarix ramosissima'', commonly known as saltcedar salt cedar, or tamarisk, is a deciduous arching shrub with reddish stems, feathery, pale green foliage, and characteristic small pink flowers. The cultivar 'Pink Cascade' (dark pink flowered) has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Description ''Tamarix ramosissima'' is a hardy shrub or small tree native to Europe and Asia. It is a vigorous, deciduous shrub grown for its ornamental reddish stems, its showy plumes of flowers, and its unusual feathery leaves. Its hardiness and tolerance for poor soil make it a popular, easy to grow shrub. It can grow up to 8 m in height and up to 5 m in width. It can be used as a screen, windbreak, informal hedge or specimen shrub.Zouhar, Kris. 2003''Tamarix'' spp.In: Fire Effects Information System, nline U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory. It produces upright racemes of small, pink, five-petale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hesperoyucca Whipplei
''Hesperoyucca whipplei'' (syn. ''Yucca whipplei''), the chaparral yucca, our Lord's candle, Spanish bayonet, Quixote yucca or foothill yucca, is a species of flowering plant closely related to, and formerly usually included in, the genus '' Yucca''. It is native to southwest communities of North America. Description It produces a stemless cluster of long, rigid leaves which end in a sharp point. The leaves are , rarely to , long and wide, and gray-green in color. The leaf edges are finely saw-toothed. The single inflorescence grows extremely fast, and reaches tall, bearing hundreds of elliptical (bell-shaped) white to purplish flowers in diameter on a densely branched panicle up to broad, covering the upper half of the inflorescence. The fruit is a dry winged capsule, which splits open at maturity to release the seeds. The plant takes several (usually 5+) years to reach maturity and flower, doing so in April–May, at which point it usually dies. Most subspecies pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schinus Molle
''Schinus molle'' (Peruvian pepper, also known as American pepper, Peruvian peppertree, escobilla, false pepper, rosé pepper, molle del Peru, pepper tree, (Archived bWebCite peppercorn tree, California pepper tree, pirul (in Mexican Spanish site), Peruvian mastic, Anacahuita o Aguaribay and Pepperina) is an evergreen tree that grows to 15 meters (50 feet). It is native to an area from the Peruvian Andes to southern Brazil. The bright pink fruits of ''Schinus molle'' are often sold as "pink peppercorns" although ''S. molle'' is unrelated to true pepper ('' Piper nigrum''). The word ''molle'' in ''Schinus molle'' comes from ''mulli'', the Quechua word for the tree. The tree is host to the pepper-tree moth, ''Bombycomorpha bifascia''. Description ''Schinus molle'' is a quick growing evergreen tree that grows up to 15 meters (50 feet) tall and wide. It is the largest of all ''Schinus'' species and potentially the longest lived. The upper branches of the tree tend to droop. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corymbia Citriodora
''Corymbia citriodora'', commonly known as lemon-scented gum and other common names, is a species of tall tree that is endemic to north-eastern Australia. It has smooth white to pink bark, narrow lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three, white flowers and urn-shaped or barrel-shaped fruit. Description ''Corymbia citriodora'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of , sometimes to and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth, pale, uniform or slightly mottled, white to pink or coppery bark that is shed in thin flakes. Young plants and coppice regrowth have egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are the same shade of glossy green on both sides, often lemon-scented when crushed, narrow lance-shaped to curved, long and wide tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are borne in leaf axils on a branched peduncle long, each branch with three buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are oval to pear-shaped, long and wide w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambrosia Deltoidea
''Ambrosia deltoidea'' is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names triangle bur ragweed, triangle bursage, and triangleleaf bursage. Distribution The plant is native to the Sonoran Desert region of North America, where it can be found in Baja California, Baja California Sur, and Sonora in Mexico, with its distribution extending north into Arizona in the United States.Marshall, K. Anna. 1994''Ambrosia deltoidea''.In: Fire Effects Information System, nline U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory. This shrub grows in desert habitat, such as desert grasslands and shrublands. It is a dominant or codominant species, and one of the most abundant plants,Bowers, J. E. (2002)Regeneration of triangle-leaf bursage (''Ambrosia deltoidea'': Asteraceae): Germination behavior and persistent seed bank.''The Southwestern Naturalist'' 47(3) 449-53. in the Arizona Upland S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malosma Laurina
''Malosma'' is a plant genus which contains only a single species, ''Malosma laurina'', with the common names laurel sumac and lentisco (Spanish).Integrated Taxonomic Information System (2007)''Malosma'' retrieved June 10, 2007. ''Malosma laurina'' is found along the southern California and Baja California coasts of the Pacific Ocean. Description ''Malosma laurina'' is a large, rounded evergreen shrub or small tree growing 3 to 5 meters (10–15 feet) tall. The leaves have a taco shell shape. When flattened, they have the shape of laurel leaves, with lance-shaped leaf blades up to 10 cm (4") long. The tips of the stems, little stem attaching the leaf to the stems ( petiole), the veins of the leaves, and the edges of the leaves, are a glowing reddish color all year long. The fragrant leaves and stems give chaparral its characteristic fragrance. The leaves and stems are full of volatile compounds that give it the scent. Laurel sumac haadapted to firereturn inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artemisia Californica
''Artemisia californica'', also known as California sagebrush, is a species of western North American shrub in the sunflower family. Description ''Artemisia californica'' branches from the base and grows out from there, becoming rounded; it grows tall. The stems of the plant are slender, flexible, and glabrous (hairless) or canescent (fuzzy). The leaves range from long and are pinnately divided with 2–4 threadlike lobes less than 5 cm long. Their leaves are hairy and light green to gray in color; the margins of the leaves curl under. The inflorescences are leafy, narrow, and sparse. The capitula are less than in diameter. The pistillate flowers range in number from 6 to 10 and the disk flowers range from 15 to 30; they are generally yellowish, but sometimes red. The fruits produced are resinous achenes up to 1.5 mm long. There is a pappus present that forms a minute crown on the achene body. The plant contains terpenes which make it quite aromatic. Many pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Datura Wrightii
''Datura wrightii'', commonly known as sacred datura, is a poisonous perennial plant species and ornamental flower of the family Solanaceae native to the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. It is sometimes used as a hallucinogen due to its psychoactive alkaloids. ''D. wrightii'' is classified as an anticholinergic deliriant. Taxonomy German botanist Eduard August von Regel described the species in 1859 from material collected in Texas by botanist Charles Wright, and named it after him. The correct spelling since is with one "i", per ICN article 60C.2. The scientific name has frequently been given as ''Datura meteloides'' Dunal, but this name is actually a synonym of '' D. innoxia'' Mill., a Mexican plant with a narrower flower having 10 rather than five "teeth" at the rim. Common names in the US include "sacred thorn-apple" or "hairy thornapple", and sometimes "western Jimson weed" because of its resemblance to ''Datura stramonium'' due to both species havin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudognaphalium Californicum
''Pseudognaphalium californicum'' (syn. ''Gnaphalium californicum'') is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by several common names, including ladies' tobacco, California rabbit tobacco, California cudweed, and California everlasting. The plant is native to the west coast of North America from Washington to Baja California, where it is a member of the flora of many habitats, including chaparral. Description ''Pseudognaphalium californicum'' is an annual or biennial herb growing a branching stem reaching 20 to 80 centimeters in height. Stem branches bear linear to somewhat lance-shaped leaves 2 to 20 centimeters long. The green herbage is glandular and scented. The leaves produce a distinctive citrus aroma. The inflorescence is a wide cluster of flower heads, each enveloped in an involucre of rows of bright white phyllaries. Classification Classification is disputed between the genera ''Pseudognaphalium'' and ''Gnaphalium ''Gnaphalium'' is a genus of f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferocactus Viridescens
''Ferocactus viridescens'' is a species of flowering plant in the cactus family Cactaceae. This rare barrel cactus is known by several common names, including coast barrel cactus, keg cactus and San Diego barrel cactus. Most of its native range in the United States is in San Diego County, California, where it is threatened by development, agriculture, and other alterations in its habitat. It is also found in northern Baja California, Mexico. Description ''Ferocactus viridescens'' is a solitary barrel cactus, typically spherical, oblate, or nearly cylindrical, reaching heights of 10-30(-45)cm and diameters of 10-20(-35)cm. It has bright green flesh arranged into several 13 to 34 blunt ribs covered in arrays of long spines. The areoles are narrow elliptic to oval, 10-20 mm long, with brownish tomentum, bearing 10-19 spines per areole, including central and radial spines. The central spines are initially pink or yellowish, becoming duller with age, with the principal central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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