Fieldwork "scouting" trip to San Diego County today. I was looking for fountaingrass Pennisetum setaceum, a weedy grass that's been invasive in Hawaii and is increasingly present along at least the roadsides in southern CA.
Loaded up some herbarium specimen locations on Google Earth and used that as our guide. We managed to find almost all of the locations, plus hundreds more specimens lining the roadsides. Apparently, these are pretty persistent populations.
We were headed into an area recently burned in the fires, and decided that the plants we were looking for were probably burnt. However, we did spot this Arundo (giant reed) plant, with huge sprouts just a couple weeks after the fire. Sadly, these clumps seem undeterred by fire.
Also, sadly, these Christmas trees burned, no doubt the livelihood of a San Diego county family.
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