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Otay Mountain Wilderness
The Otay Mountain Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in San Diego County, California, 12 miles east of the city of Otay Mesa and just north of the Mexican border. Some parts of the wilderness area rise quickly from sea level, reaching a peak of just over at the summit of Otay Mountain.Longmire, S. (2014) ''Border Insecurity: Why Big Money, Fences, and Drones Aren't Making Us Safer'page 62 Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved March 7, 2015 Wilderness status was conferred on October 7, 1998, effectively preserving 18,500 acres under protection of the Wilderness Act, a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.Congress (U.S.) (2004) ''Congressional Record'', V. 144, Pt. 17, October 7, 1998 to October 9, 1998page 24176 Government Printing Office. Retrieved March 7, 2015 The legislation was signed by President Bill ClintonSchad, J. (2007) Afoot and Afield: San Diego County: A Comprehensive Hiking Guide'' Wilderness Press. Retrieved March 7, 2015 on December 11, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Diego County
San Diego County (), officially the County of San Diego, is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,298,634, making it California's second-most populous county and the fifth-most populous in the United States. Its county seat is San Diego, the second-most populous city in California and the eighth-most populous city in the United States. It is the southwesternmost county in the 48 contiguous United States, and is a border county. It is also home to 18 Native American tribal reservations, the most of any county in the United States. San Diego County comprises the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is the 17th most populous metropolitan statistical area and the 18th most populous primary statistical area of the United States as of July 1, 2012. San Diego County is also part of the San Diego–Tijuana transborder metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area shar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA or "The Act"; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.) is the primary law in the United States for protecting imperiled species. Designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation", the ESA was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973. The Supreme Court of the United States described it as "the most comprehensive legislation for the preservation of endangered species enacted by any nation"."Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill" 437 U.S. 153 (1978) Retrieved 24 November 2015. The purposes of the ESA are two-fold: to prevent extinction and to recover species to the point where the law's protections are not needed. It therefo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calochortus Dunnii
''Calochortus dunnii'' is a rare species of flowering plant in the Liliaceae, lily family known by the common name Dunn's mariposa lily. Distribution The plant is endemic to the Peninsular Ranges, native to southern San Diego County, California, San Diego County, California; and northern Baja California (state), Baja California state, Mexico. It is known from only a few occurrences in chaparral, grassland, and Closed-cone coniferous forest habitats, at in elevation in the Cuyamaca Mountains, Laguna Mountains, and others. Description ''Calochortus dunnii'' is a Perennial plant, perennial Herbaceous plant, herb growing a slender, branching stem up to 60 centimeters tall. The waxy, channeled basal leaf is 10 to 20 centimeters long and withers at flowering. The inflorescence bears 2 to 6 erect bell-shaped flowers. Each flower has three sepals and three white or pinkish petals. The petals are up to 3 centimeters long and spotted with red and yellow near the bases, where there are pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nolina Interrata
''Nolina interrata'' is a rare species of flowering plant known by the common names Dehesa nolina and Dehesa beargrass. It is known from about ten occurrences in central San Diego County, California, and fewer than 100 individual plants on land across the border in Baja California. The plant was first described in 1946 when found at the type locality near El Cajon, California, and all the individuals known in California are located within a six-square-mile area there.USFWSWithdrawal of proposed rule to list ''Nolina interrata'' (Dehesa beargrass) as threatened ''Federal Register'' October 13, 1998. Although rare, numbering about 9,000 plants total in existence, the species is relatively well protected in its habitat and a proposal for federal protected status was withdrawn. This plant produces a branching stem, part of which grows underground, lined with rosettes of stiff, waxy, blue-green leaves, up to 45 per rosette. The leaves are thick and somewhat fleshy at the bases, and sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemizonia Conjugens
''Deinandra conjugens'' ( syn. ''Hemizonia conjugens'') is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names Otay tarplant and Otay tarweed. It is native to a small section of far northern Baja California in Mexico, its range extending north into San Diego County, California, in the United States. One isolated population has been reported from the hills east of Cayucos in San Luis Obispo County. ''Deinandra conjugens'' is threatened by habitat destruction and degradation.USFWS''Deinandra conjugens'' Five-year Review.June 2009. It was federally listed as a threatened species in 1998.''Deinandra conjugens''. The Nature Conservancy. Description ''Deinandra conjugens'' is an |
Eryngium Aristulatum
''Eryngium aristulatum'', known by the common names California eryngo and Jepson's button celery, is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae. Distribution This plant is native to California and Baja California where it grows in wet places, such as vernal pools and flooded meadows. It is found in coast redwood forest, California mixed evergreen forest, California foothill oak woodland, yellow pine forest, chaparral, coastal sage scrub, coastal salt marsh, and wetland-riparian habitats. Description ''Eryngium aristulatum'' is a perennial herb with erect, rounded, naked stems, occasionally branching and reaching anywhere from to nearly in height. Leaves appear near the base and at nodes along the stem and are long and serrated to toothed. The inflorescence holds rounded flowers with five to eight long, straight, spiky bracts which often have spiny edges and may grow nearly 3 centimeters long. The flower contains white petals and white or purple styles. The bloomi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acanthomintha Ilicifolia
''Acanthomintha ilicifolia'', known by the common name San Diego thornmint, is a rare species of flowering plant in the mint family. It is native to Baja California and San Diego County, California, where it is a resident of the chaparral and coastal sage scrub plant communities and vernal pools. ''Acanthomintha ilicifolia'' has been extirpated from many of the sites where it was previously noted in San Diego County. It is a federally listed threatened species in the United States under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA). This species is also listed as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act which means that killing or possessing the plants is prohibited within California unless authorized by the California Department of Fish and Game. Description ''Acanthomintha ilicifolia'' is a petite annual herb growing up to about 15 centimeters (5.9 in.) in maximum height. It has rounded to oval serrated leaves up to 1.5 (0.59 in.) centimeters long. The inflorescenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamaebatia Australis 5
''Chamaebatia'', also known as mountain misery, is a genus of two species of aromatic evergreen shrubs endemic to California. Its English common name derives from early settlers' experience with the plant's dense tangle and sticky, strong-smelling resin. They are actinorhizal, non-legumes capable of nitrogen fixation through symbiosis with the actinobacterium, ''Frankia''. Taxonomy Species ''Chamaebatia'' comprises the following species: * ''Chamaebatia australis'' (Brandegee) Abrams – Southern mountain misery * ''Chamaebatia foliolosa ''Chamaebatia foliolosa'' is a species of aromatic evergreen shrub in the rose family known by the common names mountain misery and bearclover. It is endemic to the mountains of California, where it grows in coniferous forests. The Miwok tribe's ...'' Benth. – Sierra mountain misery, bearclover, kit-kit-dizze Species names with uncertain taxonomic status The status of the following species is unresolved: * ''Chamaebatia foliolosa'' Newb. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepechinia Ganderi
''Lepechinia ganderi'' is a rare species of perennial shrub in the mint family known by the common name San Diego pitcher sage or Gander's pitcher sage. An aromatic plant with white to lavender flowers, this species is only known from southern San Diego County in California and a small portion of Baja California, occurring on chaparral or coastal sage scrub in metavolcanic soils. Because of its limited range, it is under threat from growing urbanization and increased fire frequency. Description ''Lepechinia ganderi'' is a short, aromatic shrub with slender branches coated in rough hairs and resin glands. The leaves are lance-shaped (lanceolate) and may have toothed (serrate) edges. The raceme inflorescence bears flowers on pedicels that are 1 to 2 cm long. Each flower has a base of long, pointed sepals below a white to light lavender tubular corolla. The flower is lipped at the mouth. The small, dark, hairless fruit develops attached to the sepals once the corolla falls. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clinopodium Chandleri
''Clinopodium chandleri'' is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name San Miguel savory. It is native to northern Baja California and several areas of southern California, where it can be found in mountain chaparral. A fragrant plant with white flowers, it is one of southern California's rarest shrubs. Description It is a small shrub with slender branches up to half a meter long from a woody stem base. The toothed or wavy-edged leaves are up to 1.5 centimeters long and wide, the hairy blades borne on short petioles. The herbage is glandular and aromatic. Flowers occur in the leaf axils. Each is bell-shaped with a tubular throat, the corolla white to lavender and under a centimeter long. Distribution and habitat This species is distributed from southern California in the United States to northwestern Baja California in Mexico. It is found throughout rocky slopes and chaparral in the Peninsular Ranges, from the Santa Anas south to En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamaebatia Australis
''Chamaebatia australis'' is a species of aromatic evergreen shrub in the rose family known by the common names southern mountain misery and southern bearclover. This uncommon shrub is native to the chaparral slopes of southern California Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. It includes the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the second most populous urban a ... and northern Baja California. It has very dark bark, and is covered in a foliage of 2-pinnate leaves, meaning leaves which are made up of small leaflets which are further divided themselves into tiny leaflets, giving the foliage a fernlike appearance. Each leaf is a gland-dotted frond of 3 to 8 centimeters in length. The flowers are roselike with small rounded white petals and yellow centers filled with many stamens. The fruit is a leathery achene. References External linksJepson Manual Treatm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lotus Crassifolius
''Hosackia crassifolia'', synonym ''Lotus crassifolius'', is a species of legume native to Washington, California and Oregon. It is known by the common names big deervetch and broad-leafed lotus. Distribution The plant is native to western North America, in California, Oregon, and Washington (U.S. states); and into Baja California (Méxican state). The California populations are found in diverse habitats, including chaparral, California oak woodland, California mixed evergreen forest, and conifer forest. Description ''Hosackia crassifolia'' is a long-lived, somewhat bushy plant which bears long straight stems with evenly spaced oval-shaped leaves. It produces thick bunches of yellow, pink-and-yellow, or scarlet-and-yellow pea flowers. The bloom period is May to August. The brownish pea pods contain speckled red or brown peas. Varieties *''Hosackia crassifolia'' var. ''crassifolia'' — broad-leafed lotus (formerly ''Lotus crassifolius'' var. ''crassifolius''). *''Hosackia cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
