Ballona Parcel A. Trail is west of Lincoln Blvd. and just north of Ballona Creek

Ballona parcel B: the saltmarsh with the Westbluffs in the background. View from Jefferson Blvd. looking south.

NATIVE PLANTS THAT ARE FOUND IN ONLY ONE SECTION OF BALLONA

The Ballona Wetlands and uplands have been plowed, filled, drilled for oil and otherwise modified by man over the last century. Despite all of this disturbance, well over 150 kinds of native plants are found here. Two of the parcels now owned by the State Department of Fish and Game, A and C, are approximately 10 feet higher than their original elevation because they were used as dumping sites for wetland soil that was dug out of the marsh when Marina Del Rey yacht harbor was constructed in the early 1960's. Forty-five years later, these parcels have been recolonized by native wetland and upland plants, although with a smaller number of different types of plants. On the other hand, parcel B, which was not filled in with dredged mud and is mostly at its original elevation, has a very large number of native plants and plants that are exclusively found there. Finally, parcel D, which is the only parcel being developed by the Playa Vista company, and had been highly modified at the time plant surveys were done, still had a high number of natives although it had a small number of plants found only there.

Summary:

Parcel A: 53 total natives, 2 exclusive to parcel Parcel B: 139 total natives, 38 exclusive to parcel Parcel C: 40 total natives, 4 exclusive to parcel Parcel D: 96 total natives, 13 exclusive to parcel

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A total of 53 native plant species have been found in Ballona parcel A; two have only been found at parcel A:

sugar bush (rhus ovata)

http://images.google.com/images?q=rhus+ovata&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

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chaparral currant (ribes malvaceum)

(one plant found near Ballona Creek in 1981)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=ribes+malvaceum

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139 TYPES OF PLANTS ARE FOUND AT PARCEL B;

38 PLANTS ARE FOUND EXCLUSIVELY AT PARCEL B:

yellow pincushion (chaenactis glabriuscula, variety tenuifolia)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=chaenactis+glabriuscula&btnG=Search

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gnaphalium ramosissimum (“pink”)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=gnaphalium+ramosissimum

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gumplant (grindelia robusta) found by Gustafson and brandman

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=grindelia+robusta&btnG=Search

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golden bush or mock heather (haplopappus ericoides)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=haplopappus+ericoides

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=ericameria+ericoides

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fleshy or marsh jaumea (jaumea carnosa)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=jaumea+carnosa

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smooth lasthenia (lasthenia glabrata)

Brandman said it was extirpated, but could be in B saltmarsh and dune

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=lasthenia+glabrata

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perezia (perezia microcephala or acorta microcephala)

B bluffs

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=perezia+microcephala+

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Sea rocket (cakile maritima) found by Brandman

B sand dune

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=cakile+maritima

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suffrutescent wallflower (erysimum suffrutescens)

B sand dune

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=erysimum+suffrutescens

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bladderpod (isomeris arborea)

B slopes near Hastings canyon

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=isomeris+arborea

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spergularia macrotheca “large flowered”,

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=spergularia+macrotheca

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spergularia marina “salt marsh”,

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=spergularia+marina

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goosefoot (chenopodium album)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=chenopodium+album&spell=1

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Coast goosefoot (chenopodium macrospermum)

Brandman described it as extirpated from B

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=chenopodium+macrospermum&btnG=Search

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pickleweed, (Salicornia subterminalis) called “samphire”)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=salicornia+subterminalis

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suaeda depressa, variety erecta, also called annual sea-blite)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=suaeda+depressa

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dodder (cuscuta Californica)

B coastal dunes

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=cuscuta+Californica

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cuscuta campestris,

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=cuscuta+campestris

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salt marsh dodder (cuscuta salina)

Brandman described as extirpated from B

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=cuscuta+salina

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perennial spurge or golondrina (euphorbia polycarpa)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=euphorbia+polycarpa

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lotus strigosus

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=lotus+strigosus

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lupinus truncatus “collar”

B

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=lupinus+truncatus

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bush lupine (lupinus chamissonis)

B sand dune

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=lupinus+chamissonis

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beach or pink sand verbena (abronia umbellata)

B coastal dune

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=abronia+umbellata

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Arizona ash (fraxinus velutina, variety coriacea)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=fraxinus+velutina

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Virgen's bower (clematis ligusticifolia)

B central area by bluffs

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=clematis+ligusticifolia

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yerba mansa (anemopsis californica)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=anemopsis+californica

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California arrowhead (sagittaria calycina)

B freshwater marshes

http://www.missouriplants.com/Whitealt/Sagittaria_montevidensis_page.html

Clustered field sedge (carex praegracilis)

http://images.google.com/images?q=carex+praegracilis&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

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nut sedge or yellow nut grass (cyperus esculentus)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=cyperus+esculentus

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robust sedge or Pacific coast bulrush (scirpus robustus)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=scirpus+robustus

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rush (juncus --two species: balticus “wire rush”

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=juncus+balticus

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and sphaerocarpus)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=juncus+sphaerocarpus&btnG=Search

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small rush or toad rush (juncus bufonius)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=juncus+bufonius

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Mountain brome (bromus marginatus)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=Bromus+marginatus+

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shoregrass (monanthochloe littoralis)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=monanthochloe+littoralis

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ditchgrass (ruppia maritima)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=ruppia+maritima

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and latifolia “broad leaved cattail” )

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=typha+latifolia

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PARCEL C EXCLUSIVES, TOTAL: 3

filago (filago)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=filago+plant

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Southern tarplant (hemizonia parryi subspecies Australis)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=hemizonia+parryi

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Frog fruit (lippia lanceolata) found by Brandman

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=lippia+lanceolata

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PARCEL D EXCLUSIVES: TOTAL: 13

microseris

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=microseris

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coastal tuna cactus (opuntia littoralis)

D slopes

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=opuntia+littoralis

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cuscuta indecora

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=cuscuta+indecora

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western dichondra (dichondra occidentalis)

D by large pile of dirt

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=dichondra+occidentalis

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loco weed (astragalus trichopodus, subspecies leucopsis)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=astragalus+trichopodus

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small canterberry bell or parry’s phacelia (phacelia parryi)

D sandy flats along Jefferson

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=phacelia+parryi

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Purple sage (salvia leucophylla)

D bluffs (offsite)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=salvia+leucophylla

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Black sage (salvia mellifera)

D bluffs (offsite)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=salvia+mellifera

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willow herb (epilobium ciliatum, also called epilobium adenocaulon, variety prishii)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=epilobium+ciliatum

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western sycamore (platanus racemosa)

D, near old hangar buildings. Has been added in freshwater marsh restoration project

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=platanus+racemosa

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toyon (heteromeles arbutifolia)

D slopes (offsite below LMU)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=heteromeles+arbutifolia

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petunia (petunia parviflora)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=petunia+parviflora

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needlegrass (stipa cernua)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=stipa+cernua