Learn about the lives of the plants and animals that live among us in the Putah Cache Creek neighborhood.
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June 2021: California Kingsnake (Lampropeltis californiae)
May 2021: California Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor hirsuta)
April 2021: Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)
March 2021: Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)
February 2021: Great Valley Gumweed (Grindelia camporum)
November 2020: Colors of the Creek
October 2020: Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)
September 2020: Creekside Fire Ecology
August 2020: Gopher Snake (Pituophis catenifer catenifer)
March 2020: Manroot (Marah fabaceous) Our own native cucumber!
February 2020: The Endochory Story
January 2020: The "Preying" Mantis
December 2019: Poison Oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum)
November 2019: Oak Galls
October 2019: Going Ballistic- Ballistochory
September 2019: The Wind and the Wings- Anemochory
August 2019: Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
July 2019: Sacred Datura (Datura wrightii)
June 2019: Narrow Leaf Milkweed (Asclepias fascicularis)
May 2019: Sticky Monkey-Flower (Mimulus aurantiacus)
April 2019: California Pipevine (Aristolochia californica)
March 2019: Gooddings Willow (Salix gooddingii)
February 2019: White Alder (Alnus rhombifolia)
January 2019: Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia)
December 2018: American Dogwood (Cornus sericea)
November 2018: Bigleaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum)
October 2018: Wild Licorice (Glycyrrhiza lepidota)
September 2018: Mugwort (Artemisia douglassiana)
August 2018: Western Goldenrod (Euthamia occidentalis)
July 2018: Pacific Aster (Symphyotrichum chilense)
June 2018: Baltic Rush (Juncus balticus)
April 2018: Red Willow (Salix laevigata)
March 2018: California Buckeye, Aesculus californica
February 2018: Santa Barbara Sedge (Carex barbarae)
January 2018: Foothill Pine (Pinus sabiniana)
December 2017: Coyote Brush (Baccharis pilularis)
November 2017: Oaks, or Quercus
September 2017: California Wild Rose (Rosa californica)
August 2017: California Wild Grape (Vitis californica)
July 2017: Blue Elderberry (Sambucus nigra spp. caerulea)
June 2017: Showy Milkweed (Asclepias speciosa)
May 2017: Fremont Cottonwood (Populus fremontii)
April 2017: Western Redbud (Cercis occidentalis)
