By Karen Kalumuck This beautiful plant is the Great Horsetail Fern, Equisitum telmateia. It is native to California, and can be found in wetlands and in or near wet soil. We see it at FMR almost year-round, on the banks of the the San Vicente creek. The horsetail fern is…
Known by several common names, including Christmas Anemone, Mottled Anemone, and Painted Anemone displays red and green areas on its column and uses its nematocysts to capture and eat crabs, mussels, fish, and other tidepool animals. They are common inhabitants of low intertidal to subtidal zones, from Alaska through California,…
Unseen by many visitors, two species of the burrowing anemone Halcampa can be found in the FMR intertidal channels. Both H. crypta (12 tentacles) and H. decemtentaculata (10 tentacles) are small (1-2 cm in diameter). Student researcher Jacqueline Rajerison noted that both can be found burrowing in gravelly areas into…