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…
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…
Chitons are marine molluscs that have an outer “shell” made of 8 overlapping plates. This structure allows their bodies to flex as they travel, and some chitons can curl up into a ball. Chitons can be found world-wide, on hard surfaces such and are frequently found in rocky intertidal areas….