The Western Sea Slater (Ligia occidentalis) is an isopod closely related to pillbugs, typically 15–25 mm long with a flattened, gray-to-brown body and long, sweeping antennae. They range along the Pacific coast from British Columbia to Baja California, and here in the Bay Area they occupy the splash zone just…
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…