Plants and Animals Commonly Found at San Mateo Outdoor Education
The following organisms, listed by their common names, are commonly found in areas visited during a week at the Outdoor Education program.
| Plants | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sticky Monkeyflower Common Yarrow Horsetail Poison Hemlock Redwood Sorrel Indian Paintbrush Lupine Milk Thistle |
Hound's Tongue Bedstraw Coralroot Scarlet Pimpernel Yerba Buena Soap Plant Miner's Lettuce California Poppy |
Honeysuckle Wild Cucumber Blackberry Maidenhair Fern Coastal Wood Fern Goldenback Fern California Poppy Western Sword Fern | ||
| Aquatic Plants | ||||
| Cat Tails Common Tule |
Rush | Pickleweed | ||
| Trees | ||||
| Coastal Redwood Douglas Fir California Buckeye |
Willows California Bay Laurel Big-Leafed Maple |
Live Oak Tan Oak Madrone | ||
| Shrubs | ||||
| California Hazelnut Toyon/Christmasberry |
Poison Oak Coffeeberry |
Coyote Bush Ceanothus | ||
| Amphibians | ||||
| California Newt Western Bullfrog California Slender Salamander |
Pacific Giant Salamander Western Toad Ensatina Salamander |
Rough-skinned Newt Pacific Treefrog | ||
| Reptiles | ||||
| Common Garter Snake California Kingsnake |
Western Garter Snake Western Fence Lizard |
Gopher Snake Western Pond Turtle | ||
| Birds | ||||
| Turkey Vulture Great-Horned Owl American Kestrel Marsh Wren Red-tailed Hawk Pygmy OwlRed-Shouldered Hawk |
Sowett Owl Wrentit Scrub Jay California Quail European Starling Red-Winged Blackbird Steller's Jay |
Acorn Woodpecker American Robin Winter Wren Black-Shouldered Kite Dark-Eyed Junco Common Barn Owl White-crowned Sparrow | ||
| Water Birds | ||||
| Mallard Duck Ring-Necked Duck Double-Crested Cormorant American Coot Great Blue Heron |
Green-Winged Teal Snowy Egret Greater Yellowlegs Caspian Tern Willet |
Herring Gull Great Egret Spotted Sandpiper Gadwall Western Grebe | ||
| Mammals | ||||
| Deer Mouse Coyote Dusky-Footed Wood Rat Broad-Footed Mole Evening Bat |
Virginia Opossum Striped Skunk Brush Rabbit Raccoon California Ground Squirrel |
Bobcat Eastern Gray Squirrel Mule Deer Western Gray Squirrel Harbor Seal | ||
Endangered Species of the San Francisco Bay Area
| Animals | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Garter Snake Santa Cruz Long-Toed Salamander Alameda Whipsnake Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse California Clapper Rail Black Rail California Freshwater Shrimp Lange's Metalmark Butterfly Mission Blue Butterfly San Bruno Elfin Butterfly |
Bay Checkerspot Butterfly Smith's Blue Butterfly San Joaquin Kit Fox Stellar Sea Lion Southern Sea Otter California Brown Pelican California Least Tern Marbled Murrelet American Peregrine Falcon Bald Eagle |
Bank Swallow Whales -Grey -Humpback -Blue -Northern Right -Fin or Finback -Sei -Sperm | ||
Shrinking Habitat and Plants
| Redwood Forest | Coastal Scrub | Serpentine Grassland | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dudley's Lousewort Chaparral Alameda Manzanita Rock Sanicle Santa Cruz Cypress Inland Marine Sandhills California S. Cruz Wallflower |
San Francisco Lessingia San Bruno Mountain Manzanita Native Grassland Santa Cruz Tarplant Large Flowered Fiddleneck Presidio Manzanita |
San Mateo Thornmint Fountain Thistle Presidio Clarkia Alkali Sink Ferris' Bird's-beak |