Some aquatic plants in California

**Plantbrain** · 29th Mar 2009, 08:51

I have long been driving, hiking, swimming, biking around the rural areas I live. Today it's a nice warm spring day in Northern CA. I look for wood, for rock, for wildflowers, waterfalls, trees, anything of interest, and I also look for aquatic plants.

CA is not really known for aquatic plants, mostly aquatic "weeds", but there are many species here.

This one always throws aquarist for a curve.

And what I was originally after:

This plant looks like a cross between Rotala macrandra and Ammania gracilius.
Grows in deeper pools , about 2ft deep, flowing water always........has a very pretty red color.

Enjoy,

Regards,
Tom Barr

**Plantbrain** · 30th Mar 2009, 11:23

The Aquatics:

What Real manzanita driftwood is suppose to look like, not those silly floral arrangement pieces.........

Yes, I have several of these trees.

Now for the plants: this was at Table Mt near Oroville, at the peak flower display, I've seen some parts in better shape, but it's still awesome. there are also 6 large water falls, no less than about 30-100+ ft and really cool lava rock all over.

And you can see for 100 miles in most directions.

Rainbow of colors:

this makes nice wall paper:

Regards,
Tom Barr

**Shadow** · 30th Mar 2009, 13:12

wow look at the flower field, beautiful. You won't be able to see this in Singapore

**blue33** · 30th Mar 2009, 14:26

So nice to live in such a place, but then again it caught wild fire pretty easy also.

**essabee** · 30th Mar 2009, 14:39

Valley of flowers - wonderful wild places be they in California or elsewhere. They are places to visit but not to live in as most of the year its very hostile to life and you need to have evolved for the niche to survive there.

**Shadow** · 30th Mar 2009, 16:34

You will be surprise how nice California weather is, at least San Diego is not sure the other part of California though

. I've been there couples of time for company project, it never get too hot in summer nor too cold in winter.

**essabee** · 30th Mar 2009, 17:54

Its not the temperature only - sometimes it it is the other life support like water. The flowers grow and bloom and go to seed in the short spell of the annual growing season - sometimes these seasons may not come every year. These flowers are like the annual killi-fish - beautiful and seasonal.