Sespe Wilderness — November 2025

November 26, 2025 · Sespe Wilderness, Ventura County, CA

Day 1 · November 26

Approx. distance: about 7.5 miles.

Observed: Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies, rod wirelettuce, rabbit-tobaccos, White Sweetclover, California matchweed.

Day 2 · November 27

Approx. distance: about 10 miles.

Observed: chaparral whitethorn, chamise, Thick-leaved Yerba Santa, Big Berry Manzanita, coast live oak, California Buckwheat, threadleaf groundsel, Coffee Fern, branching phacelia, California Aster, Bush Poppy, California dodder, White Sweetclover, Willows, Western Honey Bee, western ragweed, boletes, White Horehound, Thin-legged Wolf Spiders, Flatspine Bursage, scarlet bugler, Sagebrush Goldspeck Lichen, Dicots, California fuchsia, Sacred Datura, Red-tailed Hawk, Rock Wren.

Day 3 · November 28

Approx. distance: about 1 miles.

Observed: Wishbone Bush, Painted Lady, mule fat, bird's foot cliffbrake, Bigelow's Spikemoss, California Ground Squirrel, Prickly Pears, Say's Phoebe, Western Side-blotched Lizard, Birchleaf Mountain Mahogany, white sage, greenspot nightshade, lanceleaf liveforever, tall evening primrose, white alder, Western Honey Bee, California asterella, saw-toothed goldenbush, hollyleaf cherry, Frémont Cottonwood, Gray Buckeye, Bighorn Sheep, Red-tailed Hawk, Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies.

Day 4 · November 29

Approx. distance: about 16 miles.

Observed: Western Toad, Eleodes grandicollis, Anemones, buttercups, larkspurs and allies, Yellow-faced Bumble Bee, Agaricineae, Dicots.