Mission Trails - Trail Guide

Raccoons are nocturnal animals, so one might only see them on a twilight walk at Mission Trails. They are curious...

Hummingbirds are extraordinary birds and have long captured the imagination of all, young and old. How can something so small...

So why is one of the few botanical nuts of North America much more frequently called an “acorn” instead of...

While visiting with a friend in Point Loma, I spotted a very well camouflaged little beast on a dried-up branch....

Horehound (Marrubium vulgare) is a flowering plant in the mint family (Lamiaceae), native to Europe, Northern Africa, and Central Asia....

It’s a tiny plant packed with biological intrigue: it’s a geophyte, heterostylous, hysteranthus, bears a cyme, and is named after...