GC25NA4 Cobweb Thistle (Traditional Cache) in California, United States created by Evil Cobweb

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Hidden : 3/26/2010

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Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

A small lock-and-lock box in Garrapata State Park.

Cobweb thistle is a tall, stout, leafy biennial growing from 2' to 5' tall. The leaves are alternate, narrow-lanceolate, wavy-margined, pinnately-lobed and spinose, and up to 12" long.

They are densely gray or whitish tomentose, especially beneath, and the upper leaves are reduced in size, sessile, and ± clasping or short-decurrent.

The flowering heads are discoid, solitary on long leafy stems that are somewhat thicker than those of California thistle. The involucres are large, globose, to 2" in diameter, and densely cobwebby. The phyllaries are acicular, spreading to ascending, and interconnected by a webbing of fine, whitish tomentum.

There are disk flowers only, purplish-red with corollas to 1-1/4". The fruit is a brownish achene about 1/4" long. Cobweb thistle inhabits sandy to grassy or brushy locations in coastal strand, coastal sage scrub and chaparral, mostly at fairly low elevations, from cismontane southern California to central California, and blooms from April to July.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)