Some Common Plants of Upper Newport Bay
Mule Fat
(Baccharis salicifolia)
Plant: It is a large, straggly, perennial, riparian shrub with many loosely branched stems. The Mulefat got its name because mules would get fat by eating the leaves or perhaps because they became bloated from eating them.
Plant: Big Canyon - 6-Jun-02
Date: 10/27/2003
