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Dalea formosa
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Scary agave bug!
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Petalonyx thurberi
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Wildflowers are pretty rare in
late December, even in
southwestern Texas, so I felt
very lucky to ...
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Boo! For Halloween, I thought
I'd go back to archives and find
something scary from my ...
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Thurber's sandpaper plant
(Petalonyx thurberi), sprung
back to life in Palm Springs,
September 2009, ...
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Hirculus serpylifolius ssp. chrysanthus
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Mimulus montioides
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Mimulus primuloides
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Growing at an elevation of about
13,000 feet on the shoulder of
Pikes Peak, Colorado, I
discovered ...
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An excellent view of corolla
variability in mountain
monkeyflower (Mimulus
montioides). I found ...
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On the margin of South Fork
Lake, near the Cottonwood Lakes
in the eastern Sierra Nevada, ...
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Lupinus breweri var. bryoides
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Abronia maritima
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Monardella macrantha
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Matted Brewer's lupine, seen
along the trail to the summit of
Mount Pinos, southern
California, late ...
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In a few spare minutes between
sessions and dinner at a
conference on June 2 in Oxnard,
California, ...
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Some people keep an actual wish
list of native flora; I tend to
have a very short list ...
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Calochortus weedii
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Navarretia hamata
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Lupinus peirsonii
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On the same hill with the
Navarretia hamata were dozens of
Calochortus weedii in full
bloom. This ...
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Two weeks ago, I had never, in
all my years hiking, seen a
Navarretia of any sort. This
was the ...
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Peirson's lupine, a San Gabriel
Mountains endemic, alongside the
Angeles Crest Highway near
Dawson ...
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Enceliopsis covillei
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Loeseliastrum matthewsii
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Astragalus layneae
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I can't think of another flower
quite like Panamint daisy, shown
here in Wildrose Canyon,
Panamint ...
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There was an abundance of desert
calico at the intersection of
Highway 178 and Trona Road in
April ...
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Widow's milkvetch, seen in upper
Wildrose Canyon, Panamint
Valley, California, April 2009.
This was ...
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Canbya candida
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Linanthus killipii
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Castilleja plagiotoma
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Pygmy poppy, a tiny member of
the poppy family endemic to
southern California, is seen
here in the ...
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Uploaded on May 29, 2009
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The rare Baldwin Lake linanthus
grows in pebble plains habitat
alongside the Pacific Crest
Trail ...
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Uploaded on May 29, 2009
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Mojave Indian paintbrush
(Castilleja plagiotoma), a rare
wildflower native to southern
California, ...
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