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Mimulus montioides

Mimulus primuloides

Lupinus breweri var. bryoides

An excellent view of corolla variability in mountain monkeyflower (Mimulus montioides). I found...

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Uploaded on Jul 12, 2009

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On the margin of South Fork Lake, near the Cottonwood Lakes in the eastern Sierra Nevada,...

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Uploaded on Jul 12, 2009

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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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Uploaded on Jun 28, 2009

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Abronia maritima

Monardella macrantha

Calochortus weedii

In a few spare minutes between sessions and dinner at a conference on June 2 in Oxnard, California,...

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Uploaded on Jun 24, 2009

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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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Uploaded on Jun 15, 2009

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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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Uploaded on Jun 15, 2009

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Navarretia hamata

Lupinus peirsonii

Enceliopsis covillei

Two weeks ago, I had never, in all my years hiking, seen a Navarretia of any sort. This was the...

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Uploaded on Jun 15, 2009

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Peirson's lupine, a San Gabriel Mountains endemic, alongside the Angeles Crest Highway near Dawson...

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Uploaded on Jun 8, 2009

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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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Uploaded on May 29, 2009

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Loeseliastrum matthewsii

Astragalus layneae

Canbya candida

There was an abundance of desert calico at the intersection of Highway 178 and Trona Road in April...

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Uploaded on May 29, 2009

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Widow's milkvetch, seen in upper Wildrose Canyon, Panamint Valley, California, April 2009. This was...

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Uploaded on May 29, 2009

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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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Linanthus killipii

Castilleja plagiotoma

Nama pusillum

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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Uploaded on May 22, 2009

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Small-leaved nama (Nama pusillum) growing in desert pavement along the road to Corn Springs...

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Uploaded on Mar 8, 2009

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For Steve: Chuckwalla^2

Chuckwalla Mountains

Desert Lily Sanctuary

Chuckwalla²: Just to show that they don't call them the Chuckwalla Mountains for nothing,...

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Uploaded on Mar 6, 2009

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A slope to the north of the Corn Springs oasis is strewn with desert poppies, sun cups, notch-leaf...

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Uploaded on Mar 6, 2009

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Actually, this was taken just outside of the Sanctuary proper (northeast of Desert Center on CA Hwy...

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Uploaded on Mar 6, 2009

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