#californiawildflowers
#CastillejaExserta / #PurpleOwlsClover in the #ValleyFire2020 burn area. I didn’t see any of these in this specific area last year. Now there are several and I’m not sure why.
#owlsclover #castilleja #paintbrushflower #orobanchaceae #californianativeplants #californiawildflowers #subbloom2022 #subbloom (at Horsethief Canyon)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CcZZ9jNt1oZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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#CastillejaExserta / #PurpleOwlsClover in the #ValleyFire2020 burn area. I didn’t see any of these in this specific area last year. Now there are several and I’m not sure why.
#owlsclover #castilleja #paintbrushflower #orobanchaceae #californianativeplants #californiawildflowers #subbloom2022 #subbloom (at Horsethief Canyon Trail)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CcZYZGRNYFb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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I had never found #SalviaLeucophylla in the wild before and the first time I ever did there were these hillsides just covered with it!
#californianativeplants #californiawildflowers #purplesage #subbloom2022 #subbloom #sage (at Santa Barbara, California)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CcX6zNqOwAS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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More pictures from #WrightsFieldAlpine like a month ago: #FritillariaBiflora / #ChocolateLily, featuring a very green colored bloom in photos 1 & 2! Photos 4 & 5 are #AlliumHaematochiton (maybe A. marvinii but those may be the same species). 6 is that weird #SaniculaBipinnatifida / #PurpleSanicle again. 7 & 8 are a species of #Amsinkia / fiddleneck which I am not so good at telling apart.
#californianativeplants #californiawildflowers #wrightsfield #alpineca #savewrightsfield #greenflowers #sanicle (at Wright’s Field)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CcWuDzntVe4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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#DiplacusPuniceus just putting on a show up on the hill behind my classroom. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#californianativeplants #mimuluspuniceus #monkeyflowers #sandiegomonkeyflower #redbushmonkeyflower(lol) #nowblooming #californiawildflowers (at Cuyamaca College)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CbL6GWCtzxr/?utm_medium=tumblr
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#PrimulaClevelandii. I don’t know why these ones were clustered like this but I’m not complaining. These were just about the last ones still blooming today.
#nowblooming #sandiegowildflowers #californianativeplants #californiawildflowers #AlpineCA #shootingstarflower #primulaceae #primula #SaveWrightsField (at Wright’s Field in Alpine)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CbJrpJ0u4ZB/?utm_medium=tumblr
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#FritillariaBiflora / #ChocolateLily. I’m in love.
But there’s bad news. These grow in Wright’s Field, in which the County of San Diego inexplicably wants to build a sports complex/skate park. It’s absolutely baffling and would be an ecological disaster for this irreplaceable and rapidly disappearing grassland habitat. There are other beautiful uncommon and rare species of plants there and it’s important to birds and wildlife as well. There are vernal pools (a habitat that has almost been completely destroyed in California) nearby too. There’s no demand for such a park in Alpine and no infrastructure to support it!
#SaveWrightsField #WrightsField #SanDiegoCountyParks #AlpineCA
#californianativeplants #sandiegowildflowers #californiawildflowers #fritillaria #fritillaries #lilies #liliaceae (at Alpine, California)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CagdayZrETb/?utm_medium=tumblr
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#PaeoniaCalifornica / #CaliforniaPeony. One of the weirdest-looking plants we have out here. They look prehistoric somehow. Like they’re not quite what they’re meant to be yet. It’s not just that they don’t look like the cultivated or European ones and it’s not that they look wild, it’s like… the flower never matures beyond a bud and then the seed pod looks underformed too. They also bloom so early in the year that they always surprise me. They’re just wonderful.
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#paeonia #peonies #wildpeony #californiawildflowers #californianativeplants #chaparralplants #chaparral #sandiegobackcountry #sandiegowildflowers #botany (at San Diego County, California)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CaYuk2jrNyF/?utm_medium=tumblr
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