« 2023-04 Sacramento Valley

April 20, 2023: Vina Plains Preserve & Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve (Northern California)

Vina Plains Preserve

Fremont's tidy-tips
royal larkspur
tomcat clover
rosy Douglas' meadow-foam
tri-color monkeyflower
least mouse-tail
round-tooth ookow
wildflowers
white triplet-lily
cows & wildflowers
royal larkspur
blue dicks
butter-and-eggs
Great Valley coyote-thistle leaves
rosy Douglas' meadow-foam, going to seed
cow-bag clover
Douglas' microseris
blow-wives, flowering
Ithuriel's spear
gold-fields & popcorn flower
stalked popcorn flower
Sacramento mesa-mint & gold-fields
narrow-leaf onion
wildflowers & Lassen Peak
wildflowers & a ranch
shield-bracted monkeyflower
California poppy
toad tadpoles
scarlet pimpernel
sky lupine
rosy Douglas' meadow-foam
Ithuriel's spear & western buttercups
Fremont's tidy-tips
rosy Douglas' meadow-foam
common glue-seed

Big Chico Creek Ecological Preserve

yellow star-tulip
California maiden-hair fern
California Indian-pink
checker lily, going to seed
spreading larkspur
hillside blue-eyed-Mary
rocks & wildflowers
plectritis (which?)
wavy-leaf paintbrush
Kellogg's monkeyflower
blue dicks & Kellog's monkeyflower
rock lettuce (canyon live-forever), budding
California saxifrage
checker lily
Chico Canyon
Hartweg's umbrella-wort, budding
narrow-leaf miner's lettuce
Pacific sanicle
hound's-tongue fruits
bowl-tube iris
tall but non-shrubby lupine
Ithuriel's spear
Humboldt lily leaves
bowl-tube iris & buttercups
bowl-tube iris
miniature lupine
baby-stars
miner's-lettuce
chorus frog tadpoles
Bolander's water-starwort
big-nose monkeyflower
valley popcorn-flower
Sierra fawn lily
mountain sweet-cicely
red bells (scarlet fritillary)
California bay flowers
California stoneseed/puccoon
canyon nemophila
oak violet
spear-leaf agoseris, budding
western buttercups
elegant clarkia leaves
spring-gold desert parsley & plectritis
buck-brush
foothill poppies & popcorn flower
phacelia (which?)
Kellogg's monkeyflower
Chico Canyon
sky lupines
broad-leaf stonecrop
Pacific hound's-tongue
yellow star-tulips
western redbud
red bells (scarlet fritillary)
Sierra fawn lily
sanicle (which?)
California Indian-pink
Watson's manroot
sanicle (which?)
nested polypody fern

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