« 2025-05 Northern+Central CA

April 29, 2025: Pacheco State Park & Highway 25 (Santa Clara, Merced, & San Benito Counties, California)
flower beetle on buttercups
bearded clover
slender cotton-weed (Q-tips)
true baby-stars
notch-leaf clover
geranium-leaf checker-mallow
blow-wives flowers
royal larkspur
California golden violet
chaparral clarkia
California poppies
oak savannah
shining pepper-weed, going to seed
popcorn-flower (which?)
horehound
chick lupine
Venus thistle
blue elderberry flowers
imbricate phacelia
purple clarkia
rose clover
purple clarkia
fiddleneck
chaparral clarkia
Salt Creek
California buttercup
purple Chinese houses
Ithuriel's spear
white plectritis
California hop-tree
purple owl's-clover
desert parsley (which?)
gold-fields
beetles on peregrine thistle
foothill larkspur
blue oak
oak mistletoe
blow-wives seeds
mountains to the south
tomcat clover
miniature lupine
summer lupine
San Luis Reservoir
yarrow
oak trees & gold-fields
gold-fields
tall flat-sedge
checker-mallow
pink chick lupine
Coast Range triplet-lily
fiesta-flower
California figwort
California cudweed
miner's-lettuce
deerweed (California broom)
yellow pincushion
silver bush lupine
California poppies
silver-puffs seeds & yellow pincushion
elegant clarkia
yellow tidy-tips
ball gilia
chia sage
blue-witch nightshade
white chick lupine
Buck Ridge
San Benito River Valley
purple owl's-clover
narrow-leaf goldenbush
western blue-eyed-grass
long-leaf paintbrush
golden yarrow
purple Chinese houses
black sage
woolly paintbrush
yellow woolly paintbrush
two colors of woolly paintbrush
woolly yerba santa
California buckwheat
rolling hills

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