« 2025-05 Northern+Central CA

May 3, 2025: Southern Big Sur (San Luis Obispo & Monterey Counties, California)
sky lupines
western blue-eyed-grass
coastal gumweed, budding
Palmer's live-forever, budding
cotton-batting plant
pinkish California cudweed
California sand-aster
very short California hedge-nettle
Bentham's broom
coastal coyote-thistle
prostrate clarkia
fasciated/crested coastal gumweed
seaside woolly sunflower
compact cobwebby thistle
sun cups (golden-eggs)
wildflowers
seaside fleabane/daisies
seaside daisies & sea thrift
windy headlands
lotus/deer-vetch
black sage
sticky monkeyflower
lupine
coast morning-glories
two-color cudweed (Bioletti's rabbit-tobacco)
Big Sur coast
California poppies
thimbleberry flowers
giant vetch
Pacific sanicle
woodland madia
western blue-eyed-grass
chaparral yucca flowers
blue dicks
nightshade
coast paintbrush
slopes above Salmon Creek
sky lupines
California gilia
Palmer's spineflower, budding
padre's shooting-star, going to seed
Chinese houses
coastal biscuitroot on serpentine
coast paintbrush
lupine
California poppy on serpentine
chaparral yucca, budding
chia sage
live-forever, budding
California polypody fern
feathery false Solomon's-seal
midge galls on pink honeysuckle
Douglas' iris
Pacific pea-vine
Monterey monkeyflower
silver rock-lettuce leaves
canyon sunflower
red-berry buckthorn berries
stinging phacelia
milkmaids (California toothwort)
western starflowers
Big Sur coast
toyon berries
Bentham's broom
canyon sunflowers
deerweed (California broom)
golden yarrow
California gilia on serpentine
pink honeysuckle
California buttercup
white globe lily (fairy-lanterns)
coast drymocallis (sticky cinquefoil)
California spikenard leaves
huge rocks
coastal boykinia leaves
Salmon Creek Falls
Salmon Creek Falls
banana slug
Big Sur sunset
coastal bush lupine

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