« 2025-05 Northern+Central CA

May 11, 2025: Clear Creek, Castle Creek, & China Hill (Shasta & Siskiyou Counties, California)

Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve

chaparral honeysuckle
purple milkweed
Clear Creek
red ribbons
Mexicali onion, fading
smooth cat's-ear, gone to seed
superb mariposa lily
midge gall on round-tooth ookow stem
checkerspot butterfly
round-tooth ookow
four-spot clarkia
Redding checker-bloom
acmon blue butterfly (?) on monkeyflower
monkeyflower
narrow-leaf onions
clammy clover
sky lupines
Lemmon's beardtongue, budding
foothill clover, going to seed
gray-leaf skullcap
Kellogg's yampah leaves
tall flat-sedge
Hartweg's doll's-lily
white-tip clover
wildflowers
desert parsley (which?)
Oregon rosin-weed
diamond clarkia
foothill poppy
mountain jewel-flower, going to seed
woolly-fruit desert parsley, going to seed
wavy-leaf soap plant, budding
Bridges' brodiaea
slender tarweed
superb mariposa lily
yerba santa
imbricate phacelia
California buckeye
smooth mule's-ears, going to seed
Ithuriel's spear
narrow-leaf mule's-ears, fading
large-flowered woolly sunflowers
Hartweg's umbrella-wort, going to seed
Parish's nightshade
western redbud pods
slender clarkia
western morning-glories
spreading dogbane
white brodiaea
orangeish chick lupine
slender woolly marbles
gray pine cone
pipe-vine swallowtail caterpillars on a pipe-vine fruit
woolly-pod milkweed leaves
Great Valley gumweed
California rose
Clear Creek
broad-leaf stonecrop, going to seed
rush (which?)
Castle Crags

Castle Creek Road

varied-leaf collomia
three-tooth horkelia
Lemmon's ceanothus
warrior's plume lousewort, going to seed
sickle-keel lupine
western azalea
new live-oak or chinquapin leaves
Indian-rhubarb (umbrella plant)
umbrella plant jungle in Sulphur Creek
Sierra morning-glory leaves
pine violet
woodland phlox, half-eaten
slender irises
Plumas lupine
round-tooth ookow
Bolander's bedstraw
Castle Creek
western morning-glory
sulphur pea
silver bush lupine
silver bush lupine
California poppy
lupine
western buttercups
California greenbriar leaves

China Hill (Yreka)

wildflowers
slender clarkia
tall woolly buckwheat, budding
halimium buckwheat
Yreka phlox
wildflowers & Willow Creek Mountain
blue-head gilia
Douglas' stitchwort
Oregon sunshine & California poppies
Whipple's cryptantha
wildflowers
wildflowers
halimium buckwheat, budding
lupine
Sierra deer-vetch

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