« 2025-05 Northern+Central CA

May 7-8, 2025: Mendocino National Forest (Tehama & Glenn Counties, California)
Williams Butte
yellow mariposa lily
yellow mariposa lilies & oaks
foothill poppies
chick lupine
superb mariposa lily
mariposa lily
round-tooth ookow
ornate checkered beetle on four-spot clarkia
Hartweg's checker-bloom
yellow monkeyflower
clammy clover
desert parsley seeds
Waltham Creek clarkia
whiskerbrush
Watson's man-root fruit
cream-cups
chamise
purple navarretia
yerba santa
penstemon
view to the northeast
smooth mule's-ears
Ithuriel's spear
western redbud pods
cardinal catchfly (California Indian pink)
California figwort
California buckeye
coyote mint leaves
twining snake-lily
lesser hare-leaf
chaparral silk-tassel fruits
red ribbons
Parish's nightshade
phacelia
California snowdrop bush
peregrine thistle
oak flowers & new leaves
wavy-leaf soap plant, budding
western morning-glory
woolly paintbrush
chaparral honeysuckle, budding
yarrow-leaf woolly sunflowers
California spice-bush, budding
sickle-fruit jewel-flower
sickle-leaf onion, going to seed
woolly fish-hooks
slender clarkia
blue-head gilia
Franciscan (clustered) broomrape
California spice-bush flower
California wild grape, budding
woolly sunflower & red ribbons
lotus/deer-vetch
canyon nemophila
toyon, budding
penstemon
slender cotton-weed (Q-tips)
coast paintbrush
broad-leaf stonecrop
silver-crown luina
view over the Thomes Creek Valley
California bread-root
red larkspur
sulphur pea
big-seed biscuitroot
silver bush lupine
silver bush lupines
deltoid balsamroot
Sierra gooseberry, going to seed
Shelton's violet
small-flowered tonella
heart-leaf arnica, budding
Pacific dogwood
Indian plum (osoberry) flowers
Rattan's blue-eyed-mary
Siskiyou woodland star
western waterleaf
giant horsetail
Pacific sanicle, budding
California fawn lilies
creeping Oregon-grape
California fawn lilies
downy manzanita (?)
gray mule's-ears
California desert parsley
purple milkweed
goose-foot violet
big deer-vetch, budding
sky lupines
common manzanita (?)
gummy gooseberry flowers
Yolla Bolly bedstraw leaves
gummy gooseberry flowers
last year's penstemon pods
rayless arnica, budding
Henderson's shooting-stars
white-veined pyrola, budding
washout
serviceberry flowers
California fawn lilies
silver bush lupine
spring-gold desert parsley
sky lupines
bowl-tube iris
western redbud
American vetch
Tolmie's mariposa lily
silver bush lupines
new black oak leaves
silver bush lupines
view to the west-southwest
big-nose monkeyflower
mountain white-thorn
Red Mountain

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