« 2025-05 Northern+Central CA

May 4, 2025: Santa Lucia Mountains (Los Padres National Forest, California)
sky lupines
pink butter-and-eggs
gold-fields
pale pink sky lupines
rusty popcorn-flower
mule-fat
Douglas' spineflower
yerba santa
fiddleneck
large leather-root leaves
hummingbird/crimson sage
black sage
white chick lupines
peak rock-rose
woolly-fruit desert parsley seeds
elegant clarkia
butterfly mariposa lily
pink spine-flower
spider lupine
purple clarkia
whiskerbrush
Parry's larkspur
hummingbird/crimson sage
woolly-pod milkweed, budding
butterfly mariposa lily
purple owl's-clover
Nacimiento River
Monterey monkeyflower
intermediate sun-cup
golden yarrow
California cotton-rose, gone to seed
purple Chinese houses
deer brush
fiesta-flower
yellow monkeyflower
whispering bells
varied-leaf collomia
splendid woodland gilia
hairy sun-cup
purple false-gilia
California gilia
small-flowered alumroot
short-spur plectritis
red larkspur
woodland madia
stinging lupine
Santa Lucia Mountains
woolly paintbrush
gold-back fern
prickly cryptantha (?)
bush poppy
Jim-brush
woolly blue-curls
spine-flower (which?)
Monterey monkeyflower & woolly paintbrush
silver bush lupine
wart-leaf ceanothus
scarlet bugler penstemon
Cone Peak
chia sage
coast drymocallis (sticky cinquefoil)
warrior's plume lousewort
goose-foot violet
Jepson's morning-glory leaves
Chalk Peak
blue-witch nightshade
miniature lupine
Hoover's manzanita berries
bajada lupine
foothill clover
small-head clover
Pacific pea-vine
pearly everlasting
Abrams' lupine & owl's-clover
Abrams' lupines
flax-flower linanthus
slender cotton-weed (Q-tips)
silver-puffs seeds
tomcat clover
Big Sur coast & coastal fog
annual agoseris
blue dicks
purple owl's-clover
narrow-leaf owl's-clover (valley tassels)
hillside woodland star
coastal fog & Cone Peak
coast paintbrush (?)
Monterey monkeyflower
lupines & Monterey monkeyflower
pale blue Douglas' iris
imbricate phacelia
orange bush monkeyflower
telegraph-weed
white globe lily (fairy-lanterns)
sky lupines

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