Many golden fuzzy spirals of new fern fronds reaching up in varied stages of unfurling. They are among older green fronds with spores, and tall stems of manroot blooms above their green leaves.
#New Western Sword Fern (Polystichum munitum) fronds unfurling at #PtReyes for #BlueSkyArtShow. 💚
Plant info. here...
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#Ferns #NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos 📷🌱
Bloom alert: Pine Hill flannelbush (Fremontodendron decumbens), California Area, Bed 7A. This endangered species is in full bloom showing off bronzy-orange flowers. Check it out in the Serpentine plant community. #CaliforniaNativePlants #PlantConservation
Close-up of white violet flower with some purple and yellow near the center. There is also a tight purple bud next to the flower and heart-shaped green leaves below both of them.
Western Heart's Ease (Viola ocellata) yesterday in Glen Ellen, California. 💚
Plant info. here...
calscape.org/Viola-ocella...
#Wildflowers #NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #Bloomscrolling 📷🌱
Mt. Diablo Globe Lilies are compact, drooping yellow blossoms that look like tiny fairy lanterns
Oneleaf onion blossoms are light purple six-petaled stars
The blossoms of the California Pitcher Sage are white and bell-shaped and have green sepals with sharply pointed edges
The dark purple and white blossoms of Innocence (known earlier as Chinese Houses) are plentiful along the flowers stalk
Mitchell Canyon in Mt. Diablo State Park in northern California displayed an abundance of wildflowers in bloom during this week's nature walk. #nature #nativeplants #wildflowers #spring #naturephotography #bloomscrolling #blossoms #photography #mtdiablostatepark #californianativeplants
Clusters of purplish flowers on thin stems above bunches of frilly leaves in a hellstrip. The lid for a water meter is visible in the background.
Clusters of flowers with purple petals, pistils, and stamens. The lid for a water meter is in the background.
Happy to see more and more blooms on some calscape.org/Gilia-achill... since the beginning of April. Started in January from seed from seedhunt.com.
#californianativeplants
Close-up of large female black, orange and white butterfly ovipositing on stem of Pipevine. There is a cluster of tiny orange eggs already on the vine as she continues to add more.
Macro of tiny orange butterfly eggs on hairy Pipevine stem.
Macro of tiny brownish spikey butterfly caterpillars gathered on underside of leaf that is partially eaten.
California Pipevine Swallowtail #butterflies yesterday in local butterfly garden. It's great to see all stages of their life in one outing! California Pipevine is their only host plant.💚
Plant info. here...
calscape.org/Aristolochia...
#CaliforniaNativePlants #InsectThursday #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷🌱
Close up of two tall hummingbird sage flower spires. Flowers are red-pink, foliage fuzzy green. In the background are california poppies, summer grape, non-native iris, oxalis, false barley. A wood fence in the far background is nearly covered with virginia creeper.
Hummingbird sage having a good spring with flower spires 3 feet tall. 🌱 #californianativeplants
Close up of pink and white Morning Glory flowers and buds on green-leaved vining plant, among other green foliage.
Pacific False Bindweed (Calystegia purpurata) buds and blooms last week at #PtReyes. I've seen Sonoma Chipmunks eating their flower buds in years past.💚
Plant info. here...
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#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #iNat #NaturePhotos #Bloomscrolling #Wildflowers 📷🌱
A huge bunch of flowering phacelia stalks in a grey bucket. A few bees visible. Background is wisteria, sun-shriveled oxalis, a medium-sized invasive privet trunk, and the top of a basement door. In the foreground is part of the 1960s geology professor's rock collection.
A bunch of phacelia fell over in the rain. I cut the fallen stalks and put them in a bucket of water. Four days on and they are still feeding pollinators. Stalks without flowers went into compost. 🌱 #californianativeplants
Macro of two small red narrow bell-shaped lily flowers dangling from a tall stem.
#Stunday Scarlet Fritillary blooms last week in Mayacamas Mtns.💚
Plant info. here...
calscape.org/Fritillaria-...
#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #iNat #Bloomscrolling #Wildflowers 📷🌱
Very large black and yellow Bumblebee on a white native sage flower
Crotch Bumblebee on Black sage. As big a a large Valley Carpenter bee.🐝
#CaliforniaNativePlants #NativePlants #NaturePhotos #Bees #iNat
Black and yellow bumblebee feeding on light purple sage flower.
Native Black-tailed Bumble Bee feeding on Sonoma Sage last week in Mayacamas Mtns.💚
Plant info. here...
calscape.org/Salvia-sonom...
#Bees #NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #iNat #Inverts 📷🐝🌱
Yellow-fringed 4-petalled poppy flowers with orange centers
I usually let California poppies spread as they please, and sometimes I get some cool variations like this one! #californianativeplants 🌱
Tiered balls of pink flowers on a long upright stem with a background of salvia and manzanita leaves
The #californianativeplants Salvia leucophylla is a bit of a sprawler, here climbing in some limbs of a manzanita 🌱
A tall lance-leaved plant in bright sunlight. Tiny red flower buds adorn branch tips. The background is a magnolia tree, a disintegrating 30-year-old wooden fence, tons of weeds, English Ivy, wisteria, and a bunch of interesting rocks collected in the 1960s by the former resident, a geology professor. The figwort's official name is Scrophularia californica.
The bee plant aka figwort is over 6 feet/2 meters tall and about to bloom. Planted out as a small plant in late September in 9B. Seems happy in a morning sun/afternoon shade situation. 🌱 #californianativeplants
Visited #PtReyes this week to seek out these beauties, and found a couple stands that were peaking! These #wildflowers are Trillium chloropetalum var. chloropetalum (pale yellowish-green petals).💚
#NativePlants #NationalParks #CaliforniaNativePlants #Bloomscrolling #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷🌱
Close-up of two red to orange tube-shaped flowers dangling over broad deep-green leaf. There are many more leaves from the same shrub around them.
Pair of Coast Twinberry blooms yesterday at #PtReyes, for #Twosday. 💚
Plant info. here...
calscape.org/Lonicera-inv...
#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #iNat #Bloomscrolling #NationalParks 📷🌱
Macro of small pink flower with golden anthers, above green whorled leaves in blurred redwood duff.
Western Starflower (Lysimachia latifolia) blooming earlier this month in Golden Gate National Recreation Area, for #MacroMonday. 💚
Plant info. here...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysimac...
#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #iNat #Wildflowers #Bloomscrolling 📷🌱
Close-up of tall green stem with three green leaves and a white three-petaled flower at top of stem. It is growing from redwood duff.
Stand of three white and one pinkish-flowered trilliums.
Macro of bright yellow violet bloom with blurred green leaf in background.
Pacific Trilliums and Redwood Violet under Coast Redwoods at Sonoma Coast State Park last week.💚
Violet info. here...
calscape.org/Viola-semper...
#Wildflowers #NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #iNat #Bloomscrolling 📷🌱
A fuzzy golden bee clings to a phacelia flower stalk, his face partially obscured by flower petals. His eyes are visible. Background is a mass of ferny green phacelia foliage.
Male Valley Carpenter bee with his face in a phacelia flower. 🌱🐝 #nativeplants #californianativeplants
A white flower with six petals and a large yellow center blooms amongst dark green foliage
A small coral bells plant grows happily in a shady spot between oak branches and rocks. It has several tall flower spikes with tiny pink blooms.
A volunteer coral bells unexpectedly growing out of a small hole in a wooden walkway
Some fun surprises from the backyard. New flowers have opened on the Carpenteria californica, a small Heuchera Canyon Duet continues to bloom like a champ, and a volunteer Heuchera (maxima?) colonizing a tiny hole in the walkway.
#californianativeplants
Close-up of black with yellow bumblebee facing camera while exiting a golden poppy flower. There is a buttercup flower just beyond them and they are in a green grassy area.
Female Pyrobombus gathering pollen in California Poppy this week near Sonoma Coast for #InsectThursday. 💚
#NativeBees #NativePlants #Pollinators #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷🌱
Huckleberry shrub against a white wood fence
Close up of the huckleberry flowers
Our EeEelac - in Puget Sound Salish “ee-EEL-ahk”
A.k.a Evergreen Huckleberry, Winter Huckleberry, California Huckleberry, Vaccinium Ovatum.
#GardenSky #CaliforniaNativePlants
Close-up of a single pink flower atop a long green stem. Beyond it are small gold flowers on coastal hills, in front of a long view of ocean shore.
Sea Thrift (Armeria marítima) blooming along Sonoma Coast yesterday for #WaterWednesday. 💚
Plant info. here...
calscape.org/Armeria-mari...
#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #Ocean #NaturePhotos #iNat #Bloomscrolling #Wildflowers 📷🌱
Close-up of large crepey white petaled flowers with dark green maple-like leaves in background.
#Twosday Thimbleberries (Rubus parviflorus) blooming today in riparian zone, under redwoods near Sonoma Coast.💚
Plant info. here...
calscape.org/Rubus-parvif...
#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos 📷🌱
Douglas Meadow foam flower closeup
Narrow leaved onion flowers
Sneezeweed flower
California wild rose flower
Time for some not so great macros of California native flowers as timeliness cleansers.
Douglas meadow foam, narrow leaved onion, sneezeweed, CA wildrose
#CaliforniaNativePlants #NativePlants #NaturePhotos #Bloomscrolling #flowers
Macro of reddish-orange to yellow nodding flower with many long filaments with yellow anthers.
One of a few Western Columbine (Aquilegia formosa) flowers that were beginning to bloom on Bolinas Ridge Saturday.💚
Plant info. here...
calscape.org/Aquilegia-fo...
#MacroMonday #NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #Bloomscrolling #iNat 📷🌱
A large dark female Valley Carpenter bee with iridescent wings enjoys the nectar in light purple phacelia flowers. Lacy green phacelia foliage fills the rest of the image. A green-stained wood fence is in the far background.
Big girl showed up for the new mini phacelia field. 🌱 🐝 #bees #nativeplants #californianativeplants
Just came from Carrizo Plain where everything is swaths of orange and pink and green and purple -- goddamn California, you sure do know to get decked out!
And came home to my Phacelia viscida flowering and my douglas irises too!
vita florentem!
#californianativeplants
Pair of very light lavender iris blooms with dark purple veins and a little yellow.
One more iris bloom that is a bit darker lavender with darker veins and very little yellow.
Here are a couple more we saw yesterday of that same variety, to show off some of their color range.💚
#Irises #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos 📷
