Encelia actoni — Acton brittlebrush, or Acton encelia. In the Coxcomb Mountains of northeastern Joshua Tree National Park, southern California.
Fields of Coreopsis gigantea — Giant coreopsis. On Anacapa Island in California coastal sage and chaparral habitat, within Channel Islands National Park, Southern California. With the Anacapa Island Lighthous More
Cirsium neomexicanum — New Mexico thistle. At Cap Rock in Joshua Tree National Park, the Mojave Desert, California.
Mission blue butterfly - (Aricia icarioides missionensis. syn: Icaricia icarioides missionensis’'. A female Mission Blue butterfly rests on a yarrow plant (Achillea millefolium) located on the Southeast ridge More
Carrizo Plain National Monument is one of the best kept secrets in California. Only a few hours from Los Angeles, the Carrizo Plain offers visitors a rare chance to be alone with nature. Some visitors say you c More
Packera layneae (syn. Senecio layneae) Laynes butterweed, Laynes ragweed. Photograph taken in the Pine Hill Preserve, Sierra Nevada foothills, El Dorado County, California. The species is endemic to the Sierra More
Flora of Joshua Tree National Park: Hairy desert sunflower (Geraea canescens); Pinto Basin - 12525698795.
Flora of Joshua Tree National Park: Hairy desert sunflower (Geraea canescens); Pinto Basin - 12526180234.
Baccharis pilularis ssp. pilularis. Subspecies of plant.
Sacapellote (Acourtia microcephala)
Rayless Shasta Aster (Dieteria canescens var. shastensis). Variety of plant.
Ancistrocarphus keilii
Laxflower (Baileya pauciradiata). Species of plant.
Mount Tamalpais Thistle (Cirsium hydrophilum var. vaseyi). Variety of plant.
Alkali Aster (Symphyotrichum frondosum)
Bolander's madia (Kyhosia bolanderi)
Feltleaf Everlasting (Pseudognaphalium microcephalum). Species of plant.
Ericameria nauseosa bernardina
many-stem woolly sunflower (Eriophyllum multicaule)
Grindelia stricta var. stricta. Variety of plant.
Bloomer's Goldenbush (Ericameria bloomeri). Species of plant.
small-ray goldfields (Lasthenia microglossa)
California brittlebush (Encelia californica)
Hazardia berberidis
Serpentine Bristleweed (Hazardia stenolepis)
Munz's tidytips (Layia munzii)
Layia pentachaeta albida
dunedelion (Malacothrix incana)
valley mayweed (Matricaria occidentalis)
Crum's Monolopia (Monolopia stricta)
Pacific Aster (Symphyotrichum chilense)
Fremont's syntrichopappus (Syntrichopappus fremontii)
Nevada grounddaisy (Townsendia scapigera)
A view west from Tilden Regional Park, over Berkeley, Emeryville, the eastern span of the Bay Bridge, Yerba Buena Island. San Francisco's Sutro Tower is on the horizon. Thistle blossoms in the foreground.
Known for its beautiful wildflowers, this monument within the BLM’s National Conservation Lands offers so much more. Soda Lake - its centerpiece - is a glistening bed of white salt set within a vast open grassl More