Natural History Wanderings

DesertUSA reports

On a hike at the Open Space Preserve at Lucas Valley Road (Marin County), there was a profusion of wildflowers. I know profusion is overused but there were vast fields of blooms a short walk from the road. Here’s my day list: false lupine, tidy tips, butter and eggs, buttercup, columbine, goldfields, Douglas iris, lomatium, chick lupine, bicolor lupine, silver bush lupine, woodland madia, purple sanicle, checkerbloom, cream cups, woodland star, yarrow, narrow-leaf mule’s ear, blue-eyed grass, white form of blue-eyed grass, owl’s clover, blue dicks, naked buckwheat, Ithuriel’s spear, seep monkeyflower, hedge nettle, blue flax, lianthus, California phacelia, fiddleneck, Coast larkspur and popcorn flower.

see photos at Desert Wildflower reports for Northern California by DesertUSA.