All photographs by Alan Starbuck
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Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia) overlooking Los Angeles
California Goldenrod (Solidago californica) and flamingo (plasticia fakium)
Purple nightshade (Solanum xantii)
Island Snapdragon (Galvezia speciosa) and California Barberry (Berberis pinnata)
Parry phaclia (Phacelia parryi)
Tree Canopy Walk at Capilano Suspension Bridge Park
Collarless poppy (Eschscholzia lemmonii)
Sugar Bush (Rhus ovata)
Nature Garden at Los Angeles County Natural History Musuem
California sunflower (Encelia californica)
Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia)
California bluebells (Phacelia minor)
Sara’s Orange Tip butterfly (Anthocharis sara) on a wild hyacinth (Dichelostemma capitatum)
Long Leaf Bush Lupine (Lupinus longifolius)
Moss reclaims a tree stump in the British Columbia rainforest
Capilano Suspension Bridge
Purple Needlegrass (Stipa pulchra)
Purple nightshade (Solanum xantii)
California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica
Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrichium)
California Four O’clock (Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
Wooly bear, a caterpillar of a tiger moth species
Fluke of a Gray Whale (Echrichtius robustus) off Newport Beach
An old log provides protection for Silver Carpet California aster while adding an natural element to the garden
Dragonfly
California Morning Glory (Calystegia macrostegia ssp. intermedia
Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanus)
A patch of laurel sumac, prickly pear cactus, California sunflowers and deerweed growing on a hillside
California Sunflower (Encelia californica)
Madonna Too Iris — a hybrid of the Douglas Iris (Iris douglasiana), a California native
Western Whiptail (Aspidoscelis tigris)
California Barberry (Berberis pinnata) – Flowers and New Leaves
Wild Hyacinth/Blue Dicks (Dichelostemma capitatum)
Canyon sunflower (Venegasia carpesioides)
Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia)
White Mariposa Lily (Catochortus venustus)
Moss on a twig
Ceanothus flowers, either big pod ceanothus (Ceanothus megacarpus) or greenbark ceanothus (C. spinosus)
Hornworm, caterpillar of White-lined Sphinx Moth (Hyles lineata)
California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica) making an surprise appearance
Early morning spider web
Boney Mountain overlooking Rancho Sierra Vista/Satwiwa park
Arroyo Lupine (Lupinus succulentus)
Sycamore (Platanus racemosa)
Hummingbird Sage (Salvia spathacea)
California Everlasting (Pseudognaphalium califoricum or P. beneolens)
Canyon view in Rancho Sierra Vista/Satwiwa park
Narrow-leafed Milkweed (Asclepias fascicularis) greeting the Spring
Deer weed (Acmispon glaber var. glaber
Salmon sculpture ‘swimming’ upstream
Dew drops on long leaf bush lupine (Lupinus longifolius)
Swarming ground-dwelling bees, perhaps of the miner bee family (Andrena species)
Deer weed (Acmispon glaber var. glaber
Elk (Cervus canadensis) resting in a meadow in Estes Park, Colorado
Wild Hyacinth (Dichelostemma capitatum)
Closed section of Mt. Hollywood Drive in Griffith Park
Gray Whale (Echrichtius robustus) off Newport Beach
Black sage (Salvia mellifera)
Moss in the rainforest
Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia)
Poison Oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum)
Creek in the rainforest
Matilija poppy (Romneya coulteri)
Chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum)
Western Hemlock twig on a moss cover branch
Seed pod – Wild Cucumber (Marah macrocarpa) )
California Sea Lions (Zalophus californianus) resting on a buoy
Sycamore (Platanus racemosa)
Western Fence Lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis)
White-lined Sphinx Moth (Hyles lineata)
California poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
Rancho Sierra Vista/Satwiwa park
Wild Cucumber (Marah macrocarpa)
Seaside Daisy (Erigeron glaucus)
Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) resting on a street parkway
