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Diplacus longiflorus is sometimes called Mimulus aurantiacus, which is what they call almost all the monkey flowers. It's like everyone is Bob and Mary.
Diplacus longiflorus
Southern Monkey Flower
Red Monkey is red
Diplacus puniceus
Red Monkey Flower
Bert's Raspberry flavor of Diplacus puniceus
Diplacus puniceus Bert's Rasp...
Raspberry Monkey Flower
Diplacus puniceus 'Penelope'
Diplacus puniceus Penelope
Penny's Monkey Flower
In Stock: Santa Margarita, Online
Dudleya pulverulenta, chalk dudleya, chalk liveforever.
Dudleya pulverulenta
Chalk Liveforever
Encelia californica - California encelia, California brittlebush, bush sunflower
Encelia californica
Coast Sunflower
In Stock: Santa Margarita, Online
Epipactis gigantea, Stream Orchid. I think this was at Big Bear
Epipactis gigantea
Stream Orchid
Erigeron glaucus, Cape Sebastian works well as a small ground cover or in a pot or container.
Erigeron glaucus Cape Sebasti...
Seaside Daisy
Eriogonum cinereum. Coastal Buckwheat
Eriogonum cinereum
Ashyleaf buckwheat
California Buckwheat,the foliolosum subspecies of Eriogonum fasciculatum with a Hairstreak butterfly.
Eriogonum fasciculatum foliol...
California Buckwheat
A variable Checkerspot on an Eriophyllum confertiflorum
Eriophyllum confertiflorum
Golden Yarrow
Eriophyllum staechadifolium var. artemisiaefolium, Yellow Yarrow, here flowering in a coastal area of central California.
Eriophyllum staechadifolium a...
Yellow Yarrow
Forestiera neomexicana, Desert Olive, is growing here in a moist swale in overgrazed rangeland in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains of California.
Forestiera neomexicana
Desert Olive
In Stock: Santa Margarita, Online
Galvezia speciosa, Island Snapdragon, is very sensitive to frost, has pretty red flowers, and ranges from the California Channel Islands to Mexico.
Galvezia speciosa
Island Snapdragon
Heuchera maxima, Island Alum Root, grows only on the Channel Islands of California.
Heuchera maxima
Island Alum Root
Isomeris arborea Bladderpod
Isomeris arborea
Bladderpod
Climbing Penstemon, Heart leaved Keckiella, or Heartleaf Keckiella, Keckiella cordifolia is hanging over our driveway and is native from about Santa Margarita south to San Diego. This Native Penstemon was all over the north and east slopes of Los Angeles and parts of Southern California. A great addition to a native garden.
Keckiella cordifolia
Heart Leaved Penstemon
Here is a portion of the inflorescence of Lobelia cardinalis, Cardinal Flower, with the opened flowers below, and the unopened buds above.
Lobelia cardinalis
Cardinal Flower
Lobelia dunnii var. serrata, Dunn's Lobelia, is here being visited by a Harford Sulfur butterfly.
Lobelia dunnii serrata
Dunn's lobelia
In Stock: Santa Margarita, Online
This photo appears as three intersecting flowering stems of Lonicera hispidula, California Honeysuckle, in the mixed evergreen forest of the central coast ranges of California.
Lonicera hispidula
California Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata denudata, San Diego Honeysuckle makes a nice small groundcover.
Lonicera subspicata denudata
San Diego Honeysuckle
Here is a very floriferous example of Lotus scoparius, Deerweed, a most valuable plant of the California chaparrla plant community.
Lotus scoparius
Deerweed
Mahonia aquifolium Compacta Creeping Oregon Grape.
Mahonia aquifolium Compacta
Creeping Oregon Grape.
Western Bluebird on Mahonia nevinii, (syn. Berberis nevinii) Nevin's Barberry berries.
Mahonia nevinii
Nevin's Barberry
In Stock: Santa Margarita, Online
Malacothamnus densiflorus, Many Flowered Bushmallow flower.
Malacothamnus densiflorus
Many Flowered Bushmallow
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