Carrizo Plain Wildflowers (and 1 Reptile)
The masses of flowers made for wonderful landscape photos, but there were a lot of individual flowers as well. Here are some of my favorite single flowers and groups.
Baby Blue Eyes • Nemophila menziesii
Cream Cup • Platystemon californicus
Cream Cup • Platystemon californicus
Cream Cups and Goldfields
Hillside Daisies • Monolopia lanceolata
Desert Dandelions and Purple Owl's Clover
Desert Candle • Caulanthus inflatus
Desert Dandelion • Malacothrix glabrata
Desert Dandelion • Malacothrix glabrata
Desert Dandelion • Malacothrix glabrata
Fiddleneck • Amsinckia intermedia
Flax-Flowered Leptosiphon • Leptosiphon liniflores
Freckled Milkvetch • Astragalus lentiginosus var nigricalens
Goldfields and Purple Owl's Clover
Goldfields and Great Valley Phacelia
Hillside Daisy • Monolopia lanceolata
Hillside Daisy • Monolopia lanceolata
Hillside Daisy • Monolopia lanceolata
Hoverfly and Goldfields
Hoverfly and Goldfields
Interior Goldenbush • Ericameria linearifolia
Kern Mallow • Eremalche parryi ssp kernensis
Leafy-stemmed Coreopsis • Leptosyne calliopsidea
Common Side-Blotched Lizard * Uta stansburiana
Mojave Sun Cup • Camissonia campestris ssp campestris
Mystery Bean
Mystery white dandelion
Mystery white dandelion
Mystery white dandelion
Great Valley Phacelia • Phacelia ciliata
Tansy-leafed Phacelia * Phacelia tanacetifolia
Tansy-leafed Phacelia * Phacelia tanacetifolia
Tansy-leafed Phacelia * Phacelia tanacetifolia
Tansy-leafed Phacelia * Phacelia tanacetifolia
Purple Owl's Clover • Castilleja exserta
Recurved Larkspur • Delphinium recurvata
Recurved Larkspur • Delphinium recurvata
Sage Thistle • Salvia carduacea
Sage Thistle • Salvia carduacea
Tidy Tip • Layia platyglossa
Tidy Tips, Great Valley Phacelia, and Hillside Daisies
Tidy Tips, Great Valley Phacelia, and Goldfields
White Phacelila • Phacelia sp.