Favoritos de sganley

On limestone.

A male and female pair of Hooded Mergansers in one of the inlet ponds at Mississippi Bar next to Lake Natoma

Surveying for USFS. Found some new populations!

400th countable species documented with photos or recordings in AZ in 2021.

Growing between boulders in ponderosa pine/oak/juniper forest.

We saw well over 70 individual plants in an old-growth forest!

Mt. Tamalpais State Park

Chiarella Forest Management Area & Walking Trail

Abundant at this site.

From a few years back.

One plant seen in bloom immediately southeast of the trail to Bohna Peak in a forest opening.

purple fairy lantern next to Middle Fork Kaweah River trail

~ 37°F, snowing and thundering, ~7044' elevation, in a soggy meadow

Ragged rockflower

Juvenile Semipalmated Plover. Photographed at Ashbridge's Bay Park, Toronto, Ontario on 12 August 2017.

Chiricahua mountains, Cochise CO., AZ

Calochortus striatus is in the CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants on list 1B.2 (rare, threatened, or endangered in CA and elsewhere). It is native to California and Arizona.