Coastal Region Wildflowers close-up Slideshow 1
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| 2bmonkeys_pb.jpg | Two bush monkeyflowers, mimulus aurantiacus, and paintbrush, Santa Lucia Range, Monterey County | 2600x1800
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| 2_ladys_slipper.jpg | A rare orchid species, California lady's-slipper, cypripedium californicum, Smith River canyon, Del Norte County | 2500x2100
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| 2mission_bells.jpg | Shade loving mission bells, fritillaria lanceolata, with one about to open, Butano SP, San Mateo County (flash) | 1600x2200
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| 2mtd_fairy_lantern.jpg | Two Mount Diablo fairy lanterns, calochortus pulchellus, Mitchell Canyon Trail, Mt Diablo SP, Contra Costa County (flash) | 2800x2000
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| 2pussy_ears.jpg | Pussy ears aka hairy star tulip, calochortus tolmiei, Chimney Rock Trail, Point Reyes NS, Marin County | 1800x1200
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| 3_rhododendron.jpg | Three groups of rhododendron flowers, California rose-bay, rhododendron macrophyllum, South Fork of the Smith River canyon, Six Rivers NF, Del Norte County (flash) | 3000x1800
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| 3_thimbleberry.jpg | 3 thimbleberry flowers, rubus parviflorus, that produce a tasty red rasberry-like berry in the fall, SF Smith River canyon, Six Rivers NF, Del Norte County (flash) | 2500x2100
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| 3yel_creamcups.jpg | Yellow variation of cream cup, platystemon californicus, Point St. George, Del Norte County | 2200x1000
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| baby_blue_eyes1.jpg | Baby blue eyes, nemophila menziesii, Calero CP, Santa Clara County | 2000x1900
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| babystars_poppy.jpg | Baby stars, linanthus bicolor, and California poppy, eschscholtzia californica, Sunol RW, Alameda County | 2000x1600
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| backlit_poppy.jpg | Sun backlit California poppy, eschscholtzia californica, against shadows, Mt Diablo SP, Contra Costa County | 1800x2200
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| bldheart_limb1.jpg | Bleeding heart, dicentra formosa, hanging on a curving stem limb, Cloverdale Ranches Peninsula Open Space Trust, San Mateo County (flash) | 2000x2200
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| blue-eyed_grass.jpg | Blue-eyed grass, sisyrinchium bellum, in front of California poppy, eschscholtzia californica, JD Grant CP, Santa Clara County | 2000x2000
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| cbuttercup_poppy.jpg | California buttercup, ranunculus californica, in front of a California poppy, eschscholtzia californica, JD Grant CP, Santa Clara County | 2400x2000
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| chinese_house.jpg | Top view of a purple Chinese houses, collinsia heterophyla, Mt Diablo SP, Contra Costa County (flash) | 1800x1600
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| chinese_houses1.jpg | Chinese houses, collinsia heterophyla, Pinnacles NM, Monterey County (flash) | 2000x1600
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| clintonia_curv.jpg | Beneath redwoods in Mill Creek canyon, red clintonia, clintonia andrewsiana, Jedediah Smith Redwoods SP, Del Norte County (flash) | 2500x2000
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| crcolumbine_blw.jpg | Crimson columbine, aquilegia formosa, against sky from below, Golden Gate NRA, Marin County (flash) | 1800x2600
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| cream_poppies.jpg | Two flowers on a rare cream-hued California poppy, eschscholtzia californica, Diablo Range, Merced County | 2200x1700
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| cream_poppy_cen.jpg | Pollen rich corolla center on a rare cream-hued California poppy, eschscholtzia californica, Diablo Range, Merced County | 1400x1200
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| creamcup_hopper.jpg | Baby grasshopper atop cream cup, platystemon californicus, and a birds-eye gilia, gilia tricolor, Sunol RW, Alameda County | 2600x1500
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| cviolet_redmaids.jpg | Johnny-jump-up, viola pedunculata, above red maid, calandrinia ciliata, Russian Ridge OSP, San Mateo County | 1300x2000
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| cviolets_inlove.jpg | Two johnny-jump ups aka California violets, viola pedunculata, Russian Ridge OSP, San Mateo County | 2200x2000
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| dm_foam_nivea.jpg | Douglass's meadow foam, limnanthes douglassii ssp nivea, Butano SP, San Mateo County (flash) | 2200x1000
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| douglas_iris1.jpg | Beautiful form of large Douglas iris, iris douglasiana, Mt. Tamalpais SP, Marin County (flash) | 1800x2000
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| forgetmenot.jpg | Nice pattern of forget-me-not, myosotis sylvatica, Butano SP, San Mateo County (flash) | 1400x2200
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| foxglove6.jpg | A naturalized alien species from Europe, foxglove, digitalis purpurea, above Trinidad Head bay, Humboldt County | 1600x3000
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| fr_paintbrush.jpg | Franciscan paintbrush, castilleja franciscana, Russian Ridge OSP, San Mateo County | 2000x2000
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| fringe_cups_stem.jpg | Sun back lit fringe cups, tellima grandiflora, above Pescadero Creek, San Mateo County | 1600x1800
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| fringecups_web.jpg | Sun back lit fringe cups, tellima grandiflora, apparently visited by Miss Spider, Cloverdale Ranches Peninsula Open Space Trust, San Mateo County | 1200x1200
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| giant_trillium3.jpg | The tall central tower of giant trillium, trillium chloropetalum, atop its large mottled green leaves with bug bites out of both, Long Ridge OSP, San Mateo County (flash) | 2200x2000
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| gmule_ears_cen.jpg | Opening whorl of central disc flower of gray mule ears, wyethia helinoides, Long Ridge OSP, San Mateo County (flash) | 1400x1400
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| goldfield_checker.jpg | Goldfield, lasthenia chrysotoma, and checker bloom, sidalcea malvaefora, Russian Ridge OSP, San Mateo County | 1600x2200
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| hounds_tongue.jpg | Western hound's tongue, cynoglossum grande, Heritage Grove CP, San Mateo County (flash) | 1200x1200
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| inside_cpoppy.jpg | Center of California poppy, eschscholtzia californica, JD Grant CP, Santa Clara County | 2400x2200
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| ladybug_tidytip.jpg | In the cool dewy morning, found this ladybird beetle sleeping in the center of a tidy tip, layia platyglossa, Russian Ridge OSR, San Mateo County | 2400x2200
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| lupine_poppy2.jpg | Bicolor lupine, lupinus bicolor, with stem splitting through petals of a California poppy, eschscholtzia californica, as a background, Long Ridge OSP, San Mateo County | 2200x1800
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| meadow_foam.jpg | Meadow foam, limnanthes douglasii, Calero CP, Santa Clara County | 2000x1900
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| mont_mariposa.jpg | Monterey mariposa, calochortus uniflorus, Point Lobos SR, Monterey County | 1800x1500
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| poppy_johnju.jpg | Curling up California poppy, eschscholtzia californica, and johnny-jump-up, viola pedunculata, Russian Ridge OSP, San Mateo County | 2000x1200
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| primrose_sand_2.jpg | Beach evening primrose, camissonia cheiranifolia, on shore sand dunes Pescadero SB, San Mateo County | 1200x1000
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| queens_cup.jpg | queen's cup, clintonia uniflora, Butano SP, San Mateo County (flash) | 2800x2100
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| red_clintonia3.jpg | Beneath redwoods in Steep Ravine, red clintonia, clintonia andrewsiana, Mt. Tamalpais SP, Marin County (flash) | 1600x2800
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| redwood_sorrel.jpg | A redwood sorrel, oxalis oregana, flower beside its distinctively shaped leaf above a sword fern frond, Butano SP, San Mateo County (flash) | 2600x1800
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| rhododendron_anth.jpg | Close-up of rhododendron flowers, California rose-bay, rhododendron macrophyllum, SF Smith River canyon, Six Rivers NF, Del Norte County (flash) | 3000x1800
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| rpea_rclover.jpg | Sun backlit red pea, lathyrus circeum, and rose clover, trifolium hirtum, both European exotics brought here by settlers that have long become naturalized, Long Ridge OSP, San Mateo County | 2000x2800
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| ruffled_paintbrush.jpg | Top view of corral red hued Indian paintbrush, castilleja affinis, with ruffles, Mt Diablo SP, Contra Costa County (flash) | 1600x1800
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| scarlet_pimpernell1.jpg | Beautiful salmon orange color of scarlet pimpernell, anagallis arvensis, Long Ridge OSP, San Mateo County | 2400x1800
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| seaside_daisy.jpg | Seaside daisy, erigeron glaucus, surrounded by ray flowers, Point Lobos SR, Monterey County | 2200x2200
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| seaside_daisy_cr.jpg | Inner disk flowers of seaside daisy, erigeron glaucus, surrounded by ray flowers, Point Lobos SR, Monterey County | 1400x1400
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| spike_paintbrush.jpg | Elegant spiked head of an emerging woolly paintbrush, castilleja foliolosa, Mt Diablo SP, Contra Costa County (flash) | 1600x2200
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| spiraea_rock.jpg | Mountain spiraea, spiraea densiflora, against rock, Minaret Creek area of Ansel Adams W, Madera County | 2200x2800
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| star_flower.jpg | Shade forest resident star flower, trientalis latifolia, along Troop 80 Trail, Mt. Tamalpais SP, Marin County (flash) | 2200x1400
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| star_solomons_seal1.jpg | Patterns of dense star solomon's seal, smilacina stellata, in warm late afternoon light, Heritage Grove CP, San Mateo County | 2800x2200
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| tattered_sidalcea.jpg | Two sidalcea, sidalcea malvaeflora, with tattered petals, Russian Ridge OSP, San Mateo County | 1700x2000
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| thistle_in_sky.jpg | Red thistle, cirsium proteanum, up in sky, JD Grant CP, Santa Clara County | 2000x2000
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| two_gilia.jpg | Birds-eye gilia, gilia tricolor, Pacheco SP, Santa Clara County | 2200x1200
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| twoeyed_violet2b.jpg | Two-eyed violet, viola oceollata, flower and bud atop leaf, resident of a shady coastal forest, Long Ridge OSP, San Mateo County (flash) | 1400x1800
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| twoeyed_violet3.jpg | Two-eyed violet, viola oceollata, Long Ridge OSP, San Mateo County (flash) | 1800x1400
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| washington_lily.jpg | Very fragrant Washington lily, lilium washingtonianum, along the Eel River, Humboldt Redwoods SP, Humboldt County | 2200x1900
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| western_azalea.jpg | A close-up group of intensely fragrant western azalea, rhododendron occidentale, flowers, Smith River canyon, Del Norte County | 2400x2000
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| white_lilies10.jpg | An exotic onion common along rural roads in coastal Calfornia, threecorner leek, allium triquetrum, Butano SP, San Mateo County (flash) | 2600x1800
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| winecup_clarkia.jpg | Winecup clarkia, clarkia purpurea, up in sky, Sunol RW, Alameda County | 2000x1800
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| witches_teeth.jpg | Witches teeth, lotus formosissimus, Point Lobos SR, Monterey County | 1600x2000
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| woodland_star.jpg | Woodland star, lithophragma affinis, Mitchell Canyon Trail, Mt Diablo SP, Contra Costa County (flash) | 1500x2100
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| wtrillium2.jpg | A striking western trillium, trillium ovatum, amid decaying brown redwood leaves and green redwood sorrel plants, Butano SP, San Mateo County (flash) | 2200x2000
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| wtrillium6.jpg | A white flowered color version of western trillium, trillium ovatum, above Pescadero Creek, San Mateo County (flash) | 1200x1200
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| wtrillium7.jpg | A reddish flowered color version of western trillium, trillium ovatum, after refreshing April showers, Heritage Grove CP, San Mateo County (flash) | 2000x2000
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Sierra Nevada Wildflowers close-up Slideshow 2
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| Description
| Dimensions
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| 10red_anthers.jpg | As yet unknown head of small 5 white petal flowers each with 10 red anthers and star-shaped green sepals, Stanislaus NF, Calaveras County | 1400x1600
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| 2_cinquefoil.jpg | Alpine drummond's cinquefoild, potentilla drummondii, below Mount Mendel in Kings Canyon NP, Fresno County | 1200x2000
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| 2explorers_gentian.jpg | Glorious deep blue petals of explorer's gentian, gentiana calycosa, have small greenish dots, Desolation W, El Dorado County | 1400x1400
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| 2gold_nuggets.jpg | Two gold nuggets, calochortus luteus, and gray beetles, Stanislaus NF, Calaveras County (flash) | 1400x2000
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| 2indian_pink.jpg | Highly saturated red-hued species, Indian pink, silene californica, with level petals, Stanislaus NF, Tuolumne County | 1135x2000
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| 2sneezeweed.jpg | Two Bigelow's sneezeweed, helenium bigelovii, with the lower amusingly under the petal skirt of the higher. John Muir W, Fresno County | 2200x2000
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| 2_tiger_lilies.jpg | Two wonderfully fragrant tiger lilies, lilium kelleyanum, up in the sky near Mono Creek, John Muir W, Fresno County | 2300x2300
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| 3evening_snow.jpg | Three evening snow, linanthus dichotomus, flowers that only open after sunset for pollenation by moths, Tuolumne River canyon in Yosemite NP, Tuolumne County (flash) | 2200x2400
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| 3indian_pink.jpg | Three inensely red Indian pink, silene californica, with drooping petals, Tuolumne River canyon in Stanislaus NF, Tuolumne County | 1000x1600
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| 3pur_fairy_lanterns.jpg | Nodding flowers of purple fairy lanterns, aka purple globelily, calochortus amoenus, with a seed at left, under shady trees in the Kaweah River canyon of Sequoia NP, Tulare County | 1800x2600
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| 3pussy_paws_wgru.jpg | Three pussy paw flowers, calyptridium umbellatum, atop thunderstorm wet granite sand, Yosemite NP, Tuolumne County | 1600x2000
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| 4fawn_lilies.jpg | Sierra fawn lily, erythronium purpurascens, shady forest wildflower appearing right after melting snows, South Yuba drainage in Tahoe NF, Nevada County | 1000x1600
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| 4linanthus.jpg | Mustang clover, linanthus montanus, in the Kings Canyon area of Sequoia NF, Fresno County (flash) | 1600x1800
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| 4monkeyflowers.jpg | Resident of wet seeps, common monkeyflower, mimulus guttatus, BLM lands of Merced River canyon, Merced County | 1400x1600
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| 4t_monkeys.jpg | Resident of alpine talus seeps, large monkeyflower, mimulus tilingii, John Muir Wilderness, Inyo County | 2200x2800
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| 7linanthus.jpg | Highly variable hues of false baby stars, linanthus parviflorus, in the Kaweah River canyon of Sequoia NP, Tulare County | 1600x1800
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| 7scarlet_monk.jpg | Large and sticky scarlet monkeyflower, mimulus cardinalis, Pine Creek canyon in Inyo NF, Inyo County | 1800x1400
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| 9snowplants.jpg | The amazing snow plant, sarcodes sanguinea, a red saprophyte just risen from yellow pine forest litter, Yosemite NP, Tuolumne County | 1340x2000
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| alpine_gold_sunf.jpg | Alpine gold, hulsea algida, against granite boulder, below Mount Mendel in Kings Canyon NP, Fresno County | 2000x2200
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| asters.jpg | A dense cluster of asters, aster ?, growing on dry volcanic soils in Mokelumne Wilderness, Alpine County | 1800x2200
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| bb_bleeding_heart.jpg | Bleeding heart, dicentra formosa, along the banks of the Merced River in Yosemite Valley in Yosemite NP, Mariposa County (flash) | 1400x1800
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| bbee_senecio.jpg | A bumble bee atop arrow-leaf senecio, senecio triangularis, near Mono Creek, John Muir W, Fresno County | 2300x2300
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| bee_fly_2flax.jpg | Bee hovering next to blue flax, linum perennem, with fly, Mokelumne W, El Dorado County | 1400x1600
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| bush_poppy.jpg | Resident of dry slopes, a yellow 4-petaled bush poppy, dendromecon rigida, Clavey River canyon in Stanislaus NF, Tuolumne County | 1800x1800
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| cal_fuschia_gran.jpg | California fuschia, zauschneria californica, against granite beside the Tule River, Sequoia NF, Tulare County (flash) | 1960x2800
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| columbine_hues.jpg | Hybrid hues of Coville's columbine, aquilegia pubescens, and crimson columbine, aquilegia formosa, Rock Creek area of Inyo NF, Inyo County | 1300x2200
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| columbine_pool.jpg | A petal from crimson columbine, aquilegia formosa, fallen into a stream pool. Note starlike shadows from other columbine flowers above. Kirkwood Meadows in El Dorado NF, Alpine County | 1000x1600
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| cone_flower.jpg | Coneflower, rudbeckia californica, up in sky, near SR88 in El Dorado NF, El Dorado County | 1600x1600
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| corral_paintbrush.jpg | Corral-hued Applegate's paintbrush, castilleja applegatei, below Elephant's Back in Mokelumne W, El Dorado County (flash) | 1600x1200
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| coulters_daisy.jpg | Brightening a sandy small stream channel, Coulter's daisy, erigeron coulteri, Mokelumne Wilderness, Alpine County | 2000x2000
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| coyote_mint.jpg | Strong smelling coyote mint, monardella odoratissima, growing on dry sunny slopes of the SF Kaweah River canyon in Sequoia NP, Tulare County | 1600x1800
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| firew_columb.jpg | Fireweed, epilobium angustifolium, with crimson columbine, aquilegia formosa, near Mono Creek, John Muir W, Fresno County (flash) | 2200x2300
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| fivespot.jpg | Low to ground forest beauty, fivespot, nemophila maculata, El Dorado NF, El Dorado County | 1400x1600
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| fivespot_mass.jpg | Dense mass of fivespot, nemophila maculata, El Dorado NF, El Dorado County | 2200x2800
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| footh_pretty_face.jpg | An umbel of foothill pretty face, tritelia ixiodes ssp. scabra, with blue anthers, Stanislaus NF, Calaveras County (flash) | 2000x2000
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| fringepod_sun.jpg | Dewy backlit fringepod, thysanocarpus curvipes, near SF Merced River, Mariposa County | 2300x1800
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| gilia_kaweah.jpg | Glowing bright purple in the sun, dense heads of an unknown gilia in the SF Kaweah River canyon, Sequoia NP, Tulare County | 2000x2600
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| grand_collomia.jpg | Unusual creamy orange hued head of grand collomia, collomia grandiflora, in Mineral King Valley of Sequoia NP, Tulare County | 2000x2000
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| grass_spikes.jpg | Grass spikes up in sky, at an Upper Truckee River meadow in El Dorado NF, El Dorado County | 2000x2400
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| harlequin_lupine.jpg | The most colorful lupine species, harlequin lupine, lupinus stiversii, with yellow banner and pink wing petals that turn orange after pollenation, Yosemite NP, Tuolumne County | 2000x2200
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| Indian_warrior.jpg | Indian warrior, pedicularis densiflora, BLM lands near Merced River, Mariposa County | 2400x1600
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| l_tiger_lily.jpg | A tiger lily, lilium kelleyanum, up in the sky near Mono Creek, John Muir W, Fresno County | 1100x1100
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| lem_paintbrush.jpg | Family of Lemmon's paintbrush, castilleja lemmonii, John Muir W, Fresno County | 2200x2000
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| leop_lily_sky.jpg | Small leopard lily aka alpine lily, lilium parvum, up in the sky, along Ward Creek in El Dorado NF, El Dorado County | 1800x2800
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| lh_steershead.jpg | Appropriately named little wildflower, longhorn steershead, dicentra_uniflora, in the South Yuba River drainage of Tahoe NF, Nevada County (flash) | 1200x1000
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| ll_paintbrush.jpg | Flame-like narrow red sepals of long-leaved paintbrush, castilleja linariifolia, Sequoia NP, Tulare County (flash) | 2200x2800
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| madia_blues.jpg | Common madia, madia elegans, above child's blue-eyed mary, collinsia childii, in the Kaweah River canyon of Sequoia NP, Tulare County (flash) | 2400x1800
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| madia_petals.jpg | Common madia, madia elegans, with well separated petals in Kaweah River canyon of Sequoia NP, Tulare County (flash) | 1400x1400
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| mer_shooting_star.jpg | A flamboyantly shaped shooting star, dodecatheon jeffreyi, near South Fork Merced River, Mariposa County | 1600x1700
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| mtn_heather.jpg | Mountain heather aka red heather, phyllodoce breweri, blooming soon after snow melts. Growing against granite in the Cliff Creek basin of Sequoia NP, Tulare County | 2000x2000
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| mtn_lungwort.jpg | Pink buds turning blue mountain lungwort aka fringed lungwort, mertensia ciliata, with bee along White Chief Creek, Sequoia NP, Tulare County | 1600x2000
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| mtn_sorrel_gran.jpg | Mountain sorrel, oxyria digyna, against granite, below Mount Mendel in Kings Canyon NP, Fresno County | 2200x2800
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| new_snow_plant.jpg | Newly emerging out of giant sequoia forest litter, snow plant, sarcodes sanguinea, along Redwood Creek in Kings Canyon NP, Tulare County (flash) | 2800x2200
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| pac_dogwood_flwr.jpg | Center close up view of yellow pollen sprinkling large white sepals of Pacific dogwood, cornus nuttallii, Yosemite Valley in Yosemite NP, Mariposa County | 1600x1600
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| paintbrush_gr.jpg | Applegate's paintbrush, castilleja applegatei, against SR120 highway cut granite, Yosemite NP Tuolumne County | 1700x2000
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| pink_montia.jpg | Pink stem and leaved variation of miner's lettuce, montia perfoliata, growing out of a granite wall crack, Sequoia NP, Tulare County (reflector) | 1600x2000
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| purple_jewel.jpg | Unusual purple leaves of Farnsworth's jewelflower, streptanthus farnsworthianus, on a rocky outcrop in the Kaweah River canyon of Sequoia NP, Tulare County (flash) | 2400x1600
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| pussy_paws_rusty.jpg | Pussy paws, calyptridium umbellatum, Kings Canyon NP, Fresno County | 2200x2500
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| rangers_buttons.jpg | Very common umbel of ranger's buttons, sphenosciadium capitallatum, with three visiting black bees, Desolation W, El Dorado County | 2000x1600
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| rayless_daisy.jpg | Rayless daisy, erigeron aphanactis, on sagebrush moraine above Parker Creek in Inyo NF, Mono County | 1700x2400
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| red_butterballs.jpg | Butterballs, eriogonum oxalifolium, cushion plant once pollinated changes from yellow to red in Evolution Creek area of Kings Canyon National Park, Fresno County | 1200x2800
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| redbud_branch.jpg | Shadowed western redbud, cercis occidentalis, branch against blue sky, BLM lands near Merced River in Mariposa County (flash) | 1600x2400
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| rein_orchid_b.jpg | Sierra rein orchid, plantanthera leucostachys, against granite, John Muir W, Fresno County | 1600x1400
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| rock_sphlox.jpg | Spreading phlox, phlox diffusa, with bug eaten petals, lichen on granite, and a dry black oak leaf, Tuolumne River canyon in Yosemite NP, Tuolumne County (flash fill) | 2200x2800
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| roundtooth_ookow.jpg | Atop long stems that bob in breeze, roundtooth ookow, dichelostemma multiflorum, El Dorado NF, El Dorado County (flash) | 2000x2200
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| sandwort.jpg | A dense patch of few inch high Nuttall's sandwort, minuartia nuttallii, growing on alpine granite sands in the Cliff Creek basin of Sequoia NP, Tulare County | 2000x2400
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| sheltons_violet1.jpg | Shelton's violet, viola sheltonii, beside its palmate leaf below giant sequoia along Redwood Creek in Kings Canyon NP, Tulare County (flash) | 1600x1600
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| shooting_star_cc.jpg | Shooting star, dodecatheon jeffreyi, in morning sunlight along Crescent Creek, Sequoia NP, | 2800x2000
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| silverleaf_lotus.jpg | Pea family ground creeper, silverleaf lotus, lotus argophyllus, atop volcanic stone, El Dorado NF, El Dorado County )flash) | 1400x1000
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| spice_bush.jpg | Ancient flowering plant species of spice bush, calycanthus occidentalis, along spring stream in Kings Canyon in Sequoia NF, Fresno County (flash) | 1000x1600
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| spiky_paintbrush.jpg | Spiky flowers of great red paintbrush, castillegia miniata, in seep above Mono Creek, John Muir W, Fresno County | 2300x1800
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| spiraea_rock.jpg | Mountain spiraea, spiraea densiflora, against rock, Minaret Creek area of Ansel Adams W, Madera County | 2200x2800
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| swamp_onion_sky.jpg | Swamp onion, allium validum, up in the sky at Martin Meadow in El Dorado NF, Amador County | 1600x2200
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| w_wallflower.jpg | Orange-hued ball of western wallflower, erysimum capitatum, El Dorado NF, El Dorado County | 1600x1600
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| white_rue.jpg | An unknown dainty white flower long Crescent Creek, Sequoia NP, Tulare County (reflector) | 1800x2000
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| wild_geranium.jpg | Wild geranium, geranium richardsonii, a wet meadow resident in Mineral King Valley of Sequoia NP, Tulare County (reflector) | 1400x1400
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| wind_poppy_2be.jpg | Two black beetles enjoying a wind poppy, stylomecon heterophylla, under shady trees in the Kaweah River canyon of Sequoia NP, Tulare County (flash) | 1000x1600
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| wsf_2montanus.jpg | Two pretty mustang clover, linanthus montanus, below an orange-hued wooly sunflower, eriophyllum linatum, near Crescent Creek, Sequoia NP, Tulare County | 2000x1400 |
Southern California Wildflowers close-up Slideshow 3
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| 2big_coreopsis.jpg | Two Bigelow's coreopsis, coreopsis bigelovii, flowers, Carrizo Plain NM, San Luis Obispo County (flash) | 2800x1800
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| 2blazing_star.jpg | Orange-hued species of blazing star, mentzelia pectinata, Caliente Range in Carrizo Plain NM, San Luis Obispo County | 2200x1400
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| 2desert_candles.jpg | Desert candles, caulanthus inflatus, up in sky, Temblor Range in Carrizo Plain NM,San Luis Obispo County | 1800x1600
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| 2golden_girls.jpg | Two rayless golden girls, chaenactis grabriuscula, Cottonwood Wash at Joshua Tree NP, Riverside County | 1700x900
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| Arizona_lupine.jpg | One Arizona lupine, lupinus arizonicus, spike against the shadowed bank of a wash in the Orocopia Mountains, Riverside County | 1700x3000
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| az_lupine_dawn.jpg | Dawn silhouettes of Arizona lupine, lupinus arizonicus, Anza-Borrego SP, San Diego County | 2000x1600
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| backlit_tidy_tips.jpg | Back lit dewy tidy tip, layia platyglossa, Carrizo Plain NM, San Luis Obispo County | 2000x1800
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| barrel_cac.jpg | Looking down on the top of a blooming barrel cactus, ferocactus cylindraceus, Anza-Borrego SP, San Diego County | 2300x2000
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| beavertail.jpg | Blooming beavertail cactus, opuntia basilaris, up against blue sky, Anza-Borrego SP, San Diego County | 2600x2200
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| beavertail_cu.jpg | Closeup of a blooming beavertail cactus, opuntia basilaris, flower, Anza-Borrego SP, San Diego County | 1200x1200
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| bee_poppies.jpg | Honeybee flying towards California poppy, eschscholtzia californica, Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County | 2000x1600
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| big_monkeyflwr.jpg | Bigelow monkeyflower, mimulus bigelovii, atop a sandy Cottonwood Wash, Joshua Tree NP, Riverside County | 1900x2500
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| blazing_star2.jpg | Center corolla view of a large sand blazing star, mentzelia involucrata, Orocopia Mountains, Riverside County | 850x850
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| bottle_brush_sky.jpg | Bottle brush, camissonia boothii, flowers, also called bottle washer, and its red buds up against the sky, Pinto Mountains, Riverside County | 2800x2000
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| brittlebush_bud.jpg | Brittlebush flower, encelia farinosa, and just out of bud flower, Anza-Borrego SP, San Diego County | 2090x1480
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| can_bells_gran.jpg | Canterbury bells, phacelia campanularia, growing up against granite, San Jacinto River Valley hills, Riverside County | 2200x2800
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| cant_bells_sky1.jpg | Canterbury bells, phacelia campanularia, up in sky, Cottonwood Wash canyon in Joshua Tree NP, Riverside County (flash) | 2800x2200
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| chuparosa_sky.jpg | Raging red chuparosa bush, justicia californica, flowers up against the blue sky in Henderson Canyon of Anza-Borrego SP, San Diego County | 2600x2000
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| cryptantha.jpg | Patterns of cryptantha near Amboy Crater in San Bernadino County | 1400x1700
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| desert_5spot_cen.jpg | Closeup of the lovely corolla center of a desert fivespot, malvastrum rotundifolium, Orocopia Mountains, Riverside County | 1000x1000
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| desert_chicory.jpg | Perpendicular view of desert chicory, rafinesquia neomexicana, along Kelbaker Road in San Bernadino County | 1800x1800
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| desert_dandelion_sh.jpg | White outer corolla version of desert dandelion, malacothrix glabrata, Shell Creek, San Luis Obispo County | 2000x2000
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| desert_dandelion_sp.jpg | Pale yellow corolla version of desert dandelion, malacothrix glabrata, Sheephole Pass, Riverside County | 2200x2100
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| desert_lily_sv.jpg | Large flowers of desert lily, hesperocallis undulata, with many buds against magenta sand verbena, near Amboy Crater in San Bernadino County | 2500x2200
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| desert_senna.jpg | Up against blue sky, the large drooping green seed pods and fragrant yellow flowers of desert senna, casia armata, a much branched shrub, Cadiz Valley, Riverside County | 1800x2000
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| desert_star_pm.jpg | Belly flowers of desert star, monoptilion belloides, and purple mat, nama dimissum, along Kelbaker Road in San Bernadino County | 2500x2000
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| desertgold_sky.jpg | Fragrant desertgold sunflowers, geraea canescens, up in partly cloudy blue sky near Amboy Crater in San Bernadino County | 2800x2200
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| desgold_sverbena.jpg | A desertgold sunflower, geraea canescens, with still spreading petals beside a sand verbena, abronia villosa, umbel on a Pinto Mountains bajada San Bernadino County | 2300x1300
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| dune_ep_2sb.jpg | Two sand verbena, abronia villosa, flowers beside its common also fragrant companion, a large dune evening primrose, oenothera deltoids, Pinto Mountains bajada, Riverside County | 2800x1900
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| e_primrose_sand.jpg | Petals of fallen dune evening primrose, oenthera deltoides, on sand, (flash) Anza-Borrego SP, San Diego County | 1200x1600
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| evening_snow_pmat.jpg | Purple mat, nama dimissum, with a white evening snow, linanthus dichotomus, flower that only opens at sunset, Cottonwood Wash at Joshua Tree NP, Riverside County (flash) | 2100x1500
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| fishhook_cac.jpg | Looking down on a little blooming fishhook cactus, mammillaria dioica, Anza-Borrego SP, San Diego County | 2000x2200
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| five_spot3_sky.jpg | Uncommon favorite of wildflower seekers, here up against the blue sky, the lovely desert fivespot, malvastrum rotundifolium, near Amboy Crater, San Bernadino County | 2600x2200
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| fly_b_blue_eyes.jpg | Fly on baby blue eyes, nemophila menziesii, (flash) Shell Creek, San Luis Obispo County | 2200x2200
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| fremont_pincushion.jpg | Pretty white rayless sunflowers of Fremont pincushion, chaenactis fremontii, against an out of focus purple mat background, Eagle Mountains in Joshua Tree NP, Riverside County | 2200x1700
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| ghost_flower.jpg | Ghost flower, mohavea confertiflora, (flash) Anza-Borrego SP, San Diego County | 1500x1440
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| globemallow_sky.jpg | Beautitiful apricot hues of globemallow, sphaeralcea ambigua, also called apricot mallow, against the blue sky in the Orocopia Mountains, Riverside County | 1900x2900
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| goldfield_stems.jpg | Goldfields, lasthenia californica, up in sky, Carrizo Plain NM, San Luis Obispo County | 2800x2000
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| ground_pink.jpg | Ground pink, linanthus dianthiflorus,about San Jacinto River Valley hills, Riverside County | 2600x1900
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| langloisia2.jpg | Wonderful uncommon belly flower of rocky soils, spotted langloisia, langlosia punctata, Pinto Mountains, Riverside County | 2100x1200
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| lavender_bee1.jpg | A honey bee gatherning fragrant pollen of desert lavender bush, hyptis emoryi, up in cloudy blue skies, Anza-Borrego SP, San Diego County | 1000x1900
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| lavender_bee2.jpg | A honey bee flying away after visiting flowers of a desert lavender bush, psorothamus schotti, Anza-Borrego SP, San Diego County | 1600x1800
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| lemmons_mustard.jpg | Dewy Lemmon's mustard, guillenia lemmonii, up in foggy sky, Carrizo Plain NM, San Luis Obispo County | 1200x1600
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| lupine_lupine.jpg | Bentham lupine, lupinus benthamii, Gorman Hills, Los Angeles County | 1600x1600
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| nar_goldenbush.jpg | Close-up of narrowleaf goldenbush, ericameria linearifolia, from within a large bush that often densely cover hillsides, Cuyama Valley, Santa Barbara County | 2500x1800
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| ocotillo2.jpg | A waxy vermillion Crayola-like bloom of a tall ocotillo, fouquieria splendens, against the deep blue Colorado Desert sky in the Orocopia Mountains, Riverside County (60% crop) | 1900x2800
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| ourlordscandle.jpg | Our Lord's Candle, yucca whipplei, in an ultimate spring wildflower field in hills of the San Jacinto River basin, Riverside County | 1900x2900
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| owls_clover_gf.jpg | Purple owls clover, castilleja exserta, down inside a goldfield jungle, San Jacinto River Valley hills, Riverside County | 2200x2400
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| phacelia_distans.jpg | Blue phacelia aka common phacelia, phacelia distans, against granite rock, Anza-Borrego SP, San Diego County | 2400x2200
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| phacelia_tri.jpg | Dark blue purple flowers of a notch-leaf phacelia, phacelia crenulata, that favor hot rocky sites, Chuckwalla Valley, Riverside County | 2400x2800
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| poppy_explosion.jpg | Explosion of California poppies with birds-eye gilia, California coreopsis, goldfields, baby blues-eyes, popcorn flower, and ground pink, San Jacinto River Valley hills, Riverside County (flash) | 1600x1400
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| poppy_wonder.jpg | California poppies in mini-wonderland of with baby blues-eyes, California coreopsis, goldfields, birds-eye gilia, popcorn flower, and ground pink, San Jacinto River Valley hills, Riverside County (flash) | 3000x2200
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| princess_th_sageb.jpg | Little Princess thistle sage, salvia carduacea, riding a pink lupine horsey, Santa Barbara County | 1600x2000
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| red_monkeyflwr.jpg | Two flowers of a red bush-monkeyflower, mimulus puniceus, with tiny striped bug, San Jacinto River Valley hills, Riverside County (flash) | 2300x1500
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| rlf5_lowmix3.jpg | Dense jungle of baby blues-eyes, California poppies, California coreopsis, goldfields, birds-eye gilia, popcorn flower, and ground pink, San Jacinto River Valley hills, Riverside County (flash) | 2300x1950
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| rlf5_lowmix4.jpg | Dense jungle of baby blues-eyes, California poppies, California coreopsis, goldfields, birds-eye gilia, popcorn flower, San Jacinto River Valley hills, Riverside County (flash) | 1300x1200
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| rose_pea2.jpg | Pea familiy species that favors dry sandy washes, astragalus crotalariae, against partly cloudy blue sky on a Pinto Mountains bajada, Riverside County | 1400x1300
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| sand_verbena1.jpg | A strongly fragrant sand verbena, abronia villosa, plant with buds at left against shadows near Amboy Crater, San Bernadino County | 2800x2200
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| spanish_needles.jpg | Top view of Spanish needles, palafoxia arida, flowers near Amboy Crater, San Bernadino County | 2000x1700
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| sv_dep_bep2.jpg | Sand loving magenta hued sand verbena, abronia villosa, large white hued dune evening primrose, oenothera deltoids, and smaller white brown-eyed evening primrose, camissonia claviformia, Pinto Mountains bajada, Riverside County | 1500x1300
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| tansy_phacelia_av.jpg | tansy-leafed phacelia aka lacy phacelia, phacelia tanacetifolia, up in blue sky, Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County | 2800x2400
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| th_sage_cloud.jpg | Thistle sage, salvia carduacea, Anza-Borrego SP, San Diego County | 1600x2000
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| wal_eriophyllum.jpg | Belly flowers prefering sandy stony soils, Wallace's eriophyllum, eriophyllum wallacei, and purple mat, nama dimissum, along Kelbaker Road, San Bernadino County | 1900x2800
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| wishbone_bush.jpg | A purple-red hued species of nightshade against blue sky, wishbone bush, mirabilis californica, San Jacinto River Valley hills, Riverside County (flash) | 2400x1800 |
Autumn Leaf close-up Slideshow 4
| Slide #
| Description
| Dimensions
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| 2_leaves_wet.jpg | Two fallen autumn quaking aspen leaves on partially wet stream smoothed rock, Toyabe NF, Mono County | 2000x2800
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| 2leaf_ice.jpg | Two frosty autumn quaking aspen leaves in sunrise light, Toyabe NF, Mono County | 1660x2240
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| 2maple_water.jpg | Autumn bigleaf maple aka broad-leaf m., acer macrophyllum, leaves in stream, Sequoia NP, Tulare County | 1600x2000
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| 4red_p_dogwood.jpg | Branch of deep red autumn leaves of Pacific dogwood, (flash) Tulare County | 2200x2800
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| aspen_on_water.jpg | Freshly fallen autumn quaking aspen leaves floating atop a stream pool, Toyabe NF, Mono County | 2800x2000
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| b_oak_leaves.jpg | Group of colorful leaves on low to ground young black oak, Sequoia NP, Tulare County | 2100x2800
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| bl_maple_lvs4.jpg | Autumn leaves of bigleaf maple and Pacific dogwood atop Merced River pool, Yosemite NP, Mariposa County | 2400x2800
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| black_oak_lvs.jpg | Branch of multi-hued autumn black oak leaves, Yosemite NP, Mariposa County | 2400x2000
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| blackoak_leaf.jpg | Uncommon multi-hued autumn black oak leaf, Stanislaus NF, Calaveras County | 1760x2000
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| cloak_catkins.jpg | Canyon live oak male flowers on catkins, (flash) Mariposa County | 1800x2400
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| corn_lily_lvs.jpg | New leaves of corn lily, veratrum californicum, (flash) Tahoe NF, Nevada County | 2800x1600
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| dense_a_willow.jpg | Dense turf patch of back lit arctic willow, salix arctica, in late summer color, Yosemite NP, Tuolumne County | 2200x2800
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| dingle_ball.jpg | Currant fruit and its autumn red-hued leaf, Tulare County | 1600x1200
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| dogwood_bush.jpg | Multi-hued autumn leaf colors of young Pacific dogwood, cornus nuttallii, Sequoia NP, Tulare County | 1600x2200
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| fallen_leaves.jpg | Just fallen autumn colors of quaking aspen leaves, Toyabe NF, Mono County | 2800x2200
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| graupel_leaf.jpg | Graupel snow atop orange-hued fall quaking aspen leaf, BLM lands, Mono County | 2600x2200
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| ice_leaves_w.jpg | Fallen aspen leaves in hollow drained ice, BLM lands, Mono County | 2200x2700
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| leaf_granite.jpg | Fallen autumn quaking aspen leaf on dry stream smoothed rock, Toyabe NF, Mono County | 2800x2200
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| leaves_ice.jpg | Branch of frosty autumn quaking aspen leaves in sunrise light, Toyabe NF, Mono County | 2200x2800
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| leaves_on_water1.jpg | Autumn fallen bigleaf maple, white alder, and Pacific dogwood leaves on Merced River pool, Yosemite NP, Mariposa County | 2100x2800
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| lvs_underwater.jpg | Freshly fallen autumn quaking aspen leaves under a stream flow in sunshine, Toyabe NF, Mono County | 2000x1600
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| maple_leaf_water.jpg | Water tension at points at lower left of a fallen floating bigleaf maple leaf, Sequoia NP, Tulare County | 1600x2000
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| monkshood.jpg | Fall yellow-hued willow leaf atop multi-hued monkshood plant leaf, dried incense cedar and yellow pine needles, Yosemite NP, Tuolumne County | 2800x1800
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| ora_w_grape_leaf.jpg | Back lit autumn color of California wild grape leaf, vitis californica, Sequoia NF, Tulare County | 2038x2200
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| peach_dogwd_lf.jpg | Rain wet fallen autumn peach-hued Pacific dogwood leaf atop lichen coated rock, Yosemite NP, Mariposa County | 2800x1200
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| rasberry_leaves6.jpg | Autum leaf color of western rasberry, rubus leucodermis, Yosemite NP, Mariposa County | 2200x2000
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| red_fireweed_lvs.jpg | Late summer red color of fireweed leaves, Inyo NF, Inyo County | 1950x2200
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| red_hairs_oak.jpg | News leaves of black oak have velvety red hairs on top side that disappear after a few days, Saratoga Gap OSP, Santa Clara County | 1600x1800
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| red_heart_leaf.jpg | Freshly fallen autumn heart shaped red-hued quaking aspen leaf atop stream debris, (flash) Toyabe NF, Mono County | 2200x2800
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| red_w_grape_leaf.jpg | Autumn color of California wild grape leaf, vitis californica, in sunshine, Sequoia NF, Tulare County | 2200x2400
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| rg_dogwood_lvs.jpg | Mix of red and green autumn color on branch of Pacific dogwood, (flash) Tulare County | 1600x2000
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| rose_dogwood.jpg | Beautifully rich rose autumn leaf hues of Pacific dogwood atop dried giant sequoia scale leaves, Tulare County | 1600x1200
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| wet_log_leaves.jpg | Severely tattered fallen quaking aspen leaves atop wet log in stream, Toyabe NF, Mono County | 1980x1860
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| willow_rain.jpg | Fallen autumn willow leaves wet from over night rains, Yosemite NP, Tuolumne County | 2200x2800
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| wine_currant_leaf.jpg | Fall color of wine-hued currant leaf, (flash) Tulare County | 1600x1700
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| yellow_leaves.jpg | Yellow branch of common giant sequoia understory shrub, Tulare County | 1700x2000 |
Seashore close-up Slideshow 5
| Slide #
| Description
| Dimensions
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| 4stones.jpg | Four tidal tumbled smooth wet stones on sandstone, Monterey County | 2800x2200
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| 5barnacles.jpg | Five barnacles on sandstone, Monterey County | 2800x2200
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| 5finger_fern.jpg | Two-eyed pattern of five-finger ferns, adiantum aleuticum, South Fork of the Smith River canyon, Del Norte County | 2600x2100
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| 7barnacles_red.jpg | Seven barnacles on red sedimentary sandstone, Monterey County | 2600x1600
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| abalone_a.jpg | Abalone shell iridescence circular center. San Mateo County | 2400x1900
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| abalone_b.jpg | Abalone shell iridescence. San Mateo County | 2800x1600
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| algae_puddle.jpg | Algae strands in shallow depression with seawater atop granite boulder, Monterey County | 2800x2200
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| banana_slug_U.jpg | The way a banana slug makes a 180 degree U-turn, atop a cow parsnip leaf beside the Coastal Trail, Del Norte Redwoods SP, Del Norte County (flash) | 2100x2600
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| bleached_seawd.jpg | Wet bleached seaweed on grainy sand. San Mateo County | 2400x2000
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| blue_glass_st.jpg | Gem-like blue glass surf polished wet stone, northern California stony Pacific beach | 2800x1900
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| bubbles_pebbles.jpg | Constructive wavelength interference of sunlight on surf foam bubble thin film atop magnified pebbles, San Mateo County | 1464x1470
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| butter-red_st1.jpg | Butter yellow, red and white surf polished wet stone, northern California stony Pacific beach | 2800x2300
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| carmel_stones.jpg | Colorful eroded out and tidal smoothed volcanic conglomerate stones underwater at shore, Monterey County | 2800x2200
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| ceramic_eyes.jpg | Tidal smoothed pebbles in small wave wet depressions of ceramic looking polished sandstone, Monterey County | 2800x2200
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| cows_egg_st.jpg | Yellow & red egg shaped and red & white surf polished wet stones against colorful dark sands, northern California stony Pacific beach | 1800x2800
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| face_bucky.jpg | A so ugly face with buck teeth in sandstone, Monterey County | 2800x2200
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| fat_van_st.jpg | The fat psychedelic van surf polished wet stone, northern California stony Pacific beach | 2550x2000
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| froggy_st.jpg | Frog colored surf polished stone, northern California stony Pacific beach | 1700x1800
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| green_anemone_g.jpg | This incredible anemone really did look neon green it's not the only one. San Mateo County | 1200x1600
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| hole_shells.jpg | A little cavity in the sedimentary shore strata with barnacles, a snail, pebbles, bits of shell, seaweed, and other debris, Monterey County | 2200x2200
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| jupiter_st.jpg | Nearly buried red yellow white polished stone with a bubble against colorful dark sands seconds after surf washed, northern California stony Pacific beach | 1900x1800
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| lemon_st.jpg | Egg shaped lemon colored surf polished wet stone, northern California stony Pacific beach | 2200x2900
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| moldy_orange_st.jpg | Half buried in colorful sand, a moldy orange like surf polished wet stone, northern California stony Pacific beach | 2400x2200
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| ngreen_anemone_a1.jpg | Crop out of another image of same green anemone. San Mateo County |
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| ngreen_anemone_b2.jpg | Another crop from same green anemone. San Mateo County |
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| ocean_st.jpg | Surf polished wet stone like looking into the blue-green sea, northern California stony Pacific beach | 1700x1300
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| peb_bubbles_c1.jpg | Constructive wavelength interference of sunlight on surf foam bubble thin film atop pebbles, San Mateo County | 2200x2200
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| peb_bubbles_c2.jpg | Crop out of previous image peb_bubbles_c1. San Mateo County |
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| peb_bubbles_d.jpg | Constructive wavelength interference of sunlight on surf foam bubble thin film atop pebbles, San Mateo County | 2200x2200
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| pink_st.jpg | A pink surf polished wet stone amid several red stones, northern California stony Pacific beach | 2900x1900
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| purple_anemone.jpg | This anemone had unusual purple and cyan colors. San Mateo County | 1600x2000
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| red_bull_st.jpg | Red and yellow quartz surf polished wet stone, northern California stony Pacific beach | 2100x2700
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| red_dome1_st.jpg | nearly buried brilliant red dome shaped polished wet stone, northern California stony Pacific beach | 2700x2200
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| red_dome2_st.jpg | Cropped image of brilliant red dome shaped polished wet stone beside colorful sand, northern California stony Pacific beach | 1750x1450
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| red_pebbles_a.jpg | Red sandstone and pebbles, San Mateo County | 2000x1600
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| red_sandstone2_pb.jpg | Red sandstone on ocean bluff, Santa Cruz County | 2100x2800
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| red_seaweed.jpg | Dried red-hued seaweed and beach pebbles, San Mateo County | 1600x2000
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| red_spot_jupiter.jpg | The Giant Red Spot of Jupiter above shore of volcanic cobbles, Monterey County | 2800x2200
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| red-blk_qua_st.jpg | Red and black streaks in white quartz surf polished wet stone, northern California stony Pacific beach | 1900x1600
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| red-wine_st.jpg | Half buried red and wine colored surf polished wet stones embedded in colorful sands, northern California stony Pacific beach | 2400x1900
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| sky1_st.jpg | A light cyan-blue sky colored surf polished wet stone, northern California stony Pacific beach | 2100x1700
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| sky2_st.jpg | A light cyan-blue sky colored surf polished wet stone, northern California stony Pacific beach | 1900x2000
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| stone_cliffs.jpg | Tidal tumbled smooth volcanic stones against sedimentary strata, Monterey County | 2800x2200
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| stone_sands_st.jpg | Several surf polished wet stones atop colorful dark sands, northern California stony Pacific beach | 2900x2100
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| sun_egg_st.jpg | Egg shaped firy red and yellow wet stone, northern California stony Pacific beach | 2400x1900
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| tafoni_a.jpg | Tafoni sandstone hole formations on coastal bluff, San Mateo County | 2400x2200
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| the_orange_st.jpg | An orange-like surf polished wet stone, northern California stony Pacific beach | 2900x2300
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| tiger_st.jpg | A balloon shaped tiger striped polished wet stone, northern California stony Pacific beach | 2500x1600
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| turquoise_st.jpg | Turquoise colored surf polished wet stone, northern California stony Pacific beach | 2400x1900
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| two_eyes.jpg | Sedimentary rock pattern of two eyes and face with barnacles & snails, Monterey County | 2800x2100
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| wavy_stones_a.jpg | Shallow tidal flow atop pebbles, stones, and algae, San Mateo County | 2800x2200
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| wet_beach_stones1.jpg | Just swept by the surf, wet sand, pebbles, and stones, San Mateo County | 2100x2200
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| yellow_strata_st.jpg | A stratified yellow surf polished stone, northern California stony Pacific beach | 2000x2600 |
Miscelaneous close-up Slideshow 6
| Slide #
| Description
| Dimensions
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| 2_strawberries.jpg | Close up of beach strawberry, fragaria chiloensis, Ano Nuevo SR, San Mateo County | 1500x1500
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| 2silver_butterfly.jpg | Two mating silvery blue butterflies, glaucopsyche lygdamus , Russian Ridge OSP, San Mateo County | 1200x1600
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| 3_strawberries.jpg | Three berries on beach strawberry, fragaria chiloensis, atop wind smoothed sand, Ano Nuevo SR, San Mateo County | 1750x2000
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| alien_invasion.jpg | A truly unworldly colony of insect digesting California pitcher plants, aka cobra lily, darlingtonia californica, up against a serpentine rock spring seep, Smith River canyon, Del Norte County | 2400x2100
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| allig_lizard_hd.jpg | Lethargic alligator lizard, gerrhonotus multicarinatus, too chilly to move, Pacheco SP, Merced County | 1800x2800
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| baby_db_rattler.jpg | Sunning 10 inch baby northern Pacific rattlesnake, crotalus oreganus subsp. oreganus, Mt. Diablo SP, Contra Costa County | 1000x3000
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| baby_gopher_snake.jpg | A baby gopher snake, pituophis catenifer, about 12 inches long blending in to dried moss and lichen atop granite, Yosemite NP, Tuolumne County | 2000x2600
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| banana_slug_face.jpg | Head on view of banana slug coming down steep slope, San Mateo County (flash) | 2100x2800
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| bristlec_swirls.jpg | Circular swirls of several hundred years worth of weathered annual ring growth on a bristlecone pine root, White Mountains of Inyo NF, Inyo County | 1930x2200
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| dancer_root.jpg | Smooth weathered annual ring growth of about 400 years on a bristlecone pine root, White Mountains of Inyo NF, Inyo County | 2000x2800
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| deer_fern.jpg | Elegant fronds of a deer fern, belechnum spicant, below redwoods, along the Boy Scout Tree Trail, Jedediah Smith Redwoods SP, Del Norte County (flash) | 2100x3000
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| deer_fern_curv.jpg | Two curving elegant fronds of a deer fern, belechnum spicant, below redwoods, Jedediah Smith Redwoods SP, Del Norte County (flash) | 2100x2700
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| fence_swift.jpg | Blue hues below the pattern of scales on a western fence swift, sceloporus occidentalis, lizard warming in foggy sunshine atop a log, Point Lobos SR, Monterey County | 1400x2000
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| frosty_grass.jpg | Frosty grass on the shores of Mono Lake in Inyo NF, Mono County | 1600x1200
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| grappletail_dgfly.jpg | A male grappletail dragonfly, octogomphus specularis, camoflaged atop similar patterned granite rock along Fall Creek, Henry Cowell Redwoods SP, Santa Cruz County | 2000x2400
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| hair_wood4.jpg | This is amazing natural weathering with the Bart Simpson hairdoo is on an ancient bristlecon pine snag. White Mountains of Inyo NF, Inyo County | 1600x2200
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| jerus_cricket.jpg | Jeruselum cricket aka potato bug aka cootie, stenopelmatidae, Mono County (flash) | 1200x1800
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| kingsnake1.jpg | Full length view of mountain kingsnake, lampropeltis zonata, in Kings Canyon of Sequoia NF, Fresno County (flash fill) | 1600x2800
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| kingsnake2.jpg | Closer crop view of same mountain kingsnake, lampropeltis zonata, in Kings Canyon of Sequoia NF, Fresno County (flash fill) | 1400x1400
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| lady_bugs_log.jpg | Swarming ladybird beetles, hippodamia convergens, atop a log in the fall prior to hibernating under leaf matter for the winter. Beside the Marble Fork of the Kaweah River in Sequoia NP, Tulare County | 1600x1200
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| lichen_bark1.jpg | Cyan-hued foliose lichen and intense orange, and yellow-green crustose lichens on the bark of a coast live oak tree, San Luis WR, Merced County (flash) | 1400x1800
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| lichen_curves.jpg | Cyan-hued foliose liche and orange, and yellow-green crustose lichens on the cracked barkless trunk of a coast live oak tree, San Luis WR, Merced County (flash) | 2200x2800
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| lichen_lettuce.jpg | A minature world of moss, lichens, and miner's lettuce, montia perfoliata, on the side of a coast live oak trunk, San Luis WR, Merced County (flash) | 2200x2800
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| lit_alligator_liz.jpg | Sunning 10 inch young alligator lizard, gerrhonotus multicarinatus, eyeing me with mistrust, Mt Diablo SP, Contra Costa County (flash) | 1400x2800
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| madrone_bark1.jpg | Peeling outer red bark atop smooth inner layers of Pacific madrone, arbutus menziesii, Long Ridge OSP, San Mateo County (flash) | 2400x2000
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| marmot_begger.jpg | This begging yellow-bellied marmot, marmota flaviventris, wanted to be my friend after sampling my inadvertant washed cooking pot scraps, Mineral King in Sequoia NP, Tulare County | 1400x2000
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| merced_ferns.jpg | Ferns, moss, lichen on metamorphic rock, Mariposa County | 2000x2800
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| morel.jpg | Narrow-headed morel, morella angusticeps, beside Redwood Creek in Kings Canyon NP, Tulare County (flash fill) | 2600x1600
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| moss_icicles.jpg | Icicles against snowy moss and lichen covered granite, Yosemite NP, Mariposa County | 2100x2600
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| mushroom_moss.jpg | Rising on a bed of moss, an inedible mushroom, Sequoia NP, Tulare County (flash) | 2000x2000
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| pac_treefrog.jpg | Amazing natural camoflage of a 1.5 inch long Pacific treefrog, pseudacris regilla, using its suction toes against a lichen adorned granite boulder, Tahoe NF, Nevada County (flash) | 2400x1600
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| petals_mud.jpg | Fallen pink petals of red storksbill, erodium cicutarium, on damp from sping rains cracked stream mud, Carrizo Plain NM, San Luis Obispo County | 2200x2800
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| pitcher_head.jpg | Side head closeup patterns of a backlit California pitcher plant aka cobra lily, darlingtonia californica, Smith River canyon, Del Norte County | 1300x1100
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| pitcher_tall.jpg | Side view of the unworldly California pitcher plant, aka cobra lily, darlingtonia californica, that digests trapped insects inside its hollow body with bacteria, Smith River canyon, Del Norte County | 1600x3000
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| pitcher_tops.jpg | Top view of a colony of the unworldly insect digesting California pitcher plants, aka cobra lily, darlingtonia californica, Smith River canyon, Del Norte County | 2700x1600
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| poak_ls_branch.jpg | Rain wet poison oak and branch against lichen spotted limestone rock, Tuolumne County | 1600x1800
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| rainbow_sh_fungi.jpg | Rainbow shelf fungus, polyporus vesicolor, atop a green foliose lichen and moss of a valley oak trunk, JD Grant CP, Santa Clara County (flash) | 2200x2800
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| red_beetle.jpg | A red beetle with a bent wing atop a thimbleberry leaf, Steep Ravine Trail, Mt. Tamalpais SP, Marin County (flash) | 1600x1800
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| red_chert_fern.jpg | Fern, lichen and moss on red chert, Alameda County (flash) | 2600x2200
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| red_chert_moss2.jpg | Lichen and moss on red chert, Alameda County (flash) | 1600x1600
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| red_chert_po4.jpg | Poison oak leaves against red chert rock, Alameda County | 1840x2200 pixels
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| sequoia_cone.jpg | A rain soaked lichen covered giant sequoia cone amid autumn leaves, dry scale leaves, and sugar pine cone seeds, (flash) | 2200x2800
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| squirrel_cones.jpg | A gray squirrel's dining table atop a burned giant sequoia log with sequoia pine cones and red Pacific dogwood fruits and white petals, Sequoia NP, Tulare County (flash) | 2000x2200
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| sword_fern_nfr.jpg | Bizarre insect-like look of emerging unwinding frond of California sword fern, polystichum californicum, Heritage Grove CP, San Mateo County (flash) | 2800x1600
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