Past June, I went out to Pine Canyon in Diablo Foothills Regional Park to glance for wildflowers. It was a breathtaking yr: the large rains prolonged the year for blooms.
It appeared like every single corner I turned, there had been new attractive flowers and plants to see.
This 12 months, wildflowers are once again commencing to bloom across Mount Diablo. The Mount Diablo Interpretative Association publishes a weekly wildflower report, so look at that out if you want to see what’s blooming now.
If you want to stop by Pine Canyon, right here are some wildflowers you may get to see—either now or later this spring.
1. Tasteful Clarkia (Clarkia unguiculata)
2. Yellow Mariposa Lily (Calochortus luteus)
3. White Mariposa Lily (Calochortus sp.)
This mariposa lily may be Calochortus argillosus or Calochortus umbellatus.
4. Bush Monkey Flower (Diplacus aurantiacus)
5. California Poppy: White Variant! (Eschscholzia californica)
6. Woolly Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja foliolosa)
7. Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
8. Ithuriel’s Spear (Triteleia laxa)
9. False Little one Stars (Leptosiphon androsaceus)
10. Farewell to Spring (Clarkia sp.)
11. Harvest Brodiaea (Brodiaea elegans)
12. California Buckeye (Aesculus californica)
Reward: Butterfly on Mariposa Lily
I believe the butterfly could possibly be a variable checkerspot (Euphydryas chalcedona).
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