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Native: an animal or plant indigenous to a place

Dry Creek – March 18, 2014

I began photographing wildflowers to enhance my sense of place, this ranch and this canyon. With no botanical background and able only to identify a handful of the most common flowers, I have since learned many names online Calflora and from a growing library at home. The more I photographed, the more I found that I’d never seen before. Over the years, we’ve documented them within this blog wildflowers.

Dry Creek – March 18, 2014

Not a colorful year for wildflowers, I was surprised, while setting my irrigation water yesterday, to pass a pastel-yellow family of Scalebud Anisocoma acaulis on a sandy, south-facing slope, well-off the easement road to Terminus Dam.

I get excited when I find a wildflower I’ve never seen before, so much so, that I have to take several shots while running through the F-stops on my macro lens to insure that I may get one in focus. My thanks to Neal Kramer for identifying this one for me.