The many flowers of the California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum) look heavenly in the sunlight! #nativePlant #canativePlants
One 4-inch California Phacelia I planted in January of 2024 has since become a profusion of flowers. Here are some of them (including a bee visitor)! #nativePlant #canativeplants #bee #bloomscrolling

Unknown "paintbrush", Castilleja species, on a steep slope above Highway 101 north of Leggett California. I passed by this on the way to checking out the wallflower in the previous post. Getting this picture involved scrambling up a steep, collapsing slope with patches of poison oak.

#BloomScrolling #WildFlowers #NativePlants #CANativePlants

Clintonia andrewsiana
There is a lovely little patch of these in the old growth redwoods just north of Redway, CA. I saw them for the first time last year.

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my ca native plants are doing so well.......here are some that aren't currently flowering , but soon will.

1 - Farewell to Spring (Clarkia amoena (about to pop))
2 - Pink Honeysuckle (Lonicera Hispidula)
3 - A single strand of California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum)
4 - Caterpillar Flower (Phacelia bolanderi)

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All three are part of the twelve new photos added to my ever-growing collection of native plants in San Diego County. Here they are. :)

https://www.alex-kunz.com/plant-update-january-2026/

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Plant Update January 2026

The start of the desert hiking season has provided to be very productive, with three new native plant photos that I really like. And with them, another dozen of additions to my collection of photos of…

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First plants placed on world’s largest wildlife crossing over 101 Freeway

I wish they'd talked to a plant person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8SDIpnK5Eg #CANativePlants #Horticulture

First plants placed on world’s largest wildlife crossing over 101 Freeway 

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Not that it would be cheap to do, but one wonders whether a shepherd dog could also be trained to smell out toxic plants and keep the herd away from them... #California #CANativePlants

The report just uses the common name instead of a more precise scientific name, but it seems it may be this plant: https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=7332

I'm seeing conflicting opinions about whether snakeroot is toxic to livestock, but UCANR has put out a bulletin about California plants that *are* toxic to livestock here: https://ucanr.edu/sites/default/files/2020-08/331781.pdf

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Sanicula bipinnatifida Calflora

12 sheep, goats from fire-preventing grazing herd die after poisoned by native plants in Marin Co.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hy0qwrZYRw #California #CANativePlants

12 sheep, goats from fire-preventing grazing herd die after poisoned by native plants in Marin Co.

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