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Landscapes, Flora, Fungi from the California Floristic Province Original Photography instagram inaturalist

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Lanceleaf Stoncrop, Sedum lanceolatum - I think - growing amongst mosses and Selaginella on a rock outcrop in the Sutton Mountain Wilderness Study Area. This group had tiny leaves, much smaller than most photographs I've seen of S.lanceolatum, but don't quite match any other sedums in the John Day River Basin near the John Day National Monument areas.

Sutton Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Oregon

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Spotted Fritillary, Fritillaria atropurpurea, flowering along a stand of Western Juniper, within the Devil's Garden meadows of the Modoc Plateau

Modoc National Forest, California

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Some favorites from last weekend.

1. Siskiyou Inside-Out Flower

(Vancouveria chrysantha)

2. Pacific Starflower

(Lysimachia latifolia)

3. Purple Larkspur

(Delphinium sp)

4. Paintbrush

(Castilleja sp)

5. Meadow Death Camas

(Toxicoscordion venenosum?)

6. Tolmie's Pussy-Ears

(Calochortus tolmiei)

7. California Lady Slipper

(Cypripedium californicum)

Six Rivers National Forest, California

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Checker Lily, Frittilaria affinis , growing under Oregon White Oak, Quercus garryana, in early May at 2900'.

Six Rivers National Forest, California

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The beautiful and endangered California Lady Slipper, Cypripedium californicum, blooming in Northern California alongside Pitcher Plants, Darlingtonia Californica.

From Calflora- "Cypripedium californicum, the California lady's slipper, is a member of the orchid genus Cypripedium, the lady's slipper orchids, native to the western United States. It often grows in very large clumps and each stem can bear up to 21 flowers. It can grow to be up to over a meter in height and has alternate, plicate leaves the length of the stem. The petals and sepals tend to be greenish-brown while the small pouch is pure white with occasional pink spots.[2] Iit has a very restricted range and can only be found in the mountains of southwestern Oregon (including the Kalmiopsis Wilderness) and northern California. It prefers the margins of woodland streams in open coniferous forests."

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California Fetid Adderstongue, Scoliopus bigelovii, flowering in the Redwood understory.

Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California

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Umpqua National Forest, Oregon

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Reno to Mammoth

Eastern Sierras, California & Nevada

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Lassen

Eastern Sierras, California

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South of Susanville

Eastern Sierras, California

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Rain in Bridgeville

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A few more Collybia nuda, Wood Blewits, found under Monterrey Cypress on a coastal bluff.

South Spit Recreational Area, California

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Collybia nuda, the Wood Blewit, fruiting below Monterrey Cypress, on a coastal bluff.

South Spit Recreational Area, California

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Early snow on Horse Mountain.

Six Rivers National Forest, California

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Fall. Oregon Ash, Fraxinus latifolia, and Bigleaf Maple, Acer macrophyllum, with beautiful yellow foliage.

Dinsmore, California

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Mountain Ash from a cold wet window

Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon

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Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon