Wildflower Photos #5
Wayne's WordIndexNoteworthy PlantsTriviaLemnaceaeBiology 101BotanySearch

    Anza-Borrego      Iron Mountain       SD Mountains      San Marcos      Fire Areas      Sunflowers      Vernal Pools 
    Top Flowers      Checklists      Terminology      Bot Unknowns      Anza-Borrego      Sage Flowers      Wildflowers 1 
    Wildflowers 2      Wildflowers 3      Wildflowers 4      Wildflowers 5      Wildflowers 6      Terminology      Terminology 

California Wildflowers #5  
Hwy. 155 through Sierra Nevada Foothills, Kern County (26 April 2006)

Ithuriel's spear (Triteleia laxa) amidst naturalized annual grasses.

Ithuriel's spear (Triteleia laxa) amidst naturalized annual grasses.

Golden brodiaea (Triteleia ixioides ssp. scabra) amidst naturalized annual grasses.

Watch out for the rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis) in spring.

Mariposa lily (Calochortus superbus).

More Species Of Mariposa Lilies
Mariposa Lilies In San Diego County
Mariposa Lilies In San Diego County
Mariposa Lilies In San Diego County

The soil lichen (Acarospora schleicheri).

Magnified view of the pale, sulfur-yellow soil lichen (Acarospora schleicheri) showing overlapping scale-like areoles called squamules. Some squamules contain a dark brown, sunken (embedded) apothecium. Unlike many ascolichens with 8 or fewer spores per ascus, species of Acarospora contain hundreds of spores per ascus.

Alphabetical List Of Lichens On Wayne's Word

An orange-red bark lichen of the genus Xanthoria (probably X. polycarpa). There appear to be many small clumps (cushions) of individuals crowded together. The colorful disk-shaped apothecia are less than a mm in diameter. This lichen literally covered the branchlets of oaks in foothills of the Sierra Nevada during April of 2006.

Alphabetical List Of Lichens On Wayne's Word

Calico monkey-flower (Mimulus pictus), a striking species that grows around rock outcrops in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Photo taken with flash at dusk.

Calico monkey-flower (Mimulus pictus).

Calico monkey-flower (Mimulus pictus). Photo taken without flash at dusk.

Return To WAYNE'S WORD Home Page
Return To NOTEWORTHY PLANTS Page
Go To Biology GEE WHIZ TRIVIA Page
Go To The LEMNACEAE ON-LINE Page