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Calochortus amabilis stands out against a rock and post-burn landscape

Calochortus amabilis

Published by Daniel Mosquin on April 24, 2020

Although species of Calochortus have been featured from time to time (most recently, Calochortus leichtlinii), it’s been an omission to have never shared one of the species with nodding and globular flowers, also known as the fairy-lanterns.

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Rain-kissed flowers of Viola pedata

Viola pedata

Published by Daniel Mosquin on April 16, 2020

Two flower colour morphs of bird’s-foot violet are common: the solidly lilac-coloured flowers in today’s photograph and a bi-coloured version, with the upper two petals coloured a dark purple.

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Flowers and foliage of Wyethia bolanderi

Wyethia bolanderi

Published by Daniel Mosquin on April 8, 2020

Wyethia bolanderi is an uncommon species of chaparral plant communities in central California.

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A distant view of the hillsides along Dalles Mountain Road

Dalles Mountain Road

Published by Daniel Mosquin on April 6, 2020

Here is a 2015 photograph from a favourite site of many spring wildflower seekers, the Dalles Mountain Road area in southern Washington state.

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Quercus lobata growing on Table Mountain

Quercus lobata

Published by Daniel Mosquin on April 2, 2020

For those who wander looking for wildflowers during California’s springtime, I suspect this tree will be immediately familiar. It is the valley oak or roble that grows near the main parking lot to the exceptional North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve, photographed seven years ago in early morning light.

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The flowers of Calochortus leichtlinii

Calochortus leichtlinii

Published by Daniel Mosquin on March 16, 2020

Although there are a number of spring bulbs in bloom at the moment locally, today’s photograph features a summer-blooming geophyte. Leichtlin’s mariposa is native to California, Nevada, and Oregon, though it is by far more common in California than elsewhere.

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The aptly-named brown screw-moss

Syntrichia princeps

Published by Daniel Mosquin on August 20, 2019

The Flora of North America describes the distribution of brown screw-moss as spanning western North America (including Mexico), western and southern South America, Europe, western Asia, Africa, some of the Pacific Islands (Hawaii, New Zealand), Australia, and Antarctica. It is therefore one of the relatively few multicellular species that can be found on all major […]

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