Tag: plants
Sunflowers, Daisies, Asters, and Allies
Yep. a tumbleweed (sorry, a Russian Thistle) bigger than my car.
Yep. a #tumbleweed (sorry, a Russian Thistle) bigger than my car.
Mallow (flower above Bluff Cove)
Fiery Skipper (on yellow flower cluster)
Common Duckweed
Sunflowers
Sunflowers
Russian Thistles (Irvine, in the street)
Not sure of the exact date, but I have it written down as November 2002 during the week leading up to Thanksgiving. We’d had heavy Santa Ana Winds blowing the tumbleweeds all over the place, including into the middle of the road, as you can see!
Flowering Plants
Wild Buckwheats
Milkvetches
Russian Thistles (Edinger/55 exit)
Chinese Banyan (in vent pipe)
Russian Thistles (next to hedge)
A tiny Marine Blue butterfly on Blue Chalksticks flowers.
A tiny Marine Blue #butterfly on Blue Chalksticks flowers.
The name might seem odd, but when they open their wings, the inside shades to a bright blue near the body.
On PixelFed.Social
On Flickr
On iNaturalist (crop, no commentary)
Milk Thistle
Lupines (Spectrum empty lot)
This is a tree that grew from seed in the back yard over the course of 2-3 years.
This is a tree that grew from seed in the back yard over the course of 2-3 years. I don’t remember why we decided not to pull it out as a weed when it started. I think we were just curious to see what it was. I never did find that out, but it took over the entire corner.
Other iNaturalist users have suggested it’s a silk oak.
Discarded seed pod. A dried-out fig, maybe? It was under an olive tree, but…
Discarded seed pod. A dried-out fig, maybe? It was under an olive tree, but it’s definitely not an olive!
Best guess: a squirrel or something grabbed it from another yard and didn’t finish it before scurrying off.
#photo #plants #nature #SeedPod #ground #shadow
(@artsyhonker suggests it’s a pomegranate, and @raye agrees.)
Yeah, I think that’s it. Thanks!