The name rostriflorus comes from the Latin rostrum, "a bill, snout or beak," and rostratus, "beaked," plus florus, "flowered," thus meaning "with beaked flowers," and is a good name for this species. The word 'rostrum,' originally meant "animal snout or bird's beak" in Latin. I always wondered what the connection was between a snout or beak and the place from which people orate. The word rostrum came to be used for the battering beak or ram at a warship’s bow on triremes and other naval vessels used by the Romans and their adversaries.  Following a battle, the Romans would remove the beaks from captured ships and use them to decorate the platform from which orators spoke about their victory, and that platform came to be called the rostra. By the mid-17th century, the word rostrum had acquired its modern meaning, that is, a platform for speeches, performances, or receiving awards.

Short-leaved cliff aster
Malacothrix saxatilis var. tenuifolia
Asteraceae

Southern cattail
Typha domingensis
Typhaceae

Hollyleaf redberry
Rhamnus ilicifolia
Rhamnaceae

Arroyo willow
Salix lasiolepis
Salicaceae
[With gall from willow apple gall sawfly, Pontania californica)