California everlasting Pseudognaphalium californicum Asteraceae

		Lady bird beetles Mating pair: Hippodamia convergens Single individual: Coccinella septempunctata Thanks to Hartmut Wisch for ID
Tree tobacco * Nicotiana glauca Solanaceae

California sagebrush Artemisia californica Asteraceae

Wild tarragon Artemisia dracunculus Asteraceae

Chinese houses Collinsia heterophylla Plantaginaceae

Volcanic gilia Gilia ochroleuca ssp. bizonata Polemoniaceae

		Chamise Adenostoma fasciculatum Rosaceae

Dodder Cuscuta sp. Cuscutaceae [On buckwheat]		Bird's-foot fern Pellaea mucronata var. mucronata Pteridaceae

Wild cucumber Marah macrocarpus var. macrocarpus Cucurbitaceae

Saltbush ~ Atriplex sp. Chenopodiaceae

Mojave ceanothus Ceanothus greggii var. vestitus Rhamnaceae
		Birch-leaf mountain mahogany Cercocarpus betuloides var. betuloides Rosaceae

London rocket * Sisymbrium irio Brassicaceae

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