More matter for a May morning... this morning, it's a photo-bouquet gathered near Dillon Divide in Little Tujunga Canyon. Happy Mother's Day from Cloudcuckooland Today!
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| Mendenhall Ridge is the backdrop for an extravagant display of yerba santa and bush poppies... |
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Eriodictyon crassifolia, thick-leaf yerba santa. It blooms in pink-purple, and also in a cool gray-purple. Terribly medicinal, they say, for respiratory congestion.
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| Dendromocon rigida, the bush poppy |
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| Chamise, the prettier name for the chaparral keystone "greasewood." |
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| Adenostoma fasciculatum, in Linnaean lingo |
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| Black sage, Salvia mellifera |
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Cleveland sage, Salvia clevelandii
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"Our Lord's Candle," aka chaparral yucca
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Also aka Yucca whipplei, but most commonly known as "century plant." Arguably, it's the most conspicuous of all chaparral plants, unmistakeable even to drivers whizzing along the freeways.
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| Buckwheat -- Eriogonum fasciculatum, just popping pink |
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| Chaparral dodder, Cuscuta californica, is a parasitic Silly-String-like plant, usually seen as a dull orange mat draped over shrubs ...but it can also show in a striking spun-gold hue: |
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| Eriophyllum confertiflorum, aka... |
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| Golden yarrow |
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