mule deer found at Chantry Flat. Male with horns.
Green color branch, very thin, like pine tree branch. Lepidospartum squamatum is a large shrub often exceeding two meters in height which takes a spreading, rounded form, its branches coated in woolly fibers and stubby leaves no more than 3 millimeters long.As the fruits mature and the flower parts fall away the inflorescence takes on a cottony look due to all the pappi.
California Sunflower found at Eaton Canyon. Very dried out and small at the time. Usually open and appealing.
The California sage usually grow in dry area such as the sage scrub and the alluvial scrub. They grow together which means they appeared usually in groups