kigo: Southern California summer wildflowers

Deborah Kolodji: Bush Monkey Flower, Fish Canyon, 5/31/09

From Debbie Kolodji, near Los Angeles, over Memorial Day weekend:

As a kigo update, here is a list of the wildflowers in bloom yesterday on the Fish Canyon hike:

• California milkweed (just starting to bloom)
• clarkia
• wild mustard
• prickley pear cactus
• Our Lord's Candle (yucca)
• blue dicks (at end of bloom period - I saw only one plant blooming - in March when I did the hike, they were blooming everywhere)
• Indian pink
• goldenstar
• California buckwheat
• cliff aster
• golden yarrow
• wild morning glory
• sticky monkeyflower
• bush monkey flower
• elegant clarkia
• caterpiller phaelia
• Matilija poppy
• common sunflower
• western wallflower
• white yarrow
• California thistle
• California blackberry
• laurel sumac
• dodder
• Calfornia everlasting
• leafy daisy

Thank you Debbie!

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