I clearly don’t know all the correct names of these creatures and blooms I came across on my hike along St Joseph’s Trail – but I’d like to! If you know the real names please chime in!

Bay Area Checkerspot

Skipper on a yellow Devil’s Paintbrush

Bermuda Buttercups / Soursop

Seep Monkey Flower / Common Monkey Flower / Mimulus guttatus

Sticky Monkey Flower / Orange Bush Monkey Flower / Mimulus aurantiacus

Scotch Broom

 

Yellow Flower

California India Pink

Ladybug

Tadpole

                        

California Poppy, ?. White Lupine

Flowering Shrub

Railroad

White Flowers

White Morning Glory

White Iris

Wild clematis gone to seed

White Lupine

Fairy Lantern / Globe Lily/ Calochortus alba

Nightshade

Clover

Vetch

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Thistle

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Smallflower Lupine / Lupinus polycarpus  (micranthus)

Blackheaded Grosbeak

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Purple Finches