A flowering Great Basin sage mound in Red Rock Canyon, Nevada. Photo: Stan Shebs, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Salvia dorrii, commonly called Great Basin
Coast paintbrush blooming in Marin County, California. Photo: Franco Folini, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Castilleja affinis, commonly known as coast paintbrush or coast Indian
California buttercup in bloom at Sunol Regional Wilderness. Photo: Acmonbluey, Wikimedia Commons (CC0) Ranunculus californicus, the California buttercup, is one of the first wildflowers to
Calico monkeyflower, grown from wild-collected Kern County seed at the Regional Parks Botanic Garden. Photo: John Rusk, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Diplacus pictus (long
A mature Shaw’s agave rosette, its broad leaves edged with hooked marginal spines and tipped in dark terminal points. Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, via Wikimedia
Parry’s nolina flower spikes crowded with tiny cream blossoms and the small bees that pollinate them. Photo: NPS / Alessandra Puig-Santana, via Wikimedia Commons (public
Engelmann’s hedgehog cactus in full spring bloom, its large pink flowers opening in sequence along the stem. Photo: National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site
A golden cholla flower opens among the dense, straw-colored spines that give this cactus its common name. Photo: ZombiUwU, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
A cottontop cactus mound near Las Vegas, Nevada, its woolly crown wedged among curved gray spines. Photo: Stan Shebs, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
White bursage’s gray-green, deeply lobed leaves and small flower clusters on its characteristic tangle of wiry stems. Photo: Stan Shebs / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA
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