Yellow bush penstemon in full bloom, its arching stems lined with bright yellow, snapdragon-like flowers. Photo: peganum / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Keckiella antirrhinoides,
White-flowered currant blooming on a Southern California chaparral slope, its cream flowers appearing on tall, upright canes. Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz / Wikimedia Commons (CC
Sierra plum in full spring bloom, its thorny branches covered in fragrant white flowers before the leaves fully expand. Photo: Franco Folini / Wikimedia Commons
Sierra gooseberry growing in its natural montane conifer forest habitat, with developing spiny fruit along its spreading branches. Photo: Akos Kokai / Wikimedia Commons (CC
Chaparral currant in full winter bloom, its arching branches draped in pink flower clusters. Photo: Alan Schmierer / Wikimedia Commons (CC0) Ribes malvaceum, commonly known
The dense, rounded habit of spiny redberry, here grown as a specimen shrub. Photo: Stan Shebs, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Rhamnus crocea, commonly called
A hollyleaf redberry shrub heavy with ripening fruit, a common sight in California chaparral in late summer. Photo: cultivar413, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Frangula
Desert apricot growing on a dry slope at the edge of the Colorado Desert, Riverside County, California. Photo: Florian Boyd, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Desert almond forming dense, rounded thickets in the Mojave Desert. Photo: Stan Shebs, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Prunus fasciculata, commonly called desert almond, is
A coast silktassel shrub draped in its distinctive fruit chains near Sonoma Coast State Park, California. Photo: arlenedevitt, iNaturalist, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0) Garrya elliptica,
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