I have a confession to make. Not only am I not good with the members of Asteraceae, I often don’t…
It is always a pleasure to find these little Noctuids, but it is not a rare one. They have surprised…
Woohoo! I identified my first grass! It is a European introduction, and was probably planted nearby, but this specimen was…
This rather spectacular member of the phlox family (Polemoniaceae) also goes by the names of western sky-pilot, western polemonium, and…
They say these big scarab beetles (family Scarabaeidae) will hiss at you, but I’ve never had that pleasure, though one…
Rhododendrons (and their congeneric cousins azaleas) are widespread, approaching ubiquity, in the cultivated landscapes of our region, although I much…
Last Sunday I made the leap and took a grass workshop with Cindy Roché (co-author of the wonderful book “Field…
Salal may be the first wild shrub I ever learned to identify. It was pointed out and named to me…
This was the native plant of the trip to Long Beach Peninsula last weekend, a plant that not only had…
I was kind of thrilled to actually find this moth (family Geometridae) in an area that contained its eponymous spruces…