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@jby@ecoevo.social
2026-02-10 15:54:04

Pink lady's slipper, Cypripedium acaule, along the carriage roads in Acadia National Park last June
#wildflower

An orchid with a big pink labellum hanging below green-yellow, more strap-like tepals
@jby@ecoevo.social
2026-04-10 14:15:14

Greenspot nightshade, Solanum douglasii, at Sepulveda Basin this spring
#naturalist #wildflower

Two flowers with white, five-lobed corollas like stars, framing long tubular yellow anthers with pores at their tips, closely appressed to narrow styles

Death Valley and parts of southern California have erupted in #wildflowers thanks to record rain that helped deliver spectacular blooms.
In the famously arid national park,
the rare display has covered miles of the landscape in vibrant shades of yellow and purple.
Park officials announced on Sunday that Death Valley was experiencing an “above-average bloom year”
that is nearing l…

@cosmicray@mastodon.social
2026-03-22 04:40:43

Aerial scouting was an effective, and very scenic, way to find the most intense #wildflower blooms in the Carrizo Plain and Antelope Valley
#flying

@cosmicray@mastodon.social
2026-03-22 04:40:43

Aerial scouting was an effective, and very scenic, way to find the most intense #wildflower blooms in the Carrizo Plain and Antelope Valley
#flying

Aerial view of a broad plain with bright white drive rover channels, distant lakes and mountains, and a carpet of yellow wildflowers
Aerial view of a wide desert valley with large areas of intense orange colour on the ground and mountains in the distance
A great many orange California poppies (Eschscholzia californica) blooming in a field and stretching off into the distance
A smiling man in a blue shirt and sunglasses lays in a field surrounded by flowers, including orange California poppies and purple owl’s clover