I scanned some old pictures for the PDB, and since this are all wild plants, I thought I'd share the pictures here, too.
This is a naturally-occuring field of California poppies.
Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County, desert grassland habitat, elevation ~3,000 ft.
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Giant coreopsis
Point Mugu State Park, Ventura County, coastal sage scrub habitat, elevation ~75ft.
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Scarlet bugler
Cheseboro Canyon (Santa Monica Mtns. Nat. Recreation Area), Ventura County, chaparral habitat, elevation no more than 1000ft.
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Giant sequoia
Sequoia National Park, Sierran forest habitat, elevation ~6,000ft.
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Valley oak
Neale's Oak, Agoura, CA, Los Angeles County, vacant lot habitat, elevation a few hundred feet (tree no longer in existence)
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Valley oak savannah
East Las Virgenes Canyon, Ventura County, elevation no more than 1000ft.
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Western sycamore
Malibu Creek State Park, Los Angeles County, riparian habitat, elevation a couple hundred feet
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Bristlecone pine
White Mountains, Inyo National Forest, Inyo County, alpine forest habitat, elevation 9,000 to 10,000ft.
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Kelli, those are beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
Sherri
Good stuff Kelli!
Kelli these are great pics. They give a feel for placement as well as individual specimens. Really like the feel of the valley oak savannah.
Have never seen such a coreopsis with tree trunk type stems. Amazing size. Thanks for sharing these as a group. ~Blooms
Speaking for myself, I'd like some location/aspect/elevation info, too. Being an ex-Californian. I echo Blooms comments as well. Blooms, you often say things I wish I had said!
Thank you everyone.
I have added the requested information. The elevations are educated guesses, but probably accurate within 10%.
Now its REALLY, REALLY GOOD stuff, Kelli! :-)
Aww, Kelli, you'll spoil him. LOL
Looking forward to the next batch, Kelli! Blooms? Completes the 'picture' though, don't ya think? :-)
I forgot one.
Our Lord's candle (Yucca whipplei)
Malibu Creek State Park, Los Angeles County, coastal sage scrub habitat, elevation a few hundred feet
And a couple pictures from other states.
claret cup cactus, White Sands form, which is larger than the typical form
White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, elevation ~5000 feet (?)
eastern white pine (and two eastern white guys - my dad and brother)
Anders Run Natural Area, Warren County, Pennsylvania, elevation ~1200 feet (?)
There is a story that goes with the valley oak savannah. I used to live in an apartment near there. The place was a couple thousand acres of wild land owned by an absentee landowner and I would sneak through the fence and poke around. Since no one lived there and no one was back there, it almost felt like it was mine. I did encounter the security guard a couple times. He just said that this was private property and to leave. I learned that there was one area where one might encounter the security guard and the rest of safe. Oh, there were No Trespassing signs, but there was some part of no that I didn't understand. After all, I wasn't going to hurt anything and if I hurt myself, I was willing to blame myself and not sue anyone. No one lived there and it was owned by a multi-million dollar corporation who hoped to build 3,000 houses, an industrial park, a golf course, etc, ad nauseum, on the property. And I was going to hurt it? That's the part of no that I didn't understand.
In the last picture in this series, you can see some red-roofed buildings in the distance. That is the apartment complex that I lived in at that time. http://www.ahmanson.org/gallery.html
Another web site says, "Historic scenes from Gone With the Wind and many other movies were filmed on the ranch."
This all has a happy ending. The state bought the property last year and it is now parkland.
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Whoopee! Thanks for the post, Kelli! The good guys won one!
Great pictures, Kelli.
I thought you were low on the elevation in Warren PA, which is just south of us. Our farm is between 1700 and 1800 feet. I checked on Terraserver (http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com) and you were closer to right than I was. Terraserver is a really neat site - it has the USGS aerial and topographical maps for the whole country.
Thank you a bunch for that link, Kathleen!!! Within minutes I located the aerial photo of my place! Fantastic! :-D
John
A couple more that are not in California
organ pipe cactus
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona, Sonoran Desert habitat, elevation - I won't even guess.
senita cactus
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona, Sonoran Desert habitat, elevation - I have no idea
The natural range of this plant just barely reaches into the U.S. The cacti in the background are saguaros.
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