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Checker Fiddleneck is the common name for a plant known to botany as Amsinckia Tessellata. A common wildflower in the Mojave Desert, yellow blossoms atop, the stems below are covered in small white hairs which can produce a skin irritation if handled. Here, in the partially developed margins of Johnson Valley, they can be visualized thriving after an especially wet winter gives way to the warmer embrace of spring. Long may the area garner respect as a habitat for native ecology.

Three-forked Emerald Carpet (Azorella Trifurcata) in London, England

butterflies and bugs on yellow wildflowers in spring

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A female Green-backed Firecrown Hummingbird (Sephanoides sephanoides) perches among the turquoise flowers of the Blue Chagual (Puya chilensis), a species in the pineapple or Bromeliad family growing in the springtime of central Chile

Fiddlenect at Carrizo Plain National Monument in San Luis Obispo County, California.

$Medium to tall, mostly hairless, greyish biennial. stem leaves arrow-shaped, clasping the stem. Flowers yellow, 3-4mm in much branched racemes, Fruit an oblong, flattened pendent silicula, 11-27mm, dark brown when ripe.\nHabitat:: Dry places, cultivated land, waste places, cliffs and rocks, to 2000m.\nFlowering Season: July-August.\nDistribution: Eastern Europe, West Asia. Throughout, except Ireland, the Faeroes, Iceland and Spitsbergen, naturalized probably in most places and persisting as a relict of former cultivation.\n\nUsed by the Greeks and Romans as a medical plant. During the Middle Ages it was widely cultivated for the production of a blue dye, Indigotin, produced by crushing and fermenting the leaves. Still cultivated in gardens today.\n\nThis Picture is made along the River Waal near Nijmegen (the Netherlands).$

Blooming yellow terminal determinate scorpioid cyme inflorescences of Coast Fiddleneck, Amsinckia Menziesii, Boraginaceae, native annual monoclinous herb in Red Rock Canyon MRCA Park, Santa Monica Mountains, Transverse Ranges, Springtime.

Close up of Fiddleneck (Amsinckia tesselata) wildflowers blooming on a meadow, green background; south San Francisco bay area, San Jose, California

Jerusalem sage (Phlomis fruticosa) flowers. Lamiaceae evergreen shrub herb. Leaves and stems are covered with white hairs and yellow flowers bloom from May to August.

The Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis) is a type of squirrel found in the mountainous areas of western North America. Because of its stripes and cheek pouches the Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel is often thought of as a chipmunk. It is considerably larger than the chipmunk and lacks facial stripes. This Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel was photographed while feeding in a meadow of lupine near the Paradise River in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington State, USA.

Flowers in Los Glacier national park close Fitz Roy in El Chalten, Patagonia, Argentina

The semi developed margins proximate to Valley Center host many introduced species. However, among them is a species from the genus Datura, indigenous to the area.

A wild rabbit enjoys the spring foliage of Southern California.

Lembotropis nigricans, also called Cyticus nigricans and Black bloom, is a species of flowering plant in the subfamily of Faboideae of the family Fabaceae. Masses of yellow flowers appear in long racemes in late spring and summer.

Limonium sinuatum, syn. wavyleaf sea lavender, statice, sea lavender, notch leaf marsh rosemary, sea pink, is a Mediterranean plant species in the family Plumbaginaceae known for its papery flowers.

$Medium hairy, stoloniferous perennial; stems erect, branched above. Basal leaves oblong, narrowed at the base, withered by flowering time; stem leaves heart- or arrow-shaped, clasping the stem with unstalked bases; all leaves green above, softly gray-downy beneath, toothed or untoothed. Flower heads daisy-like, golden yellow, 15-30mm, in lax flat-topped clusters, rays numerous, linear; flower bract linear, downy.\nHabitat: Damp places, river and stream banks, ditches, dykes, marshes and wet meadows.\nFlowering Season: August-September.\nDistribution: Throughout Europe, except the far north.\n\nThis Species is quite common in the above described Habitats in the Netherlands.$

A scenic view of wild, colorful flowers in a forest in sunny weather

Lavender Croton (Croton gratissimus) at Etosha National Park in Kunene Region, Namibia

Fiddleneck at Carrizo Plain National Monument in California

Several flower spikes of a perennial Capachito (Calceolaria thyrsiflora) growing in the foothills of the Andes near the capital Santiago. There are about 60 species of Calceolaria native to Chile, and several of the yellow-flowered species are called “Capachito” (from hooded Capuchin monks) by the local inhabitants and so are not distinguished by common names. In the English-speaking world the Calceolaria are often known as ‘slipper flower’ or ‘pocketbook flower’ because of their purse-shaped lower flower petals. This species is mostly restricted to central Chile.

Argarita (Berberis trifoliolata) bush marks the entrance to Nature Trail in South Llano River State Park in Texas Hill Country.

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