Likely you've seen this large & striking redhead around town in areas of asphalt & concrete. The last one that I saw (last week) was scaling the vertical concrete wall of the ABC liquor store in the Miracle Mile Shopping…
Peter’s rock agama
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Early Bird Flower
Forked bluecurls (Trichostema dichotomum) flowers open early in the day. That's when the beautiful blue flowers are erect with long curled Its stamens (male parts) and styles (female parts). Its lower petals are distinctively spotted to "direct" bees where to…
Weeds of Wednesday: Paintedleaf
Paintedleaf, fire-on-the-mountain, painted spurge, and wild poinsettia are among the common named given to the native, but weedy, spurge now ascribed the botanical name Euphorbia cyanthophora. Spurges belong to the family Euphorbiaceae, a very large and diverse plant family with…
Diversity Matters
Diversity matters - at least to monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus). Milkweeds (Asclepias spp.) are the larval host plants for monarch butterfly. Pictured above along Oslo Road is a monarch butterfly nectaring on scarlet milkweed (Asclepias curassavica), a non-native, commercially available…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 