#valleyfire2020

#CastillejaExserta / #PurpleOwlsClover in the #ValleyFire2020 burn area. I didn’t see any of these in this specific area last year. Now there are several and I’m not sure why. #owlsclover #castilleja #paintbrushflower #orobanchaceae #californianativeplants #californiawildflowers #subbloom2022 #subbloom (at Horsethief Canyon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcZZ9jNt1oZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#PhaceliaBrachyloba / #ShortlobePhacelia, because I just realized I had some decent pictures that I hadn’t posted yet. 1-5 are from 2021 & 6-10 are from this spring. These aren’t from the same locations so it’s not an entirely accurate comparison but you can see that I found a much larger field the second year after the #ValleyFire2020 than the first. I remember the first time I saw one I was really surprised at how different they looked from any #phacelia I had ever seen before. They seem to be #firefollowers and I had never gone to see wildflowers after a fire before. #californianativeplants #wildfirestowildflowers #AlpineCA #JamulCA #californiawildflowers #wildflowersofcalifornia #subbloom2022 #subbloom2021 (at Cleveland National Forest) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgxsct8uTPL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I simply cannot capture the massive amount of #EhrendorferiaChrysantha on this hillside. Photos don’t do it justice. AKA #GoldenEardrops, these plants rarely germinate except after wildfires. The #ValleyFire2020 really set these off! There weren’t this many last spring but certain hillsides have these massive stands of them. They’re easy to distinguish from the more highlighter-yellow of invasive mustards. Photo 3 features Encelia farinosa/incienso/brittlebush in the middle but that whole hill behind it is all eardrops. FKA: #dicentrachyrsantha #papaveraceae (formerly #fumariaceae) #fumarioideae #firefollowers #wildfirestowildflowers #fireecology #californiafirefollowers #AlpineCA #JamulCA #ClevelandNationalForest #californianativeplants #subbloom #subbloom2022 (at Lawson Peak Trail) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcbH-UUvoSG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#CastillejaExserta / #PurpleOwlsClover in the #ValleyFire2020 burn area. I didn’t see any of these in this specific area last year. Now there are several and I’m not sure why. #owlsclover #castilleja #paintbrushflower #orobanchaceae #californianativeplants #californiawildflowers #subbloom2022 #subbloom (at Horsethief Canyon Trail) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcZYZGRNYFb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=