Wildflowers 2025 - Part 6

 Last Wednesday 5/14 we took another drive across Figueroa. We drove the loop starting with Happy Canyon Road up to Cachuma Saddle and then out Figueroa Mountain Road to Los Olivos. It was definitely getting late in the wildflower season and things are getting drier. But we still found quite a few different wildflowers.

Goat Rock on the San Rafael Mountains as seen from Happy Canyon Road.

Variable Checkerspot Butterfly

There were lots of Farewell To Spring wildflowers

Farewell To Spring (Clarkia bottae - aka Punchbowl Godetia)

Larkspur (not sure of which species)

Sage and Wild Mustard on the hillside

Purple Sage blooming

 
Seep Monkeyflower

Fairy Lanterns (aka White Globe Lily)

Golden Yarrow

Morning Glories

Yucca blossoms

Mud cracks left when a roadside puddle died up

Bush Monkeyflower on a rocky hillside surrounded by Bush Lupine

A Bush Poppy that may have regrown from the roots of a burned plant.

 

 

Popcorn Flowers and Common Phacelia

 

 

The Channels Islands were visible beyond the Santa Ynez Mountains.

 

 
Short Lobed Phacelia

 

 

Scarlet Bugler Penstemon

 

 
Hurricane Deck and then the Sierra Madre Mountains to the north.

 

Many burned trees were showing strong new growth.

 

 
Mexican Elderberry

 

 
Burned Yuccas putting up blooming stocks

 

Yellow Mariposa Lilies

 

There were LOTS of Chinese Houses this year.

 

 
Catalina Mariposa Lilies

 

A pretty purple Mariposa Lily

 

 
Sacred Datura blossom

 

Hummingbird Sage

 

 
Elegant Clarkia