greengoddess72's Identifications

Brittlebush

Tall, herbaceous perennial with red blooms just opening, growing on the northeast side of a large granite boulder.

Two lizard species on granite boulders in full sun, the smaller S. ocuttii bobbing in what looked like displacement behavior at the presence of the larger S. occidentalis.

Flowering and fruit-bearing plant with large, dark green palmate leaves just at the edge of a streambed.

Adult-sized lizard on lichen-encrusted granite boulder in full sun.

Bushy, low-growing perennial with small yellow flowers.

Tall, shrubby perennial with yellow composite flowers in loose sand of stream bed.

White blossoms in umbels on spreading sub-shrub with dark green, linear leaves.

Low-growing perennial herbs with white flowers, at the foot of a dry slope.

West-facing slope of perennials with yellow flowers, just begining to blossom.

Blue-flowering, spreading herbaceous perennial with deeply-lobed to almost pinnate leaves, growing in partial shade among grasses bordering a small stream.