Common name: Golden Waxy Cap
Photographed on Kent Pump Fire Road, Marin Municipal Watershed District, Marin County, California
Species from Western North America
Common name: Wild Ginger
The plant is not in the same family as culinary ginger. The common name derives from the fragrant scent released when the leaves of the plant are rubbed.
Photographed on the Wawona Meadow Loop Trail, Yosemite National Park
Species from Western North America
Common name: Crimson Columbine
Photographed on the Wawona Meadow Trails, Yosemite National Park
Species from California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington
Common name: Ponderosa Pine, Pacific Race
Photographed on the Wawona Meadow Trail, Yosemite National Park
Species from Western North America
Common name: American bistort
I couldn't decide which shot I liked best.
Photographed in Wawona Meadow, Yosemite National Park
These flowers were about 1mm across, growing with Mimulus layneae, edge of Wawona Meadow, Yosemite National Park
Species endemic to the High Sierra, California
Common name: Sierra Mariposa Lily
Tiny Flower - about 1/2 to 3/4 inch across
Wawona Meadow Trail, Yosemite National Park
Species from California and Baja Mexico
Photographed on the Wawona Meadow Trail, Yosemite National Park
Species from California and Oregon
Common name: Lemmon's catchfly
Photographed on the Wawona Meadow Trail, Yosemite National Park
Species from California, Nevado, Oregon
Photographed in the Yosemite Meadow, Yosemite National Park
Species from California, Nevado, Oregon
Photographed in the Yosemite Meadow, Yosemite National Park
Photographed in Turkey Creek Nature Preserve, Pinson, Alabama
Species from eastern Australia
Common name: Australian Brush-turkey, Scrub Turkey, Bush Turkey
Not related at all to North American turkeys.
This is the largest member of the ancient group of birds in the Megapodiidae family.
Photographed in the Tamborine Mountain Botanic Gardens, Queensland, Australia
Species from eastern Australia
Common name: Laughing Kookaburra
Photographed in the Tamborine Mountain Botanic Gardens, Queensland, Australia
Photographed in national park land near Woodburn, far northern New South Wales
Photographed in national park land near Woodburn, far northern New South Wales
Broadwater National Park, far northern New South Wales, Australia
Growing prostrate in Broadwater National Park, far northern New South Wales, Australia
Broadwater National Park, far northern New South Wales, Australia
Photographed in Broadwater National Park, New South Wales
Broadwater National Park, far northern New South Wales, Australia
Photographed in Broadwater National Park, New South Wales
Broadwater National Park, far northern New South Wales, Australia
Photographed along the coast near Woodburn, NSW
Photographed in Broadwater National Park, New South Wales
Broadwater National Park, far northern New South Wales, Australia
Photographed along the coast near Woodburn, NSW