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Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)Observer
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Checked in with a birding contact for ID help--his reply:
"just by going from the only detail that’s reliable here which is size in relation to the pole it’s sitting on I’d rule out red-tailed hawk and the size looks OK for peregrine and I'd rule out the accipiters because the tail on those would be longer in relation to the body. There are adult peregrines in the city raising babies so it’s not a rare bird there."
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Spreading Fleabane (Erigeron divergens)Observer
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Green plant with long, wavy leaves covered in white hairs
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Junipers (Genus Juniperus)Observer
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Dry tree with greenery on branches...not sure if the same plant, or if greens are growing off of dead tree
(Looking to ID the tree itself)
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Matchweeds and Snakeweeds (Genus Gutierrezia)Observer
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Green plant with beige stems and little beige flowers
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Mustard Family (Family Brassicaceae)Observer
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Yellow flowers on long, grey-green stems
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Torrey's Milkvetch (Astragalus calycosus)Observer
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Purple/magenta and white flowers on long stems; with small, flat leaves
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Wild Buckwheats (Genus Eriogonum)Observer
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Soft-looking grey-green leaves, and long, dry stems with clusters of dry flowers on top
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Milkvetches, Locoweeds, and Allies (Tribe Galegeae)Observer
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Two-tone purple flowers, with silvery green stem/leaves
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Vascular Plants (Phylum Tracheophyta)Observer
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Dried-out tree
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Vascular Plants (Phylum Tracheophyta)Observer
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Silvery blue-green shrub
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Higher Ascomycetes (Subphylum Pezizomycotina)Observer
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Warty, grey lichens with white edges and darker, almost black centers
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Fragrant Evening Primrose (Oenothera cespitosa)Observer
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White flowers with red and green leaves
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Higher Ascomycetes (Subphylum Pezizomycotina)Observer
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a rust-colored lichen?
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Fourwing Saltbush (Atriplex canescens)Observer
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a prickly little plant...
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Jointfirs (Genus Ephedra)Observer
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tough, scrubby xeriscape?
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Matchweeds and Snakeweeds (Genus Gutierrezia)Observer
vizstudioDescription
A short, scrubby plant.
