NerdsforNature.org - Nightlife @ the California Academy of Sciences (3.6.14)
Ready to do some fieldwork? The California Academy of Sciences is home to bountiful magnificent plants and animals... many are elusive and rare in the wild. See if you can level up on your scientific observation skills by finding and reporting all of following species.
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island alumroot
Heuchera maxima is a species of flowering plant in the saxifrage family, known by the common names island alum root, Channel Islands coral bells, and Jill of the rocks.
Coast Dudleya
Dudleya caespitosa is a succulent plant known by several common names, including Sealettuce, Sand lettuce, and Coast dudleya. It is endemic to California, where it grows along the coastline in the southern half of the state.
Scarlet Monkeyflower
Mimulus cardinalis, the scarlet monkeyflower, is a flowering perennial in the family Phrymaceae. Together with other species in Mimulus section Erythranthe, it serves as a model system for studying pollinator-based reproductive isolation.
