Category: wildflowers

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Red maids Calandrinia ciliata

Red maids, Calandrinia ciliata, at the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve. Red maid seeds were eaten by Chumash people and were a highly esteemed […]

/ March 18, 2010
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anza borrego desert lily

Collaborator Rose Ramirez and I went to Anza Borrego on Friday to catch the light as the sun was going down. We drove out […]

/ March 6, 2010
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Gathering Chia Seeds

Monica Madrigal gathering seeds of thistle chia on the Cahuilla Reservation. She is using a seedbeater made from Rhus trilobata and Juncus textilis. Thistle […]

/ July 23, 2008