This shrubby Castilleja is unique to San Clemente Island. Scrophularia villosa, seen here on the left of the image, is known only from Santa Catalina, San Clemente and Guadalupe Islands. In an open rocky area on San Clemente Island, California. April 10th 2011, Image I11-4958.
Plantarum Brasiliae icones et descriptiones hactenus ineditae.Vindobonae [Vienna] : Antonii Strauss, 1827-31..biodiversitylibrary.org/page/276426Little known about lovely Physocalyx aurantiacus, sketched by Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl while traveling in Brazil biodiversitylibrary.org/page/276426
close up image of Pedicularis canadensis WOOD BETONY at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - showing details of flower petals; upper tube-like petal arching over, and lower two-lobed lower petal openingThis species is featured in the available-for-purchase book, Elusive Splendor: Wildflowers of the Tall Grass Prairie. Contact frank@black-sweater-art.com for more information.
close up image of Pedicularis canadensis WOOD BETONY at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - showing three flower stalks, all beginning to shed flower petals as seed pods begin to mature
field image of Pedicularis canadensis WOOD BETONY at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - scattered specimens with yellow blooms just coming into full bloom
close up image of Pedicularis canadensis WOOD BETONY at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - showing early plant growth and flower buds just prior to opening
