Some type of hawks have built a nest on the columns of the LA Coliseum across the street from the Natural History Museum
Keel hairy from base to tip
Faint grape scent; shrub with persistent infl. stems.
The small-leaved phase about to switch over to producing the larger 10--25 mm leaflets on the leaves .
Jepson: Leaf: cauline; stipules 8--10 mm; petiole 1--3.5 cm; leaflets 5--9, 10--25 mm.
The final photo (#6) shows a field with both common species of shrubby lupine found on Ft Ord... the glaucus Lupinus chamissonis on the right and middle, and the green Lupinus arboreus on the left.
Plant collected by California State Parks (Colorado Desert District) botany staff.
Coastal Tree Lupine is a better name perhaps, as not all forms are yellow.
Leaf: palmately compound, cauline; stipules fused to petiole. Inflorescence is a raceme, flowers spiraled or whorled. Flower: 9--16 mm; calyx upper lip 6--8 mm, deeply divided, lower 6--10 mm, entire to 3-toothed; petals violet to lavender, banner back generally hairy, spot generally yellow (to white) turning purple, keel generally unlobed near base, upper margins generally ciliate middle to tip, lower glabrous. Fruit: 3--5 cm, hairy.
U.S. 101 northbound off ramp at Union Valley Parkway, Orcutt CA
Limestone Canyon, Irvine Ranch Conservancy
I don't know if this is excubitus, but it's a perennial shrub lupine of some kind
My mom’s pictures - according to her there is also a mother who brought this one food at some point.
A duplicate of this specimen was labeled as the holotype: https://www.cch2.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=787865&clid=undefined
Original description: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/290980#page/544/mode/1up
Maybe Willis Jepson wrote the description after looking at specimens annotated by CP Smith, similar to how Amos Heller published L. elongatus Greene.
Specimens from Bear Valley, 6500 ft annotated by CP Smith 2 years before publication:
https://webapps.cspace.berkeley.edu/ucjeps/imageserver/blobs/dd9f5b4f-b487-42ba-9379/derivatives/OriginalJpeg/content
https://webapps.cspace.berkeley.edu/ucjeps/imageserver/blobs/1084cb34-e94a-4b36-9b1c/derivatives/OriginalJpeg/content
A specimen of this plant was identified as L. elatus by Teresa Sholars, co-author of the Lupinus treatment in the Jepson eFlora.
Seems notable, no records on iNat from this area and their range doesn't appear to reach around the Lake Isabella area either.
Flower > 10 mm, bract < 8 mm
None of the characteristic coloration, but I don't know what else this could be.
Santa Rosa Plateau - Trans Preserve Trail
keel glabrous, lower calyx lip entire, upper calyx lip 2-toothed, banner back glabrous
not sure I have the right warbler
Window strike
Small fish in LA river channel
near Coldwater Canyon
Red-tailed hawk spotted on balcony railing -38th floor
3 white chicks in this photo, one appears to be getting brown feathers on wings. This nest has been used for several years. Second photo (taken last week) shows adult on branch by nest, just to prove they are RTH's.