The flora of the Palos Verdes Peninsula always has something new to be discovered. Check out Nick Rocha’s M.S. work on Lycium brevipes and how the local population on the […]

I am always blown away by the interactions between organisms that can happen on a single flower of a plant. Check out this crab spider that caught a mosquito in […]

I love how the fruits (yellowish orange ones) of L. subspicata sometimes look like tiny pumpkins!

The native plant, Chinese Houses (Collinsia heterophylla var. heterophylla), has been rediscovered on the peninsula! During a seed scouting event last Friday, they were spotted up on a hillside in […]

Here is a look at a seedling of Opuntia littoralis, one of the peninsula’s local prickly-pear. Such chunky cotyledons!

Rhus ovata and Rhus integrifolia often hybridize with each other. One interesting characteristic that can appear in these hybrids is leaf lobing. Here are a few pictures of leaves exhibiting […]

Such beautiful fruits!

Loving the color diversity seen in Marah macrocarpa seeds.

Bryophyte’s never cease to amaze me. Visited the Ralphs off Hawthorne Blvd. and Crest Rd. and discovered that one of the stone walls (made out of Palos Verdes stone a.k.a […]

Aphyllon californicum was recently discovered on the peninsula. This is the first time this plant has been documented on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.