Wild flowers!

[BC1969]

I love the things I find growing around my place!



Anyone know what the purplish flower is ?

 

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[pepperj]

Yellow one is the St. John's Wort
Purple one is Leonurine in

 

[bfloyd4445]

I know the feeling. I'm always discovering new plants animals on my land and love them all. I keep my lands in a natural state and each year more native species return. This year cotton tails and fox. No pix of the cottontails yet but did get a few pix of a fox. Funny i saw them before flash buy but then one morning shot this guy with cell phone out my kitchen window. You know they are the size of a house cat

 

[DizzyDigger]

I know the feeling. I'm always discovering new plants animals on my land and love them all. I keep my lands in a natural state and each year more native species return. This year cotton tails and fox. No pix of the cottontails yet but did get a few pix of a fox. Funny i saw them before flash buy but then one morning shot this guy with cell phone out my kitchen window. You know they are the size of a house cat

What you have there is a San Joaquin Kit Fox. They're curious, and
when it comes to food they are awesome rodent killers. They are a
protected animal, and are federally listed as an endangered species.

https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/San_Joaquin_kit_fox/index.html

Here's a pic I took of one that was hanging around my mining camp
out near Barstow:

 

[bfloyd4445]

Yep, thanks for confirming that. I figured that out when i looked at kown species of foxes in Oregon. Except that the SJKF is not known to be in my area the range is along the Cascades which is about40 miles east of I-5 which runs parallel to the cascades. I'm west of I-5 45 minutes from the coast. So i have the first documented sighting of this species in Western Oregon.... Since i began managing my lands for native species 20 years ago each year i see more species that have moved back in. I've begun replanting milkweed without which monarch butterflies cannot survive. Most farmers ranchers kill off this species which is the REAL reason for the Monarchs decline. No food so they cannot survive or raise kids. If all land owners would mange areas for native species like the Monarch we may be able to bring many back from the brink of extinction.

Nice pix

chuckle...just realized you are also in an area south of their documented range. Your at the south end and i am at the north end. Pretty cool. I do a little placer mining.

 

[pepperj]

I might of had a wrong ID for the purplish
Could be Stinging nettles

Just touch it......

 

[bfloyd4445]

Don't think so. Stinging netteles are good to eat cooked as greens. Not sure what you have pictured

https://www.wikihow.com/Identify-Stinging-Nettle

 

[BC1969]

I made tea from it.
I feel strange, but early human had to try everything to know what they could eat!

 

[bfloyd4445]

did it have a milky sap?

 

[BC1969]

No.

 

[pepperj]

Don't think so. Stinging netteles are good to eat cooked as greens. Not sure what you have pictured

https://www.wikihow.com/Identify-Stinging-Nettle

The nettles are just going into flower blossoms now.
There's some 500 different varieties of nettles.

 

[DizzyDigger]

Yep, thanks for confirming that. I figured that out when i looked at known species of foxes in Oregon. Except that the SJKF is not known to be in my area the range is along the Cascades which is about40 miles east of I-5 which runs parallel to the cascades. I'm west of I-5 45 minutes from the coast. So i have the first documented sighting of this species in Western Oregon....

Thought you were in Bakersfield..lol. I'm actually in far NW Washington,
but was just mining down there in the Barstow area.

Could well be it was just a regular kit fox (not SJKF), but to me they
all could be SJKF. Major difference between them and gray foxes is
the body size is smaller, and the tail is fuzzy with a black tip.

 

[bfloyd4445]

chuckle.... thats funny
Then you go down I-5 to Bastow and i to Sacramento were i have properties. Wonder how many times we have passed each other? How long do you stay down there at a time? I'm usually gone two three weeks at a time every couple of months.

 

[Red-Coat]

...Purple one is Leonurine in

Something got lost in translation there. The plant is Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca):

 

[DizzyDigger]

chuckle.... thats funny
Then you go down I-5 to Bastow and i to Sacramento were i have properties. Wonder how many
times we have passed each other? How long do you stay down there at a time? I'm usually gone
two three weeks at a time every couple of months.

My last trip down there was in late 2013. Here's a couple threads
with some pics:

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/gold-prospecting/391762-winter-trip-2013-pic-heavy.html

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/gold-prospecting/387302-california-prospecting.html

It was a long drive down and back, but worth every minute of it. Sadly,
my lifelong friend and prospecting buddy down there, Ken, passed away
in May of '14.

I'd love to take a trip back to central Nevada again..just because I love that
open desert country.

 

[bfloyd4445]

Sorta like what Ive done before but with water. I was taught to taKE THE BLACK SAND AND PUT SOME MERcury in it shake it up untill it all clumps into a lumpt then bun it off leaving a nice bit of gold. Didn't look like there was any gold in the sand the first time and i was going to throw it away and Jim said wait, then he demonstrated his techniqe and showed me what i would have thrown away. He was a motion picture stuntman that was maybe 75 at that time I was 18. he was strong as a bull amazing guy untill he met with an oak tree drunk after leaving his girl friends place where they were writing a book on the area together.,

 

[BC1969]

I think I'd like to have some Belladonna tea now and just forget.

 

[bfloyd4445]

good stuff guess thats why we eat so many peppers, tomatoes eggplants and more in our diets. Guess we are all addicts