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Mimulus pictus
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Photographer: Aaron Schusteff
ID: 0000 0000 1108 0716 (2008-11-11)Copyright © 2008 Aaron Schusteff
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date of photo Apr 9, 2006
location
Sierra Foothills, NE of Bakersfield (Kern County, California, US)family
Phrymaceae
notes An incredibly unique, precious, and endangered plant. Many thanks to the kind and generous friends who led me to it. Their good-will is well-appreciated, though their names go unmentioned here, to shield them and the plants. Quite sad that its former abundance and range has been so diminished by (indirect) anthropogenic disturbance---namely the super large-acreage cattle ranching which dominates the vast majority of the southwestern Sierra foothill range of this plant. Cattle seem to love to (over)trample it's habitat [that being granite outcrops surrounded by Ribes quercetorum]. Populations could perhaps be protected by appropriate exclusion of cattle from a relatively small amount of selected habitat without significantly diminishing cattle acreage. (So many problems can be addressed, if the good-will and effort are there!)camera Shot with a Canon Digital Rebel XT at f7.1, 1/200, ISO 100, using a Canon 100mm macro lens.
photo category: Plant - annual/perennial
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