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Three clumps of this viscid/sticky subshrub, on a NW-facing roadcut along Cobal Canyon Motorway, Marshall Canyon, San Gabriel Mountains foothills. These three plants show the red, orange, and yellow-orange flower variants present in this population. Coin used for scale is a US quarter dollar (¢25 piece), 24.26 mm, 0.955 inch in diameter.

CPP Entomology xc
This lady bug was seen resting in the sun on a leaf. Many others were seen close by. Image was taken at Claremont Hillls wilderness park at the beginning of the hiking trail right before the trail splits into two.