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Man root on right, man on left. Found excavated by construction activity, took home to nurture, fed tea, then planted in native garden.

*2021 Update: the transplant didn't take and this sweet soul was lost to the world, buried dead as it had been buried alive.

So there I was, at Disneyland with the family, and of course my mind is on what wildlife I might be able to scrounge out of the park. The 7D Mark II and 400mm lens was too big to lug around all day, so I did the best I could with my little Sony bridge camera. Enjoy!

Two Southern Alligator Lizards observed mating at the Whiting Ranch during the 2023 Botany Blitz. High-resolution photos uploaded due to interest in this observation.

Same pair recorded here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/155283524

This is a follow-up to the question posed by @vreinkymov in this post, about whether the roots look different for an infected plant compared to the roots of a non-infected plant:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/146921131

They don't appear any different. But I was surprised at how small the root system was compared to the above ground portion. That was perhaps due to extremely wet soil from 15 inches of rain so far this season.

The plants are numbered. #1 and #2 are infected. #3 and #4 are not, as far as I can see. Each photo after the first has only a single plant in it, identified by its number in the first photo.

Also, it appears that a plant can have some infected leaves and some non-infected leaves, as seen in plant #2.

These plants were all growing together, and I dug them all up with one hand-trowel scoop.

There are more infected plants in my yard now after mowing and another rain. So far I've found no infected plants in the as-yet-unmowed portion of my property, but that is consistent with chance since most of my property has been mowed. There are now something like five or six infected small areas widely scattered on my two acres.