Sierra Nevada Wildflower

By grrlscientist on February 13, 2009.

tags: Spring Seep Mimulus, Mimulus guttatus, Biosparite, image of the day

Spring Seep Mimulus, Mimulus guttatus, photographed near near Kernville, California.

Image: Biosparite, June 2008 [larger view].

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