Desert Habitat of Southern California

Desert Plants

• Apricot Mallow
• Arizona Lupine
• Baby Blue-eyes
• Barrel Cactus
• Bigelow Mimulus
• Box Thorn
• Brittle Bush
• Brown-eyed Evening Primrose
• Burro Bush
• Burrobush Cheese-bush
• Bush Poppy
• California Fan Palm
• California Juniper
• California Poppy
• Cane Cholla
• Caterpillar Phacelia
• Chalk-leaf Dudleya
• Checker Bloom
• Checker Fiddleneck
• Chia
• Creosote
• Desert Apricot
• Desert Chicory
• Desert Dandelion
• Desert Lavender
• Desert Lily
• Desert Mistletoe
• Desert Rock Pea
• Desert Sand Verbena
• Desert Sunflower
• Desert Wildflower Bloom
• Dodder
• Dune Primrose
• Elephant Tree
• Emory Rock Daisy
• Ephedra
• False Mustard
• Fish-hook Cactus
• Fremont Pincushion
• Glochid
• Golden Yarrow & Bernadino Blues
• Hall Phacelia
• Hedgehog Cactus
• Honey Mesquite
• Horehound
• Jimson-weed
• Jojoba
• Lacy Phacelia
• Lax-flower
• Little Gold Poppy
• Mojave Yucca
• Monkey Flower
• Morning Glory
• Ocotillo
• Orcutt's Aster
• Pale-stemmed 4-o-clock
• Palo Verde
• Pinon Pine
• Poison Oak
• Prickly Poppy
• Purple Bell Phacelia
• Rose Mallow
• Silver or Golden Cholla
• Spectacle-pod
• Sycamore
• Sycamore Mistletoe
• Teddy-bear Cholla
• Tree Tobacco
• Two Forget-me-nots
• Watercress
• Whispering Bells
• White Fiesta-flower
• White Sage
• White-stem Milkweed
• Wild Canterbury Bells
• Wild Cucumber
• Wild Onion
• Wolf Cholla
• Wooly Star
• Yellow Cups

Desert Birds

• American Avocet (:31)
• American Crow
• American Kestrel
• Anna's Hummingbird (3:34)
• Black-headed Grosbeak
• Black-necked Stilt (:46)
• Black Skimmer (:37)
• Brown Pelican (:37)
• Bufflehead (:35)
• Cactus Wren
• California Quail
• California Towhee
• Dark-Eyed Junco
• Double-Crested Cormorant (:49)
• Eared Grebe (:36)
• Gadwall (:33)
• Gambel's Quail
• Gold-crowned Sparrow
• Great Blue Heron (:29)
• Great Egret (:29)
• Great-tailed Grackle
• Green-winged Teal (:38)
• House Finch
• House Wren
• Lesser Goldfinch
• Long-billed Curlew (:38)
• Long-eared Owl
• Mallard Duck (:34)
• Mourning Dove
• Northern Pintail Duck
• Phainopepla
• Red-tailed Hawk
• Red-winged Blackbird
• Roadrunner
• Rufous-crowned Sparrow
• Song Sparrow
• Turkey Vulture
• Western Bluebird
• Western Meadowlark
• White-crowned Sparrow
• White-winged Dove

Desert Animals

• Anise Swallowtail Butterfly
• Audubon Cottontail Rabbit
• Bee Assassin Bug
• Bee Gathering Pollen
• Black Widow Spider - in the field
• Black Widow Spider - in the lab
• Bobcat
• Cactus Bug
• California Dogface Butterfly
• California Ground Squirrel
• California King Snake
• Cardinal Meadowhawk
• Common Jumping Spider
• Cottony Cushion Scale
• Coyote
• Desert Bighorn Sheep
• Desert Iguana
• Dimorphic Jumping Spider
• False Widow Spider
• Fiery Skipper
• Foraging Black Ants
• Gopher Snake
• Granite Spiny Lizard
• Jerusalem Cricket
• Kissing Bug
• Monarch Butterfly
• Mourning Cloak Butterfly
• Mud Dauber Wasp
• Owlet Moth
• Pacific Coast Rattlesnake
• Pacific Tree Frog
• Painted Lady Butterfly
• Paper Wasp
• Pocket Gopher
• Powderpost Beetle
• Praying Mantis
• Prionus Beetle
• Pygmy Blue Butterfly
• Queen Butterfly
• Raccoon
• Red Admiral Butterfly
• Red Diamond Rattlesnake
• The Snail Tale
• Southern California Alligator Lizard
• Speckled Rattlesnake
• Spittle Bug
• Tarantula Hawk
• Trash Web Spider
• Water Midge
• Western Fence Lizard
• White-footed Mouse
• White-line Sphinx Moth
• White-line Sphinx Moth Caterpillar
• Willow Gall
• Yellow Jacket Wasp

Desert Geology

• Hot Water
• Montezuma Grade Geology
• Mud Pots
• Quartzite
• Rhyolite
• Shingle Beach
• Split-Mountain Anticline
• Split-Mountain Canyon Entrance