papiliogal's Identifications

Doing a little hummingbird-yoga wing-stretch... decked out in his iridescent magenta crown and gorget.

Milkmaid flowers have four white petals (see photo)
...except on the freak occasion when they have five.
-- "Oops," says Mother Nature.

This Eriogonum latifolium, aka 'seaside buckwheat' or 'coast buckwheat', has the typical pale white-green woolly leaves.
It is still in bud, but soon will pop with clusters of pinkish-white flowers.

A vibrant Douglas Iris growing in the shade of the Elderberry trees on the East side of Mount Sutro