Peter Baye found this beauty blooming on a rocky outcrop along the Gualala River. Its common name is Wallflower, and its scientific name is Erysimum capitatum. It doesn't look like a shy, retiring wallflower to me!
Peter describes this flower as egg-yolk yellow, and you can see why. Peter had previously photographed a different species of Wallflower, Erysimum menziesii ssp menziesii.
Thanks to Peter for allowing me to share his photos with you here.
Carolyn André
That flower is gorgeous. It looks like anything but a "wallflower." I don't know if the word for that is antonym, when talking about a proper name or proper noun, but that is the meaning of the inappropriate name. Anyone know the correct word when a proper name is the opposite of the object it describes?
Irma Brandt
anomaly :>