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Mature plant with a large number of cotyledon seedlings in foreground. Site Y-11 sensu Kuska.

perched on Castilleja exserta

These photos were taken during a night hike organized by Grassroots Ecology, when the park was officially closed

Pomponio State Beach.

Good mama sea spider did not drop her bundle of eggs despite the stress of this photo op. Photo bomb in lower left by tiny (2 mm) Eubranchus misakiensis.

Seem to have eggs! I guess there were so many all near each other because they were making the beast with two backs and too many legs.

White morph!!!!!

Is there a way to tell difference between C. tolmiei and C. elegans?

About 5 inches long, really big.

@underwaterpat? Not a lot of grunge on it, perhaps young or newly molted? Found after several days of high surf, so perhaps that's how it ended up in the mid-intertidal. Found by @chilipossum

Found in close proximity to Calochortus luteus, possibly hybrid?

Habitat saline lake.
Male ~50mm.

The water was red with thousands or millions of these tiny shrimps. Some had egg sacs at the base of their tails.

Abundant in the surf zone, appeared to bury into the sand.

vacant sandy lot with sparse herbs

Now is the time for Liliaceae, and their nectar robbers.

I couldn't get my camera to focus on it, but it had one tiny flower blooming that definitely looked like spotted coral root.