Anthidium (maculosum?)

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… John R. Maxwell, 29 July, 2016 - 1:16am

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… John S. Ascher, 21 March, 2015 - 5:27am

Salvia?

Arthur, you mentioned that this plant was in "the yard of a woman that likes blue and purple", so would it be safe to assume that it is a garden plant instead of in natural habitat? The bilabiate flower and opposite leaves indicate a mint, possibly a Salvia, but I could find no matching Salvia in the "Plants of the San Francisco Bay Region" (Biedleman and Kozloff 2003) as a native or naturalized species. (I should disclose that I am NOT intimately familiar with the California flora!).

… John Pearson, 28 September, 2014 - 6:22pm

Germander Sage maybe

I'm not personally familiar with this plant but from Googling around it might be Germander Sage, Salvia chamaedryoides. A garden plant in California, it looks like.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/148119/#b

… wwnj, 21 October, 2014 - 10:53pm

Esecially timely because I have seen another group

...of bees on this plant. I have to look at the pics to be sure, but Anthidium manicatum may have moved it. I'm unsure though because of the behavior of the bees. Hopefully, the camera will clear it up.

… Arthur Scott Macmillan, 23 October, 2014 - 2:29pm

Garden plants, yes, but...

There seems to have been some thought taken to include drought resistant plants, as well as plants known to attract pollinators. The Bay area has a mild climate with normally plenty of rain during the rainy season, therefore you see a very wide variety of plants.

Thanks for your help! I am going to use that as a starting point.

… Arthur Scott Macmillan, 29 September, 2014 - 4:01am

Garden plants

I meant "garden plants" in the sense that they would not occur outside of cultivation and thus would not appear in a published flora (which typically restricts its focus to native and naturalized species found in natural habitats). If that is the case, you might have better luck asking horticulturalists for help in identifying it. Good luck!

… John Pearson, 29 September, 2014 - 8:38am

Thanks, John, I got what you meant!

And that's sort of what I meant by a starting point. I submitted to a plant identification group with the suggestion that it could be Salvia, and occurred in someone's yard, so could be from anywhere! In fact, I better looks and see what they said!

(...well, they like the photo anyway, but no additional help on it yet!)

… Arthur Scott Macmillan, 30 September, 2014 - 12:56pm

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… Arthur Scott Macmillan, 24 September, 2014 - 1:41am

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… Arthur Scott Macmillan, 24 September, 2014 - 12:42am

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… John S. Ascher, 23 September, 2014 - 7:27pm