8" x 10" print - Monarch butterfly bristlecone_pine a relative of the paintbrushes

a relative of the paintbrushes and owls clovers

Monarch butterflies use milkweed as the host plant for their caterpillars

Giant Chinquapin and Yerba Santa stand along the meadow edges while Golden Hairstreak butterflies seek both nectar and host plants for their caterpillars

including the state flower - California Poppy and the state grass - Purple Needlegrass

Snowy Plovers (Charadrius nivosus) use coastal dunes for nesting habitat

8" x 10" print - Monarch butterfly bristlecone_pine a relative of the paintbrushesMonarch butterflies use milkweed as the host plant for their caterpillars. They can be found in protected groves of trees on the coast in the winter and up into the Sierra Nevada in the summer. This print beautifully reproduces the original drawing done with gouache and colored pencil on Duralene.