Desert lotus (yellow) & slender popcorn flower (Plagiobothrys tenellus, white).

Hi, Ken-ichi. Tech help pls!

Remedial question: do I need to persuade iNat to cough up the taxon as a lookup result (does clicking on it do something magical), or -- assuming I've double-checked the accepted name & its spelling -- can I resort to just saving free text?

• When I enter Lotus strigosus & click Lookup, & search ext providers, I don't get the sp, just 3 ssp.
• If I manually search uBio, I do get the sp (tho it doesn't seem to know it's a plant).
• The hits screen claims there's no Wikipedia article associated with the taxon, but if I click on the taxon, there's a perfectly good Wiki article at the bottom of the taxon screen.
• The taxon screen shows me 2 Flickr cc images (1 of which is gorgeous, the other of which is mine), & prompts me to add an icon. [Ah, so that's how my raven image ended up as the raven icon! That was a nice surprise.] The gorgeous one would be perfect, & I have confirmed that it is cc licensed, but when I try, it can't find any Flickr photos from within the add-icon dialog.

Thanks!

Unrelated question: is there any way to see recent ID activity on my photos from within iNat? I can click on the email alerts, but can't seem to get to them any other way.

I see you already added the Browse Projects feature. You rock!

On the side of the road by Guadalupe Mountains National Park. A tall tree like plant with multiple branches. Thin leaves with yellow flowers that had long thin red stamens sticking out. The seed pods were long and flat, slightly fussy and sticky. The branches were long and speed out, no thorns were found. Multiple birds of paradise were found next to each other, all at different stages of growth. Several seed pods were found under the branches and by other plants nearby.

Had never seen anything like this before, so I grabbed some quick shots. But figured it looked too weedy to be native. Right about that: turns out to be an ornamental, native to Argentina, naturalized in the Southwest US.

It was growing roadside in a bleak, infrastructure-type dead end right off the freeway. Don't quite remember exactly where; haven't been able to relocate the spot on Google Maps -- I suspect it's changed too much to be recognizable. But it had to be somewhere around Castaic, because that's where I got off I-5 for the first part of my wildflowering mission: took the Old Ridge Route parallel with I-5 to the next exit, Templin Hwy, & got back on the freeway there.

Couldn't find it -- or anything like it -- in any of my field guides, although I was pretty sure it was in family Fabaceae. Not common -- as of Jan 09, there was only a single herbarium specimen from Los Angeles County. (See ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_county_map.pl?taxon_id=16... -- county dots are clickable.) Also explains why I didn't succeed in IDing it via a search of the Jepson Manual for Fabaceae in Western Transverse Ranges (not used to the brute force method failing!). Turns out that as of that writing it had been documented only in the Central Valley: ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?3691,3879.... Finally got it via a Google Images search for "Fabaceae red stamens"!

I remembered learning that there are three very different-looking subfamilies within Fabaceae: the pea-like flowers, the mimosa-like, & an oddball 3rd kind. This is the 3rd kind. But it turns out that modern DNA analysis has shown that it's not actually a distinct subfamily; instead it's an ancestral type: loco.biosci.arizona.edu/astragalus/images/phylogenies/fab...