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I am working with my daughter (5th grade), to complete a science project,
where she has collected a number of plants from the area (central
California), and is identifying then and describing their characteristics.

There are two that I recognize as very common native plants, but simply
cannot remember their names! Could someone please look at the three
pictures I have posted on one of my web sites, and help i.d. them?

http://www.AdvanceAssociates.com/images/05180022.JPG and
http://www.AdvanceAssociates.com/images/05180024.JPG are one plant,

_Anagallis arvensis_ [family Primulaceae]. Better known as "scarlet
pimpernel". [not native to California]

http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/fl..._arvensis.html
http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/...allisarve.html
http://polyland.lib.calpoly.edu/over...ropogenic.html

http://www.AdvanceAssociates.com/images/05180029.JPG is the other.

Erodium sp. [family Geraniaceae] Called "cranesbill" or "filaree"
[More than one species are often weedy in California. Also not
a California native]

http://polyland.lib.calpoly.edu/over...tml#storksbill
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/WEEDS/filarees.html
http://www.serg.sdsu.edu/plants/sdpl...moschatum.html
http://www.serg.sdsu.edu/plants/sdpl...um_botrys.html
http://www.serg.sdsu.edu/plants/sdpl...icutarium.html
http://www.calflora.net/bloomingplan...emfilaree.html
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/fruitid2.htm
http://www.calflora.net/bloomingplan...torksbill.html

Best wishes for her project.

cheers