A Villa Campania nature directory. Updated from time-to-time.
Flora
California Everlasting / California Cudweed
Pseudognaphalium californicum
Golden Yarrow
Eriophyllum confertiflorum
Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perifoliata
Showy Penstamon
Penstemon spectabilis
Mojave Yucca / Spanish Dagger
Yucca schidigera
Fauna
Phyrnosoma blainvillii / Anota coronatum
Blainville’s Horned Lizard/ Coast Horned Lizard
L. r. fasciatus
Bobcat
Neotamias obscurus davisi (likely) /Neotamias merriami merriami (possible)
California Chipmunk (likely) / Mirriam’s Chipmunk.
Odocoileus hemionus californicus
California Mule Deer
Callipepla californica
California Quail
Sylvilagus audubonii
Desert Cottontail (Auburn’s Cottontail), likely
Stenopelmatus fuscus
Jerusalem Cricket
Dasymutilla aureola
Pacific Velvet Ant (a type of wasp, females are wingless)
Diadophis punctatus similis
San Diego Ring-necked Snake
C. l. clepticus
San Pedro Martir Coyote
Uroctonites montereus (likely)
Scorpion
Megachile perihirta (likely)
Western Leafcutting Bee (likely) Nest
Spea hammondii
Western Spadefoot Toad
(Likely Spea hammondii)
Tadpoles in a vernal pool.
Apis mellifera
Western Honey Bee
