This is just one of the many flowers on the magnificent matilija poppy. When one looks down on it from upstairs, it's as if someone has been making lots of huge white and yellow paper flowers and tying them to bushes in the garden, very unconvincingly. I'm hoping that this one - and one of its friends - has definitively taken, because they are finicky plants - native only to a relatively small coastal-ish stretch between San Diego and Santa Barbara, and either dying after a few months, or spreading and spreading - they are rhizomic. But since not a great deal else (other than regular poppies) truly likes growing on the slope where this is, I'm wishing a long and fruitful family life for it.
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