José Manuel Álvarez Guerrero
@montiaparvifolia.bsky.social
Figuring out my place in the world and the point to my life. 24 years old. 🇲🇽 He/they
I like plants.
Living in Washington State.
All pictures are mine unless otherwise noted.
I like plants.
Living in Washington State.
All pictures are mine unless otherwise noted.
Lewisiopsis tweedyi cultivated in Warm Beach, Snohomish County, Washington. April 26 2026
April 27, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Lewisiopsis tweedyi cultivated in Warm Beach, Snohomish County, Washington. April 26 2026
Dockrillia wassellii with a two different kinds of volunteering Tillandsias.
George Krasle's collection. April 2026
George Krasle's collection. April 2026
April 27, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Dockrillia wassellii with a two different kinds of volunteering Tillandsias.
George Krasle's collection. April 2026
George Krasle's collection. April 2026
A lovely urban colony of Triphysaria pusilla I stumbled upon on my way to get a snack at 7 eleven after class today.A native found in prairies and outcrops that seems to feel just at home in anthropogenic hellscapes, but in my opinion is still not common enough. Too bad it's annual! West Seattle
April 16, 2026 at 2:24 AM
A lovely urban colony of Triphysaria pusilla I stumbled upon on my way to get a snack at 7 eleven after class today.A native found in prairies and outcrops that seems to feel just at home in anthropogenic hellscapes, but in my opinion is still not common enough. Too bad it's annual! West Seattle
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this lil fucker cost 5k with a 132 mile range and a top speed of 62 mph, more than adequate for a city car and you could probs take it on the highway, maybe
March 3, 2026 at 7:25 PM
this lil fucker cost 5k with a 132 mile range and a top speed of 62 mph, more than adequate for a city car and you could probs take it on the highway, maybe
Rather neglected specimen of a beautifully red spined form of Opuntia fragilis, accompanied by Danthonia californica.
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#Opuntia #Cactus #Cacti #PNW #NativePlants #Opuntiafragilis #ColdHardyCacti #Succulents #Grasses #AnnoyingHashtags #Seattle #WashingtonState #SalishSea #RarePlants
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#Opuntia #Cactus #Cacti #PNW #NativePlants #Opuntiafragilis #ColdHardyCacti #Succulents #Grasses #AnnoyingHashtags #Seattle #WashingtonState #SalishSea #RarePlants
February 19, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Rather neglected specimen of a beautifully red spined form of Opuntia fragilis, accompanied by Danthonia californica.
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#Opuntia #Cactus #Cacti #PNW #NativePlants #Opuntiafragilis #ColdHardyCacti #Succulents #Grasses #AnnoyingHashtags #Seattle #WashingtonState #SalishSea #RarePlants
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#Opuntia #Cactus #Cacti #PNW #NativePlants #Opuntiafragilis #ColdHardyCacti #Succulents #Grasses #AnnoyingHashtags #Seattle #WashingtonState #SalishSea #RarePlants
Sedum spathulifolium ssp. yosemitense 'Red Raver' with Sedum spathulifolium ssp. spathulifolium from the north sound (Washington State).
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#pnw #Seattle #WashingtonState #Succulents #Sedum #HardySucculents #NativePlants #Gormania #AnnoyingHashtags
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#pnw #Seattle #WashingtonState #Succulents #Sedum #HardySucculents #NativePlants #Gormania #AnnoyingHashtags
February 19, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Sedum spathulifolium ssp. yosemitense 'Red Raver' with Sedum spathulifolium ssp. spathulifolium from the north sound (Washington State).
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#pnw #Seattle #WashingtonState #Succulents #Sedum #HardySucculents #NativePlants #Gormania #AnnoyingHashtags
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#pnw #Seattle #WashingtonState #Succulents #Sedum #HardySucculents #NativePlants #Gormania #AnnoyingHashtags
Fontinalis (an aquatic moss) in a forested seasonal pond in the hawks prairie region of Lacey, Thurston County, Washington State.
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#pnw #moss #pnwnature #olympia #salishsea #nisqually #olympiaWA #southsound #nativeplants #botany #annoyinghashtags
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#pnw #moss #pnwnature #olympia #salishsea #nisqually #olympiaWA #southsound #nativeplants #botany #annoyinghashtags
February 19, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Fontinalis (an aquatic moss) in a forested seasonal pond in the hawks prairie region of Lacey, Thurston County, Washington State.
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#pnw #moss #pnwnature #olympia #salishsea #nisqually #olympiaWA #southsound #nativeplants #botany #annoyinghashtags
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#pnw #moss #pnwnature #olympia #salishsea #nisqually #olympiaWA #southsound #nativeplants #botany #annoyinghashtags
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"The odds of encountering a prickly pear cactus (Opuntia spp.) in your lifetime is high no matter where you live." 🌵 Our botanist Lucas Majure was a guest on In Defense of Plants to talk about these spiny succulents:
www.indefenseofplants.com/podcast/2025...
www.indefenseofplants.com/podcast/2025...
Ep. 523 - Prickly Pear Cacti Are Wonderfully Complex — In Defense of Plants
In Defense of Plants' Matt Candeias talks with Dr. Lucas Majure about the complexity of prickly pear cacti (Opuntia spp.) diversity and evolution.
www.indefenseofplants.com
April 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"The odds of encountering a prickly pear cactus (Opuntia spp.) in your lifetime is high no matter where you live." 🌵 Our botanist Lucas Majure was a guest on In Defense of Plants to talk about these spiny succulents:
www.indefenseofplants.com/podcast/2025...
www.indefenseofplants.com/podcast/2025...
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New trail today had pockets of cedar glade and I was psyched to ID two natives for the first time! Eastern prickly pear (Opuntia cespitosa) and Widow’s-cross (Sedum pulchellum)!
March 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
New trail today had pockets of cedar glade and I was psyched to ID two natives for the first time! Eastern prickly pear (Opuntia cespitosa) and Widow’s-cross (Sedum pulchellum)!
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Opuntia mesacantha, one of our cold tolerant prickly pears, dangling from the walls of Fort Monroe.
it can be quite floppy indeed
it can be quite floppy indeed
August 24, 2024 at 1:57 AM
Opuntia mesacantha, one of our cold tolerant prickly pears, dangling from the walls of Fort Monroe.
it can be quite floppy indeed
it can be quite floppy indeed
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meet me at the miniature east coast nopalera (Opuntia mesacantha) 🌿
May 11, 2024 at 12:07 AM
meet me at the miniature east coast nopalera (Opuntia mesacantha) 🌿
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We're thrilled to send our bill, AB 581, to the Governor's desk! Brought to us by local environmental nonprofit @lpforestwatch, AB 581 would establish the resilient and fire-germinated Big-Berry Manzanita (Arctostaphylos glauca) as the state shrub.
September 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We're thrilled to send our bill, AB 581, to the Governor's desk! Brought to us by local environmental nonprofit @lpforestwatch, AB 581 would establish the resilient and fire-germinated Big-Berry Manzanita (Arctostaphylos glauca) as the state shrub.
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Pointleaf manzanita (Arctostaphylos pungens) on the Hidden Bluff Trail yesterday in Encinitas. This is one of the most impressive mature specimens I’ve ever found.
July 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Pointleaf manzanita (Arctostaphylos pungens) on the Hidden Bluff Trail yesterday in Encinitas. This is one of the most impressive mature specimens I’ve ever found.
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Big Berry Manzanita (Arctostaphylos glauca) can live for over 100 years but doesn’t begin to fruit until around age 20. Its seeds need fire to germinate, and it produces large, edible berries.
#arctostaphylos #manzanitas #nature #wildlife #california
#arctostaphylos #manzanitas #nature #wildlife #california
August 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Big Berry Manzanita (Arctostaphylos glauca) can live for over 100 years but doesn’t begin to fruit until around age 20. Its seeds need fire to germinate, and it produces large, edible berries.
#arctostaphylos #manzanitas #nature #wildlife #california
#arctostaphylos #manzanitas #nature #wildlife #california
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Manzanita (Arctostaphylos columbiana) grows in open areas of forest at low to mid elevations of the Gorge. It likes dry conditions. Native Americans ate the berries for food & took a decoction of the bark for diarrhea. The wood was used on fires at dances because it burns ...
#Nativeplants
#Nativeplants
December 2, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Manzanita (Arctostaphylos columbiana) grows in open areas of forest at low to mid elevations of the Gorge. It likes dry conditions. Native Americans ate the berries for food & took a decoction of the bark for diarrhea. The wood was used on fires at dances because it burns ...
#Nativeplants
#Nativeplants
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Arctostaphylos x coloradensis
Manzanita
Evergreen short shrub or tall ground cover. Sweet little bell-shaped pink flowers in early spring.
#plantnativeplants
Manzanita
Evergreen short shrub or tall ground cover. Sweet little bell-shaped pink flowers in early spring.
#plantnativeplants
March 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Arctostaphylos x coloradensis
Manzanita
Evergreen short shrub or tall ground cover. Sweet little bell-shaped pink flowers in early spring.
#plantnativeplants
Manzanita
Evergreen short shrub or tall ground cover. Sweet little bell-shaped pink flowers in early spring.
#plantnativeplants
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Bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), Jökulsargljufur National Park, Norðurland Eystra, Iceland 30.07.2007
#norðurlandeystra #iceland #nature #naturephotography #photography #flora #plant #plants #leaf #leaves #valokuvataivas
#norðurlandeystra #iceland #nature #naturephotography #photography #flora #plant #plants #leaf #leaves #valokuvataivas
July 30, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), Jökulsargljufur National Park, Norðurland Eystra, Iceland 30.07.2007
#norðurlandeystra #iceland #nature #naturephotography #photography #flora #plant #plants #leaf #leaves #valokuvataivas
#norðurlandeystra #iceland #nature #naturephotography #photography #flora #plant #plants #leaf #leaves #valokuvataivas
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If you see this, post a photo taken in the mountains.
This is a pic I took of the endangered Mount Diablo manzanita, Arctostaphylos auriculata, one of the Californian endemic species found only on and immediately around Mount Diablo (a place called Tuyshtak in Northern Ohlone).
This is a pic I took of the endangered Mount Diablo manzanita, Arctostaphylos auriculata, one of the Californian endemic species found only on and immediately around Mount Diablo (a place called Tuyshtak in Northern Ohlone).
October 28, 2024 at 2:26 PM
If you see this, post a photo taken in the mountains.
This is a pic I took of the endangered Mount Diablo manzanita, Arctostaphylos auriculata, one of the Californian endemic species found only on and immediately around Mount Diablo (a place called Tuyshtak in Northern Ohlone).
This is a pic I took of the endangered Mount Diablo manzanita, Arctostaphylos auriculata, one of the Californian endemic species found only on and immediately around Mount Diablo (a place called Tuyshtak in Northern Ohlone).
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Manzanitas (Ericaceae: Arctostaphylos spp.) are commonly found in arid shrublands and woodlands of western North America. Made up of dozens of species, these woody plants grow as bushes or small trees. Once pollinated the pink flowers become red fruit. Great Basin National Park, Nevada, 19 May 2016.
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Manzanitas (Ericaceae: Arctostaphylos spp.) are commonly found in arid shrublands and woodlands of western North America. Made up of dozens of species, these woody plants grow as bushes or small trees. Once pollinated the pink flowers become red fruit. Great Basin National Park, Nevada, 19 May 2016.
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Actostaphylos rudis 'Vandenberg'—A beautiful manzanita with peeling red-brown bark and bright green leaves. Its white-pink flowers attract many pollinators, making it an excellent addition to pollinator gardens.
store.theodorepayne.org/products/theodore-payne-foundation-arctostaphylos-rudis-van
store.theodorepayne.org/products/theodore-payne-foundation-arctostaphylos-rudis-van
December 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Actostaphylos rudis 'Vandenberg'—A beautiful manzanita with peeling red-brown bark and bright green leaves. Its white-pink flowers attract many pollinators, making it an excellent addition to pollinator gardens.
store.theodorepayne.org/products/theodore-payne-foundation-arctostaphylos-rudis-van
store.theodorepayne.org/products/theodore-payne-foundation-arctostaphylos-rudis-van
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi growing scandently on a dying Prunus 'Otto Luyken' in a strip mall parking lot where the landscaping is a bit neglected but perhaps not overly so, it still gets overmulched.This was cool to see, not even in nature have I seen this species do this. #PugetSound #WashingtonState
January 10, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi growing scandently on a dying Prunus 'Otto Luyken' in a strip mall parking lot where the landscaping is a bit neglected but perhaps not overly so, it still gets overmulched.This was cool to see, not even in nature have I seen this species do this. #PugetSound #WashingtonState
New phone. Who dis?
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No seriously, I did have to get a new phone cuz all the lenses on my previous one were nerfed.
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No seriously, I did have to get a new phone cuz all the lenses on my previous one were nerfed.
January 10, 2026 at 3:47 AM
New phone. Who dis?
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No seriously, I did have to get a new phone cuz all the lenses on my previous one were nerfed.
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No seriously, I did have to get a new phone cuz all the lenses on my previous one were nerfed.
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Unlike many of Flock’s cameras, Flock’s Condor cameras track people, not vehicles.
The exposure highlights the fact that Flock is not just surveilling cars—it is surveilling people, and in some cases it is doing so in an insecure way.
LINK: www.404media.co/flock-expose...
The exposure highlights the fact that Flock is not just surveilling cars—it is surveilling people, and in some cases it is doing so in an insecure way.
LINK: www.404media.co/flock-expose...
December 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Unlike many of Flock’s cameras, Flock’s Condor cameras track people, not vehicles.
The exposure highlights the fact that Flock is not just surveilling cars—it is surveilling people, and in some cases it is doing so in an insecure way.
LINK: www.404media.co/flock-expose...
The exposure highlights the fact that Flock is not just surveilling cars—it is surveilling people, and in some cases it is doing so in an insecure way.
LINK: www.404media.co/flock-expose...
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🌱 Valley of golden leaves - pomegranate orchards.
December 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
🌱 Valley of golden leaves - pomegranate orchards.
