Dear Artists, I hope the following list will inspire you and enhance your appreciation of our diversity and not overwhelm you. Simply select a sampling of species which you believe will illustrate the particular biome (s) you have chosen. What criteria were used to choose these and ? Characteristic species. Keystone species. Cool, beautiful or quite unique to the area. Interesting - relationship. Species in BOLD are definitely characteristic, but do not feel obligated to include all of them. (S) indicates they are portrayed on biome signs at the Highlands Center.

Please remember copyright violations may result in disqualification from the competition. If an illustration can be recognized as derived from someone else's photograph or artwork, it is illegal unless it is in the public domain or if permission from the source person was obtained. Wishing you many hours of painting pleasure. Joan Dukes

Some sites and ways to find images not needing copyright permission*:

 Google (enter the name of the plant or animal)  settings (up above)  Advanced search  scroll down to usage rights Click not filtered by license Click free to use or share Click Advanced Search

Google (enter the name of the plant or animal) images tools usage rights labeled for reuse or labeled for reuse with modification

*Be aware some sites show many species that are totally unrelated to the one you googled. Go figure! https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/ (It is safe to use any photos taken by Sue Smith.) https://www.thoughtco.com/paintings-from-photos-in-books-or-field-guides-2573675 Joan Dukes has many photos of plants and animals in the Central AZ Highlands. If she has what you are looking for, you are free to use it. (call 928 445-8485)

VERTICAL PAINTING : Forest of Ponderosa Pine- Doug Fir- White Oak  Ponderosa Pine (S)  Ponderosa snag (old, dead pondy for acorn woodpeckers, pygmy nuthatch)  Fallen ponderosa log for Carpenter ants  Alligator Juniper  Emory Oak &/or White Oak underneath the ponderosas  Gambel Oak (S) and Blackcherry in drainage areas  Symphoricarpos oreophilus - mountain snowberry https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetail.php?genus=Symphoricarpos&species=oreophilus

 Specific flower (forb) species below:  Asclepias tuberosa - butterfly milkweed https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?=Asclepias&species=tuberosa

 C i r s i u m a r i z o n i c u m - Arizona thistle https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?genus=Cirsium&species=arizonicum

 Commelina dianthifolia - birdbill dayflower https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?genus=Commelina&species=dianthifolia  Geranium caespitosum - pineywoods geranium https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?genus=Geranium&species=caespitosum  Heuchera rubescens - p i n k a l u m r o o t https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?genus=Heuchera&species=rubescens

 Ipomopsis aggregata - scarlet gilia https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?genus=Ipomopsis&species=aggregata

 Penstemon palmeri - Palmer's penstemon https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?genus=Penstemon&species=palmeri

 Penstemon virgatus - upright blue beardtongue https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?genus=Penstemon&species=virgatus

 Viguiera dentata - toothleaf goldeneye https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?genus=Viguiera&species=dentata

 Solidago velutina - threenerve goldenrod https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?genus=Solidago&species=velutina

 Mule Deer  Tassel-eared Squirrel (S)  Black Bear (love acorns)  Big Brown Bat  Long eared myotis bat  Long legged myotis bat  Southwestern myotis bat  Acorn woodpecker (S)  Pinyon Jay  Common raven  Turkey vulture  Painted red start  Red-faced Warbler (S)  Western Bluebird  Northern Goshawk  Spotted Owl (on sign)  Stellar's Jay  Pygmy Nuthatch  Arizona Black Rattlesnake  Sonoran king snake (S)  Greater Short Horned Lizard  Sphinx  Two tailed swallow tail (S)  Painted Lady Butterfly  (Phil McNally recs:)  Carpenter ants on dead logs  Harvester Ants (S) eaten by short horned lizard  Subterranean termites  Pine white  Pine sawyer  Pleasing fungus (pretty blue with black spots; eats fungus on ponderosas)  Flat-headed borer  Rhinocerus beetle  Hercules beetle  Lady beetle (Ladybug)

HORIZONTAL PAINTING : A stream or a pond creating a riparian area in surrounding Woodland and Chaparral.) Riparian In washes: (show some evidence of a )  Willow: Coyote Willow, Arroyo Willow (S) and /or Red Willow (S)  Fremont Cottonwood  Riparian Flowers:  Arizona Rose (pretty pink): Rosa woodsii var. ultramontana - Woods' rose  https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetail.php?genus=Rosa&species=woodsii%20var.%20ultramonta na  Symphoricarpos oreophilus - mountain snowberry https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetail.php?genus=Symphoricarpos&species=oreophilus

 Aconitum columbianum - Columbian monkshood https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?genus=Aconitum&species=columbianum

 Aquilegia chrysantha - golden columbine https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?genus=Aquilegia&species=chrysantha

 Claytonia perfoliata - miner's lettuce https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?genus=Claytonia&species=perfoliata

parviflorus - southwestern cosmos https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?genus=Cosmos&species=parviflorus

 Epilobium canum - hummingbird trumpet https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?genus=Epilobium&species=canum

 Oenothera elata - Hooker's evening primrose https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?genus=Oenothera&species=elata

 Potentilla thurberi - scarlet cinquefoil https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?genus=Potentilla&species=thurberi

 Rudbeckia laciniata - cutleaf coneflower https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?genus=Rudbeckia&species=laciniata

 Veronica anagallis - a q u a t i c a - water speedwell https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?genus=Veronica&species=anagallis-aquatica

 Viola canadensis - Canadian white viol et https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?genus=Viola&species=canadensis

 Ranunculus cymbalaria - alkali buttercup (copy & pas t e ) https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetailForb.php?genus=Ranunculus&species=cymbalaria

 Mountain lion (drinking from Creek?)  Javelina  Gray Fox  Arizona Gray Squirrel  Ringtail cat  Western Red Bat  Raccoon (on sign) (hunting in creek)  River Otter  Bald Eagle (flying overhead?)  Great Blue Heron  Double crested cormorant  Mallard  American Coot  Northern shoveler  Bufflehead  Wood duck (Granite Creek)  Canvasback  Great horned owl  Black Hawk  Common raven  Turkey vulture  Bridled titmouse (S)  Canyon wren (S)  Summer Tanager  Bullock's Oriole  Yellow Warbler  Sonora Mud Turtle  Terrestrial garter snake  Canyon Treefrog (favorite of our campers, found on boulders near Lynx Creek)  Red spotted purple butterfly  Grand Western Floodplain Cicada (S)  (Phil McNally recs:)  Two-tailed Swallowtail  Western Tiger Swallowtail  Sycamore sphinx (Mirabilis grandiflora/longneck 4:00)  Viceroy  Water strider  Diving  Tiger beetles  Dragonflies and damselfies  Katydids  Woodland (Pinyon Pine- Juniper-)  Pinyon Pine (S)  Utah Juniper  Arctostaphylos pringlei - yellowleaf manzanita https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetail.php?genus=Arctostaphylos&species=pringlei

 Arctostaphylos pungens - pointleaf manzanita https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetail.php?genus=Arctostaphylos&species=pungens

 Wright Silk Tassel or in chap?  Skyrocket Gilia? (flowers for a hummer)  Antelope milkweed (food for Monarch)  Longneck 4:00/mirabilis longiflora (Food for Sphinx moth)

 Gray Fox (S)  Porcupine  Bobcat  Cottontail rabbit (prey of Fox, Bobcat,  Pocket gophers  Pinyon Jay (S)  Western bluebird (Mt bluebird S)  Gray Vireo  Greater short horned lizard  Plateau striped whiptail lizard (S)  Gopher Snake (S)  Tarantula (S)  Monarch butterfly  Sphinx moth  Phil McNally suggestions:  Hercules beetle  Rhinocerus beetle  Juniper hairstreak  Paracotalpa puncticollis – scarab  Moon-marked skipper  Darkling beetles

Chaparral  Manzanita (S)  Arctostaphylos pringlei - yellowleaf manzanita https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetail.php?genus=Arctostaphylos&species=pringlei  Arctostaphylos pungens - pointleaf manzanita https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapaiplants/SpeciesDetail.php?genus=Arctostaphylos&species=pungens  Shrub/Scrub Oak (S)  Mt. Mahogany  Prickly Pear Cactus (nice flowers for pollinators)  Three leaf sumac (S)  Hollyleaf buckthorn Purshia stansburiana - Mexican cliffrose Species Detail Woody, Cacti, Succule nt  Coyote  Peccary (S)  Striped Skunk  Rock Squirrel  White-throated Woodrat (S))  Eastern Cottontail  Anna’s hummingbird (likes Manzanita flowers)  Western Scrub Jay  Black-chinned Sparrow  Spotted Towhee (S)  Fox Sparrow  Crissal thrasher (S)  Plateau (fence) lizard  Greater short horned lizard (S) main diet of ants  Phil McNally suggestions:  Preying mantid  Brown elfin  Litocala sexmaculata  Gloveri silkmoth  Black Osmia bees  Syphid/hover flies  Harvester Ants (S)  Sleepy duskywing