I added these floral images to this site recently, but I’m not sure what many of them are commonly called. The botanical garden I visited only labeled a few of their species. (The “missing” labels may very well have been hidden under leaves or bushes; I didn’t actively look for them). 

To start off, this floral species …

 … which I see quite often here in SoCal, appears to be Bottlebrush (Callistemon) — native to Australia, as noted in most literature on the subject. Is the species of Callistemon in the above image — if that’s what it is — native or “invasive” to the U.S.?   

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