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For a species so common in VA, it really surprises me that this is the first one to ever appear in my pollinator garden which is full of milkweed plants. This one was here for a couple of days. then gone. It only visited a Joe Pye.
Surrounded by woods with a stream.

I just love that common name! Turkey Tangle Frogfruit :-)
Link to confirmed observation in Monterey County: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105316037

Turkey Tangle Frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora) Native, perennial, sprawling, mat-like plant in the Vervain (Verbenaceae) family that grows in moist disturbed soils, pond edges. A.ka. frog fruit, sawtooth fogfruit, or turkey tangle. Peak bloom time: March-November. There are several subspecies.

Jepson eFlora: https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=37943

Plants of Monterey County: an Illustrated Field Key, 2nd edition, Matthews and Mitchell, 2015, pp. 305.

Monterey County Wildflowers: a Field Guide, Yeager and Mitchell, 2016, p. 280.

Flora of Fort Ord: Monterey County, California, David Styer, 2019, p. 203.
(one location on Fort Ord is Upper Pilarcitos Pond.)