California Wildflowers

The following photographs were taken by iMe with the Little iPhone That Could. The plants are all found in Marin County: the Marin Headlands, Mount Tamalpais and Point Reyes National Seashore. The flower pictures progress by color, roughly from white thru yellow, orange, red, purple and blue. Any introduced or non-native species are marked with an asterisk. Hope you enjoy them, and please contact me if I have mislabeled any of the flowers.

"Where flowers bloom, so does hope." - Lady Bird Johnson

Milk Maids; Toothwort

(Cardamine californica)

Douglas' Iris

(Iris douglasiana)

Baby Blue Eyes
(Nemophila menziesii)

Cow Parsnip

(Heracleum lanatum)

Star Lily; Zygadene
(Zigadenus micranthus)

English Plantain
(Plantago lanceolata)*

Brownie Thistle
(Cirsium quercetorum)

Miner’s Lettuce

(Claytonia perfoliata)

Coast Buckwheat
(Eriogonum latifolium)

Baby Stars

(Leptosiphon parviflorus)

No idea

Footsteps of Spring

(Sanicula arctopoides)

Sourgrass; Bermuda Buttercup
(Oxalis pes-caprae)*

Seep Spring; Monkey flower

(Mimulus guttatus)

Gold Field

(Lasthenia californica)

Sun Cup
(Camissonia ovata)

California Golden Violet; Johnny Jump-Up

(Viola pendunculata)

Not sure

Narrow-leaf Mule Ear
(Wyethia Angustifolia)

Coastal Tidy Tips
(Layia platyglossa)

Leopard Lily

(Lilium pardalinum)

Harlequin Flower

(Sparaxis tricolor)* 

Scarlet Pimpernel

(Anagallis arvensis)*

Sticky or Bush Monkeyflower
(Mimulus aurantiacus)

California Poppy

(Eschscholzia californica)

Live Forever; Dudleya
(Dudleya farinosa)

Crimson Columbine

(Aquilegia formosa)

Indian Warrior

(Pendicularis densiflora)

Some type of Dock? Not sure native or non-.

Morning Glory

(Calystegia purpurata)

Farewell to Spring; Coast Clarkia
(Clarkia amoena)

Checkerbloom; Wild Hollyhock

(Sidalcea malvaeflora)

More checkerbloom.

Andrew's Clintonia

(Clintonia Andrewsiana)

Shooting Stars

(Dodecatheon hendersonii)

Shooting Stars

Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum)

Or it's Bull Thistle (Cirsium vulgar)*

Dammit!

Foxglove
(Digitalis purpurea)*

Cows Clover
(Trifolium wormskioldii)

Rigid Hedge-Nettle
(Stachys ajugoides)

Ithuriel’s Spear

(Triteleia laxa)

Silver Bush Lupine - it's in big bushes

(Lupinus albifrons)

Seaside Daisy (Erigeron glaucus)

Seaside Daisy

Sky Lupine - it's low to the ground

(Lupinus nanus)

Blue-eyed Grass

(Sisyrinchium bellum)

Forget-Me-Nots

(Myosotis discolor)*

More Douglas' Iris
(Iris douglasiana)

California lilac; Blueblossom (Ceanothus thyrsiflorus)

Tansy Phacelia
(Phacelia tanacetifolia)

Not yet sure. Anyone?

"The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs." - Malcolm de Chazal

"Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower." John Harrigan

"The Amen of nature is always a flower." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Alrighty, then.
See you on the trail!

Peter J. Palmer