Wildflowers
Common name | Botanical Name |
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Chocolate Lily | Fritillaria biflora Aliso Trail |
Clematis | Clematis lasiantha Matilija Canyon |
Clematis | Clematis lasiantha Cold Springs Trail near Montecito Peak |
Cliff Aster | Malacothrix saxatilis Malibu |
Climbing Penstemon or Heart-leaved Penstemon | Keckiella cordifolia These grow commonly in our front and backcountry, usually in partially sunny places. Hummingbirds like them. red, shade, sun |
Coast or California Figwort, or California Bee-plant | Scrophularia californica Toro Canyon |
Coastal Prickly Pear | Opuntia littoralis San Ysidro Trail |
Coffee Fern | Pellaea andromedifolia Arroyo Burro Trail |
Common Goldfields | Lasthenia californica (L. chrysotoma) Spring, Carrizo Plains sun, yellow |
Common Goldfields | Lasthenia californica (L. chrysotoma) Spring, Cottam Camp in Blue Canyon sun, yellow |
Common Locoweed | Astragalus didymocarpus May, Hurricane Deck |
Common Madia | Madia elegans Davy Brown Trail |
Common or Bush Sunflower | Helianthus annuus or Encelia californica Isla Vista Beach Bluffs |
Common or White Yarrow | Achillea May, near Manzana Schoolhouse |
Coreopsis and Filaree | Asteraceae and Erodium cicutarum Carrizo Plain |
Crane's bill geranuium | Geranium molle Manzana Trail |
Cream Cups | Platystemon californicus Spring, Carrizo Plains sun, white, yellow |
Crinkle Onion | Allium crispum Figueroa Mountain |
Crystalline iceplant | Mesembryanthemum crystallinum Crystalline iceplant |
Cut-leafed geranium | Geranium dissectum March or April, Rattlesnake Connector |
Deerweed | Lotus scoparius When deerweed dries up it becomes a bare, scratchy bush that brushes against your legs on trails like Lost Valley Trail. It always seems ok at first, but by the end of the hike you are cursing the things. That is why I always hike in pants now. summer, sun, weed, yellow |
Delphinium | Delphinium parryi Spring, near Forbush Flat blue, purple, shade, sun, white |
Delphinium | Delphinium parryi Spring, Manzana Trail to the Schoolhouse blue, purple, shade, sun, white |
Delphinium | Delphinium parryi Spring, Hurricane Deck shade, sun, white |
Desert Candle | Caulanthus inflatus Carrizo Plains |
Desert monkeyflower | Mimulus bigelovii Spring, Hurricane Deck and Lost Valley Trail junction pink, shade, sun |
Dodder or Strangleweed | Cuscuta May, Hurricane Deck |
Douglas Wallflower | Erysimum capitatum May at Manzana Schoolhouse Camp |
Doveweed or Turkey mullein | Eremocarpus setigerus Malibu near beach |
Dudleya or Live Forever or Hen and Chicks | Dudleya April, Agua Caliente Trail green, shade, summer, sun |
Dudleya or Live Forever or Hen and Chicks | Dudleya Cold Springs Trail |
Elderberry | Sambucus canadensis Toro Canyon Park |
Elegant Clarkia | Clarkia similis Spring, Lost Valley Trail near Hurricane Deck |
Elegant Clarkia | Clarkia unguiculata Manzana Trail |
Evening Primrose | Camissonia boothii Willow Springs Trail |
Fairy Lantern or Globe Lily | Calochortus albus May, near Manzana Schoolhouse |
Farewell to Spring | Clarkia cylindrica Spring, Manzana Trail to the Schoolhouse |
Fennel | Foeniculum vulgare Isla Vista |
Fiddlenecks | Amsinckia menziesiispring, sun, yellow |
Fiesta Flower | Pholistoma auritum Spring, Rattlesnake Trail |
Fire poppy | Papaver californicum McMenemy Trail |
Fleabane Asters | Erigeron foliosus Early Summer on Lost Valley Trail |
Foothill Penstemon | Penstemon heterophyllus Manzana Trail |
Fragrant Pitcher Sage | Lepechinia fragrans Tequepis Trail |
Fragrant Pitcher Sage | Lepechinia fragrans Tequepis Trail |
Fuchsia-flowering Gooseberry | Ribes speciosum May, Hurricane Deck |
Giant Coreopsis | Coreopsis gigantea March, Oso Flaco Dunes |
Giant-Flowered Phacelia | Phacelia grandiflora Spring, Tom's Hippie House Trail near Cold Springs Trail blue, purple, shade, sticky, summer |
Giant-Flowered Phacelia | Phacelia grandiflora Spring, Tom's Hippie House Trail near Cold Springs Trail blue, purple, shade, sticky, summer |
Gilia | Gilia capitata Spring, Gidney Ridge |