Wildflowers

Sorted by color: White Yellow Red – Orange Pink – Fuchsia Blue – Purple

Native Azalea – Rock Spring, Mt. Tam – May

Baby Blue Eyes – Rock Spring, Mt. Tam – May

Baby Stars – Bull Point – July

Bitter Root – Mt. Burdell – April

Blue Dick – Phoenix Lake – March

Blue Eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium bellum) – Lucas Valley – April

Bristly Ox Tongue (Helminthotheca echioides) – Tennessee Valley (Marin) – October (non-native, has naturalized)

Buckeye Tree in bloom – Miwok Meadows – May

Bur Reed – Tomales Bay – July

Bush Poppy – Bon Tempe – February

California Poppy – Mt. Burdell – April

Calypso Orchid (Calypso bulbosa) also known as a fairy slipper or Venus’s slipper – Mt. Tamalpais – March

Canyon Larkspur (Delphinium nudicaule) – Lucas Valley Road – April

Checker Bloom (Sidalcea malviflora) – Mt. Burdell – April

Coast Buckwheat – Pt. Reyes – July

Coast Lily (Lilium maritimum) – Pt. Reyes – July (California Rare Plant Rank 1B, meets the definitions California Endangered Species Act , is eligible for state listing but has not yet been listed.)

Coastal Clarkia (aka Davy’s godetia) – Bull Point – July

Coastal Gumweed (Grindelia stricta) – Pt. Reyes – July

Cobweb Thistle – Abbot’s Lagoon – June

Cobweb Thistle doing duty as an ant larder for ladybugs

Crimson Columbine, Western Columbine – Muir Beach GGNRA – April

Coyote Brush – Female – Tomales Point – September

Coyote Brush – Male – Tomales Point – September

Coyote brush, Baccharis pilularis, is dioecious – it has male and female plants. Male plants have staminate flowers, with pollen, and female plants have pistillate flowers, which, when pollinated, develop into seeds with a lot of fluff.

Cream Cup – Chimney Rock – April

Douglas Iris – Pt. Reyes – April

Douglas Iris – Chimney Rock – April

Elegant Rein Orchid (Piperia-elegans) – Tomales Point – September

Fiddlehead – Green Gulch Trail – April

Field Chickweed – Chimney Rock – April

Fetid Adder’s Tongue (Scoliopus) – Blithedale Canyon Loop, Mill Valley – February

Footsteps-of-Spring (Sanicula arctopoides; Apiaceae) – Steep Ravine – March

Ground Iris (Iris macrosiphon) – Bon Tempe – February

Ground Iris and bee – Mt. Tam – March

Hedge Nettle – Tomales Bay State Park – July

Heliotrope – Abbot’s Lagoon – June

Honeysuckle (Lonicera hispidula) – Pt. Reyes – July

Hooker’s Evening Primrose – on cliff overlooking Drakes Estero – July

Bull Point Trail Hike

Point Reyes Horkelia (endangered) – Bull Point Trail, Pt. Reyes – July

Indian Paintbrush – Pt. Reyes – June

Indian Pink – Ring Mountain – June

Indian Warrior – Steep Ravine – February

Larkspur – Phoenix Lake – April

Bicolor Lupine (the white tuns pink after it’s pollinated) – Indian Valley Open Space – April

Buttercup – Phoenix Lake – March

Coastal Lupine – Tomales Point – September

Varied Lupine – Bull Point – July

Curly-leaved Monardella (Monardella sinuata ssp. nigrescens) – Abbot’s Lagoon – June

Beach Evening Primrose – Abbot’s Lagoon – June

Mimulus cardinalis (scarlet monkeyflower) – Cascade Canyon, Fairfax – July

Seep-Spring Monkey Flower – Mt. Burdell – April

Sticky Monkey-Flower (mimulus auranticiacus) – Bull Point – July

Sun Cup – Lucas Valley – March

Large Flowered Star Tulip (Calochortus uniflorus) – Mt. Tam – April

Mules Ears – Mt. Burdell – April

Fork toothed Ookow (Dichelostemma congestum) – Mt. Burdell – April

Owl’s Clover – Abbot’s Lagoon – June

Pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium) – Samuel P. Taylor State Park – August

Prunella – Pt. Reyes – June

Pussy ears (Calochortus tolmiei) – Chimney Rock, Pt.
Reyes – April

Tiburon Mariposa Lily – Ring Mountain – June

Wild Radish (Raphanus sativus) – Tennessee Valley (Marin) – October

Rock Lettuce – Phoenix Lake – April

European Sea Rocket, Cakile maritima – Rodeo Beach – October

Shooting Stars – Bon Tempe – March

Star Lily (Latin name has recently been changed from Zigadenus fremontii to Toxicoscordion fremontii. All parts of this plant are deadly, hence its other name, Death Camas) – Steep Ravine – March

Coastal Tidytips (Layia platyglossa) – Mt. Burdell – April

California Tiger Lily – Mt. Tamalpais – July

Giant Trillium (Trillium chloropetalum, var. chloropetalum; Liliaceae) – Steep Ravine – March

Giant Trillium (Trillium chloropetalum, var. chloropetalum; Liliaceae) – Steep Ravine – March

Yellow Sand Verbena (Abronia latifolia) – Tennessee Valley Beach (Marin) – October

Western Dog Violet – Chimney Rock – April

Redwood Violet ; Viola sempervirens; Violaceae – Steep Ravine – March

Redwood Violet ; Viola sempervirens; Violaceae – Steep Ravine – March

Wake Robin Trillium – Bon Tempe – March

Wallflower – Chimney Rock – April

Western Hounds Tongue – Lake Lagunitas – March

Wild Rose – Miwok Meadows – May

Wild Rose – Marin Headlands – October

Rose Hip – Samuel P. Taylor State Park – August

Wire Lettuce – Sky Oaks, Fairfax – October