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Area wildflowers Browse through colors, link to individual flowers, or use the search bar to look for specific flowers. |
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 Red (and brown) • California fuchsia • California poppy • Clover, crimson • Columbine, crimson • Fetid adder's tongue • Figwort • Fringecups • Giant vetch • Giant trillium • Indian pink • Indian warrior • Larkspur, red • Lily, leopard • Mission bells • Paintbrush • Scarlet pimpernel • Shinleaf • Spotted coralroot • Sticky monkeyflower • Thistle, venus • Tiburon mariposa lily • Wild ginger • Wind poppy |
 Purple (and pink) • Bleeding heart • Buckwheat • California harebell • California larkspur • California milkweed • California milkwort • California scorpionweed • Calypso orchid • Candyflower • Cardoon • Checker-bloom • Chinese houses • Clarkia, elegant • Clarkia, purple • Clarkia, red ribbon • Clover, purple sac • Clover, rose • Coast hedge nettle • Coyote mint • Cress, Brewer's rock • Cress, coast rock • Currant • Davy centaury • Dense boisduvalia • Elegant brodiaea • Filaree, broadleaf • Foxglove • Geranium, cutleaf • Geranium, robert • Hedgenettle • Hummingbird sage • Iris • Jewelflower • Moonwort • Oakland star tulip • Onion, jeweled • Owl's clover • Panicled willowherb • Phlox, slender • Pincushion plant • Pink sand verbena • Purple mouse ears • Redmaids • Redwood sorrel • Salsify • Salmonberry • Sea fig • Serpentine linanthus • Shooting stars • Sickleleaf onion • Starflower • Swamp knotweed • Tall stephanomeria • Thistle, cobweb • Thistle, milk • Toadflax • True babystars • Variableleaf collomia • Windmill pink • Wood rose |
 Blue • Baby blue-eyes • Blue and white lupine • Blue-eyed grass • Blue witch nightshade • Bluedicks • Chia • Chicory • Forget-me-nots • Gilia, bird's eye • Gilia, blue field • Gilia, California • Hound's tongue • Ithuriel's spear • Larkspur • Ookow • San Francisco collinsia • Vinegarweed |
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Tips for flower identification Links: Bay Area Wildflowers http://bayareawildflowers.com/index.html Wildflowers at Coe Park http://www.coepark.org/wildflowers/flower-album.html Botanical Data Hosted at the Digital Library Project: http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/flora/ Photos and info from Tilden's Botanical Garden advocacy group: Friends of the Regional Parks Botanical Garden http://www.nativeplants.org California Academy of Sciences wildflowers site: California Wildflowers http://www.calacademy.org/research/botany/wildflow/ Some photos of flowers on Montara Mountain: Native Plants of Montara Mountain http://www.plants.montara.com/ Some photos of flowers at Almaden Quicksilver County Park: Wildflowers of Alamaden Quicklsilver County Park http://www.rettner.net/quicksilverflowers/index.html If you're curious about etymology: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets http://www.winternet.com/~chuckg/dictionary.html Some wildlflowers at Almaden: Almaden Wildflowers http://www.almaden.ibm.com/almaden/environs/wildflowers/ |
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