Wildflowers of the Golden Gate

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Wildflowers of Golden Gate National Park Service ... A walk on the park's trails during peak wildflower season from late ... And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,.
Wildflowers of Golden Gate

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Golden Gate National Recreation Area

Indian Paintbrush

Crimson Columbine

California Poppies

Franciscan Paintbrush

Mission Bells

Yellow Bush Lupine

Silver Bush Lupine

Their names are quaint reminders of the poetic language used by early settlers: Footsteps-of-Spring, Baby Blue Eyes, Mission Bells, Milkmaids. Their colors are vivid, although sometimes you have to crouch low to see them. A walk on the park’s trails during peak wildflower season from late February through June is a chance to appreciate the profusion of wildflowers that once graced all of California. For more information about wildflowers, stop at any of our park Visitor Centers.

Red / Pink Flowers Checker-bloom; Wild Hollyhock Sidalcea malvaeflora [March-May, grasslands] Sticky Monkeyflower

Yarrow

Seaside Daisy

Coast Onion Allium dichlamydeum [April-July, rocky and serpentine soils]

Seaside Daisy Erigeron glaucus [March-May, grasslands]

Shooting Star Dodecatheon hendersonii [January-March, rocky northface slopes]

Wild Buckwheat Eriogonum latifolium [June-November, rocky northface slopes]

Coast Rock Cress (Threatened)

Orange Flowers

Arabis blepharophylla Seep Spring

Shooting Star

[January-March, rocky northface slopes]

California Poppy

Cobweb Thistle

Eschscholzia californica

Cirsium occidentale

[March-November, grasslands]

[March-May, grasslands & scrub]

Sticky or Bush Monkeyflower

Crimson Columbine

Mimulus aurantiacus

Aquilegia formosa

[June-November, scrub]

[March-May, rocky northface slopes] Cow Parsnip

California Buttercup

Franciscan Paintbrush

Brown Flower

Castilleja subinclusa ssp. franciscana [March-May, grasslands]

Indian Paintbrush Castilleja affinis [March to August/September, sandy coastal flats and dune] Douglas Iris

Footsteps-of-Spring

Pink Sand Verbena Abronia umbellata [March- November, sandy coastal flats and dune]

Presidio Clarkia

Ithuriel’s Spear

Blue-eyed Grass

Mission Bells; Checker Lily Fritillaria affinis [March-May, rocky northface slopes]

Yellow Flowers California Buttercup Ranunculus californicus [March-May, grasslands & rocky northface slopes]

(Federally Endangered)

Footsteps-of-Spring

Clarkia franciscana (Presidio Area) Clarkia rubicunda (Marin Area)

Sanicula arctopoides

[April-July, serpentine outcrops]

[January-March, grasslands]

Checkerbloom

Cobweb Thistle

Stonecrop

S.F. Wallflower

Angelica

Blue Dicks

Presidio Clarkia

Mule-ears

Lizard Tail

Soap Plant

Beach Strawberry

Purple Sanicle

Coastal Buckwheat

Western Hound’s Tongue

California Blackberry

Sky Lupine

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. —William Blake Coast Onion

Sun Cup

Coast Rock Cress

Pink Sand Verbena

Tidy Tips

Milkmaids

Lizard Tail

Cow Parsnip

Ithuriel’s Spear

Eriophyllum staechadifolium

Heracleum lanatum

Triteleia laxa

[June-November, scrub]

[March-May, scrub]

[March-May, grasslands]

Monkeyflower; Seep Spring

Franciscan Wallflower

Rock Phacelia

Mimulus guttatus

Erysimum franciscanum

Phacelia californica

[January-May, rocky northface slopes]

[January-May, grasslands & rocky northface slopes]

[March-May, rocky northface slopes]

Wyethia angustifolia

Milkmaids

Lupinus albifrons

[March-May, grasslands]

Cardamine californica

Stonecrop

[January-March, rocky northface slopes]

[March-May, grasslands & rocky northface slopes]

Mule-ears

Sedum spathulifolium [April-July, rocky northface slopes]

Sun Cup

Beach Strawberry

Sky Lupine Lupinus nanus

Fragaria chiloensis

[March-May, grasslands]

[February to August, sandy coastal flats and dune]

Camissonia ovata [January-March, grasslands]

Silver Bush Lupine

Soap Plant

Western Hound’s Tongue Cynoglossum grande [January-March, rocky northface slopes]

Tidy Tips

Chlorogalum pomeridianum

Layia platyglossa

[March-May, grasslands & scrub]

[March-June, gravelly Ridges, grassy slopes and coastal mesas]

Yarrow

Trina Kvale - California Poppies, Silver Bush Lupine,

Achillea millefolium

Sticky Monkeyflower, Seaside Daisy,Douglas Iris, Coastal

Yellow Bush Lupine

[June-November, scrub]

Lupinus arboreus [March-September, sandy coastal flats and dune]

White Flowers

Blue / Violet Flowers Blue Dicks

NPS Photos:

Buckwheat, Pink Sand Verbena, California Blackberry.

Will Elder - Yarrow, Seep Spring, Ithuriel’s Spear, Checkerbloom, San Francisco Wallflower, Blue Dicks, Presidio Clarkia, Mule-ears, Lizard Trail, Soap Plant, Coast Onion, Coast Rock Cress, Tidy Tips

Parks Conservancy Photos:

Dichelostemma capitatum

Michael Chasse - Indian Paintbrush, Mission Bells,

[March-May, grasslands]

Jessy Bergeman - Yellow Bush Lupine, Crimson

Angelica hendersonii

Blue-Eyed Grass

Columbine, Cow Parsnip, California Buttercup, Blue-eyed Grass, Cobweb Thistle, Stonecrop, Sun Cup, Sky Lupine

[January-November, rocky northface slopes]

Sisyrinchium bellum

Lynn Sanderson - Western Hound’s Tongue

[March-May, grasslands]

Copyrighted photos:

California Blackberry

Douglas Iris; Lavendel

Rubus ursinus

Iris douglasiana

[March to August, woodland areas]

[March-May, grasslands]

Angelica

Purple Sanicle

© Diana Roberts - Franciscan Paintbrush Please leave all flowers for others to enjoy!

(rev. 06/06) Printed on recycled paper using soy-based ink

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