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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