Artemisia douglasiana
Baccharis pilularis
Clematis vitalba
NEW
– California mugwort is blooming along Pixie Trail. This aromatic plant is an important medicinal around the world.
– Coyote brush, one of the most common native shrubs is blooming in the chaparral scrub.
– Old man’s beard clematis is blooming along Laverne in Three Groves, in the Weedon Redwoods and along the Log Arch Trail. This vine, native to England, will climb redwoods or overcome bay trees in dense bowers.
Forest Edges
Fading
– Bigelow’s sneezeweed with its yellow pincushion floret and down facing rays, is blooming now on the Homestead trail.
– Coast tarweed, a tall native tarweed with the typical resinous coating is blooming yellow along Pixie Trail.
– Pennyroyal native to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East is blooming on the trail up to Cowboy Rock.
Meadows
Peaking
– Pincushion flower is blooming pink and purple along the trail up to Cowboy Rock. This ornamental native to the Mediterranean is a cultivated garden escapee.
Fading
– Kellogg yampah’s white umbels are blooming tall above the grasses in meadows. This was an important staple crop of Native Americans who ate the nut like root.
Forests
Fading
– California spikenard grows to a height of 3-9′ each spring after dying completely back at the end of the season. It can be found along shaded creek beds and its firework white flowers are blooming now.
Key to map:
I haven’t located American trailplant, Fennel, California Blackberry, California honeysuckle, Bay, Chickweed, Cleavers, Hedge parsley, Manroots, Swordfern, Coyote brush, French or Scotch Broom on the map as they are so prolific.
Flowers that are finished have been removed from the map and are greyed out in the map key.
Gallery of wildflowers and plants found in Homestead.
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