Crocosmia ×crocosmiiflora
Scabiosa atropurpurea
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– Montbretia with its bright orange flowers, a hybrid of 2 South African plants, is blooming in Three Groves and around the valley.
– 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.
Forest Edges
Peaking
– 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.
– Umbrella sedge
Fading
– Lance leaf selfheal with its beautiful purple blooms is blooming on the ridge and along the Homestead Trail where it’s in the sun.
– Tansy ragwort native to northern Eurasia is growing in the gutter along LaVerne.
Meadows
Peaking
– Belladonna lily, a native of South Africa, also known as naked ladies blooms on its reddish stalk after all its foliage has died off.
– 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.
– Sweet fennel, native to the shores of the Mediterranean, is a very successful invasive in our area and is blooming in many places.
Fading
– California everlasting, this wonderfully scented flower is blooming near the Ridgewood Rock and in the meadow below the Madrone bench.
– Naked buckwheat is blooming in the meadows and on the Ridgewood Rock.
– Sticky monkeyflower, this bright orange mimulus with its sticky leaves was used by the Coast Miwok to place on sores and burns.
Wet Places
Peaking
– Horsetail, these primeval silica based plants are growing creeksides.
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.
– Roughleaf aster is blooming in the forest along the Eagle Trail.
– Toyon trees are blooming with white flowers.
Key to map:
I haven’t located American trailplant, Fennel, California Blackberry, California honeysuckle, Bay, Chickweed, Cleavers, Hedge parsley, Manroots, Swordfern, 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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