Barberry
Berberis pinnata

Blue dicks
Dichelostemma capitatus

Canyon gooseberry
Ribes menziesii

Checker lily
Fritillaria affinis

Giant trillium
Trillium chloropetalum

Marin checker lily
Fritillaria lanceolata v. tristulis

Starry false lily of the valley
Maianthemum stellatum

Suncups
Taraxia ovata

Thimbleberry
Rubus parviflorus

NEW
– Barberry (Berberis pinnata), a small shrub, is blooming with yellow, fragrant flowers in meadows on Homestead Hill.
– Blue dicks (Dichelostemma capitatum) is blooming blue in meadows.
– Canyon gooseberry (Ribes menziesii) blooms with Chinese lantern flowers in forests.
– Checker lily (Fritillaria affinis) with its yellow spotted chocolate bells is blooming in meadows at forest edge.
– Giant trillium (Trillium chloropetalum) is blooming in forests.
– Marin Checker Lily (Fritillaria lanceolata var. tristulis), Homestead’s rarest flower, is blooming with chocolate bells along the meadow trail below Amaranth.
– Starry false lily of the valley (Maianthemum stellatum) is blooming white in forests.
– Sun cup (Taraxia ovata) with its bright yellow flowers is blooming on Homestead Hill.
– Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus) is just leafing out for the season and is blooming white in forests.

Forests
– Bay laurel (Umbellularia californica), one of the most common native tree in our forests is blooming with white, vanilla-scented flower clusters.
– Douglas Iris (Iris douglasiana) is blooming white in forests.
– Huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum) blooms with small white flowers. Unusual in Homestead, find it blooming in the forest understory below 14.
– Indian warrior (Pedicularis densiflora) blooms in large colonies making it one of the most showy flowers in Homestead. A hillside of it is blooming now with burgundy plumes at the unmarked junction 15 on the Homestead Trail.
– Manroot (Marah fabaceus), a wild cucumber is blooming white on fresh green vines in forests.
– Oso berry (Oemleria cerasiformis) blooms with fragrant white flowers in forests.
– Trillium (Trillium ovatum) is blooming white in forests.
– Wood sweet-cicely (Osmorhiza berteroi) is blooming in forests with small white flowers.

Forest Edge
– Blue eyed grass (Sisyrinchium bellum) is blooming blue at forest’s edge.
– California blackberry (Rubus ursinus) is blooming white climbing over brush on Homestead Hill.
– Greene’s saxifrage (Micranthes californica) is only known to bloom in one location in Homestead, on the Ridgewood Rock. Its small white flowers are blooming there now.
– Fairy bells (Prosartes hookeri) is hard to spot as its bell flower hangs below the leaves of this small forest plant seen blooming near 11a.
– Fetid adder’s tongue (Scoliopus bigelovii) with its small chocolate flowers surrounded by bright green mottled leaves is blooming along the Homestead Trail from right near the 5 junction to above the 16 junction.
– Milkmaids (Cardamine californica) is blooming white in forests.
– Miner’s lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata)
is blooming with small white flowers over fleshy disks in wet places.
– Pacific hound’s tongue’s (Cynoglossum grande) foliage is emerging all over the forest edge meadow habitat on north facing slopes.
– Woodland star (Lithophragma affine), another where the Ridgewood Rock is the only location where it blooms in Homestead, is blooming white there now. I have never seen this flower bloom here before March, last year and the year before in April.
– Woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) is blooming white on Homestead Hill.


Meadow
– Dwarf checkerbloom (Sidalcea malviflora ssp. malviflora) is blooming pink with its first blooms of the season on Homestead Hill.
– Footsteps of spring (Sanicula arctopoides) is marching with chartreuse steps across Homestead Hill.
– Fremont’s deathcamas (Toxicoscordion fremontii) is blooming in meadows with tall white clusters.
– Ground Iris (Iris macrosiphon) is blooming deep purple on Homestead Hill.
– California blackberry (Rubus ursinus) is blooming white climbing over brush on Homestead Hill.
– Milkmaids (Cardamine californica) is blooming white in forests.
– Miner’s lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata) is blooming with small white flowers over fleshy disks in wet places.
– Oakland star tulip (Calochortus umbellatus) is blooming with pale blooms near the ground on the trail below 4-Corners.
– Shooting star (Dodecatheon hendersonii) is blooming pink in the meadow of the Ridgewood Rock.
– Sky lupin (Lupinus nanus) is blooming blue near the ground on Homestead Hill.
– Spring gold (Lomatium utriculatum) is blooming with ground hugging yellow clusters on the Ridgewood Rock.
– Woolly lomatium (Lomatium dasycarpum) is blooming with ground hugging frothy cream clusters on Homestead Hill.

Gallery of wildflowers and plants found in Homestead.

California blackberry
Rubus ursinus

Douglas iris
Iris douglasiana

Dwarf checkerbloom
Sidalcea malvaeflora

Footsteps of spring
Sanicula arctopoides

Fremont's deathcamas
Toxicoscordion fremontii

Ground iris
Iris macrosiphon

Milkmaids
Cardamine californica

Rooreh
Claytonia perfoliata

Sky lupine
Lupinus nanus

Spring gold
Lomatium utriculatum

Woodland strawberry
Fragaria vesca

Woolly lomatium
Lomatium dasycarpum

NEW
– California blackberry (Rubus ursinus) is blooming white climbing over brush on Homestead Hill.
– Douglas Iris (Iris douglasiana) is blooming white below Amaranth. The only one seen so far, this is months earlier than last year.
– Dwarf checkerbloom (Sidalcea malviflora ssp. malviflora) is blooming pink with its first blooms of the season on Homestead Hill.
– Footsteps of spring (Sanicula arctopoides) is marching with chartreuse steps across Homestead Hill.
– Fremont’s deathcamas (Toxicoscordion fremontii) is blooming in meadows with tall white clusters.
– Ground Iris (Iris macrosiphon) is blooming deep purple on Homestead Hill.
– Milkmaids (Cardamine californica) is blooming white in forests.
– Miner’s lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata) is blooming with small white flowers over fleshy disks in wet places.
– Sky lupin (Lupinus nanus) is blooming blue near the ground on Homestead Hill.
– Spring gold (Lomatium utriculatum) is blooming with ground hugging yellow clusters on the Ridgewood Rock.
– Woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) is blooming white on Homestead Hill.
– Woolly lomatium (Lomatium dasycarpum) is blooming with ground hugging frothy cream clusters on Homestead Hill.

Forests
– Bay laurel (Umbellularia californica), one of the most common native tree in our forests is blooming with white, vanilla-scented flower clusters.
-Indian warrior (Pedicularis densiflora) blooms in large colonies making it one of the most showy flowers in Homestead. A hillside of it is blooming now with burgundy plumes at the unmarked junction 15 on the Homestead Trail.
– Manroot (Marah fabaceus), a wild cucumber is blooming white on fresh green vines in forests.
– Wood sweet-cicely (Osmorhiza berteroi) is blooming in forests with small white flowers.

Forest Edge
– Greene’s saxifrage (Micranthes californica) is only known to bloom in one location in Homestead, on the Ridgewood Rock. Its small white flowers are blooming there now.
– Fairy bells (Prosartes hookeri) is hard to spot as its bell flower hangs below the leaves of this small forest plant seen blooming near 11a.
– Fetid adder’s tongue (Scoliopus bigelovii) with its small chocolate flowers surrounded by bright green mottled leaves is blooming along the Homestead Trail from right near the 5 junction to above the 16 junction.
– Pacific hound’s tongue’s (Cynoglossum grande) foliage is emerging all over the forest edge meadow habitat on north facing slopes.
– Woodland star (Lithophragma affine), another where the Ridgewood Rock is the only location where it blooms in Homestead, is blooming white there now. I have never seen this flower bloom here before March, last year and the year before in April.

Gallery of wildflowers and plants found in Homestead.

Fairy bells
Prosartes hookeri

Fetid adder's tongue
Scoliopus bigelovii

Pacific hounds tongue
Adelinia grandis

NEW
– Fairy bells (Prosartes hookeri) is hard to spot as its bell flower hangs below the leaves of this small forest plant seen blooming near 11a.
– Fetid adder’s tongue (Scoliopus bigelovii), usually the first flower of the season, has company this year. This lily blooms with small chocolate flowers surrounded by bright green mottled leaves right near the 5 junction on the Homestead Trail.
– Pacific hound’s tongue’s (Cynoglossum grande) foliage is emerging all over the forest edge habitat on north facing slopes. First blue blooms were seen near 11a.

Gallery of wildflowers and plants found in Homestead.

American trailplant
Adenocaulon bicolor

Black elderberry
Sambucus nigra

Broadleaf hellebore*
Epipactis helleborine

California coffeeberry
Frangula californica

California honeysuckle
Lonicera hispidula

Clustered thistle
Cirsium brevistylum

Purple clarkia
Clarkia purpurea s. quadrivulnera

Sticky monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus

NEW
– American trailplant, so called for it’s arrow shaped leaves that are white underneath is blooming with small white flowers at the end of a tall stalk in forests.
– Black elderberry is blooming with discs of white flowers in full sun.
– Broadleaf hellebore*, an orchid native to Eurasia, is blooming with pink green flowers in forests.
– California coffeeberry, a forest shrub is blooming with white flowers.
– California honeysuckle, a vine, is blooming with pink flowers in forest.
– Clustered thistle, one of our native thistles, is blooming with a purple cluster in meadows.
– Purple clarkia is blooming with purple cups in meadows.
– Sticky monkeyflower is blooming orange in meadows.

Forests
– Alum root is blooming with small white bells near water in forests.
– Andrew’s Clinton, a lily, is blooming with pink flowers on long stalks above large waxy leaves in redwood forests. It can be seen blooming on the Laverne road cut above Stolte Grove.
– Buckeye’s white clusters are blooming in forests.
– California everlasting white straw flowers are blooming at forest edges.
– Celery leaved lovage with white umbrella flowers is blooming in forests.
– Creeping snowberry is blooming with pink bells in forests.
– Crimson columbine is blooming red and yellow in forests.
– Fairy bells are blooming with white bell flowers in forests. The flowers hang below the leaves so look below to see them.
– Forget-me-not*, native of North Africa, is blooming with its pretty blue flowers beside trails. A very aggressive invasive plant, please pull.
– Manroot vine is blooming white.
– Ocean spray, a forest shrub, is blooming with white frothy clusters.
– Pacific star flower is blooming with pink star flowers in forests.
– Poison oak’s small white flowers are blooming in forests.
– Spotted coralroot orchid is blooming burgundy or yellow with small white flowers in forests.
– Starry false lily of the valley is blooming with white star flowers on its bright green ladder in forests.
– White hawkweed is blooming white in forests.
– Woodland madia is blooming yellow in forests.
– Wood rose is blooming magenta in forests.

Forest edge
– American speedwell is blooming with small blue flowers in wet seeps.
– California everlasting white straw flowers are blooming at forest edges.
– Cleavers with their velcro barbs blooms with small white flowers at forest edge.
– Featherweed with its silver foliage and brown bristle flowers are blooming at forest edges.
– Figwort is blooming at forest edge with russet, tubular flowers.
– French broom*, native of Europe, is blooming with bright yellow pea flowers at forest edges. One of the earliest to bloom in the spring, it’s one of our most aggressive invasive plants taking over meadow habitat. Please pull.
– Fringe cups are blooming by creeks with distinctive fringed cups that start greenish white and turn pink when pollinated.
– Hedgenettle is blooming purple at forest edges.
– Hedge parsley*, native of Europe, is blooming with small white umbrella flowers. Very soon it will go to seed and make nasty hooked burrs. Weed now.
– Milkwort, a small ground creeper is blooming purple at forest edge.
– Pacific bleeding heart is blooming with its heart-shaped pink flowers around the redwoods near 435 Laverne.
– Scotch broom*, native of Europe, is one of our most aggressive invasive plants. Occupying what would otherwise be meadows, it grows in dense thickets and is blooming now with yellow pea flowers.
– Vanilla grass is blooming around the redwoods near 435 Laverne and in the road cut without ivy above Three Groves on Laverne.
– Wavyleaf soap plant is blooming with white flowers at forest edge.
– Yerba buena is blooming with small white flowers at forest edges.

Meadows
– Blue eyed grass, blue flowers on tufts in meadows.
– Bluff lettuce, a succulent, is blooming yellow on red stalks on rocks in full sun.
– California acaena is blooming red on rocks on Homestead Hill.
– Common yarrow is blooming with bright white clusters in meadows.
– Cow parsnip with its large white umbrella flowers is blooming in meadows.
– California poppy’s orange flowers are blooming in meadows.
– Checkerbloom’s pink flowers are blooming in meadows.
– Ithuriel’s spear is blooming with deep blue flowers in meadows.
– Lance leaf selfheal is blooming with velvety purple clusters in meadows.
– Naked buckwheat is blooming with blush puffs in meadows.
– Narrowleaf mule ears is blooming with bright sunflowers in meadows.
– Pineappleweed’s chamomile-smelling yellow flowers are blooming in meadows on Homestead Hill.
– Purple western morning glory’s large funnel flowers are blooming white to purple in meadows.
– Silver lupine is blooming purple on bushes in meadows.
– Spreading dogbane is blooming with small pink flowers in meadows.
– Sky lupine blooms blue and white singly across meadows.

*Non-native

Key to map:
Plants are not located on the map if they are very prolific. Find them by their habitat.

Gallery of wildflowers and plants found in Homestead.