All the rain has brought lots of flowers out. Hound’s tongue and milkmaids are at meadow’s edge while footsteps of spring are up on the ridge, warrior plume’s large patch is still very colorful at 15 and trillium is in the canyons.
Ranunculus californicus
Iris douglasiana
Prosartes hookeri
Marah fabacea
Claytonia perfoliata
Oemleria cerasiformis
Taraxia ovata
Fragaria vesca
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– California buttercup’s (Ranunculus californicus) glossy yellow flowers are starting to brighten meadows. They are one of the few wildflowers that will persist into the warm months when most other spring flowers have faded.
– Douglas iris (Iris douglasiana) blooms white or pale purple in forests. Ground iris’s dark purple blooms started a few weeks ago in ridgetop meadows.
– Fairy bells (Prosartes hookeri) is a forest wildflower. Small and multibranched, the flowers are often hidden below the leaves.
– Wild cucumber (Marah fabacea), this vine is climbing up from the forest floor with white flowers.
– Miner’s lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata) will bloom in wet seeps for as long as they’re wet. Edible.
– Oso berry (Oemleria cerasiformis) has flowers blooming white and fragrant as this shrub is leafing out.
– Suncups (Taraxia ovata), a yellow, four-petaled flower blooms in a rosette of leaves. It is the first wildflower this spring in South-facing meadows.
– Woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca), is blooming with white flowers under chaparral and at forest edges.
Gallery of wildflowers and plants found in Homestead.
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