Umbellularia californica
Micranthes californica
Pedicularis densiflora
Osmorhiza berteroi
Lithophragma affine
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– Bay laurel (Umbellularia californica), one of the most common native tree in our forests is blooming with white, vanilla-scented flower clusters.
– 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.
-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.
– 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.
Forest Edge
– 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.
Gallery of wildflowers and plants found in Homestead.
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