Amaryllis belladonna
Madia sativa
NEW
– Belladonna lily, a native of South Africa, also known as naked ladies blooms on its reddish stalk after all its foliage has died off.
– Coast tarweed, a tall native tarweed with the typical resinous coating is blooming yellow along Pixie Trail.
Forest Edges
Peaking
– Bigelow’s sneezeweed with its large pincushion disc floret and down facing rays, it’s blooming now on the Homestead trail.
– Pennyroyal native to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
– 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
– 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.
– Pineappleweed, in the middle of Lattie Lane fire road.
– Poison hemlock, native to Europe and North Africa, infamous poison of choice of Socrates – condemned to death for impiety – is blooming below Cowboy Rock. In the carrot family, its blotchy red stem warns of its lethal toxicity.
– Sticky monkeyflower, this bright orange mimulus with its sticky leaves was used by the Coast Miwok to place on sores and burns.
– Yarrow, one of the great medicinal herbs for blood, is blooming in full sun.
Wet Places
Peaking
– Horsetail, these primeval silica based plants are growing creeksides.
Forests
Peaking
– Roughleaf aster is blooming in the forest along the Eagle Trail.
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.
– 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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