Heuchera micrantha
Aesculus californica
Pseudognaphalium californicum
Symphoricarpos mollis
Gamochaeta ustulata
Stachys rigida quercetorum
Triteleia laxa
Prunella vulgaris v. lanceolata
Eriogonum nudum v. nudum
Drymocallis glandulosa
Chlorogalum pomeridianum
Hieracium albiflorum
Anisocarpus madioides
Clinopodium douglasii
NEW
– Alum root is blooming with small white bells near water in forests.
– Buckeye’s white clusters are starting to bloom.
– California everlasting white straw flowers are blooming at forest edges.
– Creeping snowberry is blooming with pink bells in forests.
– Featherweed with its silver foliage and brown bristle flowers are blooming at forest edges.
– Hedgenettle is blooming purple at forest edges.
– 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.
– Sticky cinquefoil is blooming with pale yellow flowers at forest edge.
– Wavyleaf soap plant is blooming with white flowers at forest edge.
– White hawkweed is blooming white in forests.
– Woodland madia is blooming yellow in forests.
– Yerba buena is blooming with small white flowers at forest edges.
Forests
– California blackberry is blooming white in forests.
– Crimson columbine is blooming red and yellow in forests.
– Douglas iris is blooming in forests with a variety of cream to pale purple flowers.
– Fairy bells are blooming with white bell flowers in forests. The flowers hang below the leaves so look below to see them.
– Feathery false lily of the valley is blooming with fragrant white flowers in forests.
– 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.
– Meadow rue blooms with small tassles in wet places in forests.
– 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.
– Striped coralroot orchid is blooming burgundy with striped flowers in forests.
– Thimbleberry is blooming white on shrubs in forests.
– Wood rose is blooming magenta in forests.
– Wood sweet-cicely is blooming with small white flowers in forests.
Forest edge
– Cleavers with their velcro barbs blooms with small white flowers at forest edge.
– 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.
– Giant trillium is blooming white, purple and maroon in the forest along the Homestead Trail.
– Miner’s lettuce blooms white in the middle of a fleshy disk. Edible.
– Pacific bleeding heart is blooming with its heart-shaped pink flowers around the redwoods near 435 Laverne.
– Pacific pea is blooming pink at forest edge.
– Pacific sanicle is blooming with dull yellow clusters in forests.
– Redwood sorrel is blooming under 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.
– White flowered onion*, a Mediterranean native, is blooming in wet places with white bells. Edible and invasive, dig out the onion bulb to remove.
– Woodland strawberry is blooming white at forest edges.
Meadows
– Blue dick’s tall clusters of blue flowers are blooming in the meadows of Homestead Hill.
– Blue eyed grass, blue flowers on tufts in meadows.
– California acaena is blooming red on rocks on Homestead Hill.
– California buttercup’s shiny yellow flowers are blooming in meadows.
– California plantain’s bloom is very small with translucent petals in meadows.
– 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.
– Ground iris’s deep purple flowers are blooming in meadows.
– Field madder*, a Mediterranean native, is blooming in meadows with its small pink, four-petaled flower.
– Hill lotus is blooming with small peach pea flowers in meadows.
– Narrowleaf mule ears is blooming with bright sunflowers in meadows.
– Oakland star tulip, one of Homestead’s rare wildflowers, is blooming delicate and pink in meadows.
– Ookow, taller and purpler than Blue dicks, is blooming in meadows.
– Pineappleweed’s chamomile-smelling yellow flowers are blooming in meadows on Homestead Hill.
– Purple sanicle’s burgundy pom-poms are blooming in meadows.
– Purple western morning glory’s large funnel flowers are blooming white to purple in meadows.
– Shamrock clover*, native to Europe, is blooming yellow in meadows.
– Shortspur seablush is blooming in meadows with clusters of blush flowers.
– Silver lupine is blooming purple on bushes in meadows.
– Sky lupine blooms blue and white singly across meadows.
– Shepherd’s needle*, native of Eurasia, is blooming with small white clusters in 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.
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