Acer macrophyllum
Acacia melanoxylon
Acaena pinnatifida v californica
Torreya californica
Quercus agrifolia
Achillea millefolium
Aquilegia formosa
Maianthemum racemosum
Acmispon parviflorus
Thalictrum fendleri v. polycarpum
Wyethia angustifolia
Dichelostemma congestum
Castilleja densiflora
Crassula connata
Matricaria discoidea
Toxicodendron diversilobum
Calystegia purpurata s. purpurata
Actaea rubra
Trifolium dubium
Lupinus albifrons
Lupinus nanus
Corallorhiza maculata
Corallorhiza striata
Rubus parviflorus
Rosa gymnocarpa
NEW
– Big leaf maple is blooming with tassles above the entrance to Stolte Grove and around the valley in forests.
– Blackwood acacia*, native to Australia, is blooming with pale yellow puff flowers.
– California acaena is blooming red on rocks on Homestead Hill.
– California nutmeg tree, blooms with white pollen cones in forests.
– Coast live oak, is blooming with tassels in meadows.
– Common yarrow is blooming with bright white clusters in meadows.
– Crimson columbine is blooming red and yellow in forests.
– Feathery false lily of the valley is blooming with fragrant white flowers in forests.
– Hill lotus is blooming with small peach pea flowers in meadows.
– Meadow rue blooms with small tassles in wet places in forests.
– Narrowleaf mule ears is blooming with bright sunflowers in meadows.
– Ookow, taller and purpler than Blue dicks, is blooming in meadows.
– Owl’s clover, pink and yellow, is blooming in meadows on Homestead Hill.
– Pigmy weed, a small red succulent, is blooming on rocks on Homestead Hill.
– Pineappleweed’s chamomile-smelling yellow flowers are blooming in meadows on Homestead Hill.
– Poison oak’s small white flowers are blooming in forests.
– Purple western morning glory’s large funnel flowers are blooming white to purple in meadows.
– Red baneberry is blooming with white clusters under redwoods above Three Groves.
– Shamrock clover*, native to Europe, is blooming yellow in meadows.
– Silver lupine is blooming purple on bushes in meadows.
– Sky lupine blooms blue and white singly across meadows.
– Spotted coralroot orchid is blooming burgundy with small white flowers 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.
Forests
– Bay laurel, one of the most common trees on Homestead’s north facing slopes, is blooming now with small yellow clusters that smell sweetly of vanilla.
– California blackberry is blooming white in forests.
– California huckleberry is blooming with small white bells in forests.
– Canyon gooseberry is blooming with its red and white Chinese lantern flowers 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.
– Forget-me-not*, native of North Africa, is blooming with its pretty blue flowers beside trails. A very aggressive invasive plant, please pull.
– Indian warrior is blooming with maroon flowers above and below the Homestead Trail at 15.
– Manroot vine is blooming white.
– Milkmaid, white and tall, this edible member of the mustard family is blooming now in forests.
– Oso berry, or Indian plum’s white flower tassels are blooming near seeps in forests.
– Starry false lily of the valley is blooming with white star flowers on its bright green ladder in forests.
– Trillium with its white flower floating in the center of three leaves is blooming in the ravine at 6e.
– Wood sweet-cicely is blooming with small white flowers in forests.
Forest edge
– Chickweed*, an edible native of Europe, is blooming white.
– Cleavers with their velcro barbs blooms with small white flowers at forest edge.
– Figwort is blooming at forest edge with russet, tubular flowers.
– Fremont’s death camas is blooming with clusters of white flowers in meadows.
– 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.
– Greene’s saxifrage’s small white flowers are blooming on the Ridgewood Rock.
– 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 hound’s tongue with its large furry leaves is blooming with blue flowers at forest edges.
– 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
– Barberry, a low shrub with spiky leaves is blooming bright yellow with fragrant flowers.
– 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 buttercup’s shiny yellow flowers are blooming in meadows.
– California goldfields are blooming bright yellow in clusters in meadows.
– California plantain’s bloom is very small with translucent petals 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.
– Checker lily, tall with mottled chocolate bell flowers is blooming in meadows.
– Footsteps of spring blooms flat in meadows up on Homestead Hill with bright yellow centers.
– 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.
– Marin checker lily is blooming with chocolate bell flowers in the meadow below Amaranth.
– Oakland star tulip, one of Homestead’s rare wildflowers, is blooming delicate and pink in meadows.
– Purple sanicle’s burgundy pom-poms are blooming in meadows.
– Red elderberry’s large shrub is blooming with white flower mounds in meadows.
– Red maid’s glossy magenta flowers are blooming close to the ground on Homestead Hill.
– Suncups is blooming yellow in meadows.
– Shepherd’s needle*, native of Eurasia, is blooming with small white clusters in meadows.
– Shooting star with its distinctive pink shooting star flower is blooming in meadows.
– Spring gold’s bright yellow clusters are blooming in meadows.
– Wintercress is blooming yellow on the ridge below Homestead Hill.
– Woodland star is blooming with its distinctive star-shaped flower on the Ridgewood Rock.
– Wooly lomatium is blooming with furry disk flowers and frilly carrot foliage 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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