California buttercup
Ranunculus californicus

California goldfields
Lasthenia californica

California plantain
Plantago erecta

California poppy
Eschscholzia californica

Crimson columbine
Aquilegia formosa

Figwort
Scrophularia californica

Owl's clover
Castilleja densiflora

Pacific bleeding heart
Dicentra formosa

Pacific sanicle
Sanicula crassicaulis

Pacific pea
Lathyrus vestitus var vestitus

Pineappleweed
Matricaria discoidea

Poison oak
Toxicodendron diversilobum

Purple sanicle
Sanicula bipinnatifida

Purple western morning glory
Calystegia purpurata s. purpurata

Red elderberry
Sambucus racemosa

Spotted coralroot
Corallorhiza maculata

NEW
– California buttercup (Ranunculus californicus) is blooming shiny yellow in meadows.
– California goldfields (Lasthenia californica) can be a carpet of yellow but is mostly scattered yellow in meadows this year.
– California plantain (Plantago erecta), small and delicate, see it blooming in rocky margins of meadows.
– California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) with its bright orange bell blooms in meadows.
– Crimson Columbine (Aquilegia formosa) is blooming with its distinctive red and yellow flowers at forest edge.
– Figwort (Scrophularia californica) blooms with its uniquely shaped russet flower blooms at forest edge.
– Owl’s clover (Castilleja densiflora) is blooming pink and yellow in meadows.
– Pacific bleeding heart (Dicentra formosa) with its heart-shaped pink flowers is blooming under redwoods.
– Pacific sanicle (Sanicula crassicaulis) blooms with dark mustard flowers in forests.
– Pacific pea (Lathyrus vestitus var vestitus) is blooming pink at forest edge.
– Pineappleweed (Matricaria discoidea) blooming yellow in meadows.
– Poison oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum) is blooming with small white flowers in forests.
– Purple sanicle (Sanicula bipinnatifida) is blooming with burgundy balls in meadows.
– Purple western morning glory (Calystegia purpurata s. purpurata) is blooming in meadows.
– Red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa), a large shrub, is blooming with white clusters.
– Spotted coralroot (Corallorhiza maculata) is blooming with white flowers on red stalks in forests.

Forests
– Bay laurel (Umbellularia californica), one of the most common native tree in our forests is blooming with white, vanilla-scented flower clusters.
– Canyon gooseberry (Ribes menziesii) blooms with Chinese lantern flowers in forests.
– Checker lily (Fritillaria affinis) with its yellow spotted chocolate bells is blooming in meadows at forest edge.
– Douglas Iris (Iris douglasiana) is blooming white in forests.
– Giant trillium (Trillium chloropetalum) is blooming in forests.
– Huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum) blooms with small white flowers. Unusual in Homestead, find it blooming in the forest understory below 14.
– 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.
– Oso berry (Oemleria cerasiformis) blooms with fragrant white flowers in forests.
– Starry false lily of the valley (Maianthemum stellatum) is blooming white in forests.
– Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus) is just leafing out for the season and is blooming white in forests.
– Trillium (Trillium ovatum) is blooming white in forests.
– Wood sweet-cicely (Osmorhiza berteroi) is blooming in forests with small white flowers.

Forest Edge
– Canyon gooseberry (Ribes menziesii) blooms with Chinese lantern flowers in forests.
– Blue eyed grass (Sisyrinchium bellum) is blooming blue at forest’s edge.
– California blackberry
(Rubus ursinus) is blooming white climbing over brush on Homestead Hill.
– 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.
– Starry false lily of the valley (Maianthemum stellatum) is blooming white in forests.
– 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.
– Milkmaids (Cardamine californica) is blooming white in forests.
– Miner’s lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata)
is blooming with small white flowers over fleshy disks in wet places.
– Pacific hound’s tongue’s (Cynoglossum grande) foliage is emerging all over the forest edge meadow habitat on north facing slopes.
– 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.
– Woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) is blooming white on Homestead Hill.

Meadow
– Barberry (Berberis pinnata), a small shrub, is blooming with yellow, fragrant flowers in meadows on Homestead Hill.
– Blue dicks (Dichelostemma capitatum) is blooming blue in meadows.
– Dwarf checkerbloom (Sidalcea malviflora ssp. malviflora) is blooming pink with its first blooms of the season on Homestead Hill.
– Footsteps of spring (Sanicula arctopoides) is marching with chartreuse steps across Homestead Hill.
– Fremont’s deathcamas (Toxicoscordion fremontii) is blooming in meadows with tall white clusters.
– Ground Iris (Iris macrosiphon) is blooming deep purple on Homestead Hill.- California blackberry (Rubus ursinus) is blooming white climbing over brush on Homestead Hill.
– Marin Checker Lily (Fritillaria lanceolata var. tristulis), Homestead’s rarest flower, is blooming with chocolate bells along the meadow trail below Amaranth.
– Milkmaids (Cardamine californica) is blooming white in forests.
– Miner’s lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata) is blooming with small white flowers over fleshy disks in wet places.
– Oakland star tulip (Calochortus umbellatus) is blooming with pale blooms near the ground on the trail below 4-Corners.
– Shooting star (Dodecatheon hendersonii) is blooming pink in the meadow of the Ridgewood Rock.
– Sky lupin (Lupinus nanus) is blooming blue near the ground on Homestead Hill.
– Spring gold (Lomatium utriculatum) is blooming with ground hugging yellow clusters on the Ridgewood Rock.
– Sun cup (Taraxia ovata) with its bright yellow flowers is blooming on Homestead Hill.
– Woolly lomatium (Lomatium dasycarpum) is blooming with ground hugging frothy cream clusters on Homestead Hill.

Gallery of wildflowers and plants found in Homestead.

Blue eyed grass
Sisyrinchium bellum

California huckleberry
Vaccinium ovatum

Oakland star tulip
Calochortus umbellatus

Oso berry
Oemleria cerasiformis

Pacific trillium
Trillium ovatum

Shooting star
Primula hendersonii

NEW
– Blue eyed grass (Sisyrinchium bellum) is blooming blue at forest’s edge.
– Huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum) blooms with small white flowers. Unusual in Homestead, find it blooming in the forest understory below 14.
– Oakland star tulip (Calochortus umbellatus) is blooming with pale blooms near the ground on the trail below 4-Corners.
– Oso berry (Oemleria cerasiformis) blooms with fragrant white flowers in forests.
– Shooting star (Dodecatheon hendersonii) is blooming pink in the meadow of the Ridgewood Rock.
– Trillium (Trillium ovatum) is blooming white in forests.

Forests
– Bay laurel (Umbellularia californica), one of the most common native tree in our forests is blooming with white, vanilla-scented flower clusters.
– Douglas Iris (Iris douglasiana) is blooming white in forests.
– 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.

Forest Edge
– California blackberry (Rubus ursinus) is blooming white climbing over brush on Homestead Hill.
– 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.
– 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.
– Milkmaids (Cardamine californica) is blooming white in forests.
– Miner’s lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata) is blooming with small white flowers over fleshy disks in wet places.
– Pacific hound’s tongue’s (Cynoglossum grande) foliage is emerging all over the forest edge meadow habitat on north facing slopes.
– 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.
– Woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) is blooming white on Homestead Hill.

Meadow
– Dwarf checkerbloom (Sidalcea malviflora ssp. malviflora) is blooming pink with its first blooms of the season on Homestead Hill.
– Footsteps of spring (Sanicula arctopoides) is marching with chartreuse steps across Homestead Hill.
– Fremont’s deathcamas (Toxicoscordion fremontii) is blooming in meadows with tall white clusters.
– Ground Iris (Iris macrosiphon) is blooming deep purple on Homestead Hill.
– California blackberry (Rubus ursinus) is blooming white climbing over brush on Homestead Hill.
– Milkmaids (Cardamine californica) is blooming white in forests.
– Miner’s lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata) is blooming with small white flowers over fleshy disks in wet places.
– Sky lupin (Lupinus nanus) is blooming blue near the ground on Homestead Hill.
– Spring gold (Lomatium utriculatum) is blooming with ground hugging yellow clusters on the Ridgewood Rock.
– Woolly lomatium (Lomatium dasycarpum) is blooming with ground hugging frothy cream clusters on Homestead Hill.

Gallery of wildflowers and plants found in Homestead.

Bay laurel
Umbellularia californica

Greene's saxifrage
Micranthes californica

Warrior's plume
Pedicularis densiflora

Wood sweet-cicely
Osmorhiza berteroi

Woodland star
Lithophragma affine

NEW
– 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.

California horkelia
Horkelia californica

California mugwort
Artemisia douglasiana

California spikenard
Aralia californica

Kellogg's yampah
Perideridia kelloggii

Old man's beard*
Clematis vitalba

Pennyroyal*
Mentha pulegium

Pincushion flower*
Scabiosa atropurpurea

Roughleaf aster
Eurybia radulina

Spicebush
Calycanthus occidentalis

Toyon
Heteromeles arbutifolia

NEW
– California horkelia is blooming with white flowers above its frilly leaves.
– California mugwort is blooming with cream tufts in full sun.
– California spikenard, tall with large leaves is blooming with white flowers in gulleys.
– Kellogg’s yampah is blooming with white umbels in meadows.
– Old man’s beard*, a clematis native to Europe, is blooming with fragrant white flowers.
– Pennyroyal*, native to Europe, a strong smelling mint is blooming near the creek below Cowboy Rock with pale purple flowers.
– Pincushion flower*, native of Europe,
– Roughleaf aster is blooming purple in sun.
– Spicebush with its unusual burgundy flowers is blooming in Three Groves and in native gardens
– Toyon, a common shrub of the forest understory is blooming with white clusters that will become bright red berries

Forests
– American trailplant, so called for it’s arrow shaped leaves that are white underneath is blooming with small white flowers at the end of a tall stalk in forests.

Forest edge
– California everlasting white straw flowers are blooming at forest edges.

Meadows
– Common yarrow is blooming with bright white clusters in meadows.
– California poppy’s orange flowers are blooming in meadows.
– Naked buckwheat is blooming in full sun in rocky areas.
– Sticky monkeyflower is blooming orange in meadows.

*Non-native

Gallery of wildflowers and plants found in Homestead.