Veronica americana
Clintonia andrewsiana
Dudleya farinosa
Rupertia physodes
Ligusticum apiifolium
Torilis arvensis
Polygala californica
Holodiscus discolor
Apocynum androsaemifolium
NEW
– American speedwell is blooming with small blue flowers in wet seeps.
– Andrew’s Clinton, a lily, is blooming with pink flowers on long stalks above large waxy leaves in redwood forests. It can be seen blooming on the Laverne road cut above Stolte Grove.
– Bluff lettuce, a succulent, is blooming yellow on red stalks on rocks in full sun.
– California tea with its bright leaves and purple tipped pea flowers is blooming at forest edge.
– Celery leaved lovage with white umbrella flowers is blooming in forests.
– Hedge parsley*, native of Europe, is blooming with small white umbrella flowers. Very soon it will go to seed and make nasty hooked burrs. Weed now.
– Milkwort, a small ground creeper is blooming purple at forest edge.
– Ocean spray, a forest shrub, is blooming with white frothy clusters.
– Spreading dogbane is blooming with small pink flowers in meadows.
Forests
– Alum root is blooming with small white bells near water in forests.
– Buckeye’s white clusters are blooming in forests.
– California everlasting white straw flowers are blooming at forest edges.
– Creeping snowberry is blooming with pink bells 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.
– 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.
– White hawkweed is blooming white in forests.
– Woodland madia is blooming yellow in forests.
– Wood rose is blooming magenta in forests.
– Wood sweet-cicely is blooming with small white flowers in forests.
Forest edge
– California everlasting white straw flowers are blooming at forest edges.
– Cleavers with their velcro barbs blooms with small white flowers at forest edge.
– Featherweed with its silver foliage and brown bristle flowers are blooming at forest edges.
– 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.
– Hedgenettle is blooming purple at forest edges.
– 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.
– Sticky cinquefoil is blooming with pale yellow flowers at forest edge.
– Vanilla grass is blooming around the redwoods near 435 Laverne and in the road cut without ivy above Three Groves on Laverne.
– Wavyleaf soap plant is blooming with white flowers at forest edge.
– 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.
– Yerba buena is blooming with small white flowers at forest edges.
Meadows
– 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.
– 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.
– 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.
– 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.
– 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.
*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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