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Stem with ball cluster of unopened flowers
Biddy-Biddy
Acaena novae-zelandiae
Invasive
Whole yarrow plant with feathery leaves and flat white flower tops
Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
Native
Basal leaves resemble shape of a hound's tongue, multiple purple flowers arise on long stalks from center of base.
Pacific Houndstongue
Adelinia grandis
Native
shows the delicate beauty of this fern that has green leaflets on long linear compound leaves out from central circular ring
Western Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum aleuticum
Native
Garlic Mustard Alliaria petiolata Small plant with green heart shaped leaves
Garlic Mustard
Alliaria petiolata
Invasive
a bee on a lavender flower, flowers are arranged in an umbel on short stalks that emerge from a central core.
Tapertip Allium
Allium acuminatum
Native
a field of narrowleaf allium in bloom with pinkish flower clusters
Narrowleaf Allium
Allium amplectens
Native
curled flower with white hairs and orange petals
Menzies’ Fiddleneck
Amsinckia menziesii var. intermedia
Native
a cluster of small white many-petaled disk and ray flowers with yellow centers
Pearly Everlasting
Anaphalis margaritacea
Native
whole columbine plant with red flowers rising above foliage
Red Columbine
Aquilegia formosa
Native
a tight, semi-spherical cluster of small pink sea thrift flowers at the top of a stem
Sea Thrift
Armeria maritima
Native
a patch of mugwort with thin leaved green foliage along upright non-woody stems
Douglas’ Sagewort
Artemisia douglasiana
Native
whole plant showing plumes of inflorescences and mounded leaves
Goatsbeard
Aruncus dioicus
Native
heart shaped ginger leaves
Wild Ginger
Asarum caudatum
Native
Tight clusters of small dusky rose flowers and thin green leaves
Narrowleaf Milkweed
Asclepias fascicularis
Native
The delicate, dusty pink starburst flowers of showy milkweed
Showy Milkweed
Asclepias speciosa
Native
loosely arranged compound leaves of lady fern with deeply dissected leaflets
Lady Fern
Athyrium filix-femina
Native
deer fern fronds viewed from above
Deer Fern
Blechnum spicant
Native
Crown Brodiaea
Brodiaea coronaria
Native
three fuzzy white pointy-tipped petals tinged with purple at center
Mariposa Lily
Calochortus tolmiei
Native
a spike of star shaped purple camas flowers
Great Camas
Camassia leichtlinii ssp suksdorfii
Native
a field of camas mixed with grasses
Common Camas
Camassia quamash
Native
Italian Thistle Carduus pycnocephalus Stalk with long spiky leaves and green spiky unopened flower pod
Italian Thistle
Carduus pycnocephalus
Invasive
Yellow flower coming out of a cluster of spiky leaves
Woolly Distaff Thistle
Carthamus lanatus
Invasive
red paintbrush inflorescences rise above dusky rose sea blush
Giant Red Paintbrush
Castilleja miniata
Native
Pinkish flower subtended by bracts with long spines.
Purple Starthistle
Centaurea calcitrapa
Invasive
a mound of starburst leaves and purple tipped white flowers with long spines surrounded by dry, bare earth.
Iberian Starthistle
Centaurea iberica
Invasive
Meadow Knapweed Centaurea pratensis Purple flowers on long stems
Meadow Knapweed
Centaurea pratensis (aka Centaurea jacea x nigra, Centaurea debeauxii ssp. thuillieri)
Invasive
Two spiky flower heads, on spiky stems, with yellow flower
Yellow Starthistle
Centaurea solstitialis
Invasive
Slender stalks with flower buds opening up to whispy purple thin petalled flowers. Bracts have dark tips.
Spotted Knapweed
Centaurea stoebe
Invasive
a patch of fireweed with spires of purple flowers that taper to a point atop green spears of small lance shaped leaves
Fireweed
Chamerion angustifolium
Native
Canada Thistle Cirsium arvense Flower pods with small purple tufts
Canada Thistle
Cirsium arvense
Invasive
Bull Thistle Cirsium vulgare Spiny casing with purple tuft at top
Bull Thistle
Cirsium vulgare
Invasive
pink flower with red stem and green leaves
Farewell to Spring
Clarkia amoena
Native
a close up photo of a blue and white flower in a grassy field
Large-flowered Blue Eyed Mary
Collinsia grandiflora
Native
close up of an pale orange flower with blue pollen and green foliage
Large-flowered Collomia
Collomia grandiflora
Native
Poison Hemlock Conium maculatum Large stalk with several limbs with clusters of white flowers
Poison Hemlock
Conium maculatum
Invasive
a thin stalked larskspur with dissected foliage and multiple blue flowers
Columbia Larkspur
Delphinium trollifollium
Native
drooping pink flowers
Pacific Bleeding Heart
Dicentra formosa
Native
a cluster of purple flowers, each with 6 petals, atop a leafless stalk
Ookow
Dichelostemma congestum
Native
Oblong tapered leaf with serated edges
Cutleaf Teasel
Dipsacus laciniatus
Invasive
bell shaped white flowers dangle beneath leaves; petals are more open than in Smith's Fairy Bells.
Hooker’s Fairybells
Disporum hookeri
Native
two white bell shaped flowers hang down from beneath final two leaves, petals tightly clasped.
Smith’s Fairybells
Disporum smithii
Native
pinkish flowers on reddish stalks above green egg to lance shaped leaves
Henderson’s Shooting Star
Dodecatheon hendersonii
Native
a patch of ferns that taper and curve
California Wood Fern
Dryopteris arguta
Native
Small plant with alternate stems of purple showy flowers
Paterson’s Curse
Echium plantagineum
Invasive
pretty purple flowers with green foliage
Denseflower Spikeprimrose
Epilobium densiflorum
Native
Showy Fleabane
Erigeron speciosus
Native
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