Since early spring I have been posting lots of wildflower images in my blog. After my last hike, where I learned the names of many of the flowers I decided, that I would make one more post showcasing the beautiful wildflowers we are lucky to experience this spring. I really hope that our winters will be as wet in the future as the last one was, and we’ll enjoy the flowers again in coming years.

Some of the photos I’ve already posted, others are new. I will label all of them this time. Please be warned: there are a lot of flower pictures in this post. 🙂

Let’s start with the California Poppy. This was one of the first flowers to bloom, and I still saw a few today.

Next we have the School Bell (with poppies in the background):

This one is called Perry’s Phacelia:

This is the Red Stemmed Filaree:

The next one is one of my favorites: Lupine

Here is another very interesting one: Scalloped Phacelia

These are sages: Black Sage first (the white flowers), and White Sage next.

This one is called Monkey Flower.

Meet the Purple Owl Clover:

This yellow/orange one is called Deer Weed:

Here is a Western Jimson Weed:

How about the Golden Star?

In the fields above there are some Mariposa Lilies as well. Here is one up close:

This is a Tarplant:

And this is a Fringed Indian Pink:

This is Golden Yarrow:

And this one is a Common Fiddle Neck:

Here is the Narrow Leafed Bedstraw:

The Purple Nightshade is pretty, but very poisonous:

The cactus flowers are beautiful, too:

This is a Bush Mallow (Malacothamnus):

Here we have some Matilija Poppy in the middle of a field:

There are some non-native wildflowers as well, which are pretty but very invasive. This is the Wild Mustard:

Wild oats, an important component of the state’s grassland, were imported to Southern California by the Spaniards during the latter half of the 18th Century.

The images were taken at the following locations:

• Weir Canyon
• Walker Canyon
• Upper Bay
• Tucker Canyon
• Orchard Hills
• Bommer Canyon
• Hick Haul Road
• Buck Gully
• Limestone Canyon