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Coast Indian paintbrush (Castilleja affinis)

Seen early March

There are groups of flowering plants now- not just a few individuals! See the earlier post for some of the other species!

Yellow orange poppy flower with gray finely divided leaves
Tufted poppy (Eschscholzia caespitosa)
Clusters of small yellow flowers with green finely divided leaves
Common lomatium (Lomatium utriculatum)
Indian paintbrush with small yellow flowers custered at the tip
Sagebrush Indian paintbrush (Castilleja lineariiloba)
Compound umbel with groups of yellow flowers
Pacific blacksnake root (Sanicula crassicaulis)

Yellow flowers

Buckbrush (Ceanothus cuneatus var. cuneatus)
Smallflower nemophila (Nemophila parviflora var. quercifolia)
Smallflower nemophila close-up of flowers
California saxifrage (Micranthes californica)
White flowers
Coast indian paintbrush with many green stems topped with orange flowers
Coast Indian paintbrush (Castilleja affinis)
Orange flowers
Lace lipfern (Cheilanthes gracillima) only found in one small area of the trail!
Birdfoot cliffbrake (Pellaea mucronata ssp. mucronata) note pointy tips
Birdfoot and coffee cliffbreaks together! Note rounded tips on coffee cliffbreak.

Ferns

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