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Canyon live forever (Dudleya cymosa ssp. cymosa)

Seen mid March

There are a lot more flowers now! These are the new ones with a few updates on previous plants.

Caterpillar phacelia (Phacelia cicutaria var. cicutaria)
Birch leaf mountain mahogany (Cercocarpus betuloides var. betuloides)
Indian manzanita (Arctostaphylos mewukka ssp. mewukka) already going to fruit

Whitish flowers

Spring madia close-up
Spring madia (Madia elegans ssp. vernalis)
Canyon liveforever (Dudleya cymosa ssp. cymosa) just going into flower
Menzies’ fiddleneck (Amsinckia menziesii var. menziesii)
Menzies’ (foreground) and common fiddleneck (background)
Smooth cat’s ear (Hypochaeris glabra) not-native
Chilean bird’s foot trefoil (Acmispon wrangelianus)
Disc mayweed or pineapple weed (Matricaria discoidea) non-native
old-man-in-the-Spring (Senecio vulgaris) non-native
Purple sanicle (Sanicula bipinnatifida)

Yellow and orange flowers

Fringed redmaids (Calandrinia ciliata)
Mosquito bills full plant (Primula hendersonii)
Red-stem stork’s bill (Erodium cicutarium)
Longbeak stork’s bill (Erodium botrys)
Pacific poison oak leafing out (Toxicodendron diversilobum)

Pink to Red Flowers (and leaves)

Miniature lupine (Lupinus bicolor)
Spider lupine (Lupinus benthamii)

Blue to Purple flowers

Bulbous bluegrass (Poa bulbosa)
Bulbous bluegrass has bulbils instead of seeds
Wild oat (Avena fatua)

Some of the grasses

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