Marin Chapter California Native Plant Society

Native Wildflowers in Bloom (partial list)
May 16, 2001
Rubicon Canyon, Lucas Valley Open Space Preserve
and Valleystone Canyon, Marinwood
with leader Wilma Follette

BOTANICAL NAME	COMMON NAME
Aesculus californica	California Buckeye
Agoseris grandiflora (A. plebia)	Mountain Dandelion
Anisocarpus madioides (Madia m.)	Woodland Madia
Calystegia purpurata ssp. purpurata (Convolvulus occidentalis var. p. & var. solanensis)	Morning-glory
Clarkia gracilis ssp. gracilis	Graceful Clarkia
Clarkia purpurea ssp. quadrivulnera	Winecup Clarkia
Dichelostemma (Brodiaea) congestum	Ookow
Gnaphalium californicum	Cudweed
Holodiscus discolor	Ocean-spray
Lotus scoparius var. scoparius (L.s.)	Deerweed
Madia gracilis	Slender Tarweed
Mimulus aurantiacus	Bush Monkeyflower
Phacelia californica	California Phacelia
Phacelia distans	Fern Phacelia
Polygala californica	Milkwort
Rosa californica	California Rose
Sambucus mexicana (S. coerulea)	Blue Elderberry
Sisyrinchium bellum	Blue-eyed Grass
Stachys ajugoides var. rigida (S. r. var. quercetorum)	Hedge Nettle
Symphoricarpos mollis	Snowberry
Triteleia (Brodiaea) laxa	Ithuriel's Spear
Plant names are as given in the 1993 JEPSON MANUAL, followed in parentheses by the name given in J.T. Howell's MARIN FLORA AND SUPPLEMENTS if different from the JEPSON MANUAL name.
also seen: Pipevine Swallowtail caterpillar eating leaf of Aristolochia californica and numerous butterflies including Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia), 'Chalcedon' Variable Checkerspot (Euphydryas chalcedona), California Sister (Adelpha bredowii), Anise Swallowtail (Papilio zelicaon), California Ringlet (Coenonympha tullia california), Mournful Duskywing (Erynnis tritis), Propertius Duskywing (Erynnis propertius), and Mylitta Crescent (Phyciodes mylitta)

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