r/bayarea • u/danpietsch Sunnyvale • 3d ago

Some native flora of the Bay Area I photographed this year. Scenes from the Bay

Post image
289 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

37

u/danpietsch Sunnyvale 3d ago 
 1  2  3  4  5
 6  7  8  9 10
11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25
  1. Tiburon Mariposa Lily (Calochortus tiburonensis), Ring Mountain Open Space Preserve.
  2. Yellow Mariposa Lily (Calochortus luteus), Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve.
  3. Milkmaids (Cardamine californica), Butano State Park.
  4. Candy Flower (Claytonia sibirica), Butano State Park.

  5. Fetid Adder's Tongue (Scoliopus bigelovii), Butano State Park.

  6. Giant Trillium (Trillium chloropetalum), Stage Road between San Gregorio and Pescadero.

  7. Pink Flowering Currant (Ribes sanguineum var. glutinosum), Point Reyes National Seashore.

  8. California Bay Laurel (Umbellularia californica), Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve.

  9. Checker Lily (Fritillaria affinis), Point Reyes National Seashore.

  10. Redwood Violet (Viola sempervirens), Sam McDonald County Park.

  11. Baby Blue Eyes (Nemophila menziesii), Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve.

  12. Giant Trilliums (Trillium chloropetalum), Alpine Road near Sam McDonald County Park.

  13. Redwood Sorrel (Oxalis oregana), Sam McDonald County Park.

  14. Western Starflower (Lysimachia latifolia), Sam McDonald County Park.

  15. Douglas Iris (Iris douglasiana), Sam McDonald County Park.

  16. Two-Eyed Violet (Viola ocellata), Sam McDonald County Park.

  17. Spotted Coralroot (Corallorhiza maculata), Skyline to the Sea Trail.

  18. Ground Rose (Rosa spithamea), The Grove of Stout-Hearted Wonders.

  19. Red Sand Spurrey (Spergularia rubra), Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve.

  20. Western Columbine (Aquilegia formosa), Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve.

  21. Pacific Trillium (Trillium ovatum), Sam McDonald County Park.

  22. Ithuriel's Spear (Triteleia laxa), Ring Mountain Open Space Preserve.

  23. Long-Rayed Brodiaea (Triteleia peduncularis), Ring Mountain Open Space Preserve.

  24. Tolmie's Pussy Ears (Calochortus tolmiei), The Grove of Stout-Hearted Wonders.

  25. Clay Mariposa Lily (Calochortus argillosus), Pearson-Arastradero Preserve.

12

u/amateurguru 3d ago

Thank you! Love that you put the effort to label and identify them for us.

5

u/WhineNDine883 3d ago

This is so satisfying. Thank you for posting!!

2

u/adherentoftherepeted 3d ago

Thank you! Beautiful photos (and great taste in flowers!).

1

u/Mezzichai 3d ago

Nice list, you should try and spot some Streptanthus species.

18

u/danpietsch Sunnyvale 3d ago

This year it was my goal to find Tiburon Mariposa Lily (Calochortus tiburonensis) and Clay Mariposa Lily (Calochortus argillosus) which I had never seen before.

I am quite happy to have found and photographed them (#1 and #25).

2

u/trdollar 3d ago

Congrats! So satisfying when you hope to find something like that in the wild, the plan comes together, and you go home with a win. Thanks for sharing this incredibly well formatted and informative post!

5

u/Bli-munda 3d ago

Beautiful 🪻!!!

3

u/sknvoh 3d ago

This is wonderful! Thank you so much for posting! One year I tried to get a pic and identify every flower we saw on our ramblings in the Santa Cruz Mtn/Peninsula areas but my list was much shorter. And I've never heard of The Grove of Stout-Hearted Wonders, had to google that!

2

u/FrustratedPlantMum [Concord] 3d ago

Gorgeous! If you wanted to post this over to r/ceanothus, I'm sure they'd like to see it!

1

u/ronnie-james-dior 3d ago

This would be awesome framed and hanging on the wall!

1

u/HikeClimbBikeForever 3d ago

Very nice. Very nice indeed.

1

u/fuckyouperhaps 3d ago

absolutely love- thank you for taking the time to compile these and label them all. how did you go about learning them? pictures first and then identifying or do you set out looking for specific things?

do you have any of the mount diablo fairy lantern?