Northern California Wildflowers Photo Gallery by Barry Langdon-Lassagne at pbase.com

Northern California Wildflowers

This gallery is a collection of California native wildflowers and plants, mostly from the San Francisco Bay Area. I've specified the location in the description below each photograph. If you see any incorrect species identification, please let me know by leaving a comment for the particular wildlflower.

Some of my favorite places to go for wildflowers are Edgewood County Park, Picchetti Ranch, Stevens Creek County Park, Sunol Regional Wilderness and Hidden Villa.

Although I am currently more interested in photographing North American birds, I have always enjoyed photographing and identifying native plants. If you visit the page with birds listed by site, you will find many of these wildflower photographs mixed with photos of the birds found at the same location.

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Mariposa Lily (Calochortus sp.)	Thistle	Wild Cucumber	Skullcap (possibly Scutellaria tuberosa)
Douglas' Iris (Iris douglasiana)	IMG_5884.jpg	Indian Warrior (Pedicularis densiflora), past blooming	Yellow flower
Douglas' Iris (Iris douglasiana)	Douglas' Iris (Iris douglasiana)	Skullcap (possibly Scutellaria tuberosa)	Skullcap (possibly Scutellaria tuberosa)
Skullcap (possibly Scutellaria tuberosa)	Skullcap (possibly Scutellaria tuberosa)	Solomon's Seal (probably Smilacina racemosa)	Sticky Monkey Flower (Mimulus aurantiacus)
Sticky Monkey Flower (Mimulus aurantiacus)	Pacific Starflower (Trientalis latifolia)	Turkeytail mushrooms on fallen log	Pacific Starflower (Trientalis latifolia)
Crimson Columbine (Aquilegia formosa), not fully open	Crimson Columbine (Aquilegia formosa)	Fairy Lanterns (Calochortus albus)	Fairy Lanterns (Calochortus albus)
Flannelbush	California Poppy	Striped Coral Root (Corallorhiza striata)	Woodland Star (Lithophragma)
Virgin's Bower (Clematis lasiantha)	Mission Bells (Fritillaria affinis)	Crimson Columbine (Aquilegia formosa)	California Buttercup (Ranunculus californicus)
Western Hounds Tongue (Cynoglossum grande)	Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium bellum)	California Aster (Aster chilensis)	Common Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)
Toyon berries (Heteromeles arbutifolia)	Dudleya sp.	Coyote Brush (Baccharis pilularis) in seed	Manzanita (Arctostaphylos ssp.), with buds just starting
Woolly Bluecurls

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Judi		17-May-2009 22:06
thank you for the great collection. I have photographed wildflowers on my morning walks to send to my grandchildren in Connecticut and needed help in naming them. You have some great photos.

Katrina		07-Apr-2009 15:25
Thanks for the lovely photos. I was hiking in the Las Trampas Wilderness in Alamo on 4/5/09 and saw more wildflower varieties in a single day than I ever have before - most likely because of the multiple diverse micro-climates within the park. Your photos helped me identify a few of the unknown flowers I saw there. I wish I'd had my camera so I could have documented the amazing variety myself. I'll refer my fellow wildflower lovers to your site - it's a great reference.

Natalie		22-Jan-2009 05:44
What great photos! It's hard to get such clarity in the wild when the flowers are flapping around in the wind, but these look fantastic. I saw a funny wildflower at Edgewood Park this weekend, (mid-January) with small, about 1-inch pink tubular flowers clustered together at the top of a big spike, about one foot off the ground, with a rosette of big pointy swordlike leaves on the ground. (The top looked a little indian-paintbrush-like, and the bottom reminded me a little of a yucca) Any ideas what that was?

Dennis Ancinec		10-Apr-2008 04:57
Great job on the gallery. I am trying to do much the same thing in San Diego area.

Guest		21-Apr-2006 04:27
Beautiful wildflower photography in Norhtern California! I was just up hiking on the Pleasanotn Ridge today looking at the wildflowers 4-20-06. Some six petaled varieties I couldn't name & didn't find on your photo site & what is the scientific name for cowslips? However, thamks for all the info. your photos did offer.

Guy Bruyea		10-Nov-2005 19:19
Nice Gallery.

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