Identifications L-R: Shooting star (Primula clevelandii var. clevelandii); Giant blazing star (Mentzelia laevicaulis); San Bernardino aster (Symphiotrichum defoliatum); Chaparral yucca (Hesperoyucca whipplei); Davy gilia (Gilia latiflora ssp. davyi).
  
California Plant Names:
Latin and Greek Meanings and Derivations
A Dictionary of Botanical and Biographical Etymology
Compiled by Michael L. Charters

  Parishii    Comarostaphylos    Bacigalupi    engelmannii    Ivesia    nevadensis    Robinia
  Krascheninnikovia    tomentosa    Rydbergii    alpestris    Lobelia    orcuttii     sericeaAtriplex
  Douglasii    frutescens    Gilia     hydrophiloides    Jepsonia    maculosa    quadrivulnera

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