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Arroyo lupine
Lupinus succulentus
Fabaceae


 
Winged pectocarya
Pectocarya penicillata
Boraginaceae


 
 
Mexican elderberry
Sambucus mexicana
Viburnaceae
 
 
 
 
Calabazilla
Cucurbita foetidissima
Cucurbitaceae
Western wallflower
Erysimum capitatum var. capitatum
Brassicaceae
 
 


   
Mountain phacelia
Phacelia imbricata
Hydrophyllaceae



 
 
Small-flower baby blue eyes
Nemophila menziesii var. menziesii
Hydrophyllaceae
[Named for Archibald Menzies, 1754-1842]
 
 
Strigose lotus
Acmispon strigosus
Fabaceae
Bush lupine
Lupinus latifolius
Fabaceae
Spreading larkspur
Delphinium patens ssp. hepaticoideum
Ranunculaceae
Creek monkeyflower
Erythranthe guttata
Phrymaceae


 
Chalk dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
Crassulaceae		   Lanceleaf dudleya
Dudleya lanceolata
Crassulaceae
[Named after William Russel Dudley, 1849-1911, professor of botany and head of the Botany Department at Stanford University. He was for some years the Director of the Sierra Club of California and was key to the establishment of what is now Big Basin Redwoods State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains.


 
 
Bird's-foot fern
Pellaea mucronata var. mucronata
Pteridaceae
 
 
 
 
Black mustard *
Brassica nigra
Brassicaceae
Southern honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata var. denudata
Caprifoliaceae
[Named for Adam Lonitzer, 1628-1586]
 
 


 
Transverse Range manzanita
Arctostaphylos glandulosa ssp. mollis
Ericaceae


   
California wild buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. polifolium
Polygonaceae
 
   
California everlasting
Pseudognaphalium californicum
Asteraceae
Western sycamore
Platanus racemosa
Platanaceae


 
Star lily
Toxicoscordion fremontii
Melanthiaceae

 
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