Blow Wives (Achyrachaena mollis): The flower looks like a closed dandelion. The showy white puff ball is the seed.
Bull Clover (Trifolium fucatum): California Indians ate the tender young foliage raw or boiled.
Chinese Houses (Collinsia heterophylla): The name describes the pagoda like flower whorls.
Cream Cups (Platystemon californicus): Most members of the poppy family have a little
of the narcotic properties of the opium poppy.
Common Fiddleneck (Amsinckia menziesii var. intermedia): Resembles the scroll of a violin.
Fringed Checker Mallow (Sidalcea diploscypha): Many mallow relatives are tropical.
Lessor Hare Leaf (Lagophylla minor): It’s named because there are rabbit tailed like bracts on the flower heads and stem.
Owl’s Clover (Castilleja densiflora): Not really a clover but a relative to the Paintbrush.
Sickle Leaf Onion (Allium falcifolium): Named for the sickle shape to the leaves.
Fringed Onion (Allium fimbriatum): Both leaves and bulbs are edible.
Hartweg’s Lomatium (Lomatium marginatum ssp. purpureum): A carrot relative.
Pink Star Tulip (Calochortus uniflorus): The bulbs were important food for the California Indians.
Smooth Tidy Tips (Layia chrysanthemoides): Layia was named after botanist G.T. Lay who visited California in1827.
Wooly Fish Hooks (Ancistrocarphus filagineus): Named for the wooly boat shaped bract around the flower.
Yerba Santa ((Eriodictyon californicum): A shrub related to baby blue eyes.