California Wildflower hikes, Pope Valley

White Flowered Ceanothus (Ceanothus jepsonii): It is more common for Ceanothus to be blue, lavender, purple or violet.

Typical trail section.

Imbricate Phacelia (Phacelia imbricata): Each individual flower was only about 1/3" across.

Imbricate Phacelia (Phacelia imbricata): Notice how the flower grows in a coil. Native.

California Plantain (Plantago erecta): A tiny native whose flower was less than 1/8" across & 1/4" tall.

Ithuriel’s Spear (Triteleia laxa): A native lily which can be colored blue, lavender or deep violet purple.

Silver Puffs (Uropappus lindleyi): A common native but often not noticed as the flower is small.

Notch Leaf Clover (Trifolium bifidum): The leaf on this native clover is heavily notched down the middle.

Long Spurred Plectritis (Plectritis ciliosa): Each individual flower was about 1/8" long & 1/16" wide. Native.

Fiddleneck (Amsinckia menziesii var. intermedia): Native. This is the common Fiddleneck one usually sees.

Menzie’s Fiddleneck (Amsinckia menziesii var. menziesii): Native. Each individual flower was only about 1/8" across.

Canyon Live Forever (Dudleya cymosa): This native lived between the cracks of the rocks in full sun on the ridge.

Frying Pan Poppy (Eschscholzia caespitosa): This native looks like a smaller California Poppy but it lacks annular ring between the stem and petals.

Wireweed (Rigiopappus leptocladus): An annual native with a flower less than 1/8" across.

Sickle Leaf Onion (Allium falcifolium): A native which is named because of it’s sickle shaped leaves.

Slender Common Chaenactis (Chaenactis glabriuscula var. heterocarpha): A native sunflower relative which has all disc flowers–no ray flowers.