Jun 19, 2026
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Coasts, deserts, mountains, forests, and rich biodiversity
Flower highlights, bloom-focused sightings, and the best places to look for flowers in California. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
38
Species
444
Active Months
12

Category Overview
This guide focuses on flowers within California's wider region guide, with bloom-rich sightings and the places where wildflowers help define the landscape through the seasons.
Latest Sightings
A recent look at flower sightings across California.
Jun 19, 2026
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Jun 17, 2026
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Jun 16, 2026
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Jun 14, 2026
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Jun 14, 2026
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Jun 11, 2026
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Sightings Map
Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across California.
Top Highlights
These flowers are snapped the most across this region.





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Places to Start
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.

California, US
You might spot Redwood Sorrel, Redwood, and Button's Banana Slug.
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California, US
You might spot Pacific Banana Slug, Redwood, and Elk.
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California, US
You might spot Iodinebush, Yerba Mansa, and Golden Gilmania.
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California, US
You might spot Warrior's Plume and Purple Owl's-Clover.
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California, US
You might spot Redwood, Pacific Trillium, and Evergreen Huckleberry.
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California, US
You might spot Western Fence Lizard, Duck, and California Brittlebush.
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Full Guide
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
California poppy
orange bush monkeyflower
Snowplant
California Buckwheat
Sacred Datura
Pacific poison oak
California buckeye
Toyon
scarlet pimpernel
Elegant Clarkia
cardinal catchfly
Pacific trillium
Creosote Bush
Western Starflower
valley oak
coast live oak
Castor Bean
Mountain Misery
western blue-eyed grass
California black oak
Solomon's plume
lemonade berry
Yerba Mansa
chicory
western columbine
Bladderpod
Broad-leaved Stonecrop
California Incense-Cedar
Daisy
Plummer's Mariposa Lily
Redstem Stork's-bill
alkali heliotrope
broad-leaved sweet pea
greater periwinkle
interior live oak
thimbleberry
western sword fern
white clover
Bermuda buttercup
Cobwebby Thistle
Desert Holly
Lacy phacelia
Mexican Fan Palm
Milk Thistle
Yarrow
blue elder
common cowparsnip
fennel
goldback fern
purple foxglove
ribwort plantain
Alkali Heath
Common Hedge Parsley
Miner'S Lettuce
Nasturtium
Pacific Bleeding Heart
Pacific Dogwood
Two-Colored Phacelia
branching phacelia
canyon live oak
coast morning glory
largeflower fairybells
tomcat clover
Artichoke Thistle
California brittlebush
California cudweed
California fuchsia
California sagebrush
Coastal Monkeyflower
Desert Prince's Plume
Fuchsiaflower Gooseberry
Hummingbird Sage
Kingcup Cactus
Tall Evening Primrose
Western Lily of the Valley
Whitemargin Sandmat
apricot mallow
beach suncup
coyote brush
gray pine
American pokeweed
Brittlebush
California Dutchman's Pipe
California Pitcher Sage
Chilicothe
Cut-Leaved Crane'S-Bill
Golden Gilmania
Golden Yarrow
Iodinebush
Pink Honeysuckle
Redwood Sorrel
Saltgrass
Silver Bush Lupine
Thick-leaved Yerba Santa
bigleaf maple
checkerbloom
desert willow
field bindweed
fringe cups
poison hemlock
seaside daisy
tall flatsedge
western maidenhair fern
western skunk cabbage
wild canterbury bells
Beavertail Pricklypear
Blue Dicks
Brazilian pepper
Broad-leaved helleborine
Buckbrush
California bay
Coast Paintbrush
Coastal Goldenbush
Cottontop Cactus
Dove's-foot crane's-bill
Evergreen Huckleberry
FréMont'S Phacelia
Hollyleaf Cherry
Leichtlin's Mariposa Lily
Mediterranean Lineseed
Menzies' Baby Blue Eyes
Miniature Lupine
Pacific ninebark
Pride of Madeira
Purple Sage
Red Osier Dogwood
Rose campion
Tanoak
Tree Tobacco
Warrior's Plume
White Horehound
Wild radish
beach strawberry
chamise
coastal woodfern
coffeeberry
common woolly sunflower
deer fern
deerbrush ceanothus
deerweed
giant chain fern
great horsetail
lanceleaf liveforever
laurel sumac
seep monkeyflower
western white pine
Buffalo Gourd
Bull Kelp
California Aster
California Wild Rose
Canary Island Palm
Canyon liveforever
Coast Cholla
Creeping Saltbush
Crystalline ice plant
Desert Fivespot
Desert Sunflower
Garland Daisy
Heartleaf Keckiella
Humboldt's Lily
Ivy-leaved toadflax
Jade Plant
Littleleaf Rhatany
Notch-Leaf Scorpionweed
Osoberry
Pacific Glasswort
Pacific hound's tongue
Pacific madrone
Pinkladies
Queen Anne's Lace
Red Ribbons
Red larkspur
Salmonberry
Seaside Buckwheat
Southern Coastal Bushmallow
Wavy-Leafed Soap Plant
Western Rattlesnake Plantain
Whiteleaf Manzanita
Yellow Star-Thistle
common selfheal
fireweed
fringed willowherb
great brome
greenleaf manzanita
pineapple-weed
red-berried elder
twinberry honeysuckle
white ramping-fumitory
woodland madia
American trailplant
Antelope Bitterbrush
Borage
Bristly Oxtongue
Bush Poppy
California Hedge Nettle
California mugwort
California phacelia
California torreya
Caltha-Leaf Phacelia
Caterpillar Scorpionweed
Chaparral Yucca
Common Sow-thistle
Common Vetch
Crescent-cup liverwort
Cretan mallow
Devil'S Spineflower
Fountain Grass
Giant Viper's-bugloss
Gravel Ghost
Greasewood
Heart-Leaf Milkweed
Hoary Rock-rose
Hopsage
Italian arum
Lady Fern
Mojave Woodyaster
Narrowleaf Milkweed
Ocean spray
Olive
Parrot's feather
Prettyface
Scotch Broom
Sea Sacks
Sea Thrift
Sitka spruce
Texas stork's bill
Tiburon Mariposa Lily
Turtleback
Western Ponderosa Pine
Western Wallflower
White Globe Lily
Yellow Mariposa Lily
Yellow Sand Verbena
arrowweed
beaked hazelnut
bird's-eye speedwell
box elder
catchweed bedstraw
chaparral pea
cheeseweed mallow
coastal bush lupine
coastal manroot
common bracken
common dandelion
common soft brome
felt paintbrush
gnome plant
great mullein
greater plantain
mountain hemlock
oleander
red sand-verbena
salal
seaside woolly sunflower
star-flowered lily-of-the-valley
sulfur buckwheat
tree-of-heaven
turkey tangle frogfruit
variableleaf collomia
western blue flag
white alder
whitebark raspberry
woodland pinedrops
Agave
American black nightshade
American vetch
Annual Honesty
Annual Meadow-grass
Avocado
Bermuda Grass
Birdnest Buckwheat
Black Sage
Browneyes
Bulbous Bluegrass
Bull Mallow
Bull Thistle
Butterfly bush
California Goldfields
California Spikenard
California Sweetshrub
California Yerba Santa
California manroot
Candy Flower
Canyon Sunflower
Cascade Oregon-grape
Cascara
Celery
Chalk Dudleya
Cherry laurel
Chia
Chinese Elm
Clover
Coast silk tassel
Columbia lily
Common Purslane
Coreopsis
Cowbag Clover
Desert Broom
Desert Christmas Tree
Desert Larkspur
Desert Paintbrush
Desert Rock Nettle
Desert Trumpet
Diogenes' lantern
Douglas iris
Dwarf Lupine
Dwarf Nettle
Emory'S Rockdaisy
Engelmann'S Hedgehog Cactus
European Searocket
Flax-Leaved Horseweed
Fourwing Saltbush
Frémont Cottonwood
Fuller'S Teasel
Giant Reed
Golden-Star
Hairy Hawkbit
Harlequin Lupine
Henderson's shooting star
Ithuriel'S Spear
Jeffrey pine
Lesser Swine-Cress
Lesser hop trefoil
Longleaf Pondweed
Loquat
Modesty
Mojave Seablite
Mojave Yucca
Monterey Cypress
Mount Diablo Manzanita
Naples garlic
Pacific Crab Apple
Pacific Sanicle
Pacific Waterleaf
Pacific coralroot
Pacific rhododendron
Pale Flax
Pale Wolfberry
Pennsylvania Cudweed
Perez's sea lavender
Pink Knotweed
Pink Sand Verbena
Plains Pricklypear
Pot Marigold
Puncture Vine
Purple Fairy-Lantern
Purple Owl'S-Clover
Quercus Berberidifolia
Rose Spirea
Rose of Sharon
Rosemary
Scarlet Sesbane
Seacliff Wild Buckwheat
Shadscale Saltbush
Sheep's sorrel
Sierra Fawn Lily
Silver Hairgrass
Small-Leaved Blinks
Smoke Tree
Southern California Walnut
Spineless Yucca
Spotted spurge
Spreading Rush
St John's Wort
Stansbury's Cliffrose
Sticky Chinese Houses
Stinking Chamomile
Stinkwort
Sugar Pine
Sunflower
Sweet Alyssum
Sweet Pea
Tall Western Groundsel
Thickleaf Groundcherry
Three-cornered garlic
Threeleaf Foamflower
Tiling'S Monkeyflower
Twinflower
Umbrella Plant
Vine Maple
Western Azalea
Western Bog Laurel
Western Honey Mesquite
Western Labrador Tea
Western Redbud
Western Wild Ginger
White Sage
White nemophila
Wood Forget-me-not
Yellow Iris
blue palo verde
broadleaf forget-me-not
buttonbush
cenizo
checker lily
coastal miterwort
common fig
common groundsel
common water hyacinth
crevice alumroot
crimson clover
curled dock
cutleaf evening primrose
floating marsh pennywort
fragrant bedstraw
giant red paintbrush
goldwire
grand fir
hairy vetch
harding grass
henbit deadnettle
horseweed
juniper haircap moss
leather oak
marsh fleabane
moth mullein
musk stork's-bill
ocotillo
panicled willowherb
pearly everlasting
pipsissewa
pomegranate
prickly sowthistle
red bush monkeyflower
rough cocklebur
rough horsetail
sea fig
showy milkweed
silverleaf nightshade
spring vetch
sugarstick
sweet vernal grass
tree cholla
tropical milkweed
two-color rabbit tobacco
wall barley
water smartweed
western sycamore
white bog orchid
white brodiaea
white fir
white-veined wintergreen
woodland strawberry
yerba buena
Other Guides
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