Flowers Guide

Flowers Guide for California

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

34

Species

353

Active Months

12

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Category Overview

Flowers across California

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

Recent flower sightings in California

A recent look at flower sightings across California.

Sightings Map

See where flower sightings cluster

Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across California.

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Top Highlights

Top 5 flowers to look for in California

These flowers are snapped the most across this region.

Places to Start

Best places for flowers in California

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

Full Guide

Full California flowers list

The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.

353 species ranked
1

California poppy

74 snaps
2

orange bush monkeyflower

53 snaps
3

Snowplant

37 snaps
4

California Buckwheat

27 snaps
5

California buckeye

23 snaps
6

Sacred Datura

22 snaps
7

Toyon

19 snaps
8

scarlet pimpernel

19 snaps
9

Elegant Clarkia

17 snaps
10

Creosote Bush

16 snaps
11

Pacific poison oak

16 snaps
12

Pacific trillium

16 snaps
13

Western Starflower

14 snaps
14

cardinal catchfly

14 snaps
15

Mountain Misery

12 snaps
16

Castor Bean

11 snaps
17

California black oak

10 snaps
18

Solomon's plume

10 snaps
19

lemonade berry

10 snaps
20

valley oak

10 snaps
21

Broad-leaved Stonecrop

9 snaps
22

California Incense-Cedar

9 snaps
23

Plummer's Mariposa Lily

9 snaps
24

Redstem Stork's-bill

9 snaps
25

Yerba Mansa

9 snaps
26

broad-leaved sweet pea

9 snaps
27

greater periwinkle

9 snaps
28

thimbleberry

9 snaps
29

western blue-eyed grass

9 snaps
30

western columbine

9 snaps
31

white clover

9 snaps
32

Daisy

8 snaps
33

Lacy phacelia

8 snaps
34

Mexican Fan Palm

8 snaps
35

alkali heliotrope

8 snaps
36

blue elder

8 snaps
37

common cowparsnip

8 snaps
38

fennel

8 snaps
39

purple foxglove

8 snaps
40

ribwort plantain

8 snaps
41

Cobwebby Thistle

7 snaps
42

Miner'S Lettuce

7 snaps
43

Nasturtium

7 snaps
44

Pacific Bleeding Heart

7 snaps
45

Yarrow

7 snaps
46

canyon live oak

7 snaps
47

goldback fern

7 snaps
48

largeflower fairybells

7 snaps
49

tomcat clover

7 snaps
50

western sword fern

7 snaps
51

Alkali Heath

6 snaps
52

Bermuda buttercup

6 snaps
53

Bladderpod

6 snaps
54

California cudweed

6 snaps
55

Common Hedge Parsley

6 snaps
56

Kingcup Cactus

6 snaps
57

Pacific Dogwood

6 snaps
58

Western Lily of the Valley

6 snaps
59

Whitemargin Sandmat

6 snaps
60

branching phacelia

6 snaps
61

Chilicothe

5 snaps
62

Cut-Leaved Crane'S-Bill

5 snaps
63

Desert Prince's Plume

5 snaps
64

Hummingbird Sage

5 snaps
65

Milk Thistle

5 snaps
66

Silver Bush Lupine

5 snaps
67

Tall Evening Primrose

5 snaps
68

Thick-leaved Yerba Santa

5 snaps
69

beach suncup

5 snaps
70

bigleaf maple

5 snaps
71

coast live oak

5 snaps
72

coast morning glory

5 snaps
73

desert willow

5 snaps
74

fringe cups

5 snaps
75

gray pine

5 snaps
76

seaside daisy

5 snaps
77

tall flatsedge

5 snaps
78

wild canterbury bells

5 snaps
79

American pokeweed

4 snaps
80

Artichoke Thistle

4 snaps
81

Blue Dicks

4 snaps
82

Brazilian pepper

4 snaps
83

California Pitcher Sage

4 snaps
84

California bay

4 snaps
85

California fuchsia

4 snaps
86

Coast Paintbrush

4 snaps
87

Coastal Monkeyflower

4 snaps
88

Dove's-foot crane's-bill

4 snaps
89

Hollyleaf Cherry

4 snaps
90

Leichtlin's Mariposa Lily

4 snaps
91

Menzies' Baby Blue Eyes

4 snaps
92

Miniature Lupine

4 snaps
93

Pacific ninebark

4 snaps
94

Pink Honeysuckle

4 snaps
95

Pride of Madeira

4 snaps
96

Rose campion

4 snaps
97

Saltgrass

4 snaps
98

Warrior's Plume

4 snaps
99

White Horehound

4 snaps
100

apricot mallow

4 snaps
101

checkerbloom

4 snaps
102

coffeeberry

4 snaps
103

common woolly sunflower

4 snaps
104

coyote brush

4 snaps
105

deerbrush ceanothus

4 snaps
106

interior live oak

4 snaps
107

lanceleaf liveforever

4 snaps
108

seep monkeyflower

4 snaps
109

western skunk cabbage

4 snaps
110

western white pine

4 snaps
111

Broad-leaved helleborine

3 snaps
112

Bull Kelp

3 snaps
113

California Wild Rose

3 snaps
114

California brittlebush

3 snaps
115

California sagebrush

3 snaps
116

Canary Island Palm

3 snaps
117

Canyon liveforever

3 snaps
118

Coast Cholla

3 snaps
119

Creeping Saltbush

3 snaps
120

Crystalline ice plant

3 snaps
121

Garland Daisy

3 snaps
122

Ivy-leaved toadflax

3 snaps
123

Jade Plant

3 snaps
124

Pacific Glasswort

3 snaps
125

Pacific hound's tongue

3 snaps
126

Pinkladies

3 snaps
127

Red Osier Dogwood

3 snaps
128

Red larkspur

3 snaps
129

Salmonberry

3 snaps
130

Western Rattlesnake Plantain

3 snaps
131

Wild radish

3 snaps
132

beach strawberry

3 snaps
133

coastal woodfern

3 snaps
134

deer fern

3 snaps
135

deerweed

3 snaps
136

field bindweed

3 snaps
137

fireweed

3 snaps
138

fringed willowherb

3 snaps
139

great brome

3 snaps
140

great horsetail

3 snaps
141

greenleaf manzanita

3 snaps
142

red-berried elder

3 snaps
143

American trailplant

2 snaps
144

Antelope Bitterbrush

2 snaps
145

Borage

2 snaps
146

Brittlebush

2 snaps
147

Bush Poppy

2 snaps
148

California Dutchman's Pipe

2 snaps
149

California Hedge Nettle

2 snaps
150

California mugwort

2 snaps
151

California torreya

2 snaps
152

Coastal Goldenbush

2 snaps
153

Common Sow-thistle

2 snaps
154

Common Vetch

2 snaps
155

Crescent-cup liverwort

2 snaps
156

Cretan mallow

2 snaps
157

Evergreen Huckleberry

2 snaps
158

Fountain Grass

2 snaps
159

Fuchsiaflower Gooseberry

2 snaps
160

Golden Yarrow

2 snaps
161

Hoary Rock-rose

2 snaps
162

Humboldt's Lily

2 snaps
163

Italian arum

2 snaps
164

Ocean spray

2 snaps
165

Olive

2 snaps
166

Osoberry

2 snaps
167

Parrot's feather

2 snaps
168

Queen Anne's Lace

2 snaps
169

Red Ribbons

2 snaps
170

Scotch Broom

2 snaps
171

Sea Sacks

2 snaps
172

Sea Thrift

2 snaps
173

Seaside Buckwheat

2 snaps
174

Sitka spruce

2 snaps
175

Texas stork's bill

2 snaps
176

Western Ponderosa Pine

2 snaps
177

Western Wallflower

2 snaps
178

Whiteleaf Manzanita

2 snaps
179

Yellow Sand Verbena

2 snaps
180

arrowweed

2 snaps
181

beaked hazelnut

2 snaps
182

box elder

2 snaps
183

catchweed bedstraw

2 snaps
184

cheeseweed mallow

2 snaps
185

chicory

2 snaps
186

coastal bush lupine

2 snaps
187

common bracken

2 snaps
188

common dandelion

2 snaps
189

common selfheal

2 snaps
190

common soft brome

2 snaps
191

felt paintbrush

2 snaps
192

giant chain fern

2 snaps
193

gnome plant

2 snaps
194

great mullein

2 snaps
195

greater plantain

2 snaps
196

mountain hemlock

2 snaps
197

oleander

2 snaps
198

pineapple-weed

2 snaps
199

poison hemlock

2 snaps
200

red sand-verbena

2 snaps
201

salal

2 snaps
202

seaside woolly sunflower

2 snaps
203

star-flowered lily-of-the-valley

2 snaps
204

tree-of-heaven

2 snaps
205

turkey tangle frogfruit

2 snaps
206

twinberry honeysuckle

2 snaps
207

variableleaf collomia

2 snaps
208

western blue flag

2 snaps
209

white alder

2 snaps
210

white ramping-fumitory

2 snaps
211

whitebark raspberry

2 snaps
212

woodland madia

2 snaps
213

woodland pinedrops

2 snaps
214

Agave

1 snaps
215

American vetch

1 snaps
216

Annual Honesty

1 snaps
217

Annual Meadow-grass

1 snaps
218

Avocado

1 snaps
219

Bermuda Grass

1 snaps
220

Bulbous Bluegrass

1 snaps
221

Bull Mallow

1 snaps
222

Bull Thistle

1 snaps
223

Butterfly bush

1 snaps
224

California Aster

1 snaps
225

California Spikenard

1 snaps
226

California manroot

1 snaps
227

California phacelia

1 snaps
228

Candy Flower

1 snaps
229

Canyon Sunflower

1 snaps
230

Cascade Oregon-grape

1 snaps
231

Cascara

1 snaps
232

Celery

1 snaps
233

Chalk Dudleya

1 snaps
234

Cherry laurel

1 snaps
235

Chinese Elm

1 snaps
236

Clover

1 snaps
237

Coast silk tassel

1 snaps
238

Common Purslane

1 snaps
239

Coreopsis

1 snaps
240

Desert Broom

1 snaps
241

Diogenes' lantern

1 snaps
242

Dwarf Lupine

1 snaps
243

Dwarf Nettle

1 snaps
244

Emory'S Rockdaisy

1 snaps
245

European Searocket

1 snaps
246

Flax-Leaved Horseweed

1 snaps
247

Fourwing Saltbush

1 snaps
248

Frémont Cottonwood

1 snaps
249

Giant Reed

1 snaps
250

Giant Viper's-bugloss

1 snaps
251

Jeffrey pine

1 snaps
252

Lady Fern

1 snaps
253

Lesser Swine-Cress

1 snaps
254

Lesser hop trefoil

1 snaps
255

Longleaf Pondweed

1 snaps
256

Loquat

1 snaps
257

Monterey Cypress

1 snaps
258

Naples garlic

1 snaps
259

Pacific Crab Apple

1 snaps
260

Pacific Sanicle

1 snaps
261

Pacific coralroot

1 snaps
262

Pacific madrone

1 snaps
263

Pacific rhododendron

1 snaps
264

Pale Wolfberry

1 snaps
265

Pennsylvania Cudweed

1 snaps
266

Perez's sea lavender

1 snaps
267

Pink Sand Verbena

1 snaps
268

Plains Pricklypear

1 snaps
269

Rose Spirea

1 snaps
270

Rosemary

1 snaps
271

Shadscale Saltbush

1 snaps
272

Sheep's sorrel

1 snaps
273

Silver Hairgrass

1 snaps
274

Small-Leaved Blinks

1 snaps
275

Spineless Yucca

1 snaps
276

Spotted spurge

1 snaps
277

Spreading Rush

1 snaps
278

St John's Wort

1 snaps
279

Stansbury's Cliffrose

1 snaps
280

Sticky Chinese Houses

1 snaps
281

Stinking Chamomile

1 snaps
282

Stinkwort

1 snaps
283

Sunflower

1 snaps
284

Sweet Alyssum

1 snaps
285

Sweet Pea

1 snaps
286

Tall Western Groundsel

1 snaps
287

Three-cornered garlic

1 snaps
288

Tiling'S Monkeyflower

1 snaps
289

Twinflower

1 snaps
290

Vine Maple

1 snaps
291

Western Bog Laurel

1 snaps
292

Western Labrador Tea

1 snaps
293

Western Wild Ginger

1 snaps
294

White nemophila

1 snaps
295

Wood Forget-me-not

1 snaps
296

Yellow Iris

1 snaps
297

bird's-eye speedwell

1 snaps
298

blue palo verde

1 snaps
299

broadleaf forget-me-not

1 snaps
300

buttonbush

1 snaps
301

cenizo

1 snaps
302

chamise

1 snaps
303

chaparral pea

1 snaps
304

checker lily

1 snaps
305

coastal manroot

1 snaps
306

coastal miterwort

1 snaps
307

common fig

1 snaps
308

common groundsel

1 snaps
309

common water hyacinth

1 snaps
310

crevice alumroot

1 snaps
311

crimson clover

1 snaps
312

curled dock

1 snaps
313

cutleaf evening primrose

1 snaps
314

floating marsh pennywort

1 snaps
315

giant red paintbrush

1 snaps
316

goldwire

1 snaps
317

grand fir

1 snaps
318

hairy vetch

1 snaps
319

harding grass

1 snaps
320

henbit deadnettle

1 snaps
321

horseweed

1 snaps
322

juniper haircap moss

1 snaps
323

laurel sumac

1 snaps
324

leather oak

1 snaps
325

marsh fleabane

1 snaps
326

moth mullein

1 snaps
327

musk stork's-bill

1 snaps
328

ocotillo

1 snaps
329

panicled willowherb

1 snaps
330

pearly everlasting

1 snaps
331

pipsissewa

1 snaps
332

pomegranate

1 snaps
333

prickly sowthistle

1 snaps
334

rough cocklebur

1 snaps
335

rough horsetail

1 snaps
336

sea fig

1 snaps
337

showy milkweed

1 snaps
338

silverleaf nightshade

1 snaps
339

spring vetch

1 snaps
340

sugarstick

1 snaps
341

sulfur buckwheat

1 snaps
342

sweet vernal grass

1 snaps
343

tree cholla

1 snaps
344

two-color rabbit tobacco

1 snaps
345

wall barley

1 snaps
346

water smartweed

1 snaps
347

western maidenhair fern

1 snaps
348

western sycamore

1 snaps
349

white bog orchid

1 snaps
350

white brodiaea

1 snaps
351

white fir

1 snaps
352

white-veined wintergreen

1 snaps
353

woodland strawberry

1 snaps

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