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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
34
Species
353
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 6, 2026
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Jun 6, 2026
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Jun 6, 2026
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(c) Roberto Daniel Avila, some rights reserved (CC BY)
License: CC BY 4.0 ↗
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Jun 6, 2026
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(c) Roberto Daniel Avila, some rights reserved (CC BY)
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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 Broad-Leaved Stonecrop and Pacific Bleeding Heart.
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California, US
You might spot Western Azalea, Pacific Trillium, and Western Columbine.
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California, US
You might spot Sunburst Anemone, Ochre Sea Star, and Striped Shore Crab.
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California, US
You might spot Pacific Banana Slug, Redwood, and Elk.
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California, US
You might spot Sequoia, California Incense-Cedar, and White Fir.
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California, US
You might spot Evergreen Huckleberry and Golden Chinquapin.
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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
California buckeye
Sacred Datura
Toyon
scarlet pimpernel
Elegant Clarkia
Creosote Bush
Pacific poison oak
Pacific trillium
Western Starflower
cardinal catchfly
Mountain Misery
Castor Bean
California black oak
Solomon's plume
lemonade berry
valley oak
Broad-leaved Stonecrop
California Incense-Cedar
Plummer's Mariposa Lily
Redstem Stork's-bill
Yerba Mansa
broad-leaved sweet pea
greater periwinkle
thimbleberry
western blue-eyed grass
western columbine
white clover
Daisy
Lacy phacelia
Mexican Fan Palm
alkali heliotrope
blue elder
common cowparsnip
fennel
purple foxglove
ribwort plantain
Cobwebby Thistle
Miner'S Lettuce
Nasturtium
Pacific Bleeding Heart
Yarrow
canyon live oak
goldback fern
largeflower fairybells
tomcat clover
western sword fern
Alkali Heath
Bermuda buttercup
Bladderpod
California cudweed
Common Hedge Parsley
Kingcup Cactus
Pacific Dogwood
Western Lily of the Valley
Whitemargin Sandmat
branching phacelia
Chilicothe
Cut-Leaved Crane'S-Bill
Desert Prince's Plume
Hummingbird Sage
Milk Thistle
Silver Bush Lupine
Tall Evening Primrose
Thick-leaved Yerba Santa
beach suncup
bigleaf maple
coast live oak
coast morning glory
desert willow
fringe cups
gray pine
seaside daisy
tall flatsedge
wild canterbury bells
American pokeweed
Artichoke Thistle
Blue Dicks
Brazilian pepper
California Pitcher Sage
California bay
California fuchsia
Coast Paintbrush
Coastal Monkeyflower
Dove's-foot crane's-bill
Hollyleaf Cherry
Leichtlin's Mariposa Lily
Menzies' Baby Blue Eyes
Miniature Lupine
Pacific ninebark
Pink Honeysuckle
Pride of Madeira
Rose campion
Saltgrass
Warrior's Plume
White Horehound
apricot mallow
checkerbloom
coffeeberry
common woolly sunflower
coyote brush
deerbrush ceanothus
interior live oak
lanceleaf liveforever
seep monkeyflower
western skunk cabbage
western white pine
Broad-leaved helleborine
Bull Kelp
California Wild Rose
California brittlebush
California sagebrush
Canary Island Palm
Canyon liveforever
Coast Cholla
Creeping Saltbush
Crystalline ice plant
Garland Daisy
Ivy-leaved toadflax
Jade Plant
Pacific Glasswort
Pacific hound's tongue
Pinkladies
Red Osier Dogwood
Red larkspur
Salmonberry
Western Rattlesnake Plantain
Wild radish
beach strawberry
coastal woodfern
deer fern
deerweed
field bindweed
fireweed
fringed willowherb
great brome
great horsetail
greenleaf manzanita
red-berried elder
American trailplant
Antelope Bitterbrush
Borage
Brittlebush
Bush Poppy
California Dutchman's Pipe
California Hedge Nettle
California mugwort
California torreya
Coastal Goldenbush
Common Sow-thistle
Common Vetch
Crescent-cup liverwort
Cretan mallow
Evergreen Huckleberry
Fountain Grass
Fuchsiaflower Gooseberry
Golden Yarrow
Hoary Rock-rose
Humboldt's Lily
Italian arum
Ocean spray
Olive
Osoberry
Parrot's feather
Queen Anne's Lace
Red Ribbons
Scotch Broom
Sea Sacks
Sea Thrift
Seaside Buckwheat
Sitka spruce
Texas stork's bill
Western Ponderosa Pine
Western Wallflower
Whiteleaf Manzanita
Yellow Sand Verbena
arrowweed
beaked hazelnut
box elder
catchweed bedstraw
cheeseweed mallow
chicory
coastal bush lupine
common bracken
common dandelion
common selfheal
common soft brome
felt paintbrush
giant chain fern
gnome plant
great mullein
greater plantain
mountain hemlock
oleander
pineapple-weed
poison hemlock
red sand-verbena
salal
seaside woolly sunflower
star-flowered lily-of-the-valley
tree-of-heaven
turkey tangle frogfruit
twinberry honeysuckle
variableleaf collomia
western blue flag
white alder
white ramping-fumitory
whitebark raspberry
woodland madia
woodland pinedrops
Agave
American vetch
Annual Honesty
Annual Meadow-grass
Avocado
Bermuda Grass
Bulbous Bluegrass
Bull Mallow
Bull Thistle
Butterfly bush
California Aster
California Spikenard
California manroot
California phacelia
Candy Flower
Canyon Sunflower
Cascade Oregon-grape
Cascara
Celery
Chalk Dudleya
Cherry laurel
Chinese Elm
Clover
Coast silk tassel
Common Purslane
Coreopsis
Desert Broom
Diogenes' lantern
Dwarf Lupine
Dwarf Nettle
Emory'S Rockdaisy
European Searocket
Flax-Leaved Horseweed
Fourwing Saltbush
Frémont Cottonwood
Giant Reed
Giant Viper's-bugloss
Jeffrey pine
Lady Fern
Lesser Swine-Cress
Lesser hop trefoil
Longleaf Pondweed
Loquat
Monterey Cypress
Naples garlic
Pacific Crab Apple
Pacific Sanicle
Pacific coralroot
Pacific madrone
Pacific rhododendron
Pale Wolfberry
Pennsylvania Cudweed
Perez's sea lavender
Pink Sand Verbena
Plains Pricklypear
Rose Spirea
Rosemary
Shadscale Saltbush
Sheep's sorrel
Silver Hairgrass
Small-Leaved Blinks
Spineless Yucca
Spotted spurge
Spreading Rush
St John's Wort
Stansbury's Cliffrose
Sticky Chinese Houses
Stinking Chamomile
Stinkwort
Sunflower
Sweet Alyssum
Sweet Pea
Tall Western Groundsel
Three-cornered garlic
Tiling'S Monkeyflower
Twinflower
Vine Maple
Western Bog Laurel
Western Labrador Tea
Western Wild Ginger
White nemophila
Wood Forget-me-not
Yellow Iris
bird's-eye speedwell
blue palo verde
broadleaf forget-me-not
buttonbush
cenizo
chamise
chaparral pea
checker lily
coastal manroot
coastal miterwort
common fig
common groundsel
common water hyacinth
crevice alumroot
crimson clover
curled dock
cutleaf evening primrose
floating marsh pennywort
giant red paintbrush
goldwire
grand fir
hairy vetch
harding grass
henbit deadnettle
horseweed
juniper haircap moss
laurel sumac
leather oak
marsh fleabane
moth mullein
musk stork's-bill
ocotillo
panicled willowherb
pearly everlasting
pipsissewa
pomegranate
prickly sowthistle
rough cocklebur
rough horsetail
sea fig
showy milkweed
silverleaf nightshade
spring vetch
sugarstick
sulfur buckwheat
sweet vernal grass
tree cholla
two-color rabbit tobacco
wall barley
water smartweed
western maidenhair fern
western sycamore
white bog orchid
white brodiaea
white fir
white-veined wintergreen
woodland strawberry
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