Common Wild Flowering Plants of Northwestern California
This website features photos of some native wild flowering
plants common to northwestern California. You may click on buttons
to the left of plants' names, or browse sequentially through categories,
such as "SUN LOVERS". You may learn other details about photos
by moving your cursor over them.
There are many places to view native flowering
plants in the wild. Four good locations where many of my photos
were taken are Elk Head near Trinidad,
Patrick's Point State Park five miles north,
Stagecoach Hill Azalea Reserve just
north of Big Lagoon, and the Ladybird Johnson
Grove near Orick. Our local chapter of the California
Native Plant Society posts a map with descriptions of
other sites.
For many more excellent photographs of native plants,
please visit the Calflora
website. Our local chapter of the California Native Plant Society
maintains a list
of links of interest.
English daisy (Bellis perennis)
Finally, one needs to understand that not every plant
that one finds in the wild in northwestern California is native to the
area. To learn about the signficance of wild non-native plants,
please see the Humboldt County Weed Management Area's “Invasive Weeds of Humboldt County” (2.3 MB PDF).
