California Wildflowers in the San Gabriel Mountains [Part 1]

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Benjamin Simpson

The hills of California are blooming.
All of the flowers, 31 pictures in all, over the next three posts, were taken on the bottom half of the San Merrill trail, [link to my blog post on hiking this trail], just above the city of Alta Dena.

I have done my best to name some of the flowers, but I am not a botanist and some I could not find.
If you know the names, please tell me so I can update this post.


Dandelion
Taraxacum officinale


Mustard
Hirschfeldia incana


Mustard
Hirschfeldia incana


California Poppy
Eschscholzia californica


Yellow Star-Thistle
Centaurea solstitialis


Prickly Pear Cactus
Opuntia engelmannii


Phacelia
(I counted 235 variations on this flower and could not decide on which specific variation was this flower)


Spanish Broom
Spartium junceum (syn. Genista juncea)

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1 Response to California Wildflowers in the San Gabriel Mountains [Part 1]

  1. Teresa says:
    June 8, 2011 at 12:08 pm

    Great shots! The yellow one with the bee on it is some sort of mustard and the second photo from the bottom looks to be some sort of Phacelia. If you want to find out the rest I’d suggest searching Calflora.org or uploading them to iNaturalist.org. There are some experts there who would almost certainly be able to tell you what they are.

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