Santa Clara Valley Chapter
This page contains photographs of a small selection of native plant species primarily from Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. There are over 1,200 native species in the Santa Cruz Mountains alone. This is not an identification guide; use the manuals listed in the publications section. Return to the Botanical name index.
Other wildflower photographs: CNPS Vegetation Program Photo Project | CNPS Plant Photograph Program | CNPS State Photo Gallery | CNPS SCV Photo Group for members | Join the CNPS SCV Photo Group | Calphotos | Jepson Online Interchangs for California Floristics | Some personal photo web sites: Carol Mattsson | Patrick Gallagher http://www.greenisles.com/Shows/Alaska%20Nature%202005/ | http://www.greenisles.com/Shows/Russian%20Ridge%202005/ | Karl Gohl particularly “Some Favorites" and "Earlier Edgewood Pix” | Michael Soo's photos from the 2004 Spring Wildflower Show.
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W
Baby Blue-eyes | Beach Morning Glory | Bee Plant | Bigelow Mimulus | Bird's-eye Gilia | Blackberry (California) | Bladder Sage | Blazing Star | Blow-wives | Blue Blossom | Blue Buck-brush | Branching Phacelia | Brown-eyed Primose |
Calif. Blackberry | Calif. Poppy | Calypso Orchid | Ceanothus sp. | Checker Bloom | Checker Lily | Claytonia | Coast Tarweed | Collinsia | Collomia | Columbine | Coralroot, Spotted | Crimson Sage |
Desert Dandelion | Desert Mallow | Desert Willow |
Fairy Duster | Fairy Lantern | Fairy Slipper | False Solomon's Seal | Fetid Adder's Tongue | Fiesta Flower | Fringe Cups | Fuchsia-flowered Gooseberry
Golden Violet | Ground Spurge | Green Gentian
Harlequin Lupine | Harvest Brodiaea | Hedge Nettle | Hedgehog Cactus |
Indian Warrior | Ithuriel's Spear |
Jewelflower | Josephine Horkelia |
Larkspur | Lassics Lupine | Leatherwood | Lupine |
Mariposa Lily | Meadow Foam | Monkey Flower | Montia | Mormon Tea | Mountain Jewell Flower | Musk Brush |
Onion |
Panamint Daisy | Pearly Everlasting | Penstemon | Plantain (California) | Poison Oak (new leaves) | Praire Bells | Pussy Ears |
Rattlesnake Weed | Red Flowering Currant | Rock Phacelia | Rock-cress (Coast) | Rush-rose |
San Francisco Willow Herb | Sand Mat | Shooting Star | Silk Tassel | Skunk Cabbage | Sneezeweed | Soap Plant | Sorrel | Spotted Coralroot | Star Flower |
Tarweed | Tarweed (Coast) | Thistle Sage | Thrift | Trifolium (White) | Trillium (White) |
Western Leatherwood | Whispering Bells | White Trillium | Willow Herb (San Francisco) | Wood Rose |
