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HELLO-TO-SPRING: WILDFLOWER WATCH BEGINS!
By Laverne Rabinowitz
We're moving into the season that finds Edgewood at its most colorful -- when the waves
of wildflowers surge across the serpentine grassland and when the woodlands reveal their
flowery secrets. To help guide your walks in the Preserve this spring, we've compiled a
partial list of the wildflowers that begin their bloom over the first three months of the
season. (For a list of all the flora identified in the Preserve, refer to The Flora of
Edgewood Park.)
Beginning in February:
- Shooting Star
- Royal Larkspur
- Blue Dicks
- California Buttercup
- Blue-eyed Grass
- White Fritillary
- Popcorn Flower
- Wild Hollyhock
- Baby Blue Eyes
- Douglas Iris
- Sun Cups
- Bee Plant
- Hound's Tongue
- Trillium/Wake Robin
- Indian Warrior
- Nemophila
- Zygadene Lily
- Woodland Star
- California Saxifrage
- Blue Witch Nightshade (Jan.)
Beginning in March:
- Goldfields
- Tidy Tips
- Annual Lupine
- Phacelia
- California Poppy
- Cream Cup
- Dwarf Brodiaea
- Owl's Clover
- Gilia
- Bird's Eye
- Linanthus
- Phlox
- Fiddleneck
- Sticky Monkey Flower
- Bush Lupine
- Indian Paintbrush
- Flowering Currant
- Solomon's Seal
- Mission Bells/Checker Lily
- Dannie's Skullcap
- Hooker's Fairy Bell
- Mule Ears
And starting in April:
- Farewell-to-Spring
- White and Yellow Mariposa Lily
- Godetia
- Western Larkspur
- Cream Sacs
- Ithuriel's Spear
- Yarrow
- Indian Pink
- Blow-Wives
- White Globe Lily or Fairy Lantern
- Crimson Columbine
- Innocence/Chinese Houses
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