National Park Service Wildflowers of Golden Gate U.S. Department of the Interior Golden Gate National Recreation Area

Indian Paintbrush Poppies Mission Bells Yellow Bush Lupine Yarrow Silver Bush Lupine

Their names are quaint reminders of the poetic language used by early settlers: Footsteps-of-Spring, Baby Blue Eyes, Mission Bells, Milkmaids. Their colors are vivid, although sometimes you have to crouch low to see them. A walk on the park’s trails during peak wildflower season from late February through June is a chance to appreciate the profusion of wildflowers that once graced all of California. For more information about Crimson Columbine Franciscan Paintbrush wildflowers, stop at any of our park Visitor Centers. Red / Pink Seaside Daisy Erigeron glaucus Checker-bloom; [March-May, grasslands] Wild Hollyhock Shooting Star Sidalcea malvaeflora Dodecatheon hendersonii [March-May, grasslands] Sticky Monkeyflower Seaside Daisy [January-March, rocky northface slopes] Coast Onion Wild Buckwheat Allium dichlamydeum Eriogonum latifolium [April-July, rocky and serpentine soils] [June-November, rocky northface slopes] Coast Rock Cress (Threatened) Orange Flowers Arabis blepharophylla [January-March, rocky northface slopes] Seep Spring Shooting Star California Poppy Cobweb Thistle Eschscholzia californica Cirsium occidentale [March-November, grasslands] [March-May, grasslands & scrub] Sticky or Bush Monkeyflower Crimson Columbine Mimulus aurantiacus Aquilegia formosa [June-November, scrub] [March-May, rocky northface slopes] Cow Parsnip California Buttercup Franciscan Paintbrush Brown Castilleja subinclusa ssp. franciscana [March-May, grasslands] Mission Bells; Checker Lily Fritillaria affinis Indian Paintbrush [March-May, rocky northface slopes] Castilleja affinis [March to August/September, sandy coastal flats and dune] Yellow Flowers Douglas Iris Footsteps-of-Spring Pink Sand Verbena Abronia umbellata California Buttercup [March- November, sandy coastal flats Ranunculus californicus and dune] [March-May, grasslands & rocky northface slopes] Presidio Clarkia (Federally Endangered) Footsteps-of-Spring Clarkia franciscana (Presidio Area) Sanicula arctopoides [January-March, grasslands] Ithuriel’s Spear Blue-eyed Grass Clarkia rubicunda (Marin Area) [April-July, serpentine outcrops] Checkerbloom Cobweb Thistle Stonecrop S.F. Wallflower Angelica Blue Dicks

Presidio Clarkia Mule-ears Lizard Tail Soap Beach Strawberry Purple Sanicle

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. —William Blake Coast Onion Sun Cup Coastal Buckwheat Western Hound’s Tongue

Coast Rock Cress Pink Sand Verbena Tidy Tips Milkmaids California Blackberry Sky Lupine

Lizard Tail Cow Parsnip Ithuriel’s Spear Eriophyllum staechadifolium Heracleum lanatum Triteleia laxa [June-November, scrub] [March-May, scrub] [March-May, grasslands] Monkeyflower; Seep Spring Franciscan Wallflower Rock Phacelia Mimulus guttatus Erysimum franciscanum Phacelia californica [January-May, rocky northface slopes] [January-May, grasslands & rocky [March-May, rocky northface slopes] northface slopes] Mule-ears Silver Bush Lupine Wyethia angustifolia Milkmaids Lupinus albifrons [March-May, grasslands] californica [March-May, grasslands & rocky [January-March, rocky northface northface slopes] Stonecrop slopes] Sedum spathulifolium Sky Lupine [April-July, rocky northface slopes] Beach Strawberry Lupinus nanus Fragaria chiloensis [March-May, grasslands] Sun Cup [February to August, sandy coastal flats Camissonia ovata and dune] Western Hound’s Tongue [January-March, grasslands] Cynoglossum grande Soap Plant [January-March, rocky northface Tidy Tips Chlorogalum pomeridianum slopes] Layia platyglossa [March-May, grasslands & scrub] [March-June, gravelly Ridges, grassy NPS Photos: slopes and coastal mesas] Yarrow Trina Kvale - California Poppies, Silver Bush Lupine, Achillea millefolium Sticky Monkeyflower, Seaside Daisy,Douglas Iris, Coastal Buckwheat, Pink Sand Verbena, California Blackberry. Yellow Bush Lupine [June-November, scrub] Will Elder - Yarrow, Seep Spring, Ithuriel’s Spear, Lupinus arboreus Checkerbloom, San Francisco Wallflower, Blue Dicks, [March-September, sandy coastal flats Blue / Violet Flowers Presidio Clarkia, Mule-ears, Lizard Trail, Soap Plant, Coast and dune] Onion, Coast Rock Cress, Tidy Tips Blue Dicks Parks Conservancy Photos: White Flowers Dichelostemma capitatum Michael Chasse - Indian Paintbrush, Mission Bells, Purple Sanicle [March-May, grasslands] Jessy Bergeman - Yellow Bush Lupine, Crimson Angelica Columbine, Cow Parsnip, California Buttercup, Blue-eyed Angelica hendersonii Blue-Eyed Grass Grass, Cobweb Thistle, Stonecrop, Sun Cup, Sky Lupine [January-November, rocky northface Sisyrinchium bellum Lynn Sanderson - Western Hound’s Tongue slopes] [March-May, grasslands] Copyrighted photos: © Diana Roberts - Franciscan Paintbrush California Blackberry Douglas Iris; Lavendel Rubus ursinus Iris douglasiana Please leave all flowers for [March to August, woodland areas] [March-May, grasslands] others to enjoy!

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