Plants of Mount Umunhum a photo guide to 80 nave plants that can be seen around the summit and along Mount Umunhum trail

Courtesy of the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the California Nave Plant Society All photographs copyright Ken Hickman page 1 of 12 California Fuchsia Epilobium canum Red Bush Beardtongue Scarlet Larkspur Keckiella corymbosa Delphinium nudicaule

Canyon Liveforever Dudleya cymosa

Venus Thistle Chaparral Pea Cirsium occidentale Pickeringia montana var. venustum

Ground Rose Rosa spithamea

Pink Honeysuckle Lonicera hispidula 2 Santa Clara Red Ribbons Clarkia concinna ssp. automixa

Winecup Clarkia Ruby Chalice Clarkia / Clarkia purpurea Farewell-to-Spring ssp. quadrivulnera Clarkia rubicunda

Brewer’s Onion / Sickleleaf Onion Allium falcifolium Beauful Jewelflower Streptanthus glandulosus Singleleaf Onion Allium unifolium Coyote Mint Brewer’s Rockcress Monardella villosa Boechera breweri

3 Pink Spineflower Chorizanthe membranacea

California Milkwort Polygala californica

Clay Mariposa Lily Calochortus argillosus

Wand Wire Leuce Variableleaf Tiny Trumpet Stephanomeria virgata Collomia heterophylla Chinese Houses Collinsia heterophylla

Pacific Starflower Lysimachia lafolia 4 Wartleaf Ceanothus Jim Brush Ceanothus papillosus Ceanothus oliganthus var. sorediatus

Pacific Hound’s Tongue Cynoglossum grande Chia Salvia columbariae California Gilia Gilia achilleifolia Foothill Penstemon Penstemon heterophyllus

Yerba Santa 5 Eriodictyon californicum Bigberry Manzanita Arctostaphylos glauca

Western Heart’s Ease Viola ocellata

California Chicory Rafinesquia californica

Pitcher Sage Lepechinia calycina

Yerba Santa Eriodictyon californicum

Lile Spring Beauty Claytonia exigua

Douglas Sandwort Minuara douglasii

Woodland Phacelia Phacelia nemoralis 6 Fernald’s Iris Kellogg’s Yampah Iris fernaldii Common Phacelia Perideridia kelloggii Phacelia distans

Mission Bells Fremont’s Star Lily Frillaria affinis Mountain Rein Orchid Toxicoscordion fremoni Piperia transversa

Rock Buckwheat Eriogonum saxale

Fairy Lanterns Nakedstem Buckwheat 7 Calochortus albus Eriogonum nudum Bush Poppy Dendromecon rigida

Woodland Monolopia Monolopia gracilens

Golden Eardrops Ehrendorferia chrysantha

Lindley’s Blazing Star Mentzelia lindleyi

Rayless Arnica Arnica discoidea

Yellow Pincushion Chaenacs glabriuscula

Oak Violet Viola purpurea ssp. quercetorum

Whitestem Rabbitbrush Ericameria nauseosa var. speciosa

Golden Fleece Ericameria arborescens 8 Creek Dogwood Cornus sericea

Mountain Mahogany Cercocarpus betuloides

Fremont’s Silktassel Garrya fremoni

Hollyleaf Redberry Rhamnus ilicifolia

Hollyleaf Cherry Prunus ilicifolia

Mahonia / Barberry Berberis pinnata

Chamise 9 Adenostoma fasciculatum Canyon Gooseberry Bigberry Manzanita Ribes menziesii Arctostaphylos glauca

Fremont’s Silktassel Garrya fremoni

California Coffeeberry Frangula californica Blue Elderberry Sambucus nigra ssp. caerulea Hollyleaf Redberry Rhamnus ilicifolia

Hollyleaf Cherry Prunus ilicifolia 10 California Nutmeg Torreya californica

Foothill Pine / Gray Pine Pinus sabiniana

Golden Mistletoe Arceuthobium campylopodum

Interior Live Oak Knobcone Pine cone Quercus wislizeni Pinus aenuata Leather Oak Quercus durata

Canyon Live Oak acorns Quercus chrysolepis

11 Woodland Brome Bromus laevipes

Howell’s Bluegrass Poa howellii

June Grass Blue Wild Rye California Onion Grass Koeleria macrantha Elymus glaucus Melica californica

Coast Lipfern Myriopteris intertexta Wood Fern Dryopteris arguta Bigelow’s Spike-moss Selaginella bigelovii

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