Summer lupine’s lavender-purple flower spikes and palmate leaves, with developing seed pods at the base. Photo: USDA NRCS, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) Lupinus formosus, commonly
A spreading clump of ruby chalice clarkia in bloom, showing its sprawling habit and narrow leaves. Photo: marlin harms, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Clarkia
Oregon checkerbloom in bloom, sending up spikes of rose-pink flowers from a wet mountain meadow. Photo: Dcrjsr, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Sidalcea oregana, commonly
Ground pink can carpet open, sunny ground in dense drifts after a good rainy season. Photo: Stickpen, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) Linanthus dianthiflorus, commonly called
A single woodland star flower shows its deeply cleft, star-shaped petals and wiry, slightly hairy stem. Photo: Stickpen, via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) Lithophragma affine,
A single padre’s shooting star stem nodding above spring grasses in Southern California. Photo: Steve Berardi, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Primula clevelandii (long
A single elephant’s head spike standing above the sedges and grasses of a wet mountain meadow. Photo: Walter Siegmund, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Checkerbloom’s pink, mallow-shaped flowers open along a branching stem lined with lobed, maple-like leaves. Photo: Stan Shebs, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Sidalcea malviflora,
A stand of California corn lily in bloom on a wet Sierra Nevada slope, growing alongside larkspur. Photo: Jane S. Richardson, via Wikimedia Commons (CC
Sierra iris growing among grasses on a gravelly forest slope. Photo: Morgan Stickrod / iNaturalist (CC0) Iris hartwegii, known as Sierra iris, is a low,
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