Wildflowers of Southern California: A photographic gallery
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  • Leaves with mint odor if crushed
 
  • Leaves ferny, grey-green
California sagebrush
  • Leaves not ferny, greyish
Purple sage
  • Leaves not ferny, green
Black sage
  • Leaves without mint odor
 
  • Low shrub of dry areas, less than 3 feet high
Wild buckwheat
  • Tall shrub, along streams
 
  • Leaves silvery or grey on under surface
Red willow
  • Leaves green beneath
Mule fat
  • Tall shrub of drier areas
 
  • Leaves 1/4 to 3/4 inch long
 
  • Leaves needle-like, in bunches
Chamise
  • Leaves wedge shaped
Big pod ceanothus
  • Leaves 3/4 to 4 inches long
 
  • Leaves without teeth on the margin
 
  • Leaves thin, young stems greenish
California lilac
  • Leaves thick, aromatic if crushed
 
  • Leaf tip rounded
Lemonade-berry
  • Leaf tip pointed
Sugar bush or Laurel sumac
  • Leaves with a toothed margin
 
  • Leaves soft, fuzzy
Mountain mahogany
  • Leaves without soft hairs
 
  • Teeth tiny, and numerous
Holly-leaf redberry
  • Teeth few on each side
 
  • Teeth sharp and prickly
Scrub oak
  • Teeth not prickly
 
  • Leaves wedge-shaped, thin
Coyote brush
  • Leaves roundish and leathery
Lemonade-berry
  • Leaves oval and leathery, with pointed apex
Sugar bush

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