Wildflowers of Southern California: A photographic gallery
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Flowers White to Cream

  • Flowers daisy or dandelion-like
 
  • Flowers with yellow central disks
 
  • Belly flower; less than 2 inches high
Desert star
  • Taller plant; 4 to 16 inches high
White layia
  • Flowers all white
 
  • Flowers showy; more than 1 inch across
Desert chicory
  • Flowers pincushion like; less than 3/4 inch across
Desert pincushion
  • Flowers not like a daisy or dandelion
 
  • Plant with milky juice
Desert milkweed
  • No milky juice
 
  • Flowers large; more than 5 inches long
Jimson weed
  • Flowers smaller
 
  • Flowers with six petals
 
  • Plant prickly
Prickly poppy
  • Plant not prickly
 
  • Petals white; more than 1 inch long
Desert lily
  • Petals cream colored; less than 1 inch long
Cream cups
  • Flowers with five petals
 
  • Flowers white
 
  • Blooms only at night
Evening snow
  • Blooms during the day
Linanthus
  • Flowers cream colored; more than 1 inch across
 
  • Petals satiny with pinkish veins; leaves with stiff hairs
Desert blazing star
  • Petals with purple markings; leaves sticky
Ghost flower
  • Flowers with four petals
 
  • Flowers large, more than 1 inch across; fading pink
Dune evening primrose
  • Flowers smaller
 
  • Petals red-brown toward base
Brown-eyed primrose
  • Petals white throughout; epidermis peeling
Bottle cleaner

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