Wildflowers of Southern California: A photographic gallery
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Flowers Pink, Red, to Red-violet

  • Plants tall; mostly more than 12 inches high
 
  • Flowers bright red to orange-red
 
  • Flowers dull red; leaves few to none
Chuparosa
  • Flowers orange-red; leaves gray, with lobed margin
Apricot mallow
  • Flowers bright scarlet; leaves green with smooth margin
Eaton's firecracker
  • Flowers pink to red-violet
 
  • Flowers more than 1 inch long
 
  • Plant sticky, hairy
Giant four-o'clock
  • Plant not hairy or sticky
Beard tongue
  • Flowers smaller
 
  • Flowers irregular; in an elongate cluster
Arizona lupine
  • Flowers regular with 5 lobes; not in clusters
Splendid gilia
  • Plants less than 10 inches high
 
  • Flowers orange-red to scarlet
 
  • Flowers bowl-shaped showy with 3 large petals
Kennedy lily
  • Flowers in a terminal brush-like cluster
Desert indian paintbrush
  • Flowers pink to red-violet
 
  • Low plant forming mats on the desert sand
 
  • Flowers pink; carpeting sandy areas
Sand verbena
  • Flowers red-violet, forming small mats
Purple mat
  • Flowers lavender-pale pink; with prickly leaves
Desert calico
  • Plant nor forming mats
 
  • Plant with odor of onion; flowers with 6 petals
Wild onion
  • Plant without onion odor; flowers with 5 petals
 
  • Flowers bowl-shaped; petals with a dark spot at base
Desert five-spot
  • Flowers open; common in dry sandy washes
Desert monkey flower

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