Wildflowers of Southern California: A photographic gallery
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Trees

  • Trees with needles; pines and firs (select needles per bunch)
 
  • Needles single
 
  • Tree of high desert; pine
Single-leaf pinyon
  • Tree of higher mountains; fir
 
  • Needles 4-sided
Red fir
  • Needles flat
White fir
  • Two needles per cluster; subalpine
Lodgepole pine
  • Three needles per cluster; montane
Jeffrey pine
  • Five needles per cluster
 
  • Bark gray; needles 1-2 inches long
Whitebark pine
  • Bark reddish; needles 3/4 to 1 inch long; crowded
Foxtail pine
  • Trees with broad leaves
 
  • Leaves lobed; fruit an acorn
California black oak
  • Leaves with sharp teeth on margin
Water birch
  • Leaves with fine teeth or none
 
  • Leaves round; flutter in the wind
Quaking aspen
  • Leaves triangular shape
Black cottonwood
  • Leaves elongate (lanceolate)
Willow

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