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

  • Plant with milky juice; flowers bell-shaped
Indian hemp
  • Plant without milk juice
 
  • Found in wet or moist shaded areas
 
  • No leaves on flower stem
 
  • Tall plant with distinct onion odor
Swamp onion
  • Shorter plant with several nodding flowers
Pink pyrola
  • Leaves on flower stem
 
  • Flowers with a tiny curved spur
Elephant's head
  • Flowers nodding and bird-like
Shooting star
  • Found in open, drier sites
 
  • Onion odor; no leaves on flowering stem
Sierra onion
  • No onion odor; leaves on flowering stem
 
  • Plant 2 to 3 feet high
Fireweed
  • Plant less than 1 foot high
 
  • Flowers bright pink
 
  • Low plant in rock crevices
Rock fringe
  • Taller plant, not in rock crevices
 
  • Flowers tubular
Newberry's penstemon
  • Flowers bowl-shaped
Pink mountain heather
  • Flowers pale pink; leaves prickly
Spreading phlox

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