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

  • Stem and/or leaves prickly
 
  • Flowers large, showy, with 6 petals
Prickly poppy
  • Flowers smaller, with 5 petals; low, spreading plant
 
  • Leaves opposite
Spreading phlox
  • Leaves alternate
Granite gilia
  • Plant not prickly
 
  • Tall plant over 3 feet high
 
  • Leaves large, resembling corn leaves
Corn lily
  • Leaves not resembling corn leaves
 
  • Leaves broad; 6 to 20 inches across
Cow parsnip
  • Leaves narrower
 
  • Flowers in a tight ball-like clusters
Ranger's buttons
  • Flowers in a large, open cluster
 
  • Grows along streams
Water hemlock
  • Grows in drier, rocky areas
Sierra angelica
  • Low plant, less than 3 feet high
 
  • Plant of moist or boggy areas
 
  • Flowers with a tail or spur
White-flowered bog orchid
  • Flowers without a spur
 
  • Flowers tiny, star-like; 6 petals
Wild lily-of-the-valley
  • Flowers showy; 5 petals
Grass-of-parnassus
  • Plant of drier areas
 
  • Leaves ferny; flowers small in a dense cluster
Yarrow
  • Leaves not ferny
 
  • Flowers bell-shaped; rare plant of high elevation
White heather
  • Flowers not bell-shaped
 
  • Flowers with 3 petals
Mariposa lily
  • Flowers with 5 petals
 
  • Flowers showy, with spurs
Coville's columbine
  • Flowers smaller, without spurs
 
  • Plant 10 to 30 inches high
Glandular cinquefoil
  • Plant 4 to 8 inches high
Nuttall's linanthus
  • Plant low, creeping
Mountain strawberry

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