California Here We Come

or 'A Tourist's View of the Californian Flora'

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In spite of doing the 'tourist thing' on our visits to California I have still managed to build a slide collection of great plants that grow in this State. In addition to showing them on the screen however I can also give cultural information having grown many of them.

So travel with me to Mount Pinos to see plants such as Calyptridium umbellatum, Phlox diffusa and Fritillaria pinetorum. Then from San Diego across the high desert to Palm Springs during which Eriogonums and Argaves can be seen. To Mount Whitneyi where Lupinus lepidus lobbii and Calochortus leichtlinii are growing.

 

Travel in the White Mountains to the Bristlecone Pines and overlook the Sierras.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Phlox diffusa has flowers from a light to mid purple and pale to deep pink can be seen along the hiking trails in the west.

 

 

Astragalus coccineus grows in the White Mountains where it flowers during spring, dying back afterwards for its summer dormancy.

 

 

Going north to Yosemite Park, a wonderland of waterfalls and high domed rock formations, Penstemon newberryi and Lewisia kelloggii put in an appearance. See the alpine meadow and Dodecatheon jeffreyi. Leaving Yosemite we go even further north to Mt.Shasta and the timber town of Weed. Asarum hartwegii and Silene hookeri v. bolanderi are here and so is the Living Memorial Sculpture Garden.

 

 

Nearing the State line bordering Oregon other plants like Dicentra uniflora may be found growing in the grass and on the edge of woodland Fritillaria pudica puts on an appearance during May.

 

 

Lewisia rediviva v. minor can be seen in Mount Dialbo State Park.

 

 

Just a few of the plants in the talk have been mentioned here. To see more give me a call.