California Native Plants

 seen at  Panorama Vista Preserve

APIACEAE (UMBELLIFERAE)     (CARROT FAMILY) 

Bowlesia

   * incana

ASTERACEAE  (COMPOSITAE)   (SUNFLOWER FAMILY)

Achillea yarrow

    * millefolium (inc. A. lanulosa,  no vars)

Artemisia sagebrush

     * douglasiana

            mugwort

Baccharis baccharis

     * douglasii

           marsh baccharis, saltmarsh    baccharis

            mule fat, seepwillow, water wall

      Conyza horseweed

        * canadensis

                tall/common/canada horseweed

        * coulteri

                horseweed, horse's aster

    Heterotheca  false goldenaster

       * grandiflora

            telegraph weed

    Isocoma goldenbush

       *acradenia (H. a.)

            alkali goldenbush

    Lessingia  lessingia

      * glandulifera (L. germanorum)

            vinegar plant

    Pluchea  pluchea

       * sericea

              arrowweed

BETULACEAE (BIRCH FAMILY)

    Alnus alder

       * rhombifolia?

                white alder

BORAGINACEAE (BORAGE FAMILY)

       * menziesii var. menziesii (A. m.)

                common fiddleneck, rancher's fireweed

    Heliotropium heliotrope

       * curassavicum (no vars)

                salt/alkali/wild heliotrope

    Pectocarya combseed, comb-bur

       * penicillata

                hairy-leaved/winged combseed

    Descurainia tansy-mustard

       * pinnata

                yellow/western tansy-mustard

    Lepidium peppergrass

       * nitidum

                shining/common peppergrass

Tropidocarpum
   *gracile
        dobie pod, slender keel fruit

    Opuntia prickly-pear, cholla

       * basilaris var. treleasei

                Bakersfield cactus

    Isomeris bladderpod

       * arborea (no vars) (Cleome isomeris)

            bladderpod   (California endemic)

    Sambucus elderberry

       * mexicana (S. caerulea)

                blue elderberry

CHENOPODIACEAE (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY)

    Atriplex salt bush

       * lentiformis

                big saltbush, quail brush

       * polycarpa 

            common saltbush, cattle spinach, allscale

       * serenana var. serenana

                bractscale, bractscale saltbush

    Crassula pygmy weed

       * connata (Tillaea erecta, C. e.)

                pygmy weed, sand pygmyweed

CUCURBITACEAE (GOURD FAMILY)

    Cucurbita gourd, squash

   * foetidissima

        calabazilla, coyote/ stinking gourd/melon

   * palmata

        coyote gourd/melon

EPHEDRACEAE (EPHEDRA FAMILY)

Ephedra morman tea

   *californica

        mormon tea/desert tea/California jointfir

Astragalus milkvetch, rattleweed, locoweed

   * lentiginosus

        freckled milkvetch

Glycyrrhiza licorice

   * lepidota (no vars)

        wild licorice

Lupinus lupine

   * benthamii

   * bicolor (no vars)

        miniature lupine, bicolored lupine

   * concinnus (no vars) (L. desertorum, pallidus, agardhianus)

                    desert/bajada lupine

 * nanus
        sky/grass lupine

HYDROPHYLLACEAE (WATERLEAF FAMILY)

Eriodictyon yerba santa

   * californicum

LAMIACEAE (LABIATAE) (MINT FAMILY)

Trichostema bluecurls

   * lanceolatum

                vinegar weed

Dichelostemma  snakelily

   * capitatum (B., D. pulchella)

ONAGRACEAE (Oenothera) (EVENING-PRIMROSE FAMILY)

Camissonia  sun cup

   * sp. unknown

Platanus sycamore, plane tree, buttonball tree

   * racemosa

        California/western sycamore

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Distichlis salt grass

   * spicata (no vars)

PORTULACACEAE (PURSLANE FAMILY)

          California wild rose

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   * ursinus

         California blackberry

Cephalanthus button bush

   * occidentalis var. californicus

           buttonwillow

Galium bedstraw, cleavers

   * aparine

         common bedstraw, goose grass

Populus cottonwood
   * fremontii ssp. fremontii

          alamo/fremont cottonwood

Salix willow
   * exigua (inc. S. hindsiana)

          slender/sandbar/narrow-leaf willow

   * gooddingii (no vars)

          black/southwestern willow

   * laevigata (no vars)

          red willow

   * lasiolepis (no vars)

          arroyo willow

Datura thorn-apple, jimson-weed

   * wrightii (D. meteloides)

        western jimsonweed, thornapple

 Nicotiana tobacco
   * quadrivalvis (N. bigelovii)

        Indian tobacco

Solanum nightshade

   * americanum (S. nodiflorum)

        small-flowered nightshade

Typha cattail

   * domingensis

        southern/slender cattail

VISCACEAE (LORANTHACEAE) (MISTLETOE FAMILY)

Phoradendron mistletoe

   * macrophyllum (P. tomentosum m.)

        chaparral/big-leaf mistletoe

Vitis grape

   * californica

        wild grape