Observations by rangerhallie

Threadleaf groundsel is another daisy like flower with yellow disk and ray flowers. They often look a bit touseled. The leaves tend to be narrow and silvery, woolly, although sometimes greener. This can be a fairly large shrub that is very open and airy.

This white button of a flower is actually a compound blossom, made up of ray flowers, some of the peripheral ones having larger corollas. The inflorescence has several flower heads on a tall peduncle. Most of the plant is glandular and somewhat hairy. Leaves are long and deeply incised.

Rose heath grows in large groups. They are short cheerful little daisies on upright stems with glandular, hairy, linear leaves. Yellow disk flowers are surrounded by white ray flowers that become round seedheads with pappi.

Historically a medicinal herb.

Tall spikes emerging from basal rosette of lobed leaves. Deep purple flowers are on a long raceme. Each flower is composed of five spreading purple sepals and four small true petals with a long nectar spur behind. This beauty is toxic!

Red dome blanket flower is a classic compound flower with rich gold ray flowers and reddish disk flowers on a spherical center. They often grow in groups that feature different stages so the flowers can be found beside the hemispheric seedheads. Leaves are hairy, wavy to lobed, growing halfway up the stem.

Basal rosette of raised stiff, narrow lance-like leaves with a spine on the tip. Thick, pendulous creamy flowers have maroon on the exterior, and grow on a long stem. The fruit and seedpods are medium-sized ovals.

Historically the flowers, fruit and seeds have been used as food, the leaves for weaving fibers, and the root for soap.

Golden mariposas are scattered throughout the grasslands of the park. The three petals are eggyolk yellow with low crescent of red on the interior of each petal and a hairy patch. The leaves are grasslike. The corm is edible.

Townsend's daisies often form large colonies in gravelly areas. The low-glowing mat spreads with hairy leaves and steams. The disk flowers are yellow and the many ray flowers are white to pinkish. The buds are pinkish. The seeds are borne on fluffy pappi like many of this family.

Prince's plume seems to prefer cliffs, below or on the edge. It is tall with a long raceme inflorescence of yellow tubular flowers with very long stamen. Large lanceolate leaves up the multiple stems to the base of the flower plume. Long narrow seedpods or siliques form on the flower stalk.

Pale bastard toadflax is often seen along roadsides in large colonies. White to pink star-shaped flowers in corymb tupe clusters. Many narrow leaves along steams. Seedpod like a tiny pomegranate. Hemiparasitic.

Woolly locoweed or milkvetch. Purple clustered pea-like flowers, light green compound leaves with opposite ovoid leaflets; leaves and stems are hairy as are the ovoid seedpods.

Common throughout the park.