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California Fire Follower Flowers

Compiled from multiple sources, this guide represents mostly herbaceous (but a few showy shrubs) plants that respond to fire in California.
It includes both native and non-native species; please send additions to boschniakia!

Cliff Aster 1
Malacothrix saxatilis
Smooth Cat's Ear 2
Hypochaeris glabra
Common Cat's-ear 3
Hypochaeris radicata
white hawkweed 4
Hieracium albiflorum
Common Sow-thistle 5
Sonchus oleraceus
Sonchus asper ssp. asper 6
Sonchus asper asper
Willowleaf Lettuce 7
Lactuca saligna
prickly lettuce 8
Lactuca serriola
silverpuffs 9
Uropappus lindleyi
mountain dandelion 10
Agoseris heterophylla
California chicory 7
Rafinesquia californica
rod wirelettuce 11
Stephanomeria virgata
Annual Desert-Dandelion 12
Malacothrix clevelandii
Woolly Desertdandelion 13
Malacothrix floccifera

Edited by boschniakia and Jose Esparza, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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