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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!

flatbud prickly poppy 1
Argemone munita
golden eardrops 2
Ehrendorferia chrysantha
white eardrops
Ehrendorferia ochroleuca
Tufted Poppy 3
Eschscholzia caespitosa
California poppy 4
Eschscholzia californica
San Benito poppy 5
Eschscholzia hypecoides
creamcups 6
Platystemon californicus
fire poppy 7
Papaver californicum
wind poppy 8
Papaver heterophyllum
opium poppy 9
Papaver somniferum
Bush Poppy 10
Dendromecon rigida
Coulter's matilija poppy 11
Romneya coulteri
Hairy Matilija Poppy 12
Romneya trichocalyx

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

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  • 1. (c) Ron Sipherd, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
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