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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!

Blue Dicks 1
Dipterostemon capitatus
small-flowered soaproot 2
Chlorogalum parviflorum
wavy-leafed soap plant 3
Chlorogalum pomeridianum
Chlorogalum pomeridianum var. pomeridianum 4
Chlorogalum pomeridianum pomeridianum
chaparral yucca 5
Hesperoyucca whipplei
false Solomon's seal 6
Maianthemum racemosum
star-flowered lily-of-the-valley 7
Maianthemum stellatum
Dichelostemma capitatum ssp. capitatum 8
Dipterostemon capitatus capitatus
twining snakelily 9
Dichelostemma volubile
Coast Range triteleia 10
Triteleia lugens
starflower brodiaea 9
Brodiaea stellaris
goldenstar 11
Bloomeria crocea

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

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  • 3. (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Ken-ichi Ueda
  • 4. (c) Tom Hilton, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Tom Hilton
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