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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!

Spreading Pygmyleaf 1
Loeflingia squarrosa
California manyseed 2
Polycarpon depressum
sleepy catchfly 3
Silene antirrhina
multinerved catchfly 4
Silene coniflora
Small-flowered Catchfly 5
Silene gallica
cardinal catchfly 6
Silene laciniata
Silene laciniata ssp. californica 7
Silene laciniata californica
Silene laciniata ssp. laciniata 8
Silene laciniata laciniata
Beach Pearlwort 9
Sagina decumbens
Sagina decumbens ssp. occidentalis 10
Sagina decumbens occidentalis
Largeleaf Sandwort 11
Moehringia macrophylla

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

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  • 4. (c) 2008 Barry Breckling, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
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