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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!

California mugwort 1
Artemisia douglasiana
Clustered Tarweed 2
Deinandra fasciculata
Erigeron foliosus var. foliosus
Erigeron foliosus foliosus
white rabbit-tobacco 3
Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum
Hairy Horsebrush 4
Tetradymia comosa
canyon sunflower 5
Venegasia carpesioides
Royal Goldfields
Lasthenia coronaria
Golden Yarrow 6
Eriophyllum confertiflorum
Eriophyllum confertiflorum var. confertiflorum 7
Eriophyllum confertiflorum confertiflorum
common woolly sunflower 8
Eriophyllum lanatum
Eriophyllum lanatum var. achilleoides
Eriophyllum lanatum achilleoides
woodland woollythreads 9
Monolopia gracilens
tidy tips 10
Layia platyglossa
grassy tarweed 9
Madia gracilis
coast tarweed 11
Madia sativa
woodland madia 9
Anisocarpus madioides
nodding tarweed 12
Harmonia nutans
California cudweed 9
Pseudognaphalium californicum
cottonbatting plant 13
Pseudognaphalium stramineum
California cottonrose 14
Logfia filaginoides
narrowleaf cottonrose 15
Logfia gallica
Achillea millefolium
roughleaf aster 16
Eurybia radulina
Golden-fleece 17
Ericameria arborescens
Ericameria parishii var. parishii
Ericameria parishii parishii
Telegraphweed 18
Heterotheca grandiflora
California ragwort 19
Senecio californicus
common groundsel 20
Senecio vulgaris
slender sunflower 21
Helianthus gracilentus
odora 22
Porophyllum gracile
Artemisia-leaved Chaenactis 23
Chaenactis artemisiifolia
Common Yellow Chaenactis 2
Chaenactis glabriuscula
Chaenactis glabriuscula var. glabriuscula
Chaenactis glabriuscula glabriuscula

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

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