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!

All 403

goldback fern ¹
Pentagramma triangularis

Coffee Fern ²
Pellaea andromedifolia

bird's foot cliffbrake ³
Pellaea mucronata

Pellaea mucronata var. mucronata ⁴
Pellaea mucronata mucronata

Pteridium aquilinum var. pubescens ⁵
Pteridium aquilinum pubescens

western sword fern ⁶
Polystichum munitum

coastal woodfern ⁷
Dryopteris arguta

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

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California Fire Follower Flowers

goldback fern 1 Pentagramma triangularis

Coffee Fern 2 Pellaea andromedifolia

bird's foot cliffbrake 3 Pellaea mucronata

Pellaea mucronata var. mucronata 4 Pellaea mucronata mucronata

Pteridium aquilinum var. pubescens 5 Pteridium aquilinum pubescens

western sword fern 6 Polystichum munitum

coastal woodfern 7 Dryopteris arguta