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

flatbud prickly poppy ¹
Argemone munita

Tufted Poppy ²
Eschscholzia caespitosa

California poppy ³
Eschscholzia californica

San Benito poppy ⁴
Eschscholzia hypecoides

creamcups ⁵
Platystemon californicus

fire poppy ⁶
Papaver californicum

wind poppy ⁷
Papaver heterophyllum

opium poppy ⁸
Papaver somniferum

Bush Poppy ⁹
Dendromecon rigida

Coulter's matilija poppy ¹⁰
Romneya coulteri

Hairy Matilija Poppy ¹¹
Romneya trichocalyx

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California Fire Follower Flowers

flatbud prickly poppy 1 Argemone munita

Tufted Poppy 2 Eschscholzia caespitosa

California poppy 3 Eschscholzia californica

San Benito poppy 4 Eschscholzia hypecoides

creamcups 5 Platystemon californicus

fire poppy 6 Papaver californicum

wind poppy 7 Papaver heterophyllum

opium poppy 8 Papaver somniferum

Bush Poppy 9 Dendromecon rigida

Coulter's matilija poppy 10 Romneya coulteri

Hairy Matilija Poppy 11 Romneya trichocalyx