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slender wild oat
Avena barbata is a species of wild oat known by the common name slender wild oat. It has edible seeds. It is a diploidized autotetraploid grass (2n=4x=28). Its diploid ancestors are A. hirtula Lag. and A. wiestii Steud (2n=2x=14), which are considered Mediterranean and desert ecotypes, respectively, comprising a single species. A wiestii and A. ...more ↓
wild oat
Avena fatua is a species of grass in the oat genus. It is known as the common wild oat. This oat is native to Eurasia but it has been introduced to most of the other temperate regions of the world. It is naturalized in some areas and considered a noxious weed in others.
goldenstar
Bloomeria crocea, also known as goldenstar, is a geophyte from southern California and northern Baja California. It is found along hillsides, in grassland and chaparral edges, and in dry flats.
great brome
Bromus diandrus is a species of grass known by the common names great brome and "ripgut brome".
common soft brome
Bromus hordeaceus, soft brome, is an annual or biennial species of grass in the true grass family (Poaceae). It is also known in North America as bull grass, soft cheat, and soft chess.
Compact Brome
Bromus madritensis (also, B. matritensis) is a species of brome grass known by the common name compact brome.
Cheatgrass
Bromus tectorum, known as drooping brome or cheatgrass, is a winter annual grass native to Europe, southwestern Asia, and northern Africa, but has become invasive in many other areas. It now is present in most of Europe, southern Russia, Japan, South Africa, Australia, New Zeland, Iceland, Greenland, North America and Asia. In the eastern US B. tectorum is ...more ↓
chaparral yucca
Hesperoyucca whipplei (syn. Yucca whipplei ) (chaparral yucca, our Lord's candle, Spanish bayonet, Quixote yucca or foothill yucca is a species of flowering plant closely related to, and formerly usually included in, the genus Yucca. It is native to southern California, United States and Baja California, Mexico, where it occurs ...more ↓
smallflower melicgrass
Melica imperfecta is a species of grass known by the common name smallflower melic and little California melic.
common Mediterranean grass
Schismus barbatus is a species of grass known as common Mediterranean grass and kelch-grass. It is native to Eurasia, and it is also known as an introduced species in the southwestern United States. It grows in many habitats, including disturbed areas. It is an annual grass growing in small clumps. The stems grow up to 27 centimeters long and are lined with ...more ↓
Stipa Cernua
Nassella cernua (syn. Stipa cernua) is a species of grass known by the common name nodding needlegrass.
Vulpia myuros
Vulpia myuros, the annual fescue, or rat's-tail fescue, is an annual grass species of the genus Vulpia. It was probably originally native to Eurasia, but it can now be found nearly worldwide as a naturalized species.
Blue Dicks
Dichelostemma capitatum (syn. D. pulchellum), known by the common names blue dicks, purplehead and brodiaea (alternately spelled brodiea and brodeia), is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to the Western United States (particularly Arizona, California, Oregon, Utah, and New Mexico) and northwest Mexico.
goldenstar
Bloomeria crocea, also known as goldenstar, is a geophyte from southern California and northern Baja California. It is found along hillsides, in grassland and chaparral edges, and in dry flats.
Splendid Mariposa Lily
Calochortus splendens is a North American species of mariposa lily known by the common name splendid mariposa lily.
western blue-eyed grass
Sisyrinchium bellum, the western blue-eyed grass or Californian blue-eyed grass, is the common blue-eyed grass of California and Oregon in and west of the Sierra Nevada, its range extending south into Baja California. In parts of its range, western blue-eyed grass has previously been classified as Sisyrinchium eastwoodiae, S. greenei and S. ...more ↓
