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Coastal Prairie Plants - Golden Gate National Recreation Area

This field guide shows some of the common coastal prairie plants found in GOGA.

harvest brodiaea 1
Brodiaea elegans elegans
Wavy-leafed Soap Plant 2
Chlorogalum pomeridianum
California oat grass 3
Danthonia californica
Blue Dicks 4
Dichelostemma capitatum
blue wild rye 5
Elymus glaucus
California fescue 6
Festuca californica
red fescue 7
Festuca rubra
idaho fescue 5
Festuca idahoensis
Meadow barley 5
Hordeum brachyantherum
Douglas iris 8
Iris douglasiana
spreading rush 9
Juncus patens
Western Blue-eyed Grass 10
Sisyrinchium bellum
foothill needle grass
Stipa lepida
purple needlegrass 11
Nassella pulchra
Ithuriel's Spear 10
Triteleia laxa

Edited by Gwen Landis, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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