Flowering Plants of Tilden Regional Park

A guide to the common flowering plants (Magnoliophyta) of Tilden Nature Area and Tilden Regional Park.

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California figwort

Scrophularia californica is a flowering plant in the figwort family which is known by the common names California figwort and California bee plant.

Black Sage

Salvia mellifera (Black sage) is a small, highly aromatic, evergreen shrub of the genus Salvia (the sages) native to California, and Baja California, Mexico. It is common in the coastal sage scrub of Southern California and northern Baja California. Black sage has a dark appearance, especially during drought.

coyote mint

Monardella villosa is a plant in the mint family which is known by the common name coyote mint.

dotseed plantain

Plantago erecta, in the Plantain family, is known variously as California Plantain, Foothill Plantain, Dot-seed Plantain, English Plantain, and Dwarf Plantain.

English Plantain

Plantago lanceolata is a species of genus Plantago known by the common names ribwort plantain, English plantain, buckhorn plantain, narrowleaf plantain, ribleaf and lamb's tongue. It is a common weed of cultivated land.

Annual Toadflax

Linaria maroccana is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family known by the common name Moroccan toadflax. It is native to Morocco, but it can be found elsewhere growing wild as an introduced species, such as California. It is a readily available ornamental plant for the flower garden. This is an annual herb growing erect to approach half a meter in maximum ...more ↓

Orange Bush Monkeyflower

Mimulus aurantiacus, the sticky monkey-flower or orange bush monkey-flower, is a flowering plant that grows in a subshrub form, native to southwestern North America from southwestern Oregon south through most of California. It is treated by some botanists in a separate genus from other Mimulus as Diplacus aurantiacus.

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