2006
CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY – VASCULAR PLANTS
PINNACLES NATIONAL MONUMENT
Achillea millefolium - common yarrow
Achyrachaena mollis - blow-wives
Adenostoma fasciculatum - chamise
Adiantum jordanii - Calif. maiden-hair fern
Aesculus californica - California buckeye
Agoseris grandiflora - large-flowered agoseris
Agoseris heterophylla - annual dandelion
Agrostis exarata - western bent-grass
Agrostis microphylla - small-leaved bent-grass
Ailanthus altissima - tree-of-heaven
Aira caryophyllea - silvery hair-grass
Allium amplectens - narrow-leaved onion
Allium cratericola - onion
Allium crispum - crinkled onion
Allium fimbriatum var. fimbriatum - fringed onion
Allium lacunosum - pitted onion
Allophyllum gilioides - straggling gilia
Amaranthus californicus - California amaranth
Amaranthus retroflexus - rough pigweed
Amsinckia douglasiana - Douglas' fiddleneck
Amsinckia menziesii var. intermedia - common fiddleneck
Amsinckia menziesii var. menziesii - harvest fireweed
Anagallis arvensis - scarlet pimpernel
Anaphalis margaritacea - pearly everlasting
Anthemis cotula - dog fennel/mayweed
Anthriscus caucalis - bur-chervil
Antirrhinum kelloggii - Kellogg's snapdragon
Antirrhinum multiflorum - sticky snapdragon
Antirrhinum vexillo-calyculatum - wiry snapdragon
Aphanes occidentalis - lady's mantle
Apiastrum angustifolium - wild celery
Arabis breweri - Brewer's rock cress
Arabis glabra - tower mustard
Arceuthobium campylopodum - western dwarf mistletoe
Arctostaphylos glauca - big-berried manzanita
Arctostaphylos pungens - Mexican manzanita
Artemisia biennis - biennial sagewort
Artemisia californica - California sagebrush
Artemisia douglasiana - mugwort
Artemisia dracunculus - dragon sagewort/tarragon
Asclepias fascicularis - narrowleaf milkweed
Athysanus pusillus - sand weed
Avena barbata - slender wild oat
Avena fatua - wild oat
Azolla filiculoides - water or duck fern
Baccharis douglasii - Douglas' baccharis
Baccharis pilularis - coyote brush
Baccharis salicifolia - water-wally/mule fat/seep-willow
Barbarea vulgaris - common winter cress
Berberis pinnata ssp. pinnata - California barberry
Bloomeria crocea - golden stars
Bowlesia incana - bowlesia
Brassica rapa - field mustard
Brickellia californica - California brickelbush
Brodiaea coronaria - harvest brodiaea
Bromus arenarius - Australian chess
Bromus carinatus - California brome
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Bromus diandrus - ripgut grass
Bromus hordeaceus - soft chess
Bromus madritensis ssp. rubens - red brome
Bromus pseudolaevipes - brome grass
Calandrinia ciliata - red maids
Callitriche marginata - California water starwort
Calochortus venustus - butterfly mariposa lily
Calyptridium monandrum - common calyptridium
Calystegia occidentalis - western morning-glory
Calystegia subacaulis - hill morning-glory
Camissonia bistorta - California sun-cup
Camissonia micrantha - small primrose
Camissonia strigulosa - contorted primrose
Campanula griffinii - Griffin's bellflower
Capsella bursa-pastoris - shepherd's purse
Carduus pycnocephalus - Italian thistle
Carex barbarae - Santa Barbara sedge
Carex cusickii - Cusick's sedge
Carex nebrascensis - Nebraska sedge
Carex serratodens - bifid sedge
Castilleja affinis - coast paint-brush
Castilleja attenuata - narrow-leaved owl's clover
Castilleja exserta - escobita
Castilleja foliolosa - woolly indian paint-brush
Caulanthus coulteri var. lemmonii - Lemmon's caulanthus
Ceanothus cuneatus - buck brush
Centaurea melitensis - tocalote
Centaurea solstitialis - yellow star thistle
Centaurium exaltatum - Great Basin centaury
Cerastium glomeratum - mouse-ear chickweed
Cercocarpus betuloides - mountain mahogany
Chaenactis glabriuscula var. glabriuscula - yellow pincushion
Chamaesyce ocellata - valley spurge
Chamomilla suaveolens - pineapple weed
Chenopodium album - lamb's quarters/white goosefoot
Chenopodium californicum - California goosefoot/soap plant
Chlorogalum pomeridianum - soap plant/amole
Chorizanthe douglasii - Douglas' spine-flower
Chorizanthe membranacea - pink spine-flower
Chorizanthe uniaristata - one-awned spine-flower
Cirsium occidentale - cobweb thistle
Cirsium occidentale var. venustum - red or venus thistle
Clarkia amoena - farewell-to-spring
Clarkia breweri - Brewer's clarkia
Clarkia cylindrica ssp. Cylindrica - speckled clarkia
Clarkia epilobioides - willow-herb godetia
Clarkia lewisii - Lewis' clarkia
Clarkia purpurea ssp. quadrivulnera - four-spot clarkia
Clarkia purpurea ssp. viminea - clarkia
Clarkia similis - clarkia
Clarkia unguiculata - elegant clarkia
Claytonia exigua - common claytonia
Claytonia perfoliata - miner's lettuce
Clematis lasiantha - chaparral clematis
Clematis ligusticifolia - western virgin's bower
Collinsia concolor - Chinese houses
Collinsia heterophylla - Chinese houses
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Collinsia parviflora - blue-eyed Mary
Convolvulus arvensis - field bindweed
Conyza canadensis - horseweed
Cordylanthus rigidus - bird's-beak
Coreopsis douglasii - Douglas' coreopsis
Cornus glabrata - brown dogwood
Cotula coronopifolia - brass buttons
Crassula connata - sand pigmyweed
Cryptantha intermedia - common cryptantha
Cryptantha muricata - Jones' cryptantha
Cuscuta subinclusa - canyon dodder
Cyperus acuminatus - rush
Cyperus laevigatus - bull rush
Cyperus strigosus - false nutsedge
Datisca glomerata - durango root
Datura wrightii - tolguacha
Daucus pusillus - rattlesnake weed
Delphinium californicum - California larkspur
Delphinium decorum - yellowtinge larkspur
Delphinium hesperium - western larkspur
Delphinium hesperium ssp. pallescens - western larkspur
Delphinium parryi - Parry's larkspur
Dendromecon rigida - bush poppy
Deschampsia danthonioides - annual hair-grass
Descurainia sophia - tansy mustard
Dicentra chrysantha - golden ear-drops
Dichelostemma capitatum - blue dicks
Dodecatheon clevelandii ssp. insulare - padre's shooting star
Dodecatheon hendersonii - Henderson's shooting star
Draba verna - vernal whitlow-grass
Dryopteris arguta - Calif. wood fern
Dudleya cymosa - spreading dudleya
Elymus glaucus - western ryegrass
Elymus multisetus - big squirreltail
Emmenanthe penduliflora - whispering bells
Epilobium brachycarpum - panicled willow-herb
Epilobium canum - California fuchsia
Epilobium densiflorum - dense-flowered boisduvalia
Epilobium torreyi - narrow-leaved boisduvalia
Equisetum arvense - common horsetail
Eremalche parryi - Parry's mallow
Eremocarpus setigerus - turkey mullein/dove-weed
Eriastrum densifolium - perennial eriastrum
Eriastrum virgatum - virgate gilia
Erigeron foliosus var. foliosus - leafy daisy
Eriodictyon californicum - yerba santa
Eriodictyon crassifolium - thick-leaved yerba santa
Eriodictyon tomentosum - woolly yerba santa
Eriogonum baileyi - Bailey's buckwheat
Eriogonum elegans - elegant buckwheat
"Eriogonum elongatum var, elongatum - long-stemmed buckwheat"
Eriogonum fasciculatum - California buckwheat
Eriogonum latifolium - coast buckwheat
Eriogonum nortonii - Norton's buckwheat
Eriogonum nudum var. pubiflorum - naked eriogonum/tibinagua
Eriogonum saxatile - rock buckwheat
Eriogonum vimineum - Wicker buckwheat
Eriophyllum confertiflorum - golden yarrow
Eriophyllum multicaule - many-stemmed eriophyllum
Eriophyllum staechadifolium - lizard tail
Erodium botrys - long-beaked filaree
Erodium cicutarium - red-stemmed filaree
Erodium moschatum - white-stemmed filaree
Erysimum capitatum - Douglas' wallflower
Eschscholzia caespitosa - tufted poppy
Eschscholzia californica - California poppy
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2006
Eucrypta chrysanthemifolia - common eucrypta
Festuca californica - California fescue
Filago californica - California filago
Filago gallica - narrow-leaved filago
Forestiera pubescens - desert olive
Fraxinus dipetala - California flowering ash
Fritillaria affinis - checker lily
Galium angustifolium - narrow-leaved bedstraw
Galium aparine - goose-grass
Galium parisiense - wall bedstraw
Galium porrigens - climbing bedstraw
Galium trifidum var. pacificum - trifid bedstraw
Galium triflorum - sweet-scented bedstraw
Garrya congdonii - Congdon's silk-tassel
Gastridium ventricosum - nit grass
Geranium carolinianum - Carolina geranium
Geranium retrorsum - New Zealand geranium
Gilia achilleifolia - California gilia
Gilia achilleifolia ssp. multicaulis - many-stemmed gilia
Gilia capitata ssp. abrotanifolia - blue field gilia/globe gilia
Githopsis specularioides - common blue-cup
Glycyrrhiza lepidota - wild licorice
Gnaphalium bicolor - Bioletti's cudweed
Gnaphalium luteo-album - weedy cudweed
Gnaphalium palustre - everlasting
Gnaphalium stramineum - cotton-batting plant
Guillenia lasiophylla - California mustard
Gutierrezia californica - matchweed/snake weed
Helenium puberulum - sneezeweed/rosilla
Helianthemum scoparium - rush-rose
Heliotropium curassavicum - Chinese pusley
Hemizonia congestum ssp. Luzulifolia - hayfield tarweed
Hemizonia fitchii - Fitch's spikeweed
Hemizonia lobbii - three-rayed tarweed
Herniaria hirsuta ssp. cinerea - gray herniaria
Hesperocnide tenella - western nettle
Hesperolinon micranthum - dwarf flax
Heterocodon rariflorum - heterocodon
Heteromeles arbutifolia - toyon/Christmas berry
Heterotheca sessiliflora - hairy golden aster
Hirschfeldia incana - summer mustard
Holodiscus discolor - cream bush/ocean spray
Hordeum brachyantherum ssp. californicum - California barley
Hordeum marinum ssp. gussoneanum - Mediterranean barley
Hordeum murinum ssp. glaucum - glaucous foxtail
Hydrocotyle verticillata - whorled marsh pennywort
Hypochaeris glabra - smooth cat's ears
Hypochaeris radicata - hairy cat's ears
Juglans californica var. hindsii - California black walnut
Juncus balticus - wire rush
Juncus bufonius var. bufonius - common toad rush
Juncus bufonius var. occidentalis - round-fruited toad rush
Juncus effusus var. pacificus - soft rush
Juncus tenuis - slender rush
Juncus xiphioides - iris-leaved rush
Juniperus californica - Californica juniper
Keckiella breviflora - yawning penstemon
Lactuca serriola - prickly lettuce
Lagophylla ramosissima ssp. ramosissima - common hareleaf
Lamarckia aurea - goldentop
Lamium amplexicaule - giraffe's head
Lasthenia californica - coast goldfields
Lasthenia microglossa - small-rayed lasthenia
Lathyrus vestitus var. ochropetalus - Bolander's pea
Lathyrus vestitus var. vestitus - San Gabriel or canyon pea
Layia hieracioides - tall layia
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Layia platyglossa - tidy tips
Lepechinia calycina - pitcher sage
Lepidium nitidum - common pepper-grass
Lessingia glandulifera var. glandulifera - common lessingia
Lewisia rediviva - bitterroot
Leymus triticoides - beardless ryegrass
Ligusticum apiifolium - celery-leaved lovage
Limosella acaulis - southern mudwort
Linanthus bicolor - bicolored linanthus
Linanthus ciliatus - whisker brush
Linanthus dichotomus - evening snow
Linanthus parviflorus - common linanthus
Linanthus pygmaeus ssp. continentalis - pigmy linanthus
Linaria canadensis - toad-flax
Lithophragma affine - woodland star
Lithophragma heterophyllum - hill star
"Loeflingia squarrosa var, squarrosa - California loeflingia"
Lolium perenne - perennial ryegrass
Lomatium californicum - California lomatium
Lomatium dasycarpum ssp. dasycarpum - lace parsnip
Lomatium utriculatum - common parsnip
Lonicera hispidula var. vacillans - hairy honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata var. denudata - southern honeysuckle
Lotus humistratus - short-podded lotus
Lotus micranthus - small-flowered lotus
Lotus purshianus var. purshianus - Spanish clover
Lotus salsuginosus - coastal lotus
Lotus scoparius - deerweed
Lotus strigosus - Bishop's lotus
Lotus wrangelianus - Chile lotus
Lupinus albifrons var. albifrons - silver bush lupine
Lupinus bicolor - Lindley's annual lupine
Lupinus concinnus - bajada lupine
Lupinus microcarpus var. densiflorus - gully lupine
Lupinus microcarpus var. microcarpus - red-flowered platycarpos
Lupinus succulentus - succulent annual lupine
Lupinus truncatus - Nuttall's annual lupine
Lythrum hyssopifolia - grass poly
Madia anomala - plump-seeded madia
Madia elegans ssp. densifolia - common madia
Madia exigua - small tarweed
Madia gracilis - slender tarweed
Madia sativa - coast tarweed
Malacothamnus aboriginum - Indian Valley bush mallow
Malacothrix clevelandii - Cleveland's malacothrix
Malacothrix floccifera - woolly malacothrix
Marah fabaceus - man-root/wild cucumber
Marrubium vulgare - horehound
Meconella californica - California meconella
Meconella linearis - narrow-leaved meconella
Medicago polymorpha - bur-clover
Melica californica - western melica
Melica imperfecta - coast-range melica
Melica torreyana - Torrey's melica
Melilotus indica - Indian melilot
Mentzelia gracilenta - Santa Lucia stickleaf
Mentzelia micrantha - San Luis stickleaf
Micropus californicus var. californicus - slender cottonweed
Microseris elegans - elegant microseris
Mimulus androsaceus - shield monkey flower
Mimulus aurantiacus - sticky monkey flower
Mimulus aurantiacus var. bifidus - Santa Lucia sticky monkey flower
Mimulus cardinalis - scarlet monkey flower
Mimulus douglasii - chinless mouse-ears
Mimulus floribundus - floriferous monkey-flower
Mimulus fremontii - Fremont's monkey flower
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2006
Mimulus guttatus - common monkey flower
Mimulus longiflorus - southern monkey flower
Mimulus nasutus - snouted monkey flower
Mimulus pilosus - downy mimetanthe
Mimulus rattanii - Rattan's monkey flower
Minuartia douglasii - Douglas' sandwort
Monardella villosa - coyote mint
Montia fontana - water montia
Muhlenbergia rigens - deer-grass
Nassella lepida - foothill needlegrass
Nassella pulchra - purple needlegrass
Navarretia atractyloides - holly-leaved navarretia
Navarretia jaredii - mitre-fruited navarretia
Nemacladus gracilis - slender nemocladus
Nemophila menziesii - baby blue-eyes
Nemophila pedunculata - meadow nemophila
Nicotiana acuminata var. multiflora - many-flowered tobacco
Nicotiana attenuata - coyote tobacco
Nicotiana quadrivalvis - Indian tobacco
Orobanche bulbosa - chaparral broomrape
Orobanche californica - California broomrape
Orobanche fasciculata - clustered broomrape
Orobanche uniflora - naked broomrape
Osmorhiza brachypoda - California sweet cicely
Papaver californicum - fire poppy
Parietaria hespera - western pellitory
Parvisedum pentandrum - Mt Hamilton parvisedum
Pectocarya linearis ssp. ferocula - slender pectocarya
Pedicularis densiflora - Indian warrior
Pellaea andromedifolia - coffee fern
Pellaea mucronata var. mucronata - bird's-foot fern
Penstemon centranthifolius - scarlet bugler
Penstemon heterophyllus - chaparral penstemon
Pentagramma triangularis ssp. Triangularis - goldback fern
Perideridia californica - California yampah
Petunia parviflora - wild petunia
Phacelia brachyloba - short-lobed phacelia
Phacelia californica - California phacelia
Phacelia cicutaria var. hispida - Caterpillar phacelia
Phacelia distans - wild heliotrope
Phacelia ramosissima - branching phacelia
Phacelia rattanii - Rattan's phacelia
Phlox gracilis - slender phlox
Pholistoma auritum - blue fiesta flower
Pholistoma membranaceum - white fiesta flower
Phoradendron villosum - oak mistletoe
Phyla nodiflora - garden lippia
Pickeringia montana - chaparral pea
Pinus sabiniana - gray pine (digger pine)
Piperia elegans - elegant rein orchid
Plagiobothrys canescens - valley popcorn flower
Plagiobothrys collinus var. californicus - California popcorn flower
Plagiobothrys collinus var. fulvescens - California popcorn flower
Plagiobothrys nothofulvus - popcorn flower
Plagiobothrys tenellus - slender popcorn flower
Plagiobothrys uncinatus - hooked popcorn flower
Plantago erecta - California plantain
Platanus racemosa - western sycamore
Platystemon californicus - cream cups
Plectritis ciliosa - long-spurred plectritus
Plectritis ciliosa ssp. insignis - long-spurred plectritus
Plectritis macrocera - white plectritis
Poa annua - annual bluegrass
Poa secunda - pine bluegrass
Poa unilateralis - San Francisco bluegrass
Polygonum arenastrum - common knotweed
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Polygonum punctatum - glandular polygonum
Polypodium glycyrrhiza - licorice fern
Polypogon monspeliensis - rabbitsfoot grass
Populus fremontii ssp. Fremontii - Fremont's cottonwood
Portulaca oleracea - purslane
Potentilla glandulosa - sticky cinquefoil
Prunus ilicifolia - holly-leaved cherry
Psilocarphus brevissimus - dwarf woolly-heads
Psilocarphus tenellus var. tenellus - slender woolly-heads
Pteridium aquilinum var. pubescens - western bracken fern
Pterostegia drymarioides - pterostegia
Quercus agrifolia var. agrigolia - coast live oak
Quercus berberidifolia - California scrub oak
Quercus douglasii - blue oak
Quercus lobata - valley oak
Quercus wislizeni - interior live oak
Rafinesquia californica - California chicory
Ranunculus aquatilis var. capillaceus - water buttercup
Ranunculus californicus - California buttercup
Ranunculus hebecarpus - downy buttercup
Raphanus sativus - wild radish
Rhamnus crocea - redberry
Ribes californicum - hillside gooseberry
Ribes malvaceum - chaparral currant
Ribes quercetorum - oak gooseberry
Rigiopappus leptocladus - rigiopappus
Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum - watercress
Rosa californica - California wild rose
Rubus discolor - Himalayan blackberry
Rubus ursinus - California blackberry
Rumex crispus - curly dock
Rumex salicifolius - willow dock
Sagina apetala - sticky pearlwort
Salix exigua - sandbar willow
Salix lasiolepis - arroyo willow
Salix lucida ssp. lasiandra - yellow willow
Salsola tragus - Russian thistle
Salvia columbariae - chia
Salvia mellifera - black sage
Sambucus mexicana - blue elderberry
Sanicula arctopoides - footsteps-of-spring
Sanicula bipinnata - poison sanicle
Sanicula bipinnatifida - purple sanicle
Sanicula crassicaulis - gambleweed/Pacific sanicle
Saxifraga californica - California saxifrage
Scandix pecten-veneris - shepherd's needle
Scirpus californicus - California tule
Scirpus microcarpus - panicled bulrush
Scleranthus annuus - knawel
Scrophularia californica - bee plant
Scutellaria tuberosa - Dannie's skullcap
Sedum spathulifolium - Pacific stonecrop
Selaginella bigelovii - Bigelow's moss-fern
Senecio aphanactis - California groundsel
Senecio breweri - Brewer's butterweed
Senecio californicus - California butterweed
Senecio flaccidus var. douglasii - shrubby butterweed
Senecio vulgaris - common groundsel
Silene antirrhina - sticky catchfly
Silene gallica - windmill pink
Silybum marianum - milk thistle
Solanum americanum - small-flowered nightshade
Solanum umbelliferum - blue witch
Solidago californica - California goldenrod
Sonchus asper ssp. asper - prickly sow thistle
Sonchus oleraceus - common sow thistle
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2006
Spergula arvensis ssp. arvensis - spurry
Spergularia rubra - purple sand spurry
Stachys albens - white hedge-nettle
Stachys bullata - wood mint
Stachys pycnantha - short-spiked hedge nettle
Stellaria media - common chickweed
Stellaria nitens - shiny chickweed
Stephanomeria virgata ssp. pleurocarpa - tall stephanomeria
Streptanthus glandulosus - jewel flower
Stylocline gnaphalioides - woolly stylocline
Stylomecon heterophylla - wind poppy
Symphoricarpos mollis - creeping snowberry
Taraxacum officinale - common dandelion
Tauschia hartwegii - Hartweg's tauschia
Tauschia kelloggii - Kellogg's tauschia
Thalictrum fendleri var. polycarpum - many-fruited meadow-rue
Thysanocarpus curvipes - hairy fringe pod
Thysanocarpus laciniatus - narrow-leaved fringe pod
Torilis nodosa - knotted hedge-parsley
Toxicodendron diversilobum - poison oak
Trichostema lanatum - woolly bluecurls
Trichostema lanceolatum - vinegar weed
Trifolium bifidum - pinole clover
Trifolium gracilentum - pinpoint clover
Trifolium microcephalum - maiden clover
Trifolium obtusiflorum - clammy/creek clover
Trifolium variegatum - white-tipped clover
Trifolium willdenovii - tomcat clover
Triteleia ixioides - coast pretty face
Tropidocarpum gracile - dobie pod
Typha angustifolia - narrow leaved cat-tail
Uropappus lindleyi - Lindley's microseris
Urtica dioica ssp. Holosericea - hoary nettle
Urtica urens - dwarf nettle
Utricularia vulgaris - common bladderwort
Verbena lasiostachys var. scabrida - robust vervain
Veronica anagallis-aquatica - great water speedwell
Veronica catenata - broad-fruited water speedwell
Veronica peregrina ssp. xalapensis - purslane speedwell
Vicia sativa - spring vetch
Vicia villosa ssp. varia - woolly vetch
Viola pedunculata - johnny jump-up
Vulpia microstachys var. pauciflora - Pacific fescue
Vulpia myuros var. hirsuta - fescue
Vulpia myuros var. myuros - rattail fescue
Woodwardia fimbriata - chain fern
Wyethia helenioides - gray mule ears
Xanthium spinosum - spiny clotbur
Xanthium strumarium - cocklebur
Yucca whipplei - Spanish bayonet
Zigadenus fremontii - Fremont's star lily
Zigadenus venenosus var. venenosus - death camass
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