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Wildflower Mount Diablo Hooker's Evening Primrose Scientific Name: Oenothera elata hookerii Family: Onagraceae (Evening Primrose Family) Blooms: Aug-Sep Color: Yellow-Orange Perennial herb Native Jump to Blooming Now Blue / Purple Red / Pink White Yellow / Orange Invasive Plants

Wildflower Mount Diablo Kellogg's Yampah Scientific Name: Perideridia kelloggii Family: Apiaceae (Parsley-Carrot Family) Blooms: Jun-Aug Color: White Perennial herb Native Jump to Blooming Now Blue / Purple Red / Pink White Yellow / Orange Invasive Plants Daniel Fitzgerald

Wildflower Mount Diablo California Buckeye, Buckeye Tree Scientific Name: Aesculus californica Family: Sapindaceae Blooms: May - Jun Color: White Tree Native, endemic to California Candles of white flowers appear in late spring and early summer. The fruit, a little larger than a golf ball, was used by Tribal Natives to stupefy fish in creeks and streams. Buckeye graces canyon bottoms throughout the foothills. Jump to Blooming Now Blue / Purple Red / Pink White Yellow / Orange Invasive Plants Mike Woodring

Hammond's Flycatcher Flycatchers Hammond's Flycatcher Empidonax hammondii Migrating Flycatchers Daniel Fitzgerald All Empidonax Flycatchers in our area have light eye-rings and two pale wing bars. Distinguishing features are subtle and include size, shape and coloring of the bill. This species is less yellowish than the Pacific-slope Flycatcher with a shorter, thinner, darker bill and a more tear drop shaped eye ring.

Wildflower Mount Diablo Silver Puff, seed pod Scientific Name: Uropappus lindleyi Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower Family) Blooms: Jun Color: White Annual herb Native Jump to Blooming Now Blue / Purple Red / Pink White Yellow / Orange Invasive Plants Mike Woodring Seed pod Mike Woodring Flower

Wildflower Mount Diablo California Dwarf Plantain Scientific Name: Plantago erecta Family: Plantaginaceae (Plantain Family) Blooms: Feb - Apr Color: White Annual herb Native Pale straw brown Jump to Blooming Now Blue / Purple Red / Pink White Yellow / Orange Invasive Plants Mike Woodring

Wildflower Mount Diablo Cut-leaf Geranium Scientific Name: Geranium dissectum Family: Geraniaceae (Geranium Family) Blooms: Mar - Jun Color: Red-Pink Annual herb Introduced Jump to Blooming Now Blue / Purple Red / Pink White Yellow / Orange Invasive Plants Hank Fabian, iNaturalist

Spotted Towhee Towhees, Sparrows, Juncos, and Longspurs Spotted Towhee Pipilo maculatus All Year Towhees, Sparrows, Juncos, and Longspurs Daniel Fitzgerald Found in open woodland, chaparral, scrub-oak habitats, and riparian thickets. White, rufous, and black colors of male are accented by the white spots on the upper part of the bird wing. Female is somewhat duller. Nests on the ground, but also in shrubs. Nest is a cup-shaped structure built from bark shreds, grasses, small roots, twigs, and leaves. Diet consists of insects, spiders, seeds, acorns, and fruit.

Wildflower Mount Diablo Mayweed, Stinking Chamomile Scientific Name: Anthemis cotula Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower Family) Blooms: May-Sep Color: White Annual herb Introduced Jump to Blooming Now Blue / Purple Red / Pink White Yellow / Orange Invasive Plants Daniel Fitzgerald Daniel Fitzgerald

Wildflower Mount Diablo California Yampah, Kellogg’s Yampah Scientific Name: Perideridia kelloggii Family: Apiaceae (Parsley-Carrot Family) Blooms: June Color: White Perennial herb Native, endemic to California Jump to Blooming Now Blue / Purple Red / Pink White Yellow / Orange Invasive Plants

Wildflower Mount Diablo Fitch's Tarweed Scientific Name: Centromadia fitchii Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower Family) Blooms: Jun - Oct Color: Yellow-Orange Annual herb Native Jump to Blooming Now Blue / Purple Red / Pink White Yellow / Orange Invasive Plants Daniel Fitzgerald Daniel Fitzgerald Daniel Fitzgerald Daniel Fitzgerald

Wildflower Mount Diablo False Baby Stars Scientific Name: Leptosiphon androsaceus Family: Polemoniaceae (Phlox Familiy) Blooms: Apr - Jun Color: Red-Pink Annual herb Native Flowers can be pink, lavender or white Jump to Blooming Now Blue / Purple Red / Pink White Yellow / Orange Invasive Plants Kevin Hintsa