Elegant clarkia Clarkia unguiculata Onagraceae [Named for William Clark, 1770-1838]

Common sweet-cicely Osmorhiza brachypoda Apiaceae

Common red maids Calandrinia menziesii Montiaceae [Named for Archibald Menzies, 1754-1842]		Pipestems Clematis lasiantha Ranunculaceae

Smooth cat's ear * Hypochaeris glabra Asteraceae

		California everlasting Pseudognaphalium californicum Asteraceae

Two-tone everlasting Pseudognaphalium biolettii Asteraceae [Named for Frederic Theodore Bioletti, 1865-1939]

Feltleaf everlasting Pseudognaphalium microcephalum Asteraceae

Windmill pink * Silene laciniata Caryophyllaceae [Probably named for Silenus, a woodland deity who was the usually intoxicated foster-father and companion/tutor of Bacchus or Dionysus, the God of Wine, and was said to be often covered with sticky foam, much like the glandular secretions of many species of this genus.]

Hillside gooseberry Ribes californicum var. hesperium Grossulariaceae

Hairy yerba santa Eriodictyon trichocalyx var. trichocalyx Namaceae

		Laurel sumac Malosma laurina Anacardiaceae
Dudley's clarkia Clarkia dudleyana Onagraceae [Named for William Russel Dudley, 1849-1911]

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