Triple-ribbed milvetch Astragalus tricarinatus Fabaceae

Wild cucumber Marah macrocarpa Cucurbitaceae

Creek monkeyflower Erythranthe guttata Phrymaceae

		Rigid fiddleneck Amsinckia retrorsa Boraginaceae [Named for Wilhelm Amsinck, 1752-1831]
Perennial rock-cress Boechera perennans Brassicaceae [Named for Tyge Wittrock Böcher, 1909-1983]

Scalebroom Lepidospartum squamatum Asteraceae

Telegraph weed Heterotheca grandiflora Asteraceae

Sacred datura Datura wrightii Solanaceae [Named for Charles Wright, 1811-1885]

		California bur-clover * Medicago polymorpha Fabaceae
Saharan mustard * Brassica tournefortii Brassicaceae [Named for Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, 1656-1708]

Assassin bug Maybe Rhynocoris ventralis Reduviidae [Thanks Bob Allen]
		California ephedra Ephedra californica Ephedraceae

		California fan palm Washingtonia filifera Arecaceae [Named for George Washington, 1732-1799]
Broad-fruited pectocarya Pectocarya platycarpa Boraginaceae

Woolly daisy Eriophyllum wallacei Asteraceae [Named for William Allen Wallace, 1815-1893]		California fuchsia Epilobium canum ssp. latifolium Onagraceae		Cheesebush Ambrosia salsola var. salsola Asteraceae

Chia Salvia columbariae Lamiaceae		Cheeseweed * Malva parviflora Malvaceae

Common fiddleneck Amsinckia intermedia Boraginaceae

Willow-herb Epilobium ciliatum ssp. ciliatum Onagraceae

		White sage Salvia apiana Lamiaceae

		Coville's lip fern Myriopteris covillei Pteridaceae [Named for Frederick Vernon Coville, 1867-1937]
Common phacelia Phacelia distans Hydrophyllaceae				Wild tarragon Artemisia dracunculus Asteraceae

Coulter's lupine Lupinus sparsiflorus Fabaceae

Spectacle pod Dithyrea californica Brassicaceae

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