The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits

In Southern California it is only a shrub; but in the central and northern counties it becomes a magnificent tree, a hundred feet in height and from four to six feet in diameter...

Bog plants, with long horizontal rootstocks. _Leaves._--Tubular; hooded and appendaged above; eighteen to thirty-four inches high. _Scape._--Eighteen inches or more high, with g...

It will be readily seen that the rainy season, or the winter, so-called, is the growing time of our year--the time when the earth brings forth every plant in his kind. On the ot...

_S. laciniata_, Cav., is a similar species found from Central California southward. It is usually a taller plant, with many stems and narrow leaves. It is also quite viscid, and...

The stamens take a downward curve toward the lower petal. The anthers have already opened their stores of golden pollen before the unfurling of the buds, so that the somewhat st...

_Shrubs._--Four to eighteen feet high. _Leaves._--Alternate; elliptic to oblong; denticulate or entire; leathery; one to four inches long; six to eighteen lines wide. _Flowers._...

Herbs, rarely shrubs. _Leaves._--Usually alternate; without stipules. _Flowers._--In a close head on a common _receptacle_, surrounded by an _involucre_, whose divisions are cal...

Shrubby; very leafy. _Leaves._--Alternate; nearly sessile; narrowly oblanceolate; acute; tomentose beneath; glabrous above; three to nine lines long; much fascicled. _Flowers._-...

Another species--_B. Clevelandi_, Wats.--is easily distinguished from the above by its numerous narrow leaves and its green-nerved perianth. This is found at San Diego, upon the...

Mr. Macoun gives a most interesting account in "Garden and Forest" of the preparation of kamáss among the Indians, which is a very important and elaborate performance. He says,...

_Leaves._--Leathery; dark green, veined with white; one or two inches long. _Scape._--Four to nine inches high. _Calyx._--Five-parted. _Petals._--Six lines or so long; white. _S...

If you would find its flowers open, you must seek it in the afternoon. At a little distance, it appears as though the truant summer wind had lodged a delicate white feather here...

WAKE-ROBIN _Trillium ovatum_ 11 WHIPPLEA _Whipplea modesta_ 33 WHISPERING BELLS _Emmenanthe penduliflora_ 131 WHITE EVENING PRIMROSE _OEnothera Californica_ 49 WHITE FORGET-ME-N...

_Corm._--Usually elongated. _Leaves._--Oblong; six to ten inches long; dark green, usually mottled in mahogany and dark brown. _Scape._--One- to many-flowered. _Perianth._--Broa...

This is one of our most widely distributed milkweeds, and may be found blossoming along our dusty roadsides and through the fields in early summer. Its stems are tall and wandli...

Among the Indians of their native region the rather large bulbs of these plants are known as "noonas," and regarded as a priceless delicacy. Even those who have never experience...

_Leaves._--Wedge-shaped, an inch or so long; clustered at the ends of the branches. _Flower-stems._--Several inches high. Umbel several-flowered. _Calyx._--Five-cleft. _Corolla....

These plants have a very leathery, impermeable skin, from which evaporation takes place but slowly, which enables them to inhabit arid regions. The fruit is sweet and edible, an...

_D. Clevelandi_, Greene, is a beautiful species found in the south. It sends up a tall shaft, crowned with a large cluster of beautiful blossoms, varying from a delicate lilac t...

Woody; climbing and twining. _Leaves._--Opposite; short-petioled; oval; pale; one to three inches long; the upper pairs uniting around the stem. _Flowers._--Pink; in spikes of s...

Smooth, succulent herbs. _Radical Leaves._--Long-petioled; broadly rhomboidal. _Stems._--Simple; six to twelve inches high, having, near the summit, a pair of leaves united arou...

Under the common designation of "tarweed," plants belonging to two different genera--_Madia_ and _Hemizonia_--and comprising thirty or forty species, may be found. They are most...

_Stem._--Simple; a foot or so high; bearing at summit a crown of large leaves, mixed with many dry, chaffy, persistent bracts. _Leaves._--One or two feet long, with from eleven...

We have not as many species of _Aster_ as are found in the Eastern States, but we have some very beautiful ones. _A. Chamissonis_ is one of our commonest and most widespread spe...

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