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

by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

• Aconite, [328]
• Alfalfa, [326]
• Alfilerilla, [194]
• Alpine Heather, [246]
• Alpine Phlox, [248]
• Alpine Willow-Herb, [254]
• Alum-Root, [58]
• Amapola, [116]
• American Barrenwort, [88]
• American Velvet-Plant, [191]
• Amole, [82]
• Angels' Trumpets, [96]
• Apple of Peru, [96]
• August-Flower, [176]
• Azulea, [284]
• Baby-Blue-Eyes, [290]
• Baby-Eyes, [284]
• Ball-Sage, [294]
• Balm of Heaven, [373]
• Balsamea, [366]
• Beach-Aster, [304]
• Beach Morning-glory, [210]
• Beach Primrose, [136]
• Beach Strawberry, [10]
• Bearberry, [12]
• Bear-Clover, [92]
• Bearwood, [68]
• Beautiful Clarkia, [236]
• Bed-Straw, [28]
• Bellflower, [322]
• Black Lily, [266]
• Black Sage, [294], [316]
• Bladderpod, [144]
• Blazing-Star, [168]
• Bleeding-Heart, [242]
• Blood-Drop, [129]
• Blue-Blossom, [274]
• Blue-Curls, [315]
• Blue-eyed Grass, [284]
• Blue Forget-me-not, [334]
• Blue Gentian, [330]
• Blue Gilia, [296]
• Blue Larkspur, [276]
• Blue-and-white Lupine, [300]
• Blue Milla, [302]
• Blue Myrtle, [274]
• Blue-veined Nemophila, [284]
• Blueweed, [328]
• Big-Root, [26]
• Bird's-Eyes, [288]
• Bitter-Bark, [68]
• Bitter-Root, [224]
• Brass Buttons, [151]
• Brodiæa, [262]
• Bronze-Bells, }
• Brown Lily, }[ 264]
• Buck-Brush, [152]
• Bur-Clover, [132]
• Butter-and-Eggs, [151]
• Butterfly Tulip, [81]
• Button-Bush, }
• Button-Willow,}[ 98]
• Cajeput, [373]
• Calabazilla, [117]
• Calf's-Head, [390]
• Californian Azalea, [86]
• California Bay-Tree, [373]
• Californian Bee-Plant, [342]
• Californian Bluebells, [290]
• Californian Buckeye, [69]
• Californian Centaury, [218]
• California Coffee, [67]
• Californian Compass-Plant, [157]
• Californian Dandelion, [164]
• Californian False Hellebore, [108]
• Californian Figwort, [342]
• Californian Fish-hook Cactus, [24]
• Californian Four-o'clock, [208]
• California Fuchsia, [366]
• Californian Goldenrod, [190]
• Californian Hardhack, [85]
• Californian Harebell, [322]
• Californian Holly, [90]
• Californian Horse-Chestnut, [69]
• California Laurel, [372]
• California Lilac, [258], [274]
• Californian Lobelia, [314]
• Californian Milkwort, [286]
• Californian Olive, [373]
• Californian Pitcher-Plant, [390]
• California Poppy, [114]
• Californian Rose-Bay, [234]
• Californian Saxifrage, [14]
• Californian Slippery-Elm, [158]
• Californian Spikenard, [76]
• Califor'n Sweet-scented Shrub, [352]
• Californian Trillium, [260]
• Californian Wild Currant, [214]
• Calypso, [210]
• Camass, [292]
• Canaigre, [378]
• Cancer-Root, [172]
• Canchalagua, [218]
• Canker Lettuce, [100]
• Cascara Sagrada, [67]
• Catalina Mariposa Tulip, [306]
• Cat's-Ears, [278]
• Chamisal, [60]
• Chamise Lily, [136]
• Chamiso, [60]
• Chaparral Lily, [72]
• Chaparral Pea, [230]
• Chia, [298]
• Chicalote, [74]
• Chickweed-Wintergreen, [202]
• Chicory, [312]
• Chilean Clover, [326]
• Chili-Cojote, [117]
• Chilicothe, [26]
• Chittemwood, [68]
• Chocolate Lily, [266]
• Choke-Cherry, [36]
• Cholla-Cactus, [356]
• Christmas-Berry, [90]
• Christmas-Horns, [346]
• Christmas-Rose, [340]
• Cinquefoil, [175]
• Clarkia, [228]
• Cleavers, [28]
• Clematis, [91]
• Climbing Pentstemon, [350]
• Clintonia, [202]
• Clocks, [194]
• Cluster-Lily, [262]
• Coast Lily, [356]
• Collinsia, [294]
• Columbine, [348]
• Common Aster, [332]
• Common Black Mustard, [140]
• Common Buttercup, [110]
• Common Elder, [45]
• Common Evening Primrose, [175]
• Common Fleabane, [216]
• Common Milkweed, [312]
• Common Monkey-Flower, [134]
• Common Mugwort, [377]
• Common Nightshade, [80]
• Common Stramonium, [96]
• Common Sunflower, [185]
• Common White Lupine, [85]
• Common Wild Pea, [25]
• Common Wild Rose, [234]
• Copa de Oro, [114]
• Coral-Root, [272]
• Coulter's Snapdragon, [46]
• Cowslips, [110]
• Cream-colored Wall-Flower, [132]
• Cream-Cups, [112]
• Creeping Wood-Violet, [140]
• Creosote-Bush, [191]
• Cudweed, [68]
• Cup of Gold, [116]
• Death Camass, [6]
• Deerweed, [152]
• Devil's Apple, [96]
• Diogenes' Lantern, [144]
• Dodder, [160]
• Dog's-tooth Violet, [136]
• Dog-Violet, [307]
• Dormidera, [116]
• Douglas Iris, [300]
• Drops of Gold, [376]
• Dutchman's Pipe, [374]
• Echeveria, [141]
• Elephants' Heads, [252]
• Ellisia, [36]
• Escobita, [228]
• Espuela del Caballero, [276]
• Evening Snow, [50]
• Everlasting Flower, [68]
• Fairy Bells, [376]
• False Alum-Root, [342]
• False Indigo, [315]
• False Lupine, [148]
• False Lady's Slipper, [388]
• False Mallow, [220]
• False Pimpernel, [172]
• False Solomon's Seal, [22]
• False Tidy-Tips, [148]
• Farewell to Spring, [240]
• Fawn-Lily, [136]
• Fetid Adder's-Tongue, [256]
• Fever-Bush, [370]
• Fig-Marigold, [220]
• Filaree, [194]
• Finger-Tips, [142]
• Firecracker Flower, [238]
• Fireweed, [244]
• Flaming Poppy, [129]
• Floriponda, [96]
• Fly-Flower, [124]
• Fragrant Sumach, [152]
• Friar's-Cap, [328]
• Fringed Gilia, [216]
• Fuller's Thistle, [386]
• Fuchsia-flowered Gooseberry, [338]
• Giant Californian White Poppy, [66]
• Glasswort, [387]
• Gobernadora, [191]
• Godetia, [240]
• Golden Brodiæa, [156]
• Golden Butterfly-Tulip, [150]
• Golden Dicentra, [162]
• Golden Lily-Bell, [144]
• Golden Stars, [154]
• Golden Thread, [160]
• Golden Yarrow, [180]
• Golden-eyed Grass, [284]
• Goose-Grass, [28]
• Gourd, [117]
• Grass-Nuts, [262]
• Greasewood, [60], [66]
• Great Willow-Herb, [244]
• Green-banded Mariposa, [268]
• Green-stemmed Filaree, [194]
• Ground-Iris, [280]
• Ground-Pink, [216]
• Groundsel-Tree, [104]
• Gum-Plant, [176]
• Hag-Taper, [191]
• Hairbell, [54]
• Harvest Brodiæa, [318]
• Heal-All, [322]
• Heart's-Ease, [50]
• Hedge-Nettle, [230]
• Heliotrope, [47]
• Helmet-Flower, [328]
• Hen-and-Chickens, [142]
• Hideondo, [191]
• Hog-Onion, [262]
• Hog's Potato, [8]
• Holly-leaved Barberry, [122]
• Holly-leaved Cherry, [61]
• Honeysuckle, [86]
• Horehound, [47]
• Hound's-Tongue, [258]
• Huckleberry, [200]
• Humboldt's Lily, [185]
• Humming-bird's Sage, [350]
• Humming-bird's Trumpet, [367]
• Ice-Plant, [51]
• Incense-Shrub, [214]
• Indian Lettuce, [16], [100]
• Indian Paint-Brush, [344]
• Indian Pink, [354]
• Indian Plume, [344]
• Indian Rhubarb, [242]
• Indian Warrior, [336]
• Indian Wheat, [157]
• Innocence, [294]
• Islay, [61]
• Ithuriel's Spear, [302]
• Jamestown-Weed, }
• Jimson-Weed, }[ 96]
• Joshua-Tree, [44]
• Judas-Tree, [198]
• June-Berry, [88]
• Kamass, [292]
• Labrador Tea, [103]
• Lady's Tobacco, [68]
• Ladies' Tresses, [92]
• Lantern of the Fairies, [54]
• Large-flowered Brodiæa, [318]
• Large-flowered Datura, [54]
• Large-flowered Dogwood, [94]
• Large-flowered Phacelia, [267]
• Large Vetch, [358]
• Large White Mountain Daisy, [106]
• Large Yellow Lupine, [161]
• Lavender Mountain Daisy, [332]
• Lead-Plant, [315]
• Leatherwood, [160]
• Lemonade-Berry, [3]
• Lemon-Lily, [109]
• Leopard-Lily, [182]
• Lessingia, [252]
• Lilac Sand-Verbena, [292]
• Little Alpine Lily, [180]
• Llavina, [24]
• Lobelia, [6]
• Loco-Weed, [40]
• Love-Vine, [160]
• Lucern, [326]
• Mad-Apple, [96]
• Madrone, }
• Madroño, }[ 37]
• Mad Violets, [204]
• Mahala Mats, [326]
• Mahogany, [203]
• Mahonia, [118], [122]
• Main-oph-weep, [56]
• Man-in-the-Ground, [26]
• Manzanita, [12]
• Marianas, [290]
• Mariposa Tulip, [78], [81]
• Matilija Poppy, [64]
• Meadow-Foam, [126]
• Meadow-Sweet, [85]
• Mesembryanthemum, [220]
• Milfoil, [97]
• Milkweed, Hornless Woolly, [380]
• Milk-white Rein-Orchis, [94]
• Miner's Lettuce, [16]
• Mission-Bells, [264]
• Mission Poppy, [66]
• Mist-Maidens, [22]
• Mock-Orange, [117]
• Monk's-Hood, [328]
• Mosquito-Bills, [206]
• Moth-Mullein, [190]
• Mother's Heart, [78]
• Mottled Swamp-Orchis, [388]
• Mountain Balm, [56]
• Mountain Birch, [84]
• Mountain Heart's-Ease, [29]
• Mountain Lady's Slipper, [382]
• Mountain Laurel, [373]
• Mountain Mahogany, [373]
• Mountain Misery, [92]
• Muilla, [369]
• Musky Filaree, [194]
• Naked Broom-Rape, [172]
• Nievitas, [30]
• Nigger-Babies, [284]
• Nigger-Heads, [340]
• Nine-Bark, [85]
• Noona, [268]
• Northern Scarlet Larkspur, [346]
• Oregon Grape, [118], [122]
• Orpine, [170]
• Oso-Berry, [18]
• Our Lord's Candle, [70]
• Pearly Everlasting Flower, [102]
• Pennyroyal, [324]
• Pentachæta, [126]
• Pepper-Root, [4]
• Phantom Orchis, [388]
• Pigeon-Berry, [67]
• Pimpernel, [126]
• Pin-Clover, [194]
• Pine-Drops, [186]
• Pink Monkey-Flower, [248]
• Pink Paint-Brush, [228]
• Pipe-Vine, [374]
• Pipsissiwa, [104]
• Pitcher-Sage, [42]
• Poison-Oak, [8]
• Poison-Weed, [157]
• Poléo, [324]
• Poor-Man's Weather-Glass, [126]
• Pop-corn Flower, [30]
• Prairie-Pointers, [206]
• Prickly-Pear, [170]
• Prickly Phlox, [206]
• Pride of California, The, [212]
• Pride of the Mountains, [250]
• Prince's Pine, [104]
• Purple Nemophila, [278]
• Pussy's-Ears, [278]
• Pussy's-Paws, [70]
• Quinine-Bush, [370]
• Racine-Amère, [224]
• Rattlesnake Plantain, [98]
• Rattle-Weed, [40]
• Redbud, [198]
• Red-stemmed Filaree, [194]
• Redwood Lily, [72]
• Redwood Sorrel, [196]
• Rein-Orchis, [384]
• Resin-Weed, [176]
• Rice-Root, [264]
• Rock-Cress, [196]
• Rock-Fringe, [254]
• Rock-Rose, [208]
• Romero, [316]
• Roosters'-Heads, [206]
• Ruby Lily, [72]
• Sacred Bark, [67]
• Sage, [298]
• Sagebrush, [377]
• Saitas, [262]
• Salal, [75]
• Samphire, [387]
• Sassafras Laurel, [373]
• Satin-Bell, [54]
• Sauco, [45]
• Scarlet Bugler, [358]
• Scarlet Fritillary, [346]
• Scarlet Gilia, [360]
• Scarlet Honeysuckle, [350]
• Scarlet Monkey-Flower, [360]
• Scarlet Paint-Brush, [344]
• Sea-Dahlia, [146]
• Self-Heal, [322]
• Service-Berry, [88]
• Shad-Bush, [90]
• Shasta Lily, [102]
• Shepherd's Purse, [78]
• Shooting-Stars, [204]
• Sierra Plum, [34]
• Sierra Primrose, [250]
• Silk-Tassel Tree, [370]
• Silver-weed, [175]
• Silkweed, [312]
• Si me quieres, no me quieres, [124]
• Skullcap, [270]
• Skunk-Cabbage, [108], [166]
• Snow-Berry, [225]
• Snow-Plant, [362]
• Snowy Lily-Bell, [54]
• Soap-Bush, [84], [258]
• Soap-Plant, [6], [82]
• Sour-Grass, [51]
• Southern Scarlet Larkspur, [364]
• Spanish Bayonet, [20], [70]
• Spanish Lily, [262]
• Spat'lum, [224]
• Spice-Bush, [373]
• Spineless Tuna, [225]
• Spreading Dogbane, [236]
• Spring-Blossom, [4]
• Squaw-Berry, [152]
• Squaw-Grass, [51]
• Squaw's Carpet, [326]
• Star-Flower, [202]
• Stickseed, [334]
• Sticky Monkey-Flower, [138]
• St. John's-Wort, [162]
• Stonecrop, [170]
• Strawberry Cactus, [24]
• Succory, [312]
• Sulphur-Flower, [178]
• Sun-Cups, [110]
• Sunflower, [157]
• Sunshine, [124]
• Tall Mountain Larkspur, [330]
• Tarweed, [92], [182], [188]
• Teasel, [386]
• Thimble-Berry, [24]
• Thistle-Poppy, [74]
• Thistle-Sage, [307]
• Thorn-Apple, [96]
• Tidy-Tips, [148]
• Tiger-Lily, [182], [185]
• Toad-Flax, [304]
• Tobacco-Root, [224]
• Tolguacha, [54]
• Toothwort, [4]
• Torosa, [114]
• Toyon, [90]
• Tree-Mallow, [226]
• Tree-Poppy, [118]
• Tree-Tobacco, [129]
• Tree-Yucca, [44]
• Trefoil Sumach, [152]
• Tuna, [170]
• Turban Cactus, [374]
• Turkey-Beard, [51]
• Turkish Rugging, [218]
• Turk's-head Cactus, [374]
• Twin-Berry, [122]
• Twining Hyacinth, [232]
• Umbrella-Plant, [242]
• Velvet Cactus, [357]
• Venegasia, [171]
• Vervenia, [282]
• Villela, [284]
• Violet Beard-Tongue, [308]
• Violet Nightshade, [268]
• Violet Snapdragon, [320]
• Virgin's Bower, [91]
• Wahoo, [68]
• Wake-Robin, [10]
• Washington Lily, [102]
• Water-Holly, [118]
• Water-Lily, [6]
• Western Boykinia, [81]
• Western Cardinal-Flower, [365]
• Western Goldenrod, [191]
• Western Spice-Bush, [352]
• Western Wall-Flower, [132]
• Whipplea, [32]
• Whispering Bells, [130]
• White Brodiæa, [156]
• White Daisy, [28]
• White Evening Primrose, [48]
• White Forget-me-not, [30]
• White Fritillary, [267]
• White Globe-Tulip, [54]
• White Layia, [28]
• White Nemophila, [39]
• White Owl's Clover, [52]
• White Sage, [66]
• White Sweet Clover, [156]
• White Tea-Tree, [84]
• White-veined Shinleaf, [100]
• Wild Bachelor's Button, [312]
• Wild Bouvardia, [178]
• Wild Bridal-Wreath, [85]
• Wild Broom, [152]
• Wild Buckwheat, [34]
• Wild Canterbury-Bell, [288]
• Wild Cherry, [36]
• Wild Coreopsis, [182]
• Wild Cucumber, [26]
• Wild Cyclamen, [204]
• Wild Date, [20]
• Wild Ginger, [310]
• Wild Gooseberry, [338]
• Wild Heliotrope, [282]
• Wild Hollyhock, [198]
• Wild Honeysuckle, [226]
• Wild Hyacinth, [262], [292]
• Wild Lantana, [292]
• Wild Morning-glory, [40]
• Wild Peony, [340]
• Wild Pie-Plant, [378]
• Wild Plum, [34]
• Wild Portulaca, [212]
• Wild White Lilac, [39]
• Wind-Flower, [18]
• Wind-Poppy, [129]
• Wintergreen, [75]
• Wood Anemone, [18]
• Wood-Balm, [42]
• Woodland Star of Bethlehem, [32]
• Wood Strawberry, [10]
• Woolly Blue-Curls, [316]
• Woolly Breeches, [128]
• Yarrow, [97]
• Yellow-Boy, [67]
• Yellow Daisy, [148]
• Yellow Forget-me-not, [128]
• Yellow Globe-Tulip, [144]
• Yellow Mariposa Tulip, [174]
• Yellow Pansy, [120]
• Yellow Pond-Lily, [184]
• Yellow-Root, [67]
• Yellow Sand-Verbena, [146]
• Yellow Star Tulip, [130]
• Yellow Sweet Clover, [156]
• Yerba Buena, [62]
• Yerba de Chivato, [91]
• Yerba del Indio, [354]
• Yerba del Pasmo, [61]
• Yerba Mansa, [76]
• Yerba Santa, [56]
• Yucca-Palm, [44]
• Zygadene, [6]

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INDEX OF TECHNICAL TERMS

• Aggregate fruit, [xxx]
• Akene, [xxx]
• Ament, [xxviii]
• Anther, [xxix]
• Axil, [xxii]
• Berry, [xxx]
• Blade, [xxiii]
• Bract, [xxvii]
• Bulb, [xxiii]
• Calyx, [xxviii]
• Capsule, [xxx]
• Catkin, [xxviii]
• Complete flower, [xxviii]
• Compound leaf, [xxiv]
• Corm, [xxiii]
• Corolla, [xxviii]
• Corymb, [xxvii]
• Cyme, [xxviii]
• Drupe, [xxx]
• Essential organs, [xxviii]
• Female flower, [xxix]
• Filament, [xxix]
• Flower-cluster, [xxvii]
• Flower-head, [xxviii]
• Follicle, [xxx]
• Foot-stalk, [xxiii]
• Fruit, [xxix]
• Gourd, [xxx]
• Imperfect flower, [xxix]
• Inflorescence, [xxvii]
• Internodes, [xxii]
• Involucre, [xxvii]
• Leaflet, [xxiv]
• Leaves, [xxiii]
• Legume, [xxx]
• Male flower, [xxix]
• Neutral flower, [xxix]
• Nodes, [xxii]
• Ovary, [xxix]
• Palmate leaf, [xxiv]
• Panicle, [xxviii]
• Pedicel, [xxvii]
• Peduncle, [xxvii]
• Pepo, [xxx]
• Perianth, [xxviii]
• Perfect flower, [xxix]
• Pericarp, [xxix]
• Petals, [xxviii]
• Petiole, [xxiii]
• Pinnate leaf, [xxiv]
• Pistil, [xxix]
• Pistillate flower, [xxix]
• Pollen, [xxix]
• Pome, [xxx]
• Raceme, [xxvii]
• Rhizome, [xxiii]
• Root, [xxii]
• Rootstock, [xxiii]
• Samara, [xxx]
• Scape, [xxvii]
• Sepals, [xxviii]
• Simple leaf, [xxiv]
• Solitary flower, [xxvii]
• Spadix, [xxviii]
• Spathe, [xxviii]
• Spike, [xxviii]
• Stamen, [xxix]
• Staminate flower, [xxix]
• Staminodia, [xxix]
• Stem, [xxii]
• Stigma, [xxix]
• Stipules, [xxiii]
• Style, [xxix]
• Tuber, [xxiii]
• Umbel, [xxvii]
• Veinlets, [xxiv]

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GLOSSARY

Abortive, defective or barren.

Acuminate, ending in a tapering point.