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Fremontodendron 'California Glory' — lemon-yellow flowers with a reddish tinge, grows 6.1 m (20 ft) in height by 6.1 m (20 ft) in width. It is the winner of the Award of Garden Merit from the California Horticultural Society in 1965, and received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1967.
Eriophyllum confertiflorum, commonly called golden yarrow or yellow yarrow, [2] is a North American species of plant in the family Asteraceae, native to California and Baja California. It has wooly leaves when young, and yellow flower heads. [3] "Eriophyllum" means "wooly leaved." [3] [4]
California also has 1,023 species of non-native plants, some now problematic invasive species such as yellow starthistle, that were introduced during the Spanish colonization, the California Gold Rush, and subsequent immigrations and import trading of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
Sisyrinchium californicum is a species of flowering plant in the iris family known by the common names golden blue-eyed grass, [2] yellow-eyed-grass, [3] and golden-eyed-grass. It is native to the west coast of North America from British Columbia to central California , where it grows in moist habitat, often in coastal areas.
It blooms from August to October in its native range, and produces yellow flowers. The small flowers, whose optical effect is based on the yellow stamens, are located in the leaf axils. The brownish legumes are about 25 millimeters long and about 6 millimeters wide. In California, it blooms from February through May (late winter to late spring ...
The leaves are hairy, somewhat linear in shape, and about 1–7 cm (3 ⁄ 8 – 2 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) long. [1] Individuals growing along the coast may have fleshy leaves. Between March and May, the hairy stems are topped by inflorescences of flower heads , 2–2.5 cm ( 3 ⁄ 4 –1 in) across, [ 1 ] with hairy phyllaries .
In phytogeography, concerned with the geographic distribution of plant species, floristic provinces are used. The Sierra Nevada are primarily within the California Floristic Province, with the Rocky Mountain Floristic Province to the north, the Great Basin Floristic Province to the east, and Sonoran Floristic Province to the south.
Lycium californicum is a spreading shrub in the nightshade family known by the common names California boxthorn and California desert-thorn.. This plant, as Lycium californicum var. californicum, is native to the Coastal sage scrub and coastal bluffs along the coast of Southern California to northern Baja California and the northern and southern Channel Islands.