The flowers are arranged in order of the colors of the rainbow, from red to violet, with white flowers appearing first. White flowers have been divided into plants larger than 12" high and smaller plants, often known as belly flowers. The larger ones are divided into no woody stems and multiple woody stems. Yellow flowers have been divided into plants having no woody stems, multiple woody stems and a single woody trunk.
The flower color is indicated by the color of the background for the flower names. In cases where the flower has several different colors or changes color with age, as for Deerweed, which changes from yellow to orange with age, the predominant or first color of the flowers are what is indicated.
The flower names are linked to the best individual pictures of the flowers, with the "more" link having more photos of different parts of the plant.
To use this table for bloom identifications, first find the entries with the color of the bloom you are trying to identify. If the bloom is white, look at the section with the appropriate plant size and stem characteristic. If the bloom is yellow, look at the appropriate stem characteristic section. Then look for plants that are blooming during the month that you observed the plant. Finally, click on the pictures of those flowers to see if one of them corresponds to the plant that you observed.
Roy Randall has provided some of the observations.
Click on the color below to go to the bloom identification guide for blooms of that color. You can continue through the table sequentially by starting with white and following the continue link at the bottom of each section.
White Pink Red Orange Cream Yellow Yellow
GreenGreen Blue Purple For date and location of the observations, see:
- Update log for this page
- Jane Strong's Seasons of the San Gabriels and San Gabriel Mountains Leaf Log (also contains more descriptions of blooming plants, along with many other natural observations)
Plants Blooming In The San Gabriel Mountains - 1997 and 1998 Observations
Go to Plants Blooming Now in the San Gabriel Mountains
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Latest update: 3 January 2000.