Wildflowers Archives | Page 3 of 6

Golden Yarrow

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on April 10, 2020 with No Comments

This beautiful yellow flower is called golden yarrow. It grows in many plant communities, including: yellow pine forest, red fir forest, lodgepole forest, subapline forest, foothill woodland, chaparral and valley grassland. There can be up to 30 blooms in a flower head. The stems are greenish-grey and has a long blooming season making them a great addition to any yard. It is very attractive to pollinators like bees and butterflies. This shrub–in the daisy family–is found throughout the Puente-Chino Hills … Read More

Fiddlenecks Delight

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on March 19, 2020 with No Comments

Named because their stem curls over the top of the plant resembling the head of a fiddle, fiddlenecks are found throughout California. The brightly colored yellow and orange(ish) annual flowers bloom in a curl. We’ve seen them across the Puente-Chino Hills Wildlife Corridor. May these photos continue to inspire you with beauty, peace, and calm. Remember to breathe deeply when you need to. One step at a time.

Aerial View of Poppy Bloom

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on March 18, 2020 with No Comments

Our comfort post for today is another super bloom photo of Chino Hills State Park. The airplane is flying near the 91 freeway heading toward 71 freeway. Among the green grasses you can see the numerous orange slopes and ridgelines of California Poppies. Many of the blooms were accessible by the road or by trail. (Remember always stay on designated trails otherwise park resources get ruined).

California Poppies

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on March 17, 2020 with No Comments

Our first request for photos was the mega-bloom from last year, so here is a photo from 2019 of the poppies and green hills in Chino Hills State Park. A little background: the California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) became the state flower in 1903–therefore it is protected. This means you can’t destroy, harm or pick the flower. (Which is actually true of all resources in our State Park system–rocks, feathers, branches, flowers, etc. are all protected.) The flower tends to be found … Read More

Yellow Hillsides

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on April 4, 2019 with No Comments

Time for another flower photo… in honor of all the (non-native) yellow we are seeing on the hills, here is a California native: California golden violet. Looks like a pansy, eh?