Colusa National Wildlife Refuge 🎕 Summer Wildflowers

Mid-August

California Poppy

European Heliotrope

Bottlebrush

Battle Creek Wildlife Area Wildflowers 🎕 Shasta County, California

California Manroot

We found a few wildflowers blooming while walking the trail at the Battle Creek Wildlife Area in early-March, and I can't wait to go back and look for some more!

Butter and Eggs

Blue-eyed Mary

And this poppy was blooming all by its lonesome alongside the road on the way...

Happy California Poppy Day!

California Poppies
Cosumnes River Preserve
Early-March

Cosumnes River Preserve Wildflowers 🎕 Sacramento County, California

No April Fools here, just wonderful wildflowers!

Chicory

I thought it might be too early to find many wildflowers at the Cosumnes River Preserve in early-March, but I was pleasantly surprised by how many smiling faces were already blooming!

California Poppies

Brazilian Waterweed

Hummingbird Sage

Orange Wildflowers 🎕 Northern California

It's time to celebrate some of the beautiful orange wildflowers I've spotted growing around northern California!

First off, is the Western Wallflower (Erysimum capitatum) growing in Lassen VNP. We spotted this particular flower along the side of the road through the park in Mid-June, but we also saw several when we hiked to Ridge Lakes in early-August, too.

The next orange wildflower should get an award for most adorableness and greatest name. I present to you the Menzies' Fiddleneck (Amsinckia menziesii) we saw on the Logan Creek trail of the Sacramento NWR in late-March. I told you it was cute!

This Sulphur-flower Wild Buckwheat (Eriogonum umbellatum) is technically considered a yellow flower, but this one looks pretty orange to me and I'm including it because of its incredible location. We spotted this one on the trail up Brokeoff Mountain. (Lassen VNP, Late-August)

And finally, I don't think I could consider myself a true Californian if I didn't include Poppies (Eschscholzia californica) in today's post. No, these aren't from the super-bloom in Southern California, they're a humble little cluster growing at the Colusa National Wildlife Refuge in late-April.

What is your state flower? Do you love it or do you wish it was something else? (🤣 Bonus points if I just made you look up your state flower!!!)

Poppies for remembrance...

California Poppies

Colusa National Wildlife Refuge

Eschscholzia californica
Also known as: golden poppy, California sunlight, cup of gold.
Became the official state flower of California in 1903.