Yosemite Flower Identifier

Click on a column to sort and, hopefully, find your flower. Because of the way flowers are named, this works best with the scientific name in Latin because that way all Penstemmons, for example, are listed together.

If you're trying to identify a flower, you can narrow your results with the drop-down select lists to only view flowers with a certain number of petals or of a certain color. Remember that color can vary tremendously, so your pink or blue flower may be listed under white.

Click the thumbnail photo to see all photos for a flower

Thumbnail Common Namesort icon Latin Name Common Family Color Petals

Alpine Gold on Conness Plateau

Alpine Gold Hulsea algida Aster Yellow Many

Alpine Lilly near Badger Pass

Alpine Lilly Lilium parvum Lilly Red or Pink 6

Detail of Alpine Penstemon Flower

Alpine Penstemon Penstemon davidsonii Snapdragon Blue or Purple 5

Arrowleaf Groundsel flower

Arrowleaf Groundsel Senecio triangularis Aster Yellow Many

Baby Blue Eyes (Hite Cove, March 30, 2006)

Baby Blue Eyes Nemophilia menziesii Blue or Purple 5

Bigelow's Sneezeweed Flower

Bigelow's Sneezweed Helenium bigelovii Aster Yellow Many

Bird's Eyes (Hite Cove, March 24, 2006)

Bird's Eyes Gilia tricolor White 5

Bistort in Summit Meadow

Bistort, Snakeweed Polygonum bistortoides Buckwheat White Clustered

Bitter Dogbane flower

Bitter Dogbane Apocynum androsaemifolium Dogbane White 5

Blazing Star (Hite Cove, May 10, 2005)

Blazing Star Mentzelia-lindleyi Yellow 5

Blue Dick (Hite Cove, March 24, 2006)

Blue Dick Dichlostemma capitatum ssp. capitatum Lilly Blue or Purple 6

Cluster of Boykinia

Boykinia Boykinia major Saxifrage White 5

Brewer's Gold Aster flower, close, side view

Brewer's Golden Aster Aster brewerii Aster Yellow Many

California Fuschia, Flower Closeup

California Fuschia Epilobium canum ssp. latifolium Evening Primrose Red or Pink 4

California Indian Pink

California Indian Pink Silene californica Pink Red or Pink 4

California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)

California Poppy Eschscholzia californica Poppy Orange 4

Camas Lilly

Camas Lilly Camassia quamash Lilly Blue or Purple 6

Canchalagua (Merced River, Bunnell Point), lighter

Canchalagua Centaurium venustem Gentian Red or Pink 5

Common Fiddleneck in Hite Cove (March 24, 2006)

Common Fiddleneck Amsinckia menziesii Borage Yellow 5

Common Madia (Hite Cove, May 10, 2005)

Common Madia Madia elegans Yellow Many

Coyote Tobacco flower, side

Coyote Tobacco Nicotiana attenuata Nightshade White 5

Fireweed  flowers

Fireweed Epilobium angustifolium ssp. circumvagen Evening Primrose Red or Pink 4

Goldfields on Hite Cove Trail

Goldfields Lasthenia californica Aster Yellow Many

Closeup of Harvest Brodiaea on Sunnyside Bench

Harvest Brodiaea Brodiaea elegans Lilly Blue or Purple 6

Hooker's Evening Primrose closeup

Hooker's Evening Primrose Oenothera elata ssp. hirsutissima Evening Primrose Yellow 4