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 Name	Latin Name	Common Family	Color	Petals
	Alpine Gold	Hulsea algida	Aster	Yellow	Many
	Alpine Lilly	Lilium parvum	Lilly	Red or Pink	6
	Alpine Penstemon	Penstemon davidsonii	Snapdragon	Blue or Purple	5
	Arrowleaf Groundsel	Senecio triangularis	Aster	Yellow	Many
	Baby Blue Eyes	Nemophilia menziesii		Blue or Purple	5
	Bigelow's Sneezweed	Helenium bigelovii	Aster	Yellow	Many
	Bird's Eyes	Gilia tricolor		White	5
	Bistort, Snakeweed	Polygonum bistortoides	Buckwheat	White	Clustered
	Bitter Dogbane	Apocynum androsaemifolium	Dogbane	White	5
	Blazing Star	Mentzelia-lindleyi		Yellow	5
	Blue Dick	Dichlostemma capitatum ssp. capitatum	Lilly	Blue or Purple	6
	Boykinia	Boykinia major	Saxifrage	White	5
	Brewer's Golden Aster	Aster brewerii	Aster	Yellow	Many
	California Fuschia	Epilobium canum ssp. latifolium	Evening Primrose	Red or Pink	4
	California Indian Pink	Silene californica	Pink	Red or Pink	4
	California Poppy	Eschscholzia californica	Poppy	Orange	4
	Camas Lilly	Camassia quamash	Lilly	Blue or Purple	6
	Canchalagua	Centaurium venustem	Gentian	Red or Pink	5
	Common Fiddleneck	Amsinckia menziesii	Borage	Yellow	5
	Common Madia	Madia elegans		Yellow	Many
	Coyote Tobacco	Nicotiana attenuata	Nightshade	White	5
	Fireweed	Epilobium angustifolium ssp. circumvagen	Evening Primrose	Red or Pink	4
	Goldfields	Lasthenia californica	Aster	Yellow	Many
	Harvest Brodiaea	Brodiaea elegans	Lilly	Blue or Purple	6
	Hooker's Evening Primrose	Oenothera elata ssp. hirsutissima	Evening Primrose	Yellow	4