White Flowers

  • White Flowers
  • White Meadowfoam
  • Popcorn-flower
  • Soap Plant or Soaproot
  • White Navarretia
  • Soap Plant or Soaproot
  • White Hyacinth
  • Valley Tassels or Narrow Owl's-clover
  • Spokepod

Popcorn-flower

common name: Popcorn-flower
scientific name: Plagiobothrys stipitatus var. micranthus
family: Boraginaceae (fiddleneck)
habitat: vernal pools
size: plant 2 to 10 inches tall, flower 3 to 6 mm

Soap Plant or Soaproot

common name: Soap Plant or Soaproot
scientific name: Chlorogalum pomeridianum
family: Liliaceae (lily)
habitat: grassland
size: cluster of leaves 1 foot or more across, flower 1.5 to 2.5 cm

Spokepod

common name: Spokepod
scientific name: Thysanocarpus radicans
family: Brassicaceae (mustard)
habitat: grassland
size: plants up to 15 inches tall; flower 1 to 2 mm, pod 0.5 to 1.0 cm

Valley Tassels or Narrow Owl's-clover

common name: Valley Tassels or Narrow Owl's-clover
scientific name: Castilleja attenuata
family: Scrophulariaceae (figwort)
habitat: damp grassland
size: plant 4 to 12 inches tall, flower 4 to 6 mm across

White Hyacinth

common name: White Hyacinth
scientific name: Triteleia hyacinthina
family: Liliaceae (lily)
habitat: grassland
size: plant up to 15 inches tall, flower 1.4 to 2.5 cm across

White Meadowfoam

common name: White Meadowfoam
scientific name: Limnanthes alba
family: Limnanthaceae (meadowfoam)
habitat: wet grassland, seeps, pools
size: plant up to 12 inches tall; flower about 2.5 cm across

White Navarretia

common name: White Navarretia
scientific name: Navarretia leucocephala
family: Polemonaceae (phlox)
habitat: vernal pools
size: plant 4 to 6 inches tall, each flower 3 to 5 mm, flower cluster 2 cm or more across
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Did you know there are tigers in vernal pools?

This is an Aquatic Beetle larva, more commonly known as a "Water Tiger." It's pincers are like hypodermic needles and it uses them to suck the fluid out of its prey. Yummy!

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