Santa Catalina mariposa lily (Calochortus catalinae)

Santa Monica Mountain Range
Topanga off of Topanga Canyon (Route 27) and Old Topanga Road
Topanga State Park

Family: Liliaceae 

Chinese houses (Collinsia heterophylla) ?

(better picture to come - hopefully)


Santa Monica Mountain Range
Topanga off of Topanga Canyon (Route 27) and Old Topanga Road
Topanga State Park

Family: Scrophulariaceae 

Periwinkle (Vinca major) *

Santa Monica Mountain Range
Topanga off of Topanga Canyon (Route 27) and Old Topanga Road
Topanga State Park

Family: Apocynaceae

Pitcher Sage (Salvia spathacea)

Santa Monica Mountain Range
Topanga off of Topanga Canyon (Route 27) and Old Topanga Road
Topanga State Park

Family: Lamiaceae

Southwestern Thorn Apple (Datura wrightii)

Santa Monica Mountain Range

Simi Valley 

Rocky area off of Yosemite Ave and Flanagan Drive

Family: Solanaceae 

Blue Dicks (Dichelostemma capitatum ssp. capitatum)

Chatsworth sample

Victory Trailhead 

Santa Monica Mountain Range
Chatsworth, Off Wolsey Canyon Road
(and Woodland Hills, Victory Trailhead)

family: Liliaceae or Brodiaeoideae

Mediterranean mustard (Hirschfeldia incana) *

*non-native

Santa Monica Mountain Range
Woodland Hills, end of Victory Blvd.
Also seen in Chatsworth

family: Brassicaceae

Pictured at Victory Trailhead

Miner's Lettuce (Claytonia pefoliata)

Santa Monica Mountain Range
Agoura Hills, off of Las Virgenes Rd South of Mulhollond Hwy

either Claytonia perfoliata ssp. mexicana or Claytonia perfoliata ssp. perfoliata 

sample wilted minutes after collecting
area of growth seemed more moist than I usually come across in the SMMR

family: Montiaceae (formerly Portulaceae)

Chamise or Greasewood (Adenostoma fasciculatum)

Santa Monica Mountain Range

Chatsworth, Off Wolsey Canyon Road

family: Rosaceae

Sticky Monkey Flower (Mimulus Aurantiacus)

Santa Monica Mountain Range, Simi Valley

Rocky area off of Yosemite Ave and Flanagan Drive

Family: Phrymaceae or Scrophulariaceae