Photos from the Regional Parks California Native Plants Botanic Garden in Tilden Park in Berkeley on May 16, 2016. Many flowers in bloom, especially California Poppies.
See large size photo slideshow at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sandysteinman/sets/72157668546800565/show
Natural History Wanderings 
Sandy, thanks so much! I had photos of Mariposa Lilys (two colors) from a trip to Mt Diablo two weeks ago. But when I went to confirm them through Google Photos, I could not get a good match. Do you have a book to recommend for identification of wild flowers that has the common names and good photos.
Enjoyed seeing you and your wife at Alameda Wild.
Denny Parker
>
LikeLike
By: Denny Parker on May 16, 2016
at 7:03 PM
Two books you might find helpful are
Plants of the San Francisco Bay Region by Beidleman and Kozloff (second edition) – has plant keys, drawings and photos.
Plants of the East Bay Parks – by Keator – has plant keys and drawings
a good website with accurately identified photos is CalPhotos calphotos.berkeley.edu
LikeLike
By: Sandy Steinman on May 17, 2016
at 8:27 AM