Yellow Flowers


Birds Foot Trefoil Lotus corniculatus Perennial plant from Europe Usually upright to 30cm. Leaves are on sprawling stems that are numerous and stalkless. Flowers, from 3 to 12 are bright yellow often tinged with red. Roadsides, moist grassy areas. .		Columbian Lily Lilium columbianum Perennial with slender stems to 1.2m tall. Narrow lance shaped leaves. The flowers are bright orange with deep red or purple spots near the center. Meadows, thickets, open woods. .

Yellow Rattle Rhinanthus minor Annual. Stems leafy and erect, few branched 10 to 80cm tall. Stalkless leaves lance shaped 2-7cm long. Flowers, yellow 9-14mm, 2 lipped with upper lip hooded, lower lip is 3 lobed. Meadows, grassy sites and beaches. .		Common Mullein Verbascum thapus Biennial plant from thick taproot. . Leaves are broadly lance shaped around the base and smaller up the stem. Flowers are yellow and cluster around the stem and appear stalkless. Very common along roadsides and dry open areas at low levels. .

Yellow Violet Viola glabella Perennial to 50cm tall. Leaves are heart shaped, sharply pointed at the tip to 5cm across. Yellow flowers, 3 lower petals with purple lines. Lowest petal separated Moist forests, glades and streambanks. .		Common Toadflax Linaria vulgaris Perennial. Erect stem often branching 20-80cm tall. Alternate leaves stalkless, smooth margined and numerous. Flowers, yellow with a central bearded orange patch, snapdragon style.Fields, roadsides, wasteland and gardens. .

Yellow Monkey Flower Mimulus guttatus Annual/perennial with numerous methods of propagation from roots or creeping stolons, rhizomes or stem nodes. Leaves, oval, coarsely toothed. Flowers, 2 lipped, trumpet shaped. Usually found in wet places. .		Sierra Sanicle Sanicula graveolens Perennial plant with solitary erect stems, 50cm tall. Leaves are alternate the lower leaves on long stalks and divided into three’s. Flowers are yellow and small in round clusters on a short stalk. Dry open forests, rocky slopes. .

Spring Balsamroot Balsamorhiza sagittata Perennial plant growing to 80 cm. Softly hairy throughout. Leaves are mostly basal and arrow shaped and very big to about 30 cm. The flowers are bright yellow with solitary heads. Found at low to middle elevations. .		Yellow Salsify Tragopogon dubius Biennial or annual. Leafy stems, often branched, 30-100cm tall. Long leaves are narrow, clasping stem at base. Flowers are pale yellow, involucra bracts form cone in bud. Roadsides and dry areas .

Black Twinberry Lonicera involucrata Perennial shrub that can reach 3m tall.Leaves are opposite and short stalked, pointed and hairy underneath.Flowers are yellow, tubular and in pairs. The fruit is shiny black.Moist forest clearings, swamps and streamside habitats. .		Yellow Pond Lily Nuphar polysepalum Perennial aquatic plant from massive rhizomes. Leaves sometimes floating often submerged are heart shaped and long stalks. Flowers are yellow and up to 10 cm across and cup shaped that float in water. Ponds and shallow lakes, low to middle elevations. .

Skunk Cabbage Lysichiton americanum Strong perennial plant of swamps. Grows to 150cm tall. Leaves are very large from a basal rosette. Flowers are greenish yellow on a spike with a bright yellow hood type bract. Swamps, wet forests and seepage areas, wet meadows. .		Large Leaved Avens Geum macrophyllum Perennial with stems to 1m in height. Basal leaves long stalked, heart to kidney shaped, terminal segments larger than those below. Stem leaves few, deeply lobed or 3 parted. Yellow flowers and likes the open forest. .

Footsteps of Spring Sanicula arctopoides Perennial with branched stems.Leaves are yellowish forming a rosette Flowers are bright yellow nestled in a ring of bracts. Grassy bluffs and always close to the sea. .		Consumption Plant Lomatium nudicaule Perennial plant with flowering stems to 90cm tall. Leaves are mostly basal, oblong to egg shaped and often stalked. Flowers are yellow and small with several in compact clusters Dry areas at low to middle elevations. .

Gumweed Grindelia integrifolia Perennial.Short branched stem 15-80cm tall. Leaves,basal lance shaped to 40cm long, stem leaves alternate and stalkless. Ray flowers yellow,bracts covered with gum. Found mainly on beaches and rocky shores.		Tansy Tanacetum vulgare Perennial.Stiffly erect, over a meter in height. Dark green leaves, feather like pinnate and smooth.Has numerous rayless flower heads in flattened clusters. Disturbed sites, road margins and waste land. .

Sulpher Cinquefoil Potentilla recta Erect perennial plant to 80cm tall. Leaves are mostly on the stem, palmately divided into 5 to 7 leaflets. Flowers are yellow and showy in flat topped clusters. Mostly at low elevations in disturbed sites. .		Goldenrod Solidago canadensis Perennial. Leafy stems to 150cm tall. Lower leaves soon deciduous, stem leaves numerous. Yellow flowers in pyramid clusters. Grows in disturbed areas, roadsides. .

Yellow Eyed Grass Sisyrinchium califronicum Perennial showy plant that grows up to 40cm high. Leaves are mostly basal in clumps of narrow grass like leaves.Flowers are yellow with brownish veins and in terminal clusters. Wet or moist edges of ponds and boggy areas.