Marin Wildflowers

A photographic field notebook of the wildflowers, medicinals and grasses of Marin County and Mount Tamalpais — Tennessee Valley, the Marin Headlands, Muir Woods and the coastal trails.

90 photographs

Native Flowers

Wildflowers of Marin — Tennessee Valley, the Marin Headlands and beyond. 51 photos

Wild Mustard -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal Seeds for digestion or poultice for bronchial congestion, substitute for pepper,

Shooting Star - Native Medicinal

Bush Lupine -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Sticky Monkey Flower/ Mimulus -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Plant Name? -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Yarrow -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal Cold remedy and analgesic, vascular tonic, insect repellent.

Blue Eyed Grass -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Wild Sweet Pea -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Live Forever -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Caterpillar Grass/ Phocelia -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Coastal Buckwheat -Tennessee Valley

Wild Sweet Pea -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Wild Sweet Pea -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Ithuriels Spear -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Lizard Grass -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Indian Paintbrush -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal Rheumatism, glossy hair rinse, venereal disease, high selenium, garnish

Miners Lettuce - Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal Edible, poultice cooling burns headache.

Seep-spring Monkey Flower/ Mimulus Guttatus-Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal In Latin, Mimulus means large nose buffoon.

Hedge Nettle/ Stachys Palustris -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal Anti-inflammatory, sore throats & migraines.

Pearly Everlasting -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Native Hillside -Tennessee Valley- North Facing - Native Medicinal

Yarrow-Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Wild Buckwheat -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Wild Buckwheat -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Native Hillside -Tennessee Valley- North Facing - Native Medicinal

California Poppy -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Cow Parsnip -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Cow Parsnip -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Ithuriel's spear -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Saururus cernuus, Lizard Grass -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Artemesia -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

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Red Columbine, Aquilegia is a genus of about 60–70 species of perennial plants that are found in meadows, woodlands, and at higher altitudes throughout the Northern Hemisphere, known for the spurred petals of their flowers

Grindelia Hirsutula is a North American species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common names hairy gum plant and hairy gumweed.

Erigeron glaucus is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family.Known by the common name seaside fleabane, beach aster, or seaside daisy.

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Native Medicinals

Native plants and their traditional food and medicinal uses. 16 photos

Coast Buckwheat-Eriogonum Latifolium - Native Medicinal (photo Tennessee Valley) Edible, Many medicinal uses. Root and stalk to treat headaches, stomachaches, coughs and colds.coast buckwheat tea has and anti-inflammatory properties and has been used for centuries by Native American herbalists. the roots can be used as an eyewash for sore eyes.

California Poppy - Eschscholzia Californica - Native Medicinal (Photo Marin Headlands) The California Poppy can be used as a mild sedative, to relieve tension and anxiety, as well as general pain relief.

Coast Sage - Artemesia Califonica - Native Medicinal (Photo Marin Headlands) Leaves can be used as a cooking herb for tea and food flavoring. Indigenous groups made sacred wands from the wood and used leaves to ward off ghosts and evil spirits.

Seaside Daisy- Erigeron Glaucua (Photo Cronkite Beach) Ceremonial use by indigenous people to uplift the spirit.

Pearly Everlasting - Anaphalis margaritacea - Native medicinal (Photo Marin Headlands) Pearly Everlasting can be made into a soothing anti-inflammatory and an astringent tea that can be used to treat stomach ailments. The fuzzy leaves can also aid in the healing of bruises and decrease swelling. Moistened leaves can be applied directly to a wound.

Lizard Tail - Eriophyllum Staechadifolium- Native medicinal (Photo Marin Headlands) Lizard tail seeds have been dried and ground into flour by some indigenous peoples. Coast Miwok have used the seed to make pinole, a ground meal made of seeds.

Wild Mustard -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal Seeds for digestion or poultice for bronchial congestion, substitute for pepper.

Thistle -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal Edible, Tonic for liver, respiratory congestion, dermatitis, venereal disease.

Yarrow - Achillea Millefolium Native Medicinal (photo Tennessee Valley -)Used as a for reducing fevers. Leaves used to help stop wounds from bleeding and the roots can be chewed for gum and tooth problems. Cold remedy and analgesic, vascular tonic, insect repellent.

Stone Crop-Dudlea Farinosa - Native Medicinal (Photo Marin Headlands) Enitre plant edible, Indigenous people ate the stems and the leaves. Field remedy for minor burns and skin irritations, sore throat and eye irritations.

Gum Plant -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal Tea - Leaves high in vitamin and mineral, Female tonic for reproductive organs.

Wild Rose y -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal Hips High in Vitimin C for Tea - All parts used for wide range of cures from sore throat, conjunctivitis, diarrhea, to bandaging wounds and burns. Treatment of colic and heartburn. leaves for insect bites and burns.

Nettle -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal Edible Delicious and nutritious. must cook or dry. High in Calcium, A, C and D. wonderful tonic. Tea postpartum tonic to regulate menstrual flow and replace vitamins and minerals lost in childbirth.

Usnea Lichen-Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal Effective against wide spechtrum of bacterial and funghal infections may be more effective than penicillin for streptococcus, pneumococcus and tuberculosis and anti-tumor effects in studies. Emergency first aid apply directly to wound for antimicrobial compress.

Cow Parsnip-Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal Edible, Seeds digestive antispasmodic, diarrhea remedy, green seeds mild anesthetic.

Cow Parsnip-Heracleum lanatum - Native Medicinal (photo Tennessee Valley) Roots used to relieve muscular pain and pain caused from arthritus. Indigenous cultures peeled and ate the new shoots of cow parsnip as a winter green. The hollow stems where also used to carry water. Edible, Seeds digestive antispasmodic, diarrhea remedy, green seeds mild anesthetic.

Ferns & Grasses

Ferns, rushes and grasses — natives and a few invaders. 13 photos

Ferns and Deer in Muir Woods, Natives

Rattlesnake Grass -Tennessee Valley - Invasive

Ferns & Grasses

Purple Velvet Grass, INVASIVE!

Ferns & Grasses

Ferns & Grasses

Ferns & Grasses

Purple Velvet Grass, INVASIVE!

Juncus lescurii, - Native

Juncus patens - Native

Ferns & Grasses

Ferns & Grasses

Ferns & Grasses

Vines, Trees & Shrubs

Vines, trees and shrubs along the coastal trails. 9 photos

Wild Rose y -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal Hips High in Vitimin C for Tea - All parts used for wide range of cures from sore throat, conjunctivitis, diarrhea, to bandaging wounds and burns. Treatment of colic and heartburn. leaves for insect bites and burns.

Coffee Berry -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

? -Marine Headlands - Native Medicinal????

Wild blackberry -Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Tennessee Valley - Native Medicinal

Vines, Trees & Shrubs

Vines, Trees & Shrubs

Vines, Trees & Shrubs

Vines, Trees & Shrubs

Invasives

Introduced species that have made themselves at home. 1 photos

Poison Hemlock Parsley -Tennessee Valley - Invasive