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2026 Wildflower Gallery: February

Early Season Northern California Wildflower Bloom
February shoreline bloom at Point Pinole overlooking SF bay, Mount Tamalpais in the distance.
Photo by S. Rolling

February Surprises... Before the hills had fully committed to green, the flowers arrived anyway — scattered across meadows, tucked into trailsides, and crowding the edges of water. Here's what we found...


Blue-eyed Grass Seaside Buttercup Hound's Tongue Bermuda Buttercup California Poppy Holly-leaf Cherry Indian Paintbrush Blue Dicks Snowdrops Red Maids Seaside Buttercup Bitter Cherry California Poppy Bermuda Buttercup Purple-leaf Plum California Poppy Spiny Snow Thistle Snowdrops Red Maid Indian Paintbrush Purple-leaf Plum California Poppy Seaside Buttercup Snowdrops

Early season always carries a kind of quiet defiance — color before consensus, bloom before certainty.


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