Manzanita Park is home to many native plants that grow in a maritime chaparral environment. If you walk in the park in springtime, you can see many of these plants in bloom.

Photos:

• Sticky Monkeyflower (Mimulus aurantiacus) (pictured)
• Coast Tarweed (Madia sativa)
• Ladies Tresses (Spiranthes romanzoffiana)
• Pretty Face (Triteleia ixioides)
• Witches' Teeth (Lotus formosissimus)
• Death Camas (Zigadenus fremontii)
• Monterey Ceanothus (Ceanothus cuneatus var. rigidus)
• Dense-flowered Rein Orchid (Piperia elongata)
• Chaparral Pea (Pickeringia montana)
• Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium bellum)
• Soap Plant (Chlorogalum pomeridianum)
• Indian Warrior (Pedicularis densiflora)
• Huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum)
• Silk Tassel Tree (Garrya elliptica)
• Coyote brush (Baccharis pilularis)
• Poison Oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum)
• Black sage (Salvia mellifera)
• Miner's Lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata)
• California Man-root or Wild Cucumber (Marah fabaceus)
• Deer Weed or California Broom (Lotus scoparius)
• Pussy paws (Calyptridium umbellatum)
• Wood Mint/Hedge Nettle (Stachys bullata)
• Blue Dick (Dichelostemma pulchellum)
• Pygmy-weed (Crassula connata)
• Shooting Star (Dodecatheon hendersonii)