• Scenic View from Inspiration Point, Anacapa Island ©timhaufphotography.com

    Channel Islands

    National Park California

Wildflower Viewing

Tim Hauf
 

The park is home to over 775 plant species (including subspecies, varieties, and forms). Each island is floristically unique due to a complex interplay of factors, including distance from the mainland and other islands, size of the island, local climate, maximum elevation, and topographic diversity.

During a normal year of rainfall, the islands are green and wildflowers reach peak bloom around late winter and spring. Generally, the blooming begins and ends earlier the farther east and south the islands are located. The brilliant yellow coreopsis flowers usually peak between late January through March. The best viewing of these flowers occurs on Santa Barbara, Anacapa, and San Miguel Islands.

For more information about specific island wildflower viewing, please visit Places To Go and read the the "Things To Do" section for each individual island.

For the most current wildflower information, please visit the Theodore Payne Wildflower Hotline.

Click on the links below to download a plant check list and flowering guides. These files require Adobe Reader. Please click here to download Adobe Reader for free.









  • Plants Plants

    Learn about the natural history of plants in the park. Read More

  • Help Prevent Non-Native Pests Help Prevent Non-Native Pests

    Learn how you can help prevent the introduction and spread of non-native pests. Read More

  • Multimedia Multimedia

    Learn more about the park through multimedia presentations. Read More

  • Limiting Your Impact Limiting Your Impact

    Learn about regulations and guidelines that can help you protect park resources. Read More

Did You Know?

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Channel Islands National Park has more endangered species that only exist within this park than any other unit of the National Park Service. This means that survival of these plants and animals depends entirely on our ability to protect and restore the habitat of the five park islands.