Endemic to San Luis Obispo County, researchers are finding that these rare, purple native flowers, Cammata Canyon amole, have ...

The spikey purple thistle balls. And there are other purple thorns. The barkan, with its mauve fuzzy flower and thistles shining a brilliant lilac-silver in the sunlight. The purple eryngo.

Certainly, few seem to match the performance and considerable glory of the justifiably well-known purple-flowered Erysimum ‘Bowles’s Mauve’ that is seldom out of flower. It would seem that ...