Natural Features: Plant

Understanding plant succession is key to extensive and rational ecological restoration. We work to increase species diversity in our grasslands, savanna and woods as we actively engage in encouraging the historically depleted annual plant community toward a more advanced, diverse perennial system.

  • Angiosperms:Dicots Flowering plants with seed embryo having two cotyledons
    • Birch Family Betulaceae
      • California Hazelnut Corylus cornuta
    • Borage family Borginaceae
      • Common fiddleneck, Rancher’s fireweed Amsenkia menziesii
      • Nemophila
      • White Popcorn Flower Plagiobothrys Species
    • Broomrape Family Orobanchaceae
    • Buckeye Family Hippocastanaceae
      • California Buckeye Aesculus californica
    • Buckwheat Family Polygonaceae
      • Dock Rumex crispus
      • *Sheep Sorrel Rumex acetosella
    • Buttercup Family Ranunculaceae
      • Buttercup Ranunculus californicus
      • California larkspur Delphinium californicum
      • Red Larkspur Delphinium nudicaule
    • Carrot Family Apiaceae
      • Coastal Eryngo Eryngium armatum
      • Common Lomatium Lomatium utriculatum
      • *Fennel Foeniculum vulgare
      • Pacific Blacksnakeroot Sanicula crassicaulis
      • *Poison Hemlock Conium maculatum
      • Sanicula
      • Sweet Cicely Osmorhiza chilensis
      • Yampah Perideridia gairdneri
    • Evening Primrose Family Onagraceae
      • Fireweed Epilobium species
      • Primrose Oeanothera species
    • Figwort Family Scrophulariaceae
      • California figwort Scrophularia californica
      • Chinese Houses Collinsia heterophylla
      • Purple Owl’s Clover Castilleja exserta
      • Sticky Monkeyflower Mimulus aurantiacus
      • Yellowbeak Owl’s Clover Triphysaria versicolor versicolor
    • Geranium Family Geraniaceae
      • *Cut-leaved Cranesbill, Cutleaf Geranium Geranium dissectum
      • Erodium species
    • Gourd Family Cucurbitaceae
      • California Man Root Marah fabaceus
    • Grossulariaceae Family Grossulariaceae
    • Heath Family Ericaeae
      • Pacific Madrone Arbutus menziesii
    • Honeysuckle Family Caprifoliaceae
    • Laurel Family Lauraceae
      • California Bay, California Laurel, Pepperwood Umbellularia californica
    • Legume Family Fabaceae
      • Bird’s-foot Trefoil Lotus corniculatus
      • Burr Clover Medicago species
      • California Pea Rupertia physodes
      • California tea Rupertia physodes
      • *Crimson Clover Trifolium incarnatum
      • Desert Deervetch Lotus micranthus
      • Lathyrus species
      • Lupinus minima
      • Pink Clover, Strawberry Clover Trifolium frangiferum
      • *Rose Clover Trifolium hirtum
      • Spanish Clover Lotus purshianus
      • Tree clover, foothill clover Trifolium ciliolatum
      • Vetch Species Vicia species
    • Madder Family Rubiaceae
      • Bedstraw Species Galium species
      • Climbing Bedstraw Galium porrigens
    • Mallow Family Malvaceae
    • Milkwort Family Polygalaceae
    • Mint Family Lamiaceae
      • Hedge Nettle Stachys species
      • Pennyroyal Mentha pulegium
      • Self-Heal Prunella vulgaris
      • Yerba Buena Saturje douglasii
    • Morning Glory Family Convolvulaceae
      • *Bindweed Species Convolvulus Species
    • Mustard Family Brassicaceae
      • Bitter-Cress Cardamine oligosperma
      • *Brassica Species Brassica Species
      • Milk Maids, Toothwort Cardamine californica
      • *Watercres Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum
      • *Wild Mustard Brassica nigra
      • *Wild radish Raphanus sativus
    • Myrsine family Myrsinaceae
    • Oak Family Fagaceae
    • Orpine Family Crassulaceae
    • Oxalis Family Oxalidaceae
      • *Oxalis species
    • Phlox Family Polemoniaceae
      • Navarretia
    • Pink Family Caryophyllaceae
      • Windmill Pink Silene gallica
    • Plane-Tree Family Platanaceae
      • Sycamore Platanus racemosa
    • Plantain family Plantaginaceae
    • Poppy Family Papaveraceae
    • Primrose Family Primulaceae
    • Purslane Family Portulacaceae
      • Calandrina genus
      • Miner’s Lettuce Claytonia perfoliata
    • Rose Family Rosaceae
      • Acaena pinnatifida
      • California Blackberry Rubus ursinus
      • Hawthorne Crataegus douglasii
      • *Himalayan Blackberry Rubus discolor (or armeniacus)
      • Saskatoon berry Amelanchier alnifolia
      • Toyon Heteromeles arbutifolia
      • Western Chokecherry Prunus virginiana
      • Wood Strawberry Fragaria vesca
    • Saxifrage Family Saxifragaceae
    • Solanaceae Family Solanaceae
      • Nightshade species Solanum species
    • Spurge Family Euphorbiaceae
    • St. John’s Wort Family Cluciaceae
      • *St. John’s Wort Hypericum perforatum
    • Sumac Family Anacardiaceae
      • Western Poison Oak Toxicodendron diversilobum
    • Sunflower Family Asteraceae
      • Blow-wives Achyrachaena mollis
      • Broad-leaved Aster Aster radulinus
      • *Bull Thistle Cirsium vulgare
      • *Centaurea calcitrapa species
      • Coyote Brush Baccharis pilularis
      • *False Dandelion Hypocherus radicata
      • Filago Species
      • Grand Mountain Dandelion Agoseris grandiflora
      • *Italian Thistle Carduus tenuiflorus
      • *Milk Thistle Silybum marianum
      • Narrow Leaved Mule Ears Wyethia angustifolia
      • Pearly Everlasting Anaphalis margaritacea
      • *Prickly Ox Tongue Sonchus asper
      • Purple Everlasting Gnaphalium purpureum
      • *Sow Thistle Sonchus oleraceus
      • *Wild Lettuce Species Lactuca Species
      • Woolly Marbles Psilocarphus tenellus
      • Yarrow Achillamillefolium
      • *Yellow star thistle Centaurea solstitialis
    • Ulmaceae Family Ulmaceae
      • *Chinese Elm Ulmus parvifolia
    • Violet Family Violaceae
      • Viola species
    • Viscaceae Family Viscaceae
      • Mistletoe species Phoradendron species
    • Willow Family Salicaceae
      • Weeping Willow
  • Angiosperms:Monocots Flowering plants having seed embryo with single cotyledon
    • Cattail Family Typhaceae
      • Typha species T. latifolia
    • Colchicaceae Family
    • Grass Family Poaceae
      • Blue Wildrye Elymus glaucus
      • California Brome romus carinatus
      • California Fescue Festuca californica
      • California Melic Melica californica
      • California Oatgrass Danthonia californica
      • Hedgehog dogtail Cynosurus echinatus
      • Meadow Barley Hordeum brachyanherum
      • Purple Needlegrass Nasella pulchra
      • Sitka brome Bromus laevipes or vulgaris
      • Torrey’s Melic Melica torreyana
    • Iris Family Iridaceae
    • Knotweed Family Polygonaceae
    • Lily Family Liliaceae
      • Blue Dicks Dichelostemma congestum
      • Elegant Cluster-lily Brodiaea elegans
      • Fool’s Onion Triteleia hyacinthina
      • Missionbells Fritillaria
      • Soap Root, Amole Chlorogalum pomeridianum
      • Star-flower Solomon’s-seal Maianthemum stellatum
      • White Brodiaea Triteleia hyacinthina
      • Zigadenus
    • Non-Native Grasses
      • *Annual Bromus (2 Types)
      • *Barley Hordeum vulgare
      • *Cultivated Oat Avena sativa
      • *Italian Ryegrass Lolium multiflorum
      • *Little Quaking Grass Briza minor
      • *Mediterranean Barley Hordeum marinum
      • *Orchard Grass Dactylis glomerata
      • *Perennial Ryegrass Lolium perrene
      • *Rattlesnake Grass Briza maxima
      • *Silver Hairgrass Aira carophyllea
      • *Soft Chess Bromus hordeaceus
      • *Tall fescue Festuca arundinacea
      • *Velvet grass Holcus lanatus
      • *Vulpia species
      • *Wall Barley, False Barley Hordeum murinum
      • *Wild Oat Avena barbata
    • Potamogetonaceae Family Potamogetonaceae
    • Rush Family Juncaceae
      • Brownhead Rush Juncus phaeocephalus
      • Spreading Rush Juncus patens
      • Toad Rush Juncus bufonius
      • Wood Rush Luzula comosa
    • Sedge Family Cyperaceae
      • Bullrush, Tule species Scirpus species
      • Carex species
      • Pale spikerush Eleocharis macrostachya
  • Ferns and Fern Allies Filicinophyta
    • Bracken Fern Family Dennstaedtiaceae
      • Bracken fern Pteridium aquilinum
    • Brake Family Pteridaceae
      • California Maiden-Hair Adiantum jordanii
      • Goldback Fern Pentagramma triangularis
    • Fern Family (Wood) Dryopteridaceae
      • Lady Fern Athyrium filix-femina
      • Western Sword Fern Polystichum munitum
      • Wood Fern Dryopteris argutanitum
    • Polypody Family Polypodiaceae
      • California Polypody Polypodium californicum
    • Spikemosses Selaginellaceae
  • Gymnosperms Plants with "naked seeds"
    • Bald Cypress Family Taxodiaceae
    • Pine Family Pinaceae
      • Douglas Fir Psuedotsuga menziesii
  • In Need of Further Research
    • Details Needed
      • Ceanothus species
      • *Chickweed Species Stellaria species
      • Light Pink Creeping Clover
      • Rabbit’s foot like-grass polypogonmonspeliensis?
      • Salvia cesselus
      • Skunk Weed looking plant w/white flower Linanthus species
      • Yellow Creeping Clover
    • Maple Family Aceraceae
      • Big-Leaf Maple Acer macrophyllum

Items marked with an * are non-native.