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This is a list of San Francisco Bay Area wildflowers. The San Francisco Bay Area is unusual, for a major metropolitan area, in having ready access to rural and wilderness areas, as well as major urban parks. [citation needed] Particularly in spring, these offer a rich range of wild flowers. [peacock prose]
This is a list of species endemic to the San Francisco Bay Area, the nine California counties which border on San Francisco Bay. The area has a number of highly diverse, local bioregions, including San Bruno Mountain .
Native wildflower blazing star (Mentzelia lindleyi) Gentiana algida in the Sierra Nevada. California native plants are plants that existed in California prior to the arrival of European explorers and colonists in the late 18th century. [1] California includes parts of at least three phytochoria.
Category for plants found exclusively within the San Francisco Bay Area, a highly studied subregion of California, with numerous microclimates and other distinguishing features. An identified subregion of the California Floristic Province , as described at Jepson Manual listings for plants in the region.
Pages in category "Natural history of the San Francisco Bay Area" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 330 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
List of San Francisco Bay Area wildflowers; List of flora of the Santa Monica Mountains; List of giant sequoia groves; List of largest giant sequoias; List of plants of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.) Flora of the Sonoran Desert; List of flora of the Sonoran Desert Region by common name; List of Sonoran Desert wildflowers
The greatest threat to this area is wilderness destruction caused by large commercial farming industries and the heavy expansion of urban areas. Conservation International proposed a strategy in 1998, to focus more specifically on areas of the California Floristic Province that contained the most human impact in order to lower the threat to the ...
The Flora native species of California.. This category contains the native flora of California, as defined by the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. ...