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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]
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.
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 .
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 ...
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
List of San Francisco Bay Area wildflowers; List of flora of the Santa Monica Mountains * California interior chaparral and woodlands;
All of these plants should also be categorized at Category:Endemic flora of California, as its not going to be obvious to all readers which regions are included in the bay area: such categorizing at 2 levels in the same tree is acceptable if it significantly aids in searching the category tree and doesn't cause unncessary overcategorization.
Chorizanthe howellii, a flowering plant in the buckwheat family found only near Fort Bragg; Cuscuta pacifica var. papillata, a parasitic plant found only in the salt marshes of Mendocino county