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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]
Acanthomintha duttonii, common names San Mateo thornmint or Dutton's acanthomintha, found at Montara Mountain in San Mateo County [1]; Amsinckia grandiflora, common name large-flowered fiddleneck, found near the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Alameda County [2]
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - Recommended Species — provides a national searchable supplier directory for landscaping, environmental consultants, seed sources and nurseries; recommended plant lists that can be filtered to include plants native to California; and plant recommendations for specific regions of California.
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.
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; The Jepson Manual * California chaparral and woodlands; ... This page was last edited on 12 June 2022, at 23:50 (UTC).
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
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 ...