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California also has 1,023 species of non-native plants, some now problematic invasive species, such as yellow star-thistle, that were introduced during the Spanish colonization, the California Gold Rush, and subsequent immigrations and import trading of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
Psidium cattleyanum (World Plants : Psidium cattleianum), [2] [3] commonly known as Cattley guava, strawberry guava or cherry guava, is a small tree (2–6 m (6 ft 7 in – 19 ft 8 in) tall) in the Myrtaceae (myrtle) family. The species is named in honour of English horticulturist William Cattley.
Psidium guajava, the common guava, [2] yellow guava, [2] lemon guava, [2] or apple guava is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to the Caribbean, Central America and South America. [2] It is easily pollinated by insects; when cultivated, it is pollinated mainly by the common honey bee, Apis mellifera .
This list includes most of the more common plants to be found on the Modoc National Forest in California, USA as well as plants of some particular note, especially rare plants known or suspected to occur there. If you click on the genus, you will be taken to the page for the genus only; you must click on the specific epithet to be taken to the ...
strawberry guava; Cattley guava; Peruvian guava; Chinese guava Myrtaceae (myrtle family) Psidium littorale var. littorale: lemon guava Myrtaceae (myrtle family) Psidium longipes: long-stalk stopper; mangroveberry Myrtaceae (myrtle family) Psidium montanum: mountain guava Myrtaceae (myrtle family) Psidium sartorianum: Sartre guava Myrtaceae ...
Which Southern California native plants survived climate change and mass extinctions 13,000 years ago and still live today? La Brea Tar Pits researchers compiled a list.
Note: references for each plant species are within their own articles. Bibliography of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.) "A Natural History of California," Allan A. Schoenherr, University of California Press, 1992, ISBN 0-520-06922-6. "A California Flora and Supplement," Phillip Munz, 1968, University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-02405-2.
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