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Arctostaphylos densiflora, common name Vine Hill manzanita, found on land owned and protected by the California Native Plant Society, near Sebastopol, in Sonoma County [4] Arctostaphylos hookeri, common name Franciscan manzanita, found in The Presidio, San Francisco, in San Francisco County [5]
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]
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.
Audrey Jr.: a human-eating plant in the 1960 film The Little Shop of Horrors. Audrey II: a singing, fast-talking alien plant with a taste for human blood in the stage show Little Shop of Horrors and the 1986 film of the same name; Bat-thorn: a plant, similar to wolfsbane, offering protection against vampires in Mark of the Vampire. [1]
Chorizanthe cuspidata is a species of flowering plant in the buckwheat family known by the common name San Francisco spineflower. It is endemic to California, where it is known only from the San Francisco Bay Area and to the immediate north and south. It grows in sandy coastal habitat.
Lessingia germanorum is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name San Francisco lessingia. It is endemic to California, where it is known from four populations in the Presidio of San Francisco and one occurrence on San Bruno Mountain south of San Francisco. [1] It is a state and federally listed ...
The San Francisco lessingia, Lessingia germanorum, is an endangered species. [5] [6] [7] Species [8] [9] Lessingia arachnoidea - Crystal Springs lessingia - California (Sonoma, San Mateo, Santa Cruz Cos) Lessingia germanorum - San Francisco lessingia - California (San Mateo Co) Lessingia glandulifera - valley lessingia - California, Arizona, Nevada
It has been known from the San Francisco Bay Area since 1887, [4] where it was a common introduced plant growing on the grounds of the Presidio before it ever had a name. Botanist Alice Eastwood used California specimens to give the plant its formal name. [3]