Learn about the many rare and beautiful native plants of the San Francisco Bay Area through this series of informative and well written articles.
Marin Dwarf Flax & serpentine (Hesperolinon congestum)
In the December issue of Yerba Buena News, we introduced Clarkia franciscana (which has just been federally listed as Endangered),a species occurring only on soils […]
Raven’s manzanita (Arctostaphylos hookeri ssp. ravenii)
No discussion of our chapter area’s rare and endangered plants would be complete without mention of Raven’s manzanita. Also known as the Presidio manzanita, it […]
Presidio clarkia (Clarkia franciscana)
Plant taxa can be considered rare for a variety of reasons. Species that could all be called rare inlcude those that occur very infrequently but […]
Lessingia (Lessingia germanorum)
This new column is intended to familiarize our members with some of San Francisco and San Mateo counties’ rare, endangered, and otherwise unique plant species. […]