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Calflora Great Places to view California Native Plants:

San Pedro Valley Park

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Mori Point

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Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve

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CNPS Chapter: Santa Clara Valley -- covering the central and southern San Francisco Peninsula and South Bay area.

CNPS Chapter: Yerba Buena -- covering the City of San Francisco and northern San Mateo County.

Chuck Kozak - Montara Mountain Checklist

Going Native April Garden Tour

Sources of Native Plants
San Mateo County
Ecoseeds  PROFILE 
Redwood City 94064 seeds
Go Native  PROFILE 
Montara 94037 wholesale
J L Hudson Seedsman  PROFILE 
La Honda 94020
Little Grove Farm  PROFILE 
Woodside 94062
San Bruno Mountain Watch Mission Blue Nursery  PROFILE 
Brisbane 94005
Yerba Buena Nursery  PROFILE 
Woodside 94062
San Francisco County
Bay Natives  PROFILE 
San Francisco 94114 mostly retail; mailorder
Candlestick Pt. Native Plant Nursery  PROFILE 
San Francisco 94110
Alameda County
Alden Lane Garden Village  PROFILE 
Livermore 94550
Berkeley Horticultural Nursery  PROFILE 
Berkeley 94703
Cactus Jungle  PROFILE 
Berkeley, 94710 Retail Nursery
Clyde Robin  PROFILE 
Castro Valley 94546 seeds
East Bay Wilds  PROFILE 
Oakland 94621
Friends of Sausal Creek Nursery  PROFILE 
Oakland 94602
Oaktown Native Plant Nursery  PROFILE 
Berkeley 94703 Wholesale, Retail and Con...
Orchard Nursery  PROFILE 
Lafayette
Pacific Coast Seed  PROFILE 
Livermore 94551 wholesale seeds
Ploughshares Nursery  PROFILE 
Alameda 94501
University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley  PROFILE 
Berkeley, CA 94720 A large collection of CA....
Santa Clara County
CNPS SCV Nursery  PROFILE 
Los Altos Hills, 94022 CNPS Santa Clara Valley N...
Capital Wholesale Nursery  PROFILE 
San Jose 95148
Grassroots Ecology Native Plant Nursery  PROFILE 
Palo Alto
Middlebrook Gardens  PROFILE 
San Jose 95126
Payless Nursery  PROFILE 
San Jose 95122
Santa Cruz County
Central Coast Wilds  PROFILE 
Santa Cruz 95060 county of origin
Gold Rush Nursery  PROFILE 
Soquel 95073 Wholesale and retail
Monterey Bay Nursery  PROFILE 
Watsonville 95062 wholesale
Native Revival Nursery  PROFILE 
Aptos 95003
Seedhunt  PROFILE 
Freedom 95019 seeds
Sierra Azul Nursery  PROFILE 
Watsonville 95076
Suncrest Nurseries  PROFILE 
Watsonville 95076 wholesale
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Wild Plants in  San Mateo County

Native Plants, by lifeform
Native Plants at the edge of their range
non-Native Plants
by Jepson Bioregion:
 
Central Coast
SF Bay
  MAP of San Mateo County

 

What Grows Here?
-- a county level flora --

 

 

 

Native Shrubs that grow wild in San Mateo County:   Trees  •  Shrubs  •  Perennials  •  Annuals  •  Ferns
Adenostoma fasciculatum
Alnus rubra
Amelanchier alnifolia
Amelanchier pallida
Amelanchier utahensis
Arctostaphylos andersonii
Arctostaphylos bakeri
Arctostaphylos crustacea
Arctostaphylos cruzensis
Arctostaphylos densiflora
 
Arctostaphylos franciscana
Arctostaphylos glandulosa
Arctostaphylos glandulosa ssp. zacaensis
Arctostaphylos hookeri ssp. franciscana
Arctostaphylos imbricata
Arctostaphylos manzanita
Arctostaphylos nummularia
Arctostaphylos pungens
Arctostaphylos regismontana
Arctostaphylos sensitiva
 
Arctostaphylos silvicola
Arctostaphylos tomentosa
Arctostaphylos tomentosa ssp. crustacea
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Arctostaphylos viscida
Aristolochia californica
Artemisia californica
Atriplex lentiformis
Atriplex lentiformis ssp. breweri
Baccharis pilularis
 
Baccharis pilularis ssp. consanguinea
Baccharis salicifolia
Berberis aquifolium
Berberis nervosa
Berberis nevinii
Berberis pinnata
Betula occidentalis
Calycanthus occidentalis
Ceanothus cuneatus
Ceanothus foliosus
Ceanothus griseus
Ceanothus impressus
Ceanothus integerrimus
Ceanothus leucodermis
Ceanothus oliganthus
Ceanothus papillosus
Ceanothus thyrsiflorus
 
Ceanothus thyrsiflorus var. griseus
Ceanothus thyrsiflorus var. repens
Cercis occidentalis
Cercocarpus betuloides
Chrysolepis chrysophylla
Chrysothamnus nauseosus
Comarostaphylis diversifolia
Cornus glabrata
Cornus nuttallii
Cornus sericea
 
Cornus sericea ssp. occidentalis
Corylus cornuta
Corylus cornuta ssp. californica
Corylus cornuta var. californica
Crataegus columbiana
Crataegus douglasii
Crocanthemum aldersonii
Crocanthemum scoparium
Crocanthemum scoparium var. vulgare
Dendromecon rigida
 
Diplacus aurantiacus
Diplacus puniceus
Ericameria ericoides
Ericameria nauseosa
Eriodictyon californicum
Eriogonum arborescens
Eriogonum fasciculatum
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
Eriogonum nudum
Eriogonum parvifolium
Eriophyllum confertiflorum
Euonymus occidentalis
Frangula californica
Frangula californica ssp. tomentella
Frangula purshiana
Fremontodendron californicum
Garrya elliptica
 
Gaultheria shallon
Helianthemum scoparium
Helianthemum suffrutescens
Heteromeles arbutifolia
Holodiscus discolor
Holodiscus microphyllus
Holodiscus microphyllus var. glabrescens
Juniperus californica
Keckiella antirrhinoides
Lavatera assurgentiflora
 
Lepechinia calycina
Lithocarpus densiflorus
Lonicera hispidula
Lonicera hispidula var. vacillans
Lonicera involucrata
Lonicera subspicata
Lonicera subspicata var. denudata
Lupinus albifrons
Lupinus albifrons var. collinus
Lupinus arboreus
 
Lupinus chamissonis
Lupinus littoralis var. variicolor
Lupinus variicolor
Malacothamnus arcuatus
Malacothamnus fasciculatus
Malacothamnus fremontii
Malacothamnus hallii
Malva assurgentiflora
Mimulus aurantiacus
Mimulus aurantiacus var. puniceus
Mimulus puniceus
Morella californica
Myrica californica
Notholithocarpus densiflorus
Oemleria cerasiformis
Opuntia Xoccidentalis
Parthenocissus vitacea
 
Physocarpus capitatus
Pickeringia montana
Prunus emarginata
Prunus ilicifolia
Prunus subcordata
Prunus virginiana
Prunus virginiana var. demissa
Prunus virginiana var. melanocarpa
Quercus dumosa
Quercus durata
 
Quercus wislizeni
Rhamnus californica
Rhamnus crocea
Rhamnus ilicifolia
Rhamnus purshiana
Rhamnus tomentella
Rhododendron macrophyllum
Rhododendron occidentale
Rhus aromatica
Rhus integrifolia
 
Rhus ovata
Rhus trilobata
Rhus trilobata var. simplicifolia
Ribes aureum
Ribes aureum var. gracillimum
Ribes californicum
Ribes divaricatum
Ribes malvaceum
Ribes menziesii
Ribes sanguineum
Ribes sanguineum var. glutinosum
Rosa californica
Rosa gymnocarpa
Rubus leucodermis
Rubus parviflorus
Rubus parviflorus var. velutinus
Rubus spectabilis
 
Rubus ursinus
Salix exigua
Salix exigua var. hindsiana
Salix hindsiana
Salix hookeriana
Salix lasiolepis
Salix lasiolepis var. bigelovii
Salix lucida
Salix scouleriana
Salix sitchensis
 
Salvia apiana
Salvia brandegeei
Salvia leucophylla
Salvia mellifera
Sambucus mexicana
Sambucus nigra
Sambucus nigra ssp. caerulea
Sambucus racemosa
Sambucus racemosa var. microbotrys
Solanum umbelliferum
 
Symphoricarpos acutus
Symphoricarpos albus
Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus
Symphoricarpos hesperius
Symphoricarpos mollis
Toxicodendron diversilobum
Trichostema lanatum
Vaccinium ovatum
Vaccinium parvifolium
Vitis californica
Whipplea modesta