| Criteria: found in Los Angeles County • is native • group by lifeform | ||||
| 3845 records | include photos for these plants | # number of sources | ||
| Scientific Name | Common Name | Lifeform | # |
Lifeform: Annual | 1389 plants | ||
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Lifeform: Biennial | 3 plants | ||
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Lifeform: Perennial | 1591 plants | ||
Lifeform: Fern | 74 plants | ||
| Adiantum aleuticum | Five finger fern | Fern | 9 |
| Adiantum capillus-veneris | Venus hair | Fern | 14 |
| Adiantum jordanii | Adiantum | Fern | 4 |
| Argyrochosma jonesii | Jones' false cloak fern | Fern | |
| Aspidotis californica | California lace fern | Fern | 1 |
| Asplenium vespertinum | Western spleenwort | Fern | |
| Athyrium filix-femina | Common ladyfern | Fern | 19 |
| Athyrium filix-femina ssp. cyclosorum | Subarctic ladyfern | Fern | |
| Athyrium filix-femina var. cyclosorum | Western lady fern | Fern | 1 |
| Azolla filiculoides | Mosquito fern | Fern | |
| Azolla mexicana | Mexican mosquito fern | Fern | |
| Azolla microphylla | Mexican mosquito fern | Fern | |
| Botrychium crenulatum | Scalloped moonwort | Fern (rhizomatous) | |
| Cheilanthes clevelandii | Cleveland's lipfern | Fern | |
| Cheilanthes covillei | Coville's lip fern | Fern | 4 |
| Cheilanthes gracillima | Lace lip fern | Fern | 1 |
| Cheilanthes newberryi | Newberry's lipfern | Fern | |
| Cheilanthes parryi | Parry cloak fern | Fern | |
| Cystopteris fragilis | Brittle fern | Fern | 1 |
| Dryopteris arguta | Wood fern | Fern | 7 |
| Dryopteris expansa | Spreading wood fern | Fern | 4 |
| Equisetum Xferrissii | Ferris' horsetail | Fern | |
| Equisetum arvense | Common horsetail | Fern | 6 |
| Equisetum hyemale | Scouringrush horsetail | Fern | 31 |
| Equisetum hyemale ssp. affine | Giant scouring rush | Fern | 7 |
| Equisetum hyemale var. affine | Scouringrush horsetail | Fern | 4 |
| Equisetum laevigatum | Smooth scouring rush | Fern | 2 |
| Equisetum telmateia | Giant horsetail | Fern | 3 |
| Equisetum telmateia ssp. braunii | Giant horsetail | Fern | 1 |
| Equisetum telmateia var. braunii | Giant horsetail | Fern | 1 |
| Isoetes nuttallii | Nuttall's quillwort | Fern | |
| Isoetes orcuttii | Orcutt's quillwort | Fern (aquatic) | |
| Marsilea vestita | Hairy waterclover | Fern | 6 |
| Marsilea vestita ssp. vestita | Hairy pepperwort | Fern | 5 |
| Myriopteris clevelandii | Cleveland's lip fern | Fern | |
| Myriopteris covillei | Coville's lip fern | Fern | 4 |
| Myriopteris gracillima | Lace lip fern | Fern | 1 |
| Myriopteris newberryi | Newberry's lip fern | Fern | |
| Myriopteris parryi | Parry's lip fern | Fern | |
| Notholaena californica | California cloak fern | Fern | |
| Notholaena californica ssp. californica | California cloak fern | Fern | |
| Notholaena californica ssp. leucophylla | California cloak fern | Fern | |
| Ophioglossum californicum | California adder's tongue | Fern (rhizomatous) | |
| Pellaea andromedifolia | Coffee fern | Fern | 3 |
| Pellaea andromedifolia var. pubescens | Coffee fern | Fern | 3 |
| Pellaea mucronata | Bird's foot fern | Fern | 2 |
| Pellaea mucronata var. californica | Bird's foot fern | Fern | |
| Pellaea mucronata var. mucronata | Bird's foot fern | Fern | |
| Pentagramma glanduloviscida | Fern | ||
| Pentagramma pallida | Silver back fern | Fern | |
| Pentagramma triangularis | Gold back fern | Fern | 3 |
| Pentagramma triangularis ssp. semipallida | Pale gold back fern | Fern | 3 |
| Pentagramma triangularis ssp. triangularis | Gold back fern | Fern | |
| Pentagramma triangularis ssp. viscosa | Sticky gold back fern | Fern | |
| Pentagramma viscosa | Sticky gold back fern | Fern | |
| Pilularia americana | Pillwort | Fern | |
| Polypodium californicum | California polypody | Fern | 12 |
| Polypodium calirhiza | Licorice fern | Fern | 3 |
| Polypodium glycyrrhiza | Licorice fern | Fern | 8 |
| Polystichum imbricans | Narrow leaved sword fern | Fern | 1 |
| Polystichum imbricans ssp. curtum | Cliff sword fern | Fern | |
| Polystichum imbricans ssp. imbricans | Rock sword fern | Fern | |
| Polystichum munitum | Western sword fern | Fern | 43 |
| Polystichum scopulinum | Mountain holly fern | Fern | |
| Pteridium aquilinum | Western brackenfern | Fern | 5 |
| Pteridium aquilinum var. pubescens | Western bracken fern | Fern | |
| Selaginella asprella | Bluish spike moss | Fern (rhizomatous) | |
| Selaginella bigelovii | Bigelow's moss fern | Fern (mosslike) | 2 |
| Selaginella cinerascens | Ashy spike moss | Fern (rhizomatous) | |
| Selaginella leucobryoides | Mojave spike moss | Fern (rhizomatous) | |
| Selaginella watsonii | Watson's spike moss | Fern (mosslike) | |
| Thelypteris puberula | Showy fern | Fern (rhizomatous) | 4 |
| Thelypteris puberula var. sonorensis | Sonoran fern | Fern (rhizomatous) | 1 |
| Woodwardia fimbriata | Western chain fern | Fern | 31 |
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Lifeform: Shrub | 681 plants | ||
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Lifeform: Tree | 101 plants | ||
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Lifeform: Vine | 1 plant | ||
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Pink background indicates a plant is non-native.
! indicates a plant is potentially invasive. |
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| NB: found in Los Angeles County is intended to indicate only plants found growing in the wild. However, the evidence is not always clear, and may occasionally include plants found in cultivation. To verify the wild presence of any particular plant in the list above, please click through to Calflora and look closely at the observations in this county. | ||