| Criteria: found in San Mateo County • is native • group by lifeform | ||||
| 1948 records | include photos for these plants | # number of sources | ||
| Scientific Name | Common Name | Lifeform | # |
Lifeform: Annual | 599 plants | ||
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Lifeform: Biennial | 2 plants | ||
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Lifeform: Perennial | 917 plants | ||
Lifeform: Fern | 45 plants | ||
| Adiantum aleuticum | Five finger fern | Fern | 9 |
| Adiantum jordanii | Adiantum | Fern | 4 |
| 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 | |
| Blechnum spicant | Deer fern | Fern | 30 |
| Cystopteris fragilis | Brittle fern | Fern | 1 |
| Dryopteris arguta | Wood fern | Fern | 7 |
| Dryopteris expansa | Spreading wood fern | Fern | 4 |
| 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 palustre | Marsh horsetail | Fern (rhizomatous) | 1 |
| Equisetum telmateia | Giant horsetail | Fern | 3 |
| Equisetum telmateia ssp. braunii | Giant horsetail | Fern | 1 |
| Equisetum telmateia var. braunii | Giant horsetail | Fern | 1 |
| Isoetes howellii | Quillwort | Fern | |
| Isoetes nuttallii | Nuttall's quillwort | Fern | |
| Marsilea vestita | Hairy waterclover | Fern | 6 |
| Marsilea vestita ssp. vestita | Hairy pepperwort | Fern | 5 |
| Pellaea andromedifolia | Coffee fern | Fern | 3 |
| Pellaea mucronata | Bird's foot fern | Fern | 2 |
| Pellaea mucronata var. mucronata | Bird's foot 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 | |
| Polypodium californicum | California polypody | Fern | 12 |
| Polypodium calirhiza | Licorice fern | Fern | 3 |
| Polypodium glycyrrhiza | Licorice fern | Fern | 8 |
| Polypodium scouleri | Leather fern | Fern | 8 |
| Polystichum californicum | California sword fern | Fern | |
| Polystichum dudleyi | Dudley's sword fern | Fern | |
| 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 |
| Pteridium aquilinum | Western brackenfern | Fern | 5 |
| Pteridium aquilinum var. pubescens | Western bracken fern | Fern | |
| Struthiopteris spicant | Deer fern | Fern | 30 |
| Woodwardia fimbriata | Western chain fern | Fern | 31 |
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Lifeform: Shrub | 282 plants | ||
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Lifeform: Tree | 56 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 San Mateo 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. | ||