| 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 | ||
| Abies concolor | White fir | Tree | 22 |
| Acer macrophyllum | Bigleaf maple | Tree | 52 |
| Acer negundo | Boxelder | Tree | 30 |
| Acer negundo var. californicum | California box elder | Tree | 30 |
| Aesculus californica | Buckeye | Tree | 46 |
| Alnus rhombifolia | White alder | Tree | 38 |
| Arbutus menziesii | Madrono | Tree | 35 |
| Callitropsis abramsiana | Santa cruz cypress | Tree | 2 |
| Callitropsis macrocarpa | Monterey cypress | Tree | 5 |
| Callitropsis stephensonii | Arizona cypress | Tree | 3 |
| Calocedrus decurrens | Incense cedar | Tree | 40 |
| Cupressus abramsiana | Santa cruz cypress | Tree | 3 |
| Cupressus macrocarpa | Monterey cypress | Tree | 24 |
| Cupressus stephensonii | Arizona cypress | Tree | 4 |
| Fraxinus latifolia | Oregon ash | Tree | 29 |
| Hesperocyparis abramsiana | Santa cruz cypress | Tree | 3 |
| Hesperocyparis abramsiana var. abramsiana | Santa cruz cypress | Tree | |
| Hesperocyparis abramsiana var. butanoensis | Santa cruz cypress | Tree | 1 |
| Hesperocyparis macrocarpa | Monterey cypress | Tree | 24 |
| Hesperocyparis stephensonii | Cuyamaca cypress | Tree | 21 |
| Juglans californica | Southern california black walnut | Tree | 12 |
| Juglans californica var. hindsii | Northern california black walnut | Tree | 13 |
| Juglans hindsii | Northern california black walnut | Tree | 13 |
| Pinus attenuata | Knobcone pine | Tree | 6 |
| Pinus contorta | Lodgepole pine | Tree | 30 |
| Pinus coulteri | Coulter pine | Tree | 13 |
| Pinus jeffreyi | Jeffrey pine | Tree | 17 |
| Pinus ponderosa | Yellow pine | Tree | 29 |
| Pinus radiata | Monterey pine | Tree | 8 |
| Platanus racemosa | California sycamore | Tree | 36 |
| Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa | Black cottonwood | Tree | 27 |
| Populus fremontii | Fremont cottonwood | Tree | 32 |
| Populus fremontii ssp. fremontii | Cottonwood | Tree | 4 |
| Populus trichocarpa | Black cottonwood | Tree | 27 |
| Pseudotsuga menziesii | Douglas fir | Tree | 31 |
| Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii | Douglas fir | Tree | 4 |
| Quercus Xmorehus | Oracle oak | Tree | 1 |
| Quercus agrifolia | Coast live oak | Tree | 52 |
| Quercus agrifolia var. agrifolia | Coast live oak | Tree | 3 |
| Quercus berberidifolia | Inland scrub oak | Tree | 13 |
| Quercus chrysolepis | Gold cup live oak | Tree | 24 |
| Quercus douglasii | Blue oak | Tree | 26 |
| Quercus kelloggii | California black oak | Tree | 24 |
| Quercus lobata | Valley oak | Tree | 40 |
| Quercus parvula | Santa cruz island oak | Tree | 1 |
| Quercus parvula var. shrevei | Shreve's oak | Tree | 1 |
| Salix laevigata | Polished willow | Tree | 17 |
| Salix lasiandra | Pacific willow | Tree | 20 |
| Salix lasiandra var. lasiandra | Pacific willow | Tree | 6 |
| Salix lucida ssp. lasiandra | Shining willow | Tree | 6 |
| Sequoia sempervirens | Coast redwood | Tree | 34 |
| Sequoiadendron giganteum | Redwood | Tree | 19 |
| Taxus brevifolia | California yew | Tree | 11 |
| Torreya californica | California nutmeg | Tree | 9 |
| Umbellularia californica | California bay | Tree | 40 |
| Yucca schidigera | Mohave yucca | Tree | 13 |
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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. | ||