Latest from native plants
California Native Plant Society
July 20, 2012 by Bay Nature
CNPS is a statewide, non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of California’s native flora. Its Bay Area chapters offer weekly field trips, monthly classes & workshops, biannual plant sales, and annual wildflower shows and native garden tours. Membership is open to all.
Cal Flora Nursery
July 20, 2012 by Bay Nature
Cal Flora is a small unconventional nursery devoted to natives and habitat gardening with an exceptional diversity of offerings. Honest, intelligent, and original with attention to local Bay Area needs and conditions. Open seven days a week from March through October. Call for winter hours. Located at the intersection of Somers and D streets in Fulton, Sonoma County, just north of Santa Rosa.
Blue Wind Botanical Medicine Clinic & Education Center
July 20, 2012 by Bay Nature
Offering the following services for the greater San Francisco Bay Area: Western Clinical Herbalism, Custom Herbal Pharmacy, Lectures, Bay Area Herb Walks, Multi-Day Botanical Field Trips, Native California Plant Cultivation, Medicine Making Workshops, Private Classes, Youth Programs, Consulting Services, Edible & Medicinal Plant Images.
Bay Natives
July 20, 2012 by Bay Nature
Bay Natives Nursery, the purveyor of local Bay Area native plants, has opened a walk-in retail location at Pier 96 on San Francisco’s southern waterfront. The new nursery sits at the terminus of Cargo Way and cross-street Jennings St., adjacent to Heron’s Head Park on the northern edge of the India Basin Shoreline. We look forward to seeing you!
Bay Area Early Detection Network
July 20, 2012 by Bay Nature
The Bay Area Early Detection Network (BAEDN) is a collaborative partnership that coordinates Early Detection and Rapid Response (EDRR) to infestations of invasive plants, proactively dealing with new outbreaks before they can grow into large and costly environmental threats. Join the effort!
Poison oak has a good side, too
July 12, 2012 by sdresser
It may be hard to believe, but poison oak is not the bogeyman of the forest. As a California native plant, many an animal has sought nourishment or shelter in its “leaves of three,” immune to the toxic oil that plagues humans. This versatile plant, a member of the cashew family, may never get over its inherent antagonistic relationship with hikers and gardeners, it may be nevertheless worth a nod of respect.
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Botanical sleuths scour Mount Tamalpais
May 16, 2012 by Rachel Gumbraa
Working off historical records of rare plant locations, plant “hunters” on Mount Tamalpais are scouring the mountain in search of the illusive Mason’s ceanothus shrub and other botanical novelties. The goal: update the location and numbers of California rare plants in the California Natural Diversity Database.
