All three are part of the twelve new photos added to my ever-growing collection of native plants in San Diego County. Here they are. :)

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Plant Update January 2026

The start of the desert hiking season has provided to be very productive, with three new native plant photos that I really like. And with them, another dozen of additions to my collection of photos of…

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First plants placed on world’s largest wildlife crossing over 101 Freeway

I wish they'd talked to a plant person.

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First plants placed on world’s largest wildlife crossing over 101 Freeway 

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Not that it would be cheap to do, but one wonders whether a shepherd dog could also be trained to smell out toxic plants and keep the herd away from them... #California #CANativePlants

The report just uses the common name instead of a more precise scientific name, but it seems it may be this plant: https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=7332

I'm seeing conflicting opinions about whether snakeroot is toxic to livestock, but UCANR has put out a bulletin about California plants that *are* toxic to livestock here: https://ucanr.edu/sites/default/files/2020-08/331781.pdf

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Sanicula bipinnatifida Calflora

12 sheep, goats from fire-preventing grazing herd die after poisoned by native plants in Marin Co.

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12 sheep, goats from fire-preventing grazing herd die after poisoned by native plants in Marin Co.

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Spring is upon us in the San Francisco Bay area! Sunol Regional Wilderness is known for its fields of Viola pedinculata in early spring

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Calochortus splendens in bud, May 2023. feeling thankful that southern California has gotten some much needed rain and might see more on the way next week.

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Scroll for seedlings!

Dudleyas — either D. caespitosa, D. farinosa, or a hybrid thereof —growing on a coastal bluff in central California.

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