Not all fire is good for native plants, notes Jon Keeley, an ecologist and researcher with the USGS that studies fire intervals in the California shrubland known as the chaparral. Wildfires ...

Here are the best retail native plant nurseries in Southern California to help you create a habitat for birds and pollinators in your yard or even on a patio. We’ll help you find the best places ...

Cattail (Typha latifolia), a California native, is a multi-purpose plant like no other ... grevilleas with their intriguing spidery flowers, chaparral current (Ribes malvaceum) and finally ...

and were considered delicacies by the California Indians. Chamise and Buckwheat, two of the most common native flowering plants in San Diego County’s sage-scrub and chaparral plant communities ...

But wildfire experts say cutting down Southern California's chaparral won't make the region ... which move in quickly and displace native plants. After the 2018 Woolsey Fire, the National Park ...

Fire has always shaped the landscape in California. But today it burns hotter, more frequently, and spreads farther than ever before—a shift driven by human development, climate change, and the ...

The problem: The landscape around Los Angeles isn’t a forest, and clearing out the native plants could make ... director of the nonprofit California Chaparral Institute and the author of Fire ...

Chaparral currant flowers are starting ... a horticulture expert with the California Native Plant Society. “(Native plants) co-evolved with the precipitation patterns, they’ve co-evolved ...

Jessie George and other paleobotanists — the folks who study ancient plants the way paleontologists study prehistoric bones — are compiling a list of California native plants that survived the ...