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California Peony
California Peony
AIZOACEAE ADOXACEAE AGAVACEAE AMARANTHACEAE ANACARDIACEAE APIACEAE APOCYNACEAE ARACEAE ARECACEAE ASCLEPIADACEAE ASTERACEAE BLECHNACEAE BORAGINACEAE BRASSICACEAE CACTACEAE CALLITRICHACEAE CAMPANULACEAE CAPRIFOLIACEAE CARYOPHYLLACEAE CHENOPODIACEAE CISTACEAE CONVOLVULACEAE CRASSULACEAE CUCURBITACEAE CYPERACEAE DENNSTAEDTIACEAE DRYOPTERIDACEAE ERICACEAE EUPHORBIACEAE FABACEAE FAGACEAE GENTIANACEAE GERANIACEAE GROSSULARIACEAE IRIDACEAE JUGLANDACEAE JUNCACEAE LAMIACEAE LAURACEAE LILIACEAE LYTHRACEAE MALVACEAE MELANTHIACEAE MONTIACEAE MYRSINACEAE NYCTAGINACEAE OLEACEAE ONAGRACEAE PAEONIACEAE PAPAVERACEAE PHRYMACEAE PINACEAE PLANTAGINACEAE PLATANACEAE POACEAE POLEMONIACEAE POLYGONACEAE POLYPODIACEAE PRIMULACEAE PTERIDACEAE RANUNCULACEAE RHAMNACEAE ROSACEAE RUBIACEAE SALICACEAE SAXIFRAGACEAE SCROPHULARIACEAE SELAGINELLACEAE SIMAROUBACEAE SOLANACEAE THEMIDACEAE TYPHACEAE URTICACEAE VERBENACEAE

Plant Species

Scientific Name 1 Common Name 2 Origin 2 Habitat 2
CISTACEAE
Helianthemum scoparium Bisbee Peak rushrose SS/Shrub N
CONVOLVULACEAE
Calystegia macrostegia ssp. cyclostegia island false bindweed Herb/Vine N
Convolvulus arvensis field bindweed Herb/Vine I
Cuscuta californica chaparral dodder Herb/Vine N
CRASSULACEAE
Crassula aquatica water pygmyweed Herb (A) N
Crassula connata sand pygmyweed Herb (A) N
Dudleya lanceolata lanceleaf liveforever Herb (P) N
Dudleya pulverulenta chalk dudleya Herb (P) N
CUCURBITACEAE
Marah macrocarpus Cucamonga manroot Herb/Vine N
CYPERACEAE
Cyperus eragrostis tall flatsedge Graminoid (P) N
Eleocharis macrostachya pale spikerush Graminoid (P) N
DENNSTAEDTIACEAE
Pteridium aquilinum Western brackenfern Herb (P) N
DRYOPTERIDACEAE
Dryopteris arguta coastal woodfern Herb (P) N
ERICACEAE
Arctostaphylos glauca bigberry manzanita Shrub N
EUPHORBIACEAE
Chamaesyce maculata spotted sandmat Herb (A) I
Chamaesyce polycarpa smallseed sandmat Herb (A/P) N
Croton setigerus dove weed Herb (A) N
FABACEAE
Acmispon americanus (syn. Lotus purshianus) birds-foot trefoil Herb (A) N
Acmispon argophyllus (syn. Lotus argophyllus) silver bird's-foot trefoil Herb/SS (P) N
Acmispon glaber(syn. Lotus scoparius) common deerweed SS (P) N
Acmispon strigosus(syn. Lotus strigosus) strigose bird's-foot trefoil Herb (A) N
Lupinus bicolor miniature lupine Herb (A) N
Lupinus hirsutissimus stinging annual lupine Herb (A) N
Lupinus truncatus collared annual lupine Herb (A) N
Medicago polymorpha burclover Herb (A/P) I
Melilotus indicus annual yellow sweetclover Herb (A) I
Trifolium gracilentum pinpoint clover Herb (A) N
Trifolium willdenovii tomcat clover Herb (A) N
Vicia hassei Hasse's vetch Herb (A) N
Vicia villosa winter vetch Herb (A/P) I
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Footnotes

  • 1 Taxonomy follows the currently accepted nomenclature for plant species occurring in California as indicated on the Jepson Online Interchange for California Floristics (University of California, 2011).
  • 2 Species common name, origin and grow habitat from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Plants Database (2011).
  • 3 Horticultural or landscape planting
  • 4 Noxious or invasive weed
  • 5 Taxonomic or nomenclatural synonym for taxon not occurring in California.
  • 6 Species was observed just outside of the NASA-administered property by Tarja Sagar.
  • 7 Special-status plant species
  • 8 Considered Native in the USDA Plants Databases, but is considered an introduced (naturalized) species in California, per the Jepson On-Line Interchange.

Abbreviations

  • N — Native
  • I — Introduced (non-native species that have become naturalized)
  • (A) — Annual
  • (B) — Biennial
  • (P) — Perennial
  • SS — Sub-Shrub