Plants
Cordylanthus rigidus ssp. littoralis, Seaside bird's beak
Below is the most recently updated plant list for UCSC Fort Ord Natural Reserve.
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* non-native taxon
? presence in question
Listed Species Information:
CNPS Listed - as designated by the California Rare Plant Ranks (formerly known as CNPS Lists). More information at http://www.cnps.org/cnps/rareplants/ranking.php
Cal IPC Listed - an inventory that categorizes exotic and invasive plants as High, Moderate, or Limited, reflecting the level of each species' negative ecological impact in California. More information at http://www.cal-ipc.org
More information about Federal and State threatened and endangered species listings can be found at https://www.fws.gov/endangered/ (US) and http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/nongame/t_e_spp/ (CA).
| FAMILY NAME | SCIENTIFIC NAME | COMMON NAME | LISTED |
| Ferns | |||
| AZOLLACEAE - Mosquito Fern Family | Azolla filiculoides ? | American water fern, mosquito fern, Mosquito fern, Pacific mosquitofern | |
| DENNSTAEDTIACEAE - Bracken Family | Pteridium aquilinum var. pubescens | Hairy brackenfern, Western bracken fern | |
| DRYOPTERIDACEAE - Shield or wood fern family | Dryopteris arguta | California wood fern, Coastal wood fern, Shield fern | |
| EQUISETACEAE - Horsetail Family | Equisetum arvense | Common horsetail rush, Common horsetail, field horsetail, Field horsetail | |
| Equisetum telmateia ssp. braunii | Giant horse tail, Giant horsetail | ||
| PTERIDACEAE - Brake Family | Pentagramma triangularis ssp. triangularis | Gold back fern | |
| Gymnosperms | |||
| CUPRESSACEAE - Cypress Family | Hesperocyparis macrocarpa | Monterey cypress | CNPS - 1B.2, Cal IPC - limited |
| PINACEAE - Pine Family | Pinus muricata | Bishop pine, Bull pine, Prickle cone pine | |
| Pinus radiata | Monterey pine | CNPS - 1B.1, Cal IPC - limited | |
| Pinus torreyana | Island torrey pine | ||
| Eudicots | |||
| ADOXACEAE - Muskroot family | Sambucus nigra ssp. caerulea | Blue elderberry | |
| AIZOACEAE - Ice plant family | * Carpobrotus edulis | Hottentot fig, Iceplant, Sea fig | Cal IPC - high |
| ANACARDIACEAE -cashew or sumac family | Toxicodendron diversilobum | Poison oak, Poisonoak | |
| APIACEAE - Carrot family | * Anthriscus caucalis | Bur chervil, Bur chevril | |
| Bowlesia incana | Hoary bowlesia | ||
| * Conium maculatum | Poison hemlock | Cal IPC - moderate | |
| Daucus pusillus | American wild carrot, Rattlesnake weed | ||
| * Foeniculum vulgare | Biscuit root, Sweet fennel | Cal IPC - high | |
| Sanicula arctopoides | Footsteps of spring, Yellow mats | ||
| Sanicula crassicaulis | Gamble weed, Pacific blacksnakeroot, Pacific sanicle | ||
| Sanicula laciniata | Coast sanicle, Coastal blacksnakeroot | ||
| Torilis arvensis | Field hedge parsley, Spreading hedgeparsley | Cal IPC - moderate | |
| ARALIACEAE- Ivy family | * Hedera helix | English ivy | Cal IPC - high |
| ASTERACEAE - Aster family | * Artemisia biennis | Biennial sagewort | |
| Artemisia californica | California sagebrush, Coast sagebrush, Coastal sage brush | ||
| Artemisia douglasiana | California mugwort, Douglas' sagewort |
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| Baccharis pilularis ssp. consanguinea | Coyote brush | ||
| * Bellis perennis | English daisy, English lawn daisy | ||
| * Carduus pycnocephalus | Italian thistle | Cal IPC - moderate | |
| * Carduus tenuiflorus | Italian thistle, Slender flowered thistle, Winged plumeless thistle | Cal IPC - limited | |
| * Centaurea melitensis | Maltese star thistle, Napa star thistle, Tocalote | Cal IPC - moderate | |
| Cirsium occidentale var. occidentale | Cobweb thistle, Cobwebby thistle | ||
| * Cirsium vulgare | Bull thistle | Cal IPC - moderate | |
| Conyza canadensis | Canada horseweed | ||
| Corethrogyne filaginifolia | Common sandaster | ||
| * Cotula australis | Australian brass buttons, Australian cotula, Australian waterbuttons | ||
| * Cotula coronopifolia | Brass buttons, Common brassbuttons | Cal IPC - limited | |
| Deinandra corymbosa corymbosa | Coastal tarweed | ||
| * Delairea odorata | Cape Ivy | Cal IPC - high | |
| Ericameria ericoides | California goldenbush, Mock heather | ||
| Ericameria fasciculata | Eastwood's goldenbush | CNPS - 1B.1 | |
| Eriophyllum confertiflorum var. confertiflorum | Golden yarrow, Yellow yarrow | ||
| Euthamia occidentalis | Western flat topped goldenrod, Western goldenrod, Western goldentop | ||
| Gamochaeta purpurea | Featherweed | ||
| Gnaphalium californicum | Ladies' tobacco | ||
| * Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum | Jersey cudweed | ||
| Pseudognaphalium ramosissimum | Pink cudweed | ||
| Pseudognaphalium stramineum | Cottonbatting plant | ||
| * Helminthotheca echioides | Bristly ox-tongue | Cal IPC - limited | |
| Heterotheca grandiflora | Telegraph weed, Telegraphweed | ||
| * Hypochaeris glabra | Smooth cat's ear | Cal IPC - limited | |
| * Hypochaeris radicata | Hairy cats ear, Hairy catsear, Rough cat's ear | Cal IPC - moderate | |
| * Lactuca serriola | Prickly lettuce, Prickly wild lettuce | ||
| Layia hieracioides | Hawkweed layia, Tall layia, Tall tidytips | ||
| Layia platyglossa | Coastal tidytips | ||
| Lessingia pectinata var. pectinata | Valley lessingia | ||
| * Logfia gallica | Narrowleaf cottonrose | ||
| Madia exigua | Little tarweed, Meager tarweed, Small tarweed, Three-stemmed madia | ||
| Madia gracilis | Grassy tarweed, Gumweed madia, Slender tarweed | ||
| Madia sativa | Chile tarweed, Coast tarweed, Coastal tarweed | ||
| Matricaria discoidea | Pineapple weed | ||
| Pseudognaphalium beneolens | Cudweed | ||
| Psilocarphus tenellus | Slender woolly marbles, Slender woollyheads | ||
| * Senecio vulgaris | Common groundsel, Old man in the spring, Old man of spring | ||
| * Silybum marianum | Blessed milkthistle, Milk thistle | Cal IPC - limited | |
| * Sonchus asper asper | Prickly sow thistle, Sow thistle | ||
| * Sonchus oleraceus | Common sow thistle, Common sowthistle, Sow thistle | ||
| Stephanomeria elata | Annual mitra, Santa barbara stephanomeria, Santa barbara wirelettuce | ||
| * Taraxacum officinal | Common dandelion, Dandelion, Red seeded dandelion | ||
| Uropappus lindleyi | Silver puffs, Uropappus | ||
| Xanthium spinosum | Spiny clotbur, Spiny cockleburr | ||
| Xanthium strumarium | Rough cockleburr | ||
| Ambrosia acanthicarpa | Annual burrweed, Annual bursage, Annual burweed, Annual turweed | ||
| * Arctotheca calendula | Cape weed | Cal IPC - moderate alert | |
| Helenium puberulum | Rosilla, Sneezeweed | ||
| Solidago velutina californica | California goldenrod, Oreja de liebre | ||
| Achillea millefolium | Common yarrow | ||
| BORAGINACEAE - borage or forget-me-not family | Heliotropium curassavicum | Chinese parsley, Heliotrope, Salt heliotrope, Seaside heliotrope | |
| Nemophila menziesii var. menziesii | Baby blue eyes | ||
| Pectocarya penicillata | Sleeping combseed, Winged comb seed, Winged pectocarya | ||
| Phacelia douglasii | Douglas' phacelia | ||
| Phacelia malvifolia | Stinging phacelia | ||
| Pholistoma auritum var. auritum | Blue fiesta flower, Blue fiestaflower, Fiesta flower | ||
| Pholistoma membranaceum | White fiesta flower, White fiestaflower | ||
| Amsinckia intermedia | Common fiddleneck | ||
| Amsinckia spectabilis var. spectabilis | Seaside fiddleneck | ||
| Cryptantha clevelandii | Cleveland's cryptantha, Common cryptantha | ||
| BRASSICACEAE - crucifers, or cabbage family | Turritis glabra | Tower rockcress | |
| * Brassica nigra | Black mustard | Cal IPC - moderate | |
| * Brassica rapa | Common mustard, Field mustard, Rape mustard | Cal IPC - limited | |
| * Cakile maritima | European searocket, Sea rocket | Cal IPC - limited | |
| * Capsella bursa-pastoris | Shepherd's purse | ||
| Cardamine oligosperma | Bitter cress, Idaho bittercress | ||
| Erysimum ammophilum | Coast wallflower | CNPS - 1B.2 | |
| * Lepidium latifolium | Broad leaved pepper grass, Broadleaved pepperweed, Perennial pepperweed | Cal IPC - high | |
| Lepidium nitidum | Peppergrass, Shining pepper grass, Shining pepperweed, Tongue grass | ||
| Lepidium strictum | Peppergrass, Prostrate pepper grass, Upright pepperweed | ||
| * Lobularia maritima | Sweet alyssum | Cal IPC - limited | |
| Nasturtium officinale | Watercress | ||
| * Raphanus sativus | Cultivated radish, Jointed charlock, Wild radish | Cal IPC - limited | |
| Rorippa palustris ssp. occidentalis | Bog yellowcress | ||
| * Sisymbrium orientale | Indian hedge mustard, Oriental hedge mustard | ||
| Thysanocarpus curvipes | Fringe pod, Fringed pod, Hairy lacepod, Sand fringepod | ||
| Thysanocarpus laciniatus | Common lace pod, Mountain fringepod, Narrow leaved fringe pod, Narrow leaved lacepod | ||
| * Sisymbrium officinale | Hedge mustard, Hedgemustard | ||
| CACTACEAE - Cactus family | * Opuntia ficus-indica | Mission cactus, Tuna cactus | |
| CAMPANULACEAE - bellflower family | Triodanis biflora | Venus looking glass, Venus' looking glass | |
| CAPRIFOLIACEAE - Honeysuckle family | Lonicera hispidula | California honeysuckle, Hairy honeysuckle, Pink honeysuckle | |
| Symphoricarpos mollis | Creeping snowberry, Trailing snowberry | ||
| CARYOPHYLLACEAE -pink or carnation family | Cardionema ramosissimum | Sand mat, Sandcarpet | |
| * Cerastium glomeratum | Large mouse ears, Mouseear chickweed, Sticky chickweed | ||
| * Petrorhagia dubia | Hairypink, Pink grass, Wilding pink, Windmill pink | ||
| * Polycarpon tetraphyllum | Four leaved all seed, Four leaved allseed, Four leaved polycarp, Fourleaf manyseed | ||
| * Silene gallica | Common catchfly, Windmill pink | ||
| * Spergula arvensis | Corn spurry | ||
| * Spergularia rubra | Purple sand spurry, Red sandspurry, Ruby sandspurry | ||
| * Spergularia villosa | Hairy sand spurrey, Hairy sandspurry, Villous sand spurry | ||
| * Stellaria media | Chickweed | ||
| CHENOPODIACEAE -Goosefoot family | * Atriplex triangularis | Fat-hen | |
| * Dysphania ambrosioides | Mexican tea | ||
| * Cycloloma atriplicifolium | Winged pigweed | ||
| * Chenopodium album | Lamb's quarters, Lambs quarters, White goosefoot | ||
| Chenopodium berlandieri | Berlandier's goosefoot, Pit seed goosefoot |
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| Chenopodium californicum | California goosefoot, Pigweed |
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| Chenopodium desiccatum | Aridland goosefoot, Dry goosefoot |
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| CISTACEAE - Rock rose family | Helianthemum scoparium | Bisbee peak rushrose, Broom rose, Common sun rose | |
| CONVOLVULACEAE - Morning glory family | Calystegia subacaulis ssp. subacaulis | Cambria morning glory, Hill morning glory, Hillside false bindweed | |
| Cuscuta campestris | Field dodder | ||
| CORNACEAE - Dogwood family | Cornus sericea ssp. occidentalis | Western dogwood | |
| CRASSULACEAE - stonecrop family | Crassula connata | Pigmy weed, Sand pygmy weed, Sand pygmyweed | |
| * Crassula tillaea | Mediterranean pygmy weed, Moss pygmyweed | ||
| CUCURBITACEAE - Gourd family | Marah fabacea | California man-root | |
| ERICACEAE -heath or heather family | Arctostaphylos crustacea ssp. crinita | Crinite manzanita | |
| Arctostaphylos pumila | Dune manzanita, Sandmat manzanita | CNPS - 1B.2 | |
| Arctostaphylos tomentosa ssp. tomentosa, | Woolly leaf manzanita, Woollyleaf manzanita | ||
| EUPHORBIACEAE - Spurge family | Chamaesyce serpens | Matted sandmat | |
| Croton californicus | California croton, Desert croton | ||
| * Euphorbia peplus | Petty spurge | ||
| FABACEAE - Legume family | * Cytisus striatus | Portuguese broom, Striated broom | Cal IPC - moderate |
| * Genista monspessulana | French broom | Cal IPC - high | |
| Lathyrus vestitus var. vestitus | Common pacific pea, Hillside pea, Wild sweetpea | ||
| * Lotus corniculatus | Bird's foot trefoil, Birdfoot deervetch, Broadleaf birdsfoot trefoil | ||
| Acmispon glaber var. glaber | Deerweed | ||
| Acmispon strigosus | Strigose lotus | ||
| Lupinus arboreus | Coastal bush lupine, Yellow bush lupine | Cal IPC - limited | |
| Lupinus bicolor | Annual lupine, Bicolored lupine, Miniature lupine | ||
| Lupinus nanus | Sky lupine | ||
| * Medicago polymorpha | Bur clover, Bur medic, California burclover | Cal IPC - limited | |
| * Melilotus albus | White sweetclover | ||
| * Melilotus indicus | Annual yellow sweetclover | ||
| * Trifolium angustifolium | Narrow leaved clover, Narrowleaf crimson clover | ||
| * Trifolium campestre | Field clover, Low hop clover | ||
| * Trifolium dubium | Shamrock clover, Suckling clover | ||
| * Trifolium glomeratum | Clustered clover | ||
| Trifolium gracilentum | Graceful clover, Pin point clover, Pinpoint clover | ||
| * Trifolium hirtum | Rose clover | Cal IPC - moderate | |
| Trifolium microcephalum | Hairy clover, Maiden clover, Small headed clover | ||
| Trifolium willdenovii | Tomcat clover | ||
| Lupinus chamissonis | Beach blue lupine, Chamisso bush lupine, Dune bush lupine, Dune lupine | ||
| * Vicia sativa ssp. nigra | Common vetch, Garden vetch, Smaller common vetch, Spring vetch | ||
| Quercus agrifolia | California live oak, Coast live oak | ||
| GARRYACEAE - Silk tassel family | Garrya elliptica | Coast silk tassel, Coast silktassel, Silk tassel bush or quinine bush, Wavyleaf silktassel | |
| GERANIACEAE - Cranesbill family | * Erodium botrys | Big heron bill, Broad leaf filaree, Long beaked filaree, Longbeak stork's bill | |
| * Erodium cicutarium | Coastal heron's bill, Red stemmed filaree, Redstem stork's bill | Cal IPC - limited | |
| Geranium bicknellii | Bicknell's cranesbill, Bicknell's geranium | ||
| * Geranium dissectum | Cranesbill, Cut leaved geranium, Cutleaf geranium | Cal IPC - limited | |
| * Geranium molle | Crane's bill geranium, Dove's foot geranium, Dovefoot geranium, Woodland geranium | ||
| * Pelargonium spp. (unidentified) | geranium | ||
| GROSSULARIACEAE - Currant family | Ribes divaricatum var. pubiflorum | Spreading gooseberry, Straggly gooseberry | |
| Ribes speciosum | Fuchsia flowered gooseberry, Fuchsiaflower gooseberry | ||
| LAMIACEAE - Mint family | *Lamium amplexicaule | Giraffe head, Henbit deadnettle | |
| *Lavandula stoechas | French lavender | ||
| Mentha arvensis | American wild mint, Field mint, Marsh mint, Wild mint | ||
| Monardella undulata | Curly leaved monardella, Curlyleaf monardella | ||
| Clinopodium douglasii | Yerba buena | ||
| Stachys bullata | California hedge nettle, California hedgenettle, Southern hedge nettle, Wood mint | ||
| Salvia mellifera | Black sage | ||
| MONTIACEAE - Miner’s lettuce family | Calandrinia menziesii | Red maids | |
| Claytonia parviflora ssp. parviflora | Narrow leaved miner's lettuce, Streambank springbeauty, Utah miner s lettuce | ||
| Claytonia perfoliata mexicana | Southern miner's lettuce | ||
| Claytonia perfoliata perfoliata | Claytonia, Miner's lettuce |
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| Claytonia rubra | Red stemmed spring beauty, Redstem springbeauty | ||
| MYRSINACEAE - Myrsine Family | * Lysimachia arvensis | Scarlet pimpernel | |
| ONAGRACEAE - Evening primrose family | Clarkia purpurea quadrivulnera | Purple clarkia, Purple godetia, Winecup clarkia | |
| Epilobium brachycarpum | Annual fireweed, Autumn willowweed, Panicled willow herb, Tall annual willowherb | ||
| Ludwigia peploides ssp. peploides | Floating primrose willow, Floating water primrose, Marsh purslane | ||
| Camissoniopsis cheiranthifolia ssp. cheiranthifolia | Beach evening-primrose | ||
| Camissonia micrantha | Spencer primrose | ||
| Camissonia strigulosa | Contorted primrose, Sandysoil suncup, Strigose sun cup | ||
| Epilobium ciliates ssp. ciliatum | Fringed willowherb, Northern willow herb, Willow herb | ||
| OROBANCHACEAE - Broomrape family | Castilleja densiflora ssp. densiflora | Dense flower owl's clover, Denseflower indian paintbrush | |
| Castilleja exserta sip. exserta | Exserted indian paintbrush, Pale purple owlclover, Purple owl's clover | CNPS - 4.4 | |
| Cordylanthus rigidus ssp. littoralis | Seaside bird's beak | CNPS - 1B.1, CA - endangered | |
| OXALIDACEAE - Wood sorrel family | * Oxalis corniculata | Creeping wood sorrel, Creeping woodsorrel, Yellow sorrel | |
| Oxalis pilosa, | Hairy wood sorrel | ||
| * Oxalis micrantha | Dwarf woodsorrel | ||
| * Oxalis pes-caprae | Bermuda buttercup, Sourgrass | Cal IPC - moderate | |
| PAPAVERACEAE - Poppy family | Eschscholzia californica | California poppy | |
| Platystemon californicus | Cream cups, Creamcups | ||
| PHRYMACEAE - Lopseed family | Mimulus guttatus | Seep monkey flower, Yellow monkey flower | |
| Mimulus aurantiacus | Bush monkey flower, Island monkeyflower, Sticky monkeyflower | ||
| PLANTAGINACEAE - Plantain family | * Veronica anagallis-aquatica | Water speedwell | |
| Collinsia heterophylla | Purple chinese houses | ||
| Nuttallanthus texanus | Blue toadflax | ||
| * Plantago coronopus | Buckhorn plantain, Cut leaf plantain | ||
| Plantago erecta | California plantain, Dotseed plantain, Foothill plantain | ||
| * Plantago lanceolata | English plantain, Narrow leaved plantain, Ribgrass, Ribwort | Cal IPC - limited | |
| * Plantago major | Common plantain | ||
| PLATANACEAE - Plane-tree or Sycamore family | Platanus racemosa | California sycamore, Western sycamore | |
| PLUMBAGINACEAE -Leadwort or plumbago family | Armeria maritima californica | California sea pink, California seapink, Sea pink or thrift, Sea thrift | |
| * Limonium sinuatum | Statice, Wavyleaf sealavender | ||
| POLEMONIACEAE - Phlox family | Eriastrum virgatum | Virgate eriastrum, Wand woollystar | CNPS - 4.3 |
| Gilia clivorum | Many stemmed gilia, Purple spot gilia, Purplespot gilia | ||
| Gilia tenuiflora ssp. arenaria | Greater yellowthroat gilia, Sand gilia | CA - endangered, US - endangered | |
| Navarretia atractyloides | Holly leaf navarretia, Hollyleaf pincushionplant | ||
| Navarretia hamata ssp. parviloba | Hooked navarretia, Small lobe navarretia | ||
| Navarretia mellita | Honeyscented pincushionplant, Skunk navarretia | ||
| Navarretia squarrosa | Skunkbush, Skunkweed | ||
| POLYGONACEAE - Buckwheat family | Chorizanthe pungens var. pungens | Monterey spineflower | CNPS - 1B.2, US - threatened |
| Lastarriaea coriacea | Leather spineflower | ||
| Persicaria lapathifolia | Common knotweed | ||
| Persicaria punctata | Dotted smartweed | ||
| * Polygonum aviculare depressum | Prostrate knotweed | ||
| * Rumex conglomeratus | Clustered dock, Green dock | ||
| * Rumex crispus | Curly dock, Curly leaved dock, Rhubarb | Cal IPC - limited | |
| Rumex fueginus | Golden dock | ||
| Rumex salicifolius | Willow dock, Willow leaved dock | ||
| Eriogonum fasciculatum | California buckwheat, Eastern mojave buckwheat | ||
| Eriogonum latifolium | Coast buckwheat, Coast eriogonum |
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| Eriogonum nudum var. auriculatum | Naked buckwheat, Nude buckwheat | ||
| Eriogonum parvifolium | Dune eriogonum, Sea cliff buckwheat, Seacliff buckwheat | ||
| * Persicaria maculosa | Spotted ladysthumb | ||
| Polygonum paronychia | Beach knotweed, Dune knotweed | ||
| Pterostegia drymarioides | Fairy mist, Woodland threadstem | ||
| * Rumex acetosella | Common sheep sorrel | Cal IPC - moderate | |
| * Rumex stenophyllus | Narrowleaf dock | ||
| RHAMNACEAE -buckthorn family | Ceanothus dentatus | Dwarf ceanothus, Sandscrub ceanothus | |
| Ceanothus rigidus | Monterey ceanothus | ||
| Frangula californica ssp. californica | California coffeeberry | ||
| Frangula californica ssp. tomentella | Hoary coffeeberry | ||
| ROSACEAE - Rose family | Acaena pinnatifida var. californica | California acaena, California sheepburr | |
| Aphanes occidentalis | Western lady's mantle | ||
| Heteromeles arbutifolia | Christmas berry, Toyon | ||
| Horkelia cuneata var. cuneata | Wedge leaved horkelia | ||
| Oemleria cerasiformis | Indian plum, Oso berry | ||
| Drymocallis glandulosa var. glandulosa | Sticky cinquefoil | ||
| Prunus virginiana var. demissa | Chokecherry, Western choke cherry, Western chokecherry | ||
| Rosa californica | California wild rose, California wildrose | ||
| Rubus ursinus | California blackberry, Pacific blackberry | ||
| Adenostoma fasciculatum | Chamise | ||
| RUBIACEAE - Madder family | Galium aparine | Cleavers, Common bedstraw, Goose grass, Stickywilly | |
| Galium californicum ssp. californicum | California bedstraw | ||
| Galium porrigens var. porrigens | Climbing bedstraw, Graceful bedstraw, Oval leaved bedstraw | ||
| SALICACEAE - Willow family | Populus trichocarpa | Black cottonwood | |
| Salix exigua | Narrow leaved willow, Narrowleaf willow, Sandbar willow | ||
| Salix lasiolepis | Arroyo willow | ||
| SAXIFRAGACEAE - Saxifrage family | Lithophragma affine | Common woodland star, San francisco woodland star, Woodland star | |
| SOLANACEAE - Nightshade family | Solanum americanum | American black nightshade, Common nightshade, Small flowered nightshade, White nightshade | |
| Solanum douglasii | Douglas' nightshade, Greenspot nightshade | ||
| Solanum umbelliferum | Blue witch nightshade, Bluewitch nightshade | ||
| URTICACEAE - Nettle family | Hesperocnide tenella | Western nettle, Western stinging nettle, Western stingingnettle | |
| Urtica dioica holosericea | Giant creek nettle, Hoary nettle, Mountain nettle, Stinging nettle | ||
| VALERIANACEAE - Valerian family | Plectritis congesta | Sea blush, Shortspur seablush | |
| VIOLACEAE - Violet family | Viola pedunculata | California golden violet, Johnny jump up | |
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| AGAVACEAE - Agave family | Chlorogalum pomeridianum var. pomeridianum | Common soaproot, Wavyleaf soap plant |
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| ARACEAE - arum family | Lemna minuta | Least duckweed | |
| CYPERACEAE - Sedge family | Bolboschoenus robustus | Sturdy bullrush | |
| Cyperus eragrostis | Tall cyperus, Tall flatsedge | ||
| Cyperus esculentus | Chufa flatsedge, Nut grass, Yellow nutgrass | ||
| Schoenoplectus californicus | California bulrush | ||
| Schoenoplectus pungens | Common threesquare | ||
| IRIDACEAE - Iris family | Sisyrinchium bellum | Western blue eyed grass | |
| MELANTHIACEAE - Bunchflower family | Toxicoscordion fremontii | Fremont's death camas, Fremont's star lily | |
| ORCHIDACEAE - Orchid Family | Piperia michaelii | Michael's piperia, Michael's rein orchid | CNPS - 4.2 |
| POACEAE - True grasses family | * Aira caryophyllea | Shiver grass, Silver hairgrass, Silvery hairgrass | |
| * Arundo donax | Giant reed | Cal IPC - high | |
| * Avena barbata | Slender oat, Slim oat | Cal IPC - moderate | |
| * Briza maxima | Big quaking grass, Big quakinggrass, Rattlesnake grass | Cal IPC - limited | |
| Bromus carinatus var. carinatus | California brome, Mountain brome | ||
| * Bromus diandrus | Bromegrass, Ripgut brome | Cal IPC - moderate | |
| * Bromus hordeaceus | Soft brome, Soft chess | Cal IPC - limited | |
| * Bromus madritensis rubens | Foxtail brome, Foxtail chess, Foxtail grass, Red brome | Cal IPC - high | |
| * Cortaderia jubata | Pampas grass, Purple pampas grass | Cal IPC - high | |
| * Cynodon dactylon | Bermuda grass, Bermudagrass | Cal IPC - moderate | |
| Distichlis spicata | Inland saltgrass, Salt grass, Saltgrass | ||
| * Echinochloa crus-galli | Barnyard grass, Japanese millet, Watergrass | ||
| Elymus glaucus ssp. glaucus | Blue wild rye, Blue wildrye, Western rye grass | ||
| * Hordeum murinum ssp. murinum | Wall barley | ||
| Koeleria macrantha | June grass, Prairie junegrass | ||
| * Lagurus ovatus | Hare's tail grass, Harestail grass | ||
| Leptochloa fascicularis | Bearded sprangletop | ||
| * Festuca perennis | Italian rye grass | Cal IPC - moderate | |
| Melica imperfecta | California melic, Coast range melic, Small flowered melica, Smallflower melicgrass | ||
| Stipa cernua | Nodding needle grass | ||
| Stipa pulchra | Purple needle grass | ||
| * Pennisetum clandestinum | Kikuyu grass, Kikuyugrass | Cal IPC - limited, USDA - noxious weed | |
| * Poa annua | Annual blue grass, Annual bluegrass | ||
| Poa secunda secunda | One sided blue grass, Pine bluegrass, Sandberg's bluegrass | ||
| * Polypogon monspeliensis | Annual beard grass, Rabbitsfoot grass | Cal IPC - limited | |
| * Vulpia bromoides | Brome fescue | ||
| * Agrostis viridis | Water beard grass | ||
| Paspalum distichum | Knot grass, Knotgrass | ||
| THEMIDACEAE - Brodiaea family | Muilla maritima | Common muilla, Sea muilla | |
| Dichelostemma capitatum ssp. capitatum | Blue dicks, Bluedicks, Wild hyacinth | ||
| TYPHACEAE - Cattail family | Sparganium eurycarpum var. eurycarpum | Broadfruit bur reed | |
| Typha latifolia | Broadleaf cattail, Common cattail, Soft flag | ||
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