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Updated July 2025
158 Total Species
88 Native Species
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| GENUS |
SPECIES |
COMMON NAME |
Native |
COMMENTS |
| Acanthaceae | mollis | Bear's breech/Acanthus | | Found near hedgerow |
| Acacia |
dealbata |
Acacia |
|
Removed in 2010. Page 24 LMP |
| Acer |
macrophylum |
Big-leaf maple |
* |
|
| Acer |
griseum |
Paperbark maple |
|
Removed in 2020 |
| Acer |
negundo |
Box elder |
* |
Variety: californicum |
| Adiantum |
jordanii |
CA maidenhair fern |
* |
|
| Adiantum |
aleuticum |
Five finger fern |
* |
Found near dead Tan oak 2020 |
| Allium |
triquetrum |
Three corner leek |
|
Looks like green onions |
| Alnus |
rubra |
Red alder |
* |
Cannot find in PPP as of 2019 |
| Anaphalis |
margaritacea |
Pearly Everlasting |
* |
See Everlasting sp. from LMP1 |
| Angallis |
arvensis |
Scarlet pimpernel |
|
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| Anthriscus | caucalis | Chervil; French parsley | | Found at left front of PPP |
| Aralia |
californica |
California aralia |
* |
Found 2017; gone after 2019 flood |
| Aristolochia |
californica |
Dutchmen's pipevine |
* |
Six Pipevine butterfles in May 2019 |
| Artemisia |
douglasiana |
Mugwort |
* |
Many regenerating |
| Arum |
maculatum |
Arum cuckoopint |
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Comes up in winter (Dec-Jan) |
| Arundo |
donax |
Giant reed |
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Removed; keep an eye out |
| Asarum |
caudatum |
Wild ginger |
* |
Recommended & planted; doing nicely |
| Athyrium |
filix-femina |
Common lady fern |
* |
Variety californicum may equal cyclosoram |
| Atropa |
belladonna |
Nightshade |
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Should be Solanum--check ID |
| Azolla | feilculoides | Water fern | * | Miscalled Duckweed |
| Baccharis |
pilularis |
Coyote brush |
* |
Not desired in PPP. Needs a policy. |
| Baccharis |
salicifolia |
Mule fat |
* |
Found 2013; gone 2019; white flowers & fuzz |
| Barbarea |
orthoceras |
American wintercress |
* |
On the beaches, looks like mustard |
| Bidens |
frondosa |
Devil's beggarticks |
* |
2018 Native per Cal Flora; beaches & PPP |
| Brassica |
nigra |
Black Mustard |
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| Briza |
maxima |
Rattlesnake grass |
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| Calycanthus |
occidentalis |
Spicebush |
* |
Nice plantings by STRAW |
| Cardamine |
californica |
Milkmaids |
* |
Recommended by 2019 plant survey |
| Cardamine |
oligosperma |
Western bittercress |
* |
On the beach; shoots seeds; have photos |
| Carex |
barbarae |
Basket sedge |
* |
Found & added above sandy beach |
| Carex |
obnupta |
Slough sedge |
* |
On beaches & softer than Basket sedge |
| Chenopodimm |
album |
Lamb's quarters |
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Couple of plants near path at gravel beach |
| Cichorium | intybus | Chicory | | On the gravel beach 2021 |
| Claytonia |
pertoliata |
Miner's lettuce |
* |
Synonym Montia pertoliata |
| Clematis |
lingusticifolia |
Virgin's bower |
* |
Lots especially at front |
| Conium |
maculatum |
Poison hemlock |
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Removed; keep removing |
| Convulvulus |
arvensis |
Bindweed |
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Looks like morning glory |
| Cornus |
sericea |
Stream dogwood |
* |
Variety: sericea. Sprigged 2019 |
| Corylus |
cornuta |
Hazelnut |
* |
Variety: californica. Suggested and added. |
| Crocosimia |
species |
Fire lily |
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Always some to pull up and remove bulbs |
| Cynodon |
dactylon |
Bermuda grass |
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Keep removing |
| Cyperus | eragrostis | Tall flatsedge | * | Beaches & above fallen redwood; "papyrus" |
| Daucus | carota | Wild carrot (Q Anne Lace) | | In fall above fallen redwood |
| Dicentra |
formosa |
Pacific bleeding heart |
* |
Variety: formosa |
| Digitalis |
purpurea |
Common foxglove |
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| Duchensnea | indica | Indian/Mock Strawberry | | Looks like strawberry above fallen redwood |
| Ehrharta |
erecta |
Panic veldt grass |
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| Elodea | canadensis | Common Waterweed | * In water; aquariums=Hydrillia verticillata | |
| Epipactis |
helleborine |
Broad-leaved hellebore |
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Probably eradicated |
| Equisetum |
telmateia |
Giant horsetail |
* |
Variety: braunii. Hedgerow |
| Erigeron |
canadensis |
Horseweed |
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Beaches & interior; sumatrensis=non-native |
| Erythranthe |
guttata |
Yellow monkey flower |
* |
Native on beaches; have photos (variable) |
| Euthamia |
occidentalis |
Western goldenrod |
* |
Found 2013; blooming 2019 on beach path |
| Festuca |
rubra |
Red fescue molate |
* |
Variety: molate. STRAW spread seeds 2019 |
| Foeniculum |
vulgare |
Fennel |
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Probaby eradicated |
| Fragaria |
vesca |
Wood Strawberry |
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Above fallen redwood |
| Frangula | californica | California Coffeeberry | * | Hedgerow in Addendum (was Rhamnus)
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| Fraxinus |
latifolia |
Oregon ash |
* |
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| Galium |
aparine |
Bedstraw |
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| Geranium |
robertianum |
Robert's geranium |
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Can make play scissors out of seed pods
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| Geranium |
disectium |
Cut-leaved cranesbill |
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Also check Erodium cicutarium |
| Gnaphalium |
sp. |
Everlasting |
* |
New taxonomy is Pseudognaphalium |
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| Hedra |
helix |
German/English ivy |
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LMP p. 24 removal techniques |
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| Heracleum |
maximum |
Cow parsnip |
* |
Found 2013 & added by STRAW 2019 |
| Heteromeles |
arbutifolia |
Toyon |
* |
Hedgerow; from addendum (added) SOD |
| Hydrillia |
verticillata |
Waterthyme |
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Along river's edge |
| Juglands |
californica |
No. CA black walnut |
* |
Variety: hindsii. Volunteer saplings as well |
| Juncus |
patens |
California Gray Rush |
* |
Sandy beach 2018 |
| Juncus |
effusus |
Soft bog rush |
* |
Found in 2016 |
| Lactuca |
serriola |
Prickly lettuce |
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Tortuga path & above fallen redwood |
| Lactuca |
saligna |
Willow lettuce |
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On Tortuga path |
| Lamium |
album |
Dead hedge nettle |
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Encroaching; variegated leaves |
| Lapsana |
communis |
Nipplewort |
|
Like bee plant but yellow flowers |
| Lemna |
species |
Duckweed |
* |
In the water only; 9 types |
| Lepidium | latifolium | Broadleaved pepperweed | | Only on path to gravel beach |
Ligustrum
| lucidum | Glossy privet
| | In the old parking lot |
| Lithocarpus |
densiflorus |
Tan oak |
* |
Dead from Sudden Oak Death |
| Lonicera |
involucrata |
Twinberry |
* |
|
| Ludwigia |
species |
Floating water primrose |
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Beaches/water; peploides peploides=native |
| Lunaria |
annua |
Money plant |
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At the front |
| Lythrum |
salicaria |
Purple loosestrife |
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Sandy beach |
| Magnolia |
species |
Tulip magnolia |
|
Removed 2020 |
| Maianthemum |
racemosum |
False Solomon's seal |
* |
Was Smilacina LMP p. 29 |
| Malva | neglecta | Dwarf mallow | | Torguga path |
| Marah |
oregana |
Wild cucumber |
* |
Also called Manroot |
| Medicago |
minima |
Little bur-clover |
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Have photo. On beaches non-native |
| Melilotus |
albus |
White sweetclover |
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| Melissa |
officinalis |
Lemon balm |
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Like mint; on path to gravel beach |
| Metasequoia |
glyptostroboides |
Dawn redwood |
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Removed all three in 2012 |
| Myosotis |
scorpioides |
Forget-me-not |
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| Myrica |
californica |
Pacific wax myrtle |
* |
Hedgerow; 2017 2 died; 2 planted 2019 |
| Oxalis |
oregana |
Redwood sorrel |
* |
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| Oxalis |
pres-capre |
Sour grass |
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Plus other non-native oxalis plants |
| Pentagramma |
triangularis |
Goldback fern |
* |
Found on Starrett Hill |
| Persicaria |
amphibia |
Water knotweed |
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Polygonum = Persicaria |
| Persicaria |
lapathifolia |
Common Smartweed |
* |
Polygonum = Persicaria; 2019 gravel path |
| Physocarpus |
capitatus |
Ninebark |
* |
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| Pipatherum |
miliaceum |
Smilo grass |
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| Plantago |
major |
Common plantain |
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| Polypodium |
californicum |
California polypody |
* |
Found east of bays 2015; on paths (fern) |
| Polypodium |
glycyrrhiza |
Licorice fern |
* |
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| Polypogon |
monspeliensis |
Rabbit's foot grass |
* |
"Furry flowers" on beach |
| Polystichum |
munitum |
Western sword fern |
* |
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| Populus |
fremontii |
Fremont Cottonwood |
* |
Variety: fremontii. Recommended. |
| Prosartes |
hookeri |
Fairy bells |
* |
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| Prunella |
vulagaris |
Mountain selfheal |
* |
Variety: laceolata. Herbaceous wildflower |
| Prunus |
species |
Plum trees |
|
LMP p. 25; removed large one in 2016 |
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| Pseudognaphalium | luteoalbum | Jersey cudweed | | Probably Everlasting sp. from LMP |
| Pseudotsuga |
menziesii |
Douglas Fir |
* |
1 tree dead in PPP; succession forest; policy |
| Pteridium |
aquilinum |
Bracken fern |
* |
Variety: pubesens |
| Quercus |
agrifolia |
Coast live oak |
* |
Hedgerow |
| Raphanus |
sativus |
Wild radish |
|
Non-native but is Pipevine butterfly food |
| Rhamnus |
californica |
Coffeeberry |
* |
Hedgerow |
| Ribes |
sanguineum |
Pink-flowering currant |
* |
Variety: glutinosum. Suggested; added |
| Ribes |
divaricatum |
Black gooseberry |
* |
Found 2014; added but died |
| Rorippa |
palustris |
Bog yellowcress |
* |
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| Rosa |
californica |
California wild rose |
* |
STRAW added more |
| Rosa |
eglanteria |
Eglantine Rose |
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LMP p. 25 |
| Rubus |
armeniacus |
Armenian blackberry |
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In LPM p. 23 but not on list pp. 18-21 |
| Rubus |
ursinus |
California blackberry |
* |
Taking over in various areas |
| Rubus |
parviflorus |
Thimbleberry |
* |
Variety: parviflorus |
| Rumex |
crispus |
Dock |
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| Rumex |
acetosella |
Sheep sorrel |
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| Salix |
lasiolepis |
Arroyo willow |
* |
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| Salix |
exigua |
Sandbar willow |
* |
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| Salix |
lasiandra |
Pacific/Yellow willow |
* |
Variety: lasiandra. Was named S. lucida |
| Salix |
lavigata |
Red willow |
* |
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| Sambucus |
mexicana |
Blue elderberry |
* |
1 in PPP & 1 from Victoria's yard in 2013 |
| Scrophularia |
californica |
Bee plant |
* |
Spring up in lighter areas |
| Sequoia |
sempervirens |
Coast redwood |
* |
Has a policy to revisit |
| Solanum |
laxum |
Potato vine |
|
Mostly removed 2019 |
| Solanum | sp. | Nightshade species | | Needs species ID; may be native |
| Solanum | ajugoides | CA hedgenettle | * | VW called this native lamb's ear |
| Stachys |
byzantina |
Lamb's ear |
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Mostly on the beaches |
| Stellaria |
media |
Chickweed |
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Have photo |
| Symphoricarpos |
albus |
Snowberry |
* |
Variety: laevigatus |
| Taraxacum |
officinalis |
Dandelion |
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| Tellima |
grandiflora |
Fringe cups |
* |
Doing very well |
| Tetragonia |
tetragonoides |
New Zealand spinach |
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| Toxicodendron |
diversilobum |
Poison oak |
* |
Sanctioned patch above Sandy beach |
| Tradescantia |
fluminesis |
Wandering Jew |
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LMP p. 25 removal techniques |
| Trifolium |
hirtum |
Rose clover |
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| Trillium |
oatum |
Western trillium |
* |
Added in 2016; lost in 2019; LMP page 29 |
| Umbellularia |
californica |
Bay laurel |
* |
LMP page 30; carries SOD & has leaf necrosis |
| Utrica |
dioca |
Stinging nettle |
* |
Variety: gracilis |
| Vaccinium |
ovatum |
CA huckleberry |
* |
Added |
| Verbascum |
thapsus |
Great mullein |
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| Verbascum | blattaria | Moth mullein | | On gravel beach |
| Veronica |
sp. |
Blue water speedwell |
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On beaches have photo |
| Vinca |
major |
Periwinkle |
|
LMP p. 26 removal techniques |
| Viola |
glabella |
Stream violet |
* |
Confirmed early-on (possibly 2011 spring) |
| Viola |
sempervirens |
Redwood violet |
* |
Not in PPP; found on Starrett hill |
| Vitis |
californicus |
California wild grape |
* |
STRAW added more |
| Whipplea |
modesta |
Modesty |
* |
Not in PPP; found on Starrett Hill |
| Woodwardia | fimbriata | Chain fern | * | Added in 2020 |
| Xanthium |
strumarum |
Common cocklebur |
* |
Beaches, beach path & Tortuga path |
