East Bay Native Plant Species

Alameda and Contra Costa counties are home to many native plant species. We have assembled an incomplete (but growing!) collection of photographs and information about many of these.

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Looking north at Hunt Field in spring of 2012, a few years into the restoration project. Photo by Lech Naumovich.

Antioch Dunes evening primrose (Oenothera deltoides ssp. howellii) at Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by James Gorham, CC BY-NC 4.0.

Dwarf brodiaea (Brodiaea terrestris) is ranked A2 in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Photo by Dianne Lake.

Our native oaks, like this blue oak (Quercus douglasii) in Corral Hollow, are adapted to summer drought. Photo ©Pete Veilleux, East Bay Wilds.