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Regional Parks Botanic Garden

Botanical garden in California

Redwoods shading the forest area of the garden.

The Regional Parks Botanic Garden is a 10-acre (4 hectare) botanical garden located in Tilden Regional Park in the Berkeley Hills, east of Berkeley, California, in the United States. It showcases California native plants, and is open to the public. The garden was founded on January 1, 1940.

Specimens

Notable specimens include nearly all the state's conifers and oaks, a very good collection of wild lilacs (Ceanothus species), perhaps the most complete collection of California manzanitas anywhere, expanding collections of Californian native bunchgrasses and aquatics, and representatives of some 300 rare and endangered vascular taxa of California. The garden is organized into sections, each representing a distinctive natural area in California:

View of the Botanic Garden in November 2013

Southern California
Shasta-Klamath
Valley-Foothill
Santa Lucia
Channel Islands
Sierran
Redwood
Sea Bluff
Pacific Rain Forest
Franciscan with subsections:
Antioch Dunes
Coastal Dunes
Pond

Collected plants include:

silktassels
manzanitas
osoberry
currants
barberries
Dutchman's pipe
fuchsia-flowered gooseberry
milkmaids
western leatherwood
scoliopus
redbud
California poppy
trilliums
shooting stars
wallflowers
fritillarias
fawn lilies
rock cress
pussy willows
California rose-bay or rhododendron
woolly blue curls
ninebark
mountain spiraea
summer holly
ceanothus
Chinese houses
irises
styrax
blazing star
monkeyflowers
fremontias
carpenteria
tidy tips
bush poppies
brodiaeas
mariposa tulips
cacti
clarkias
mock orange
western azalea
matilija poppy
fireweed
ocean spray
sweet shrub
columbines
penstemons
scarlet mimulus
buckwheats
evening primroses
gums
larkspur
lupines
California fuchsias
tarweeds
hibiscus
helianthus
snowberries
madrone
cottonwoods
deciduous oaks
dogwoods
hawthorn
willows
vine maple

References

"Friends of the Regional Parks Botatic Garden". East Bay Regional Park District.

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