Native Plants

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Park Stewardship Marin - Wolfback Ridge
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Become a Park Steward and help protect endangered species and restore sensitive habitat in Marin.

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Park Stewardship San Mateo - Rancho Corral de Tierra - Master
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Help protect endangered species and restore sensitive habitat while enjoying a day in the park.

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Alcatraz Historic Gardens

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Help restore and maintain gardens once tended by the island’s military and penitentiary residents—add life, color, and vibrancy to the Rock.

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(CANCELED) Marin Headlands Nursery

Learn to grow and care for native plants while helping to preserve and restore your national park.

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A group transplants coyote brush.
(CANCELED) Marin Headlands Nursery

Learn to grow and care for native plants while helping to preserve and restore your national park.

Presidio Native Plant Nursery staff
Call it a Comeback: Nursery Staff, Techs Return Endangered Plants to the Presidio

A new year brings a new start for an extraordinary plant once thought to be extinct. Learn how our Presidio Native Plant Nursery is helping to re-establish the Franciscan manzanita—and its close relative the Raven’s manzanita—in your national park.

Osoberry (Oemleria cerasiformis, Rosaceae family) leaf detail, Presidio Native Plant Nursery.
"Green" Seed and Plant Lab Blossoms at the Presidio

The Seed and Plant Lab features high-efficiency heating and refrigeration systems and provides an ideal space for processing, storing, and treating over 300 batches of seeds used to grow plants for park restoration projects.

Coyote Brush
Discover the (Hidden) Changes of the Fall Season in the Golden Gate National Parks

Our trees may not change even a hue and our weather may not get much chillier, but you can find hints of more “traditional” autumn phenomena in the Golden Gate National Parks. Save yourself the plane ticket to the Northeast, and find the fall in the national parks in your backyard.

Wild Cucumber, or California Manroot, (Marah fabaceus, Cucurbitaceae family), along the Battery East Trail, Presidio
One Cool Cucumber: Marah and its Frightening Fruit

Most of the year, we like to feature soft, picture-perfect native plants that beckon you to frolic in the parklands. But for Halloween, we’re profiling the ghoulish wild cucumber, which features some diabolically scary fruit—and a terrifying rate of growth.

Mountain Lake Park
Adventures with Stinky Plants: Part II

Dive back into the weird world of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV), as we see how nursery staff and interns are demystifying the growing process for these fascinating plants that live beneath the surface of Mountain Lake in the Presidio.

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