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A fall time stroll through the redwood forests of Samuel P. Taylor State Park in Northern California’s Marin County and stumble upon Torreya Californica, the California Nutmeg. A wonderful unusual conifer tree endemic to California.

Explore the redwood forests of Sonoma County, appreciate the plants and soak in the epic view over the Willow Creek watershed.

Along creek sides in Northern Californias forests are a variety of plants, some ferns, sedges, mosses, etc. Among these plants are many differentf flowering shrubs, some with exceptionally beautiful blooms. This video is dedicated to some of these riparian shrubs, to show what their habitat is like and to pay my respect to it.

Hiking through the coastal forests of Northern California a person may notice that there are places were there is more rainfall the ecosystem could be called a temperate rainforest. In the zone this video was taken I am in a seasonal temperate rainforest, where the winter is when it the rainy season and the summer is the foggy season. Surely it is not like the temperate rainforest of British Co...

A brief adventure in the understory of enormous coastal redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) in Salt Point State Park. 2:17 Arnica discoidea “Rayless Arnica” in the sunflower family, Asteraceae.

The last video hike of Mount Davidson. In this video I will be covering the bunchgrass meadow and the many different plants growing in the planted eucalyptus forests.

Explore the summit of San Francisco’s highest peak, Mount Davidson. The main ecotone is shrub land mixed in with grasslands, comprised of grasses that are not native. In the most exposed, rocky places there is a surprising bounty of floristic diversity.

Step into San Francisco’s green gem Mount Davidson, here the landscape is divided into manmade forest and native habitat. In this video the hike begins with the man made forest and ascends to the peak where the natural mostly unchanged landscape is. Near the start of the video I pointed out a purple flower that I didn’t have the name for, it is called Solanum aviculaire.

Spring in the coastal montane forests of the SF peninsula

Hike down to stump beach in Salt Point State park. Beautiful nature and an even more fascinating ecosystem.

San Francisco’s mild climate is great for growing many subtropical plant species. In this video I will ID many of the ones I enjoy.

Mendocino Redwoods

Some Notable Plants Of Northern Californias Foot Hills

Know what it’s like to hike with a plant nerd? Here it is!