Walking Waterhoods: Temescal Creek Headwaters

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Glory Bush (Tibouchina urvilleana) can grow up to a whopping 20 feet tall. Other names for this plant include Princess Flower, Pleroma, and Purple Glory tree. This plant's showy flowers are a beautiful purple and feature striking black stam... Read more

Common Lions Paw (Leonotis leonurus) has many names, including Lions Tail and wild dagga. It is a drought-tolerant plant in the mint family and is native to the grasslands of southern Africa. The plant's tubular orange blooms attract all so... Read more

The East Bay Hills are experiencing an increase in periods of extreme fire danger. They have many restrictions during fire season to keep the community and wildlife as safe as possible. Laws prohibit smoking and building, lighting, or maint... Read more

Shining Cranesbill (Geranium lucidum) is a type of geranium with deep pink flowers featuring five petals. This plant shoots its seeds into the air, enabling the seeds to travel up to 20 feet. This ability means this plant has started taking... Read more

As its name suggests, New Zealand Cabbage Tree (Cordyline australis) is an understory plant native to New Zealand. The cabbage tree has a spiky silhouette and is sometimes called the Torbay palm. The San Francisco Bay District Horticultural... Read more

The Crimson Bottlebrush (Callistemon citrinus), also known as Melaleuca citrina, common red bottlebrush, and lemon bottlebrush, is a plant native to Australia. It was one of the first Australian plants to be grown outside of Australia. This... Read more

Sweet pittosporum (Pittosporum undulatum), also known as Victorian box or mock orange, is a fast-growing tree. It is widely adapted to forests, woodlands, grasslands, scrub, and chaparral habitats. It spreads via seeds, roots and sticky see... Read more

Native to the San Francisco Bay Area, the knobcone pine (Pinus attenuata, also called Pinus tuberculat) is found from Baja California to the mountain slopes of southern Oregon. This plant has an extensive distribution in Northern California... Read more

Lemmon's marigold (Tagetes lemmonii) is also known as Copper Canyon daisy, mountain marigold, and Mexican marigold. Well-known field botanists John and Sara Lemmon discovered this species of Tagetes growing in Arizona at elevations from 5,0... Read more

Lemmon's marigold (Tagetes lemmonii) is also known as Copper Canyon daisy, mountain marigold, and Mexican marigold. Well-known field botanists John and Sara Lemmon discovered this species of Tagetes growing in Arizona at elevations from 5,0... Read more

Most people call these beetles ladybugs. The convergent lady beetle (Hippodamia convergens) is one of the most common lady beetle species in North America. It consumes aphids, scales, thrips, and other soft-bodied insects, and you'll often ... Read more

Mak and Kris Bryan-Kjaer own Yarrow Nursery, a flora nursery bursting with a selection of native and drought-resistant plants. If you visit the nursery, you'll walk over a bridge above Temescal Creek. The owners decided to construct the nur... Read more

You're likely to have seen the the American robin (Turdus migratorius) in your yard and as you walk about your neighborhood. This migratory songbird has a reddish-orange chest and gray head and feathers. There is a large population of this ... Read more

You can spot part of Temescal Creek flowing through this region right along Thornhill Drive. The area that was once Thornhill Park is now part of Forest Park and Montclair Highlands. First advertised for sale in 1917, Realty Syndicate Compa... Read more

Columbian black-tail deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) are the subspecies of black-tails native to the San Francisco Bay Area. They inhabit woodlands and chaparral-covered mountains. Nearly 60% of the 560,000 deer in all California are... Read more

Steller's jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) is a bird native to western North America and the mountains of Central America, closely related to the blue jay found in eastern North America. It is also known as the long-crested jay, mountain jay, and ... Read more