Introduction to California Soils and Plants Insects Cold Hardy to Less than

Cold Hardy to Less than 15 degrees F Distribution Orange and San Diego counties

Source of edible pine nuts

Plant Characteristics Family Name Alliaceae Species Name Allium dichlamydeum Common Name Coast Onion Plant Type Bulb Sun Exposure Coast-Sun

but can be invasive

Introduction to California Soils and Plants Insects Cold Hardy to Less thanCarnivorous pitcher plants, pygmy conifers, and the Tiburon jewel flower, restricted to a small patch of serpentine soil on Tiburon Peninsula in Marin County, are just a few of California's many amazing endemic plantsspecies that are unique to particular locales. California boasts an abundance of endemic plants precisely because it also boasts the richest geologic diversity of any place in North America, perhaps in the world. In lively prose, Arthur