Fanny McClatchy Richardson (1859-1948) was a California painter who spent much of her life devoted to capturing California flora in near botanical illustration accuracy. Through the medium of ...

Long before the buildings and boulevards, before people inhabited the great basin that became known as Los Angeles, there were plants and fire. For the native flora here in California, fire is an ...

Ever pick a wildflower in California? Before you pluck another posey, you might want to think again. California is home to a number of rare and endangered plants. A total of 225 species, subspecies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Showy Penstemon add vibrancy to the Lincoln Heights California Native Plant Corridor. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) So ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You don't need an acre of land to enrich the environment, says Christopher Smee of his Glendale front yard, which is filled with ...

Welcome to the December issue of the L.A. Times Plants newsletter. Yes, I know it’s the holidays. However, we have plenty to keep plant people busy this month. First, let me share what I learned from ...

As wildflowers go, the mountain jewelflower is demure, clever and quietly unbreakable. It has spread across many of California’s iconic landscapes, from Sonoma wine country to the oak-dotted foothills ...

"California is kind of a model system for flora, it always has been: the place the botanists went to study the process of plant evolution going way back into '40s," Mishler said. "Despite how well ...

The remarkable diversity of California’s plant life is largely the result of low extinction rates over the past 45 million years, according to a new study published in the journal Evolution. Although ...

California native plants have often been featured in this column for multiple reasons. Because we are now in the season the rains help newly installed plants to form roots, an overview of these plants ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Christopher Smee replaced his water-hungry lawn ...