Introduction to California Soils and Plants Insects Species Name: Allium falcifolium Common

Species Name: Allium falcifolium Common Name: Sickle-leaf Onion Clumps of grass-like leaves with flowers in the Spring

Plant Characteristics Family Name Saxifragaceae Species Name Heuchera 'Ruffles' Common Name Ruffles Alumroot Plant Type Perennial Sun Exposure Coast-Part Sun

Intricate and strangely beautiful etchings and drawings by Briony Morrow-Cribbs capture diabolical bugs of all shapes and sizes in this mixture of history

to a milkweed seed floating on the wind

Cold Hardy to 15 degrees F Distribution Northern High Sierra Nevada (Butte Co

Introduction to California Soils and Plants Insects Species Name: Allium falcifolium CommonCarnivorous 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