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| Gilia capitata one of my favorite flowers in the Presidio |
Welcome, this blog is a way for me to consolidate all the photos of native and invasive plants I come across in my job as a restoration technician for the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. Every week I work at different sites within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. We work in partnership with the National Park Service keeping an eye on invasive plants in park lands. We also aid in restoration projects being done all over the park to reintroduce native plant communities that fish and wildlife are dependent on for their survival.
A good portion of lands in the GGNRA border urban and suburban development, this makes it extra challenging to keep these native plant communities intact. With so many opportunities for non-native plants to escape from cultivation via birds, water, roads, hikers, and wind we really have our work cut out for us. These photos are in no particular order all of them are taken on inland dunes in the Presidio in San Francisco except for the Cirsium what was on a coastal bluff.
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| Cirsium andrewsii |
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| Lessingia germanorum |
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A huge example of one Lessingia germanorum plant
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| Tancetum camphoratum |
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| Abronia umbellatta |
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| Uropappus lindleyi |
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| Phacelia californica |
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| Abronia latifolia |
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Phacelia malvifolia
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| Navarretia squarrosa |
