Special Collections
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
The SBBG is dedicated to the study, display and preservation of California's native flora, and offers an extensive public education program.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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| Abies bracteata | Bristlecone Fir | |
| Abies concolor | White Fir Balsam Fir Colorado Fir Concolor Fir Silver Fir White Balsam Oyamel De California | |
| Abies grandis | Grand Fir Giant Fir | |
| Acalypha californica | California Copperleaf | |
| Acer circinatum | Oregon Vine Maple Vine Maple | |
| Achnatherum coronatum | Giant Ricegrass Giant Rice Grass Needle-and-thread Grass | |
| Aconitum columbianum | Columbian Monkshood | |
| Achnatherum hymenoides | Indian Ricegrass Indian Millet Sandgrass | |
| Achnatherum lettermanii | Letterman's Needlegrass | |
| Acer macrophyllum | Bigleaf Maple Big-leaf Maple | |
| Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
| Actaea rubra | Red Baneberry | |
| Achnatherum speciosum | Desert Needlegrass Desert Rice Grass Spear Grass | |
| Adiantum capillus-veneris | Southern Maidenhair Fern Common Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern Venus Hair Fern | |
| Adenostoma fasciculatum | Chamise Common Chamise Greasewood | |
| Adenostoma sparsifolium | Redshank Ribbon Bush Ribbonwood | |
| Aesculus californica | California Buckeye | |
| Agave deserti | Desert Agave Desert Century Plant Century Plant | |
| Agrimonia gryposepala | Tall Hairy Agrimony Agrimony | |
| Agave shawii | Coastal Agave Boundary Century Plant Shaw's Century Plant | |
| Agastache urticifolia | Nettleleaf Giant Hyssop Nettle-leaf Horsemint | |
| Agave utahensis | Utah Agave | |
| Allium amplectens | Narrowleaf Onion | |
| Allium dichlamydeum | Coastal Onion | |
| Allium peninsulare | Mexicali Onion | |
| Allium praecox | Early Onion | |
| Alnus rhombifolia | White Alder | |
| Allium unifolium | Oneleaf Onion | |
| Allium validum | Pacific Onion Tall Swamp Onion Swamp Onion | |
| Aloysia wrightii | Wright's Beebrush Wright's Lippia | |
| Ambrosia dumosa | Burrobush White Bursage White Bur Sage | |
| Amelanchier utahensis | Utah Serviceberry | |
| Anemopsis californica | Yerba Mansa Yerba-mansa Lizard Tail | |
| Apocynum cannabinum | Indian Hemp Prairie Dogbane Hemp Dogbane Dogbane | |
| Aquilegia eximia | Van Houtte's Columbine Serpentine Columbine | |
| Aquilegia formosa | Western Columbine Crimson Columbine Scarlet Columbine Red Columbine | |
| Aquilegia pubescens | Sierra Columbine Sierran Columbine | |
| Aristolochia californica | California Dutchman's Pipe | |
| Artemisia californica | Coastal Sagebrush California Sagebrush | |
| Aralia californica | California Spikenard | |
| Arctostaphylos canescens | Hoary Manzanita | |
| Arctostaphylos columbiana | Hairy Manzanita | |
| Arctostaphylos densiflora | Vine Hill Manzanita | |
| Artemisia douglasiana | Douglas' Sagewort Douglas Mugwort | |
| Arctostaphylos edmundsii | Little Sur Manzanita | |
| Argentina egedii ssp. egedii | Pacific Silverweed Beach Silverweed | |
| Arctostaphylos glandulosa | Eastwood's Manzanita | |
| Arctostaphylos glauca | Bigberry Manzanita Blue Manzanita | |
| Arctostaphylos hookeri | Hooker's Manzanita Monterey Manzanita | |
| Artemisia ludoviciana | Louisiana Artemisia Louisiana Sage White Sage Prairie Sage Silver Sage White Sagebrush Louisiana Wormwood Silver Wormwood Louisiana Sagewort Gray Sagewort Cudweed Sagewort Mugwort Wormwood | |
| Arbutus menziesii | Pacific Madrone Oregon Laurel Laurelwood | |
| Artemisia palmeri | San Diego Sagewort San Diego Sagebrush | |
| Arctostaphylos patula | Greenleaf Manzanita Green-leaf Manzanita | |
| Arctostaphylos pungens | Pointleaf Manzanita Mexican Manzanita | |
| Aristida purpurea | Purple Threeawn Purple 3-awn Purple Three-awn Red Threeawn | |
| Aristida purpurea var. nealleyi | Blue Threeawn | |
| Artemisia pycnocephala | Beach Sagebrush Beach Wormwood Sand Hill Sage | |
| Artemisia tridentata | Big Sagebrush Great Basin Sagebrush | |
| Arctostaphylos uva-ursi | Kinnikinnick Red Bearberry Kinnikinnik | |
| Asarum caudatum | British Columbia Wild Ginger Long-tail Wild Ginger | |
| Asclepias californica | California Milkweed | |
| Asyneuma prenanthoides | California Harebell Nodding Harebell | |
| Asclepias speciosa | Showy Milkweed | |
| Atriplex canescens | Chamiso Four-wing Saltbush Wing-scale | |
| Atriplex lentiformis | Big Saltbush Quailbush Saltbush Coastal Quail Bush | |
| Batis maritima | Turtleweed Seaside Saltwort | |
| Baccharis pilularis | Coyotebrush Chaparral Broom Coyote Bush | |
| Betula occidentalis | Water Birch Mountain Birch | |
| Blechnum spicant | Deer Fern | |
| Bothriochloa barbinodis | Pinhole Bluestem Cane Bluestem Cane Beardgrass Feather Bluestem Plains Beardgrass | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
| Bouteloua eriopoda | Black Grama | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue Grama | |
| Boykinia occidentalis | Coastal Brookfoam Coast Boykinia | |
| Boykinia rotundifolia | Roundleaf Brookfoam | |
| Brodiaea californica | California Brodiaea | |
| Brodiaea coronaria | Crown Brodiaea Harvest Brodiaea | |
| Brodiaea elegans | Harvest Brodiaea Elegant Cluster-lily | |
| Brodiaea minor | Vernalpool Brodiaea | |
| Carex barbarae | Santa Barbara Sedge | |
| Carpenteria californica | Bush Anemone Tree Anemone Tree-anemone | |
| Calochortus catalinae | Santa Catalina Mariposa Lily | |
| Calocedrus decurrens | Incense Cedar Incense-cedar | |
| Calliandra eriophylla | Pink Fairyduster Fairyduster Mesquitilla Mock Mesquite | |
| Calochortus kennedyi | Desert Mariposa Lily Desert Mariposa Red Mariposa-lily Flame Mariposa | |
| Calochortus luteus | Yellow Mariposa Lily | |
| Carex obnupta | Slough Sedge | |
| Calycanthus occidentalis | Western Sweetshrub California Sweet Shrub Spice Bush Western Spicebush | |
| Carex pansa | Sanddune Sedge | |
| Carex pellita | Woolly Sedge | |
| Carex spissa | San Diego Sedge | |
| Calochortus venustus | Butterfly Mariposa Lily Square Mariposa Lily White Mariposa Lily | |
| Calochortus vestae | Coast Range Mariposa Lily | |
| Ceanothus arboreus | Feltleaf Ceanothus Feltleaf Island Ceanothus Island Mountain Lilac | |
| Ceanothus griseus | Carmel Ceanothus Carmel Creeper Yankee Point Ceanothus | |
| Ceanothus greggii var. vestitus | Mojave Ceanothus Desert Ceanothus | |
| Ceanothus hearstiorum | Hearst Ranch Buckbrush | |
| Ceanothus impressus | Santa Barbara Ceanothus Santa Barbara Buckbrush | |
| Celtis laevigata var. reticulata | Netleaf Hackberry Netleaf Sugar Hackberry Western Hackberry Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Palo Blanco Acibuche | |
| Ceanothus leucodermis | Chaparral Whitethorn Jackbrush | |
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