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Welcome to the Coe Park vascular plant list.
To make our list as
useful as possible, we've included links to pictures of individual
species.
The species without picture links are ones we could find
no pictures of (though we'll continue searching).
We've divided the list of plants into six groups, which we've put on six separate pages so that page reloading will be less time-costly to you if you link to pictures and return to the lists.The plants are grouped alphabetically by scientific family name; within the families, the species are sorted alphabetically by genus name. If you're looking for a family but you're not sure what its scientific name is, you can search for the common family name in our family names list and link to the family from there. For example, if you're looking for a plant that you know is in the buttercup family, you can link to the list, find "buttercup" in alphabetical order in the first column, and click on its scientific name (Ranunculaceae, in this case) in the second column. You'll go straight to a list of all known Coe Park plants in the buttercup family.
If you're looking for the scientific or common name of a particular plant, you can link to our scientific names index and search alphabetically for the plant's scientific name or search for the common name with your browser's "find function." If you select a species from the index, you'll go to the listing for the species on our vascular plant list. Note: There are about 675 vascular plants known to grow in Coe Park. For that reason, our scientific name index is a large file (about 220KB), and it takes longer than most of our other pages to load. For example, the index can take about 20 seconds to load or reload at 24K bps.
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| Printable plant list (PDF, 265KB) |
Translation of Scientific Plant Names. Scientific names are much easier to learn when we know what they mean. This website provides English translations for a large group of species names. You'll find a wealth of word meanings and name derivations on the Calflora botanical names pages.Picture Links. Many of the picture links on our plant list take you to photos on the UC Berkeley Digital Library project pages, but a number of links are to images on other sites. We'll continue to look for more pictures and drawings of plants. If you find links to photos or drawings that you think would enhance our pages, please contact us at the e-mail address on our home page.
Scientific Names. The Coe Park plant list conforms to the classification and botanical nomenclature of The Jepson Manual published in 1993. A few of the picture links on our list will take you to pages that haven't yet been updated to conform with Jepson, so you may link from a plant with a scientific name on our list that doesn't match the name you'll see on the image page. The plants will, however, be the same, and if you look at the synonyms on our list, you'll find the noncurrent name still in use on the image page.
Common Names. The Jepson Manual doesn't provide many common names for species, but our common names conform to the ones they do provide (in most cases). We've also made our common names conform closely to the names in Plants of the San Francisco Bay Region by Kozloff and Beidleman, and we've included common names from popular field guides (such as A Field Guide to Pacific States Wildflowers, one of the books in the Peterson Field Guide series, and Spring Wildflowers of the San Francisco Bay Region by Helen Sharsmith).
Our Wildflower Photo Album. If you don't care much about the scientific names of plants and you'd really prefer to look at photos of some of the most beautiful wildflowers in the park, you might want to open our wildflower album.