57 California native plants that survived the Ice Age to live on today Juniper branch and seeds from circa 50,000 years ago. (Jeanette Marantos / Los Angeles Times) ...

California’s proposed ban on plants near homes could be dangerously bad advice. Don’t blame the vegetation: Many structures appear to have ignited even though surrounding plants did not, ...

Each spring, a wave of orange sweeps across the Western United States, with the California poppy, Eschscholzia californica, seen blooming throughout much of Arizona, California and New Mexico ...

Using more than 652,000 observations uploaded to iNaturalist (left), UC Berkeley scientists created an AI model to predict the distribution of 2,221 species of plants around the state. To train ...