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BIODIVERSITY
PLANTS
Westmont's campus plant community is the matrix in which all of our other species live, and on which they rely for food and shelter. We have a variety of lovely ornamentals distributed throughout campus, but native plants are a major feature of landscaping efforts. Furthermore, native wildflowers, shrubs, and trees flourish along the campus trail. There are doubtless many more than we have documented here--we hope this list will continue to grow!
TREES
Willow (Salix sp.)
California bay laurel
California live oak
Valley oak
Western sycamore
FERNS
California wood fern
WILDFLOWERS
Blue-eyed grass
California poppy
Golden yarrow
Hummingbird sage
Mugwort
Peak rushrose
Purple nightshade
Soap plant
Southern bush monkey flower
Wild cucumber
Wild hyacinth
Winecup clarkia
SHRUBS
Bigpod ceanothus
California blackberry
California hedge nettle
California sagebrush
Creeping snowberry
Blue elderberry
Fuchsia-flowered gooseberry
Greenbark ceanothus
Greenspot nightshade
Canyon sunflower
Coyote brush
Deerweed
Heartleaf keckiella
Hollyleaf cherry
Laurel sumac
Lemonadeberry
Mountain mahogany
Toyon
Redberry buckthorn
Scrub oak
Southern honeysuckle
Sawtooth goldenbush
Poison oak
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