Introduction to California Soils and Plants Insects to a milkweed seed floating

to a milkweed seed floating on the wind

Source of edible pine nuts

but can be invasive

Plant Characteristics Family Name Grossulariaceae Species Name Ribes speciosum 'Rana Creek' Common Name Rana Creek Fuchsia Flowering Gooseberry Plant Type Shrub Sun Exposure Coast-Sun

Cold Hardy to Less than 15 degrees F Distribution Orange and San Diego counties

Introduction to California Soils and Plants Insects to a milkweed seed floatingCarnivorous pitcher plants, pygmy conifers, and the Tiburon jewel flower, restricted to a small patch of serpentine soil on Tiburon Peninsula in Marin County, are just a few of California's many amazing endemic plantsspecies that are unique to particular locales. California boasts an abundance of endemic plants precisely because it also boasts the richest geologic diversity of any place in North America, perhaps in the world. In lively prose, Arthur