List of California Native Plants - Environmental Challenges

Environmental Challenges

Some California native plants are in rapid decline in their homeland from Urban sprawl, agriculture, overgrazing, recreational impacts, pollution, and invasive non-native species (invasive exotics) colonization pressures (animals and other kingdoms of life, as well as plants). Public groups, Conservation foundations, and college programs are leading the awareness movement and actual projects for saving existing plant populations and restoring healthy habitats for present vitality and future thriving.

California also has 1,023 species of non-native plants, some now problematic Invasive species such as Yellow Starthistle, that were introduced during the Spanish colonization, the California Gold Rush, and subsequent immigrations and import trading of the 18th-20th centuries.