Coastal Scrub Plants - Golden Gate National Recreation Area

This is a checklist of some common coastal scrub plants in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, CA.

Wavy-leafed Soap Plant

Chlorogalum pomeridianum, the wavy-leafed soap plant, California soaproot, or Amole, is the most common and most widely distributed of the soap plants, soaproots or amoles, which make up the genus Chlorogalum of flowering plants. It is occasionally known as the "wild potato", but given the plant's lack of either resemblance or relationship to the ...more ↓

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