Plant Taxa on the Fire Trail's of Berkeley

A guide to the plant taxa in and around the Berkeley Fire Trails. Beginning from the Centennial Peak Drive road parking lot, and continuing up towards the top of Claremont Canyon allows some excellent opportunities to see some of the different flora and fauna of the area. This trail also offers ...more ↓

Vetches

Vicia is a genus of about 140 species of flowering plants commonly known as vetches. It is in the legume family (Fabaceae). Member species are native to Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Africa. Some other genera of their subfamily Faboideae also have names containing "vetch", for example the vetchlings (Lathyrus) or the milk-vetches ...more ↓

Edited by Ryan Williams, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)