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 ↓
Quercus agrifolia, the Coast Live Oak, is an evergreen oak (highly variable and often shrubby), native to the California Floristic Province. It grows west of the Sierra Nevada from Mendocino County, California, south to northern Baja California in Mexico. It is classified in the red oak section (Quercus sect. Lobatae).