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 ↓

Indian Rhubarb

Darmera peltata (Indian rhubarb or, ambiguously, "umbrella plant") is a flowering plant, the only species within the genus Darmera in the family Saxifragaceae. It is a slowly-spreading rhizomatous perennial native to mountain streamsides in woodland in the western United States (southwestern Oregon to northwestern California), growing to 2 m ...more ↓

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