A native San Francisco manzanita bush believed to be extinct in the wild for more than 60 years has been discovered in the Presidio surrounded by concrete and highway traffic. The wild specimen of ...

Last week, we recounted how Rose Hillson discovered and nurtured a manzanita plant in the yard of her Parker Avenue home. Unable to identify its species, she turned to San Francisco State University ...

SAN FRANCISCO — To an average person, it may just be a drab clump of evergreen leaves indistinguishable from the other plants in the Presidio woods. But the rediscovered San Francisco shrub now has ...

President Barack Obama regularly disregards laws to impose his preferred policies, Ted Cruz maintains. The Republican senator from Texas hammered that theme in a May 6, 2014, report, the fourth in a ...

Where researchers found a new species of California manzanita Scientists estimate there are only 300-700 of the new manzanita shrubs What is endangering the new manzanita shrub California scientists ...

A Bay Area plant expert got the thrill of his career last month when he discovered a plant near the Golden Gate Bridge that was supposed to be extinct. Botanist Daniel Gluesenkamp spotted the wild ...

Too often evergreen shrubs are mis-pruned in the average landscape, shaved into spheres, boxes and misshapen loaves of green bread. This is usually because amateur and professional gardeners do not ...

A flowering California shrub thought to be extinct in the wild for almost seven decades was added to the federal endangered species list Wednesday after a sharp-eyed biologist spotted the plant on a ...

The Golden State has added an official shrub and snake, both selected for how they embody California’s natural resilience.

The Spanish gave this shrub its common name because it produces little red apples. Native Americans used these apple-like fruits to make meal and cider. Bears, deer, squirrels and birds consume their ...