Regional Parks Botanic Garden

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Redwoods shading the forest area of the garden.

The Regional Parks Botanic Garden is a 10-acre (4 hectare) botanical garden located in Tilden Regional Park in the Berkeley Hills, east of Berkeley, California, in the United States. It showcases California native plants, and is open to the public in daylight hours every day of the year except New Year's Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. The Garden was founded on January 1, 1940.

## Specimens[edit]

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Selected locations in and near Tilden Regional Park

* Points of interest
* Nearby parks and museums

Tilden Little Farm

Tilden Park Merry-Go-Round

Inspiration Point

Lake Anza

Brazilian Room

Regional Parks Botanic Garden

Tilden Park Golf Course

Redwood Valley Railway

Blake Garden

Indian Rock Park

Berkeley Rose Garden

Lawrence Hall of Science

San Pablo Reservoir

Notable specimens include nearly all the state's conifers and oaks, a very good collection of wild lilacs (Ceanothus species), perhaps the most complete collection of California manzanitas anywhere, expanding collections of Californian native bunchgrasses and aquatics, and representatives of some 300 rare and endangered vascular taxa of California. The Garden is organized into sections, each representing a distinctive natural area in California:

Wyethia helenioides, gray mule's ears, in the garden View of the Botanic Garden in November 2013

* Southern California
* Shasta-Klamath
* Valley-Foothill
* Santa Lucia
* Channel Islands
* Sierran
* Redwood
* Sea Bluff
* Pacific Rain Forest
* Franciscan

with subsections:

* Antioch Dunes
* Coastal Dunes
* Pond

Collected plants include:

* silktassels
* manzanitas
* osoberry
* currants
* barberries
* Dutchman's pipe
* fuchsia-flowered gooseberry
* milkmaids
* western leatherwood
* scoliopus
* redbud
* California poppy
* trilliums
* shooting stars
* wallflowers
* fritillarias
* fawn lilies
* rock cress
* pussy willows
* California rose-bay or rhododendron
* woolly blue curls
* ninebark
* mountain spiraea
* summer holly
* ceanothus
* Chinese houses
* irises
* styrax
* blazing star
* monkeyflowers
* fremontias
* carpenteria
* tidy tips
* bush poppies
* brodiaeas
* mariposa tulips
* cacti
* clarkias
* mock orange
* western azalea
* matilija poppy
* fireweed
* ocean spray
* sweet shrub
* columbines
* penstemons
* scarlet mimulus
* buckwheats
* evening primroses
* gums
* larkspur
* lupines
* California fuchsias
* tarweeds
* hibiscus
* helianthus
* snowberries
* madrone
* cottonwoods
* deciduous oaks
* dogwoods
* hawthorn
* willows
* vine maple

## See also[edit]

* List of botanical gardens in the United States

## References[edit]

## External links[edit]

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* https://nativeplants.org/ \- Official website

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