Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Blog

Rafinesquia neomexicana (desert chicory) In my earliest years documenting plants as a botanist, I was fortunate enough to experience sev...

As the holidays approach, some of us will be decorating our homes with a tree native to mountains of western North America, the White fir ...

It is hard to believe that the California Native Sage Festival took place nearly a month ago. How time flies by! This was our second year c...

Linanthus killipii Botanists should really love all groups of plants, but sometimes, like many things in life, you cant help but love c...

Last year I wrote about Orcutt’s spineflower ( Chorizanthe orcuttiana ), a diminutive, highly endangered plant from the coastal bluffs of ...