Regional Parks Botanic Garden

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Redwoods shading the forest area of the garden.

Wyethia helenioides, gray mule's ears, in the garden

View of the Botanic Garden in November 2013

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[]

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:

with subsections:

Collected plants include:

See also[]

• List of botanical gardens in the United States

References[]

External links[]

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• https://nativeplants.org/ - Official website

Coordinates: 37°53′36″N 122°14′37″W / 37.8933°N 122.2436°W / 37.8933; -122.2436