Checklist of the Plants of Albany Hill, Cerrito Creek (between San Pablo Ave. & Pierce Street), and Creekside Park, Alameda and Contra Costa Cos., CA
prepared by Barbara Ertter (last update: October 1999) (nomenclature updated to 2012 Jepson by Margot Cunningham)
For photos of Albany Hill plant specimens and herbaria lists of Albany Hill specimens see the mini-herbarium.
ALL CAPS = native # = targeted for eradication efforts
| FERNS AND FERN ALLIES | |
| ADIANTUM JORDANII | California maidenhair fern |
| DRYOPTERIS ARGUTA | shield fern |
| EQUISETUM TELMATEIA ssp. BRAUNII | giant horsetail |
| PENTAGRAMMA TRIANGULARIS ssp. TRIANGULARIS | goldenback fern |
| POLYPODIUM CALIRHIZA | polypody |
| POLYSTICHUM MUNITUM | western sword fern |
| PTERIDIUM AQUILINUM var. PUBESCENS | bracken fern |
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| TREES AND SHRUBS | |
| Acacia baileyana | Cootamundra wattle |
| Acacia longifolia | Sydney golden wattle |
| Acacia melanoxylon# | blackwood acacia |
| Acacia retinodes | everblooming acacia |
| AESCULUS CALIFORNICA | California buck-eye |
| ALNUS RHOMBIFOLIA | white alder |
| ARTEMISIA CALIFORNICA | California sagebrush |
| BACCHARIS PILULARIS | coyote bush |
| CORYLUS CORNUTA ssp.[=var.] CALIFORNICA | California hazel-nut |
| Cotoneaster lacteus# | big-leaf cotoneaster |
| Cotoneaster pannosus# | common cotoneaster |
| Eucalyptus globulus | blue gum |
| Eucalyptus viminalis | manna gum |
| FRANGULA [=RHAMNUS] CALIFORNICA ssp. CALIFORNICA | coffee-berry |
| Fuchsia magellanica | common fuchsia |
| Genista monspessulana## | French broom |
| GRINDELIA STRICTA var. ANGUSTIFOLIA | marsh gumplant |
| Hesperocyparis [=Cupressus] macrocarpa | Monterey cypress |
| HETEROMELES ARBUTIFOLIA | toyon |
| llex aquifolium# | English holly |
| LONICERA HISPIDULA [=var. VACILLANS] | California honeysuckle |
| MIMULUS AURANTIACUS | bush (or sticky) monkeyflower |
| Pinus radiata# | Monterey pine |
| Pittosporum tenuifolium | pittosporum |
| PLATANUS RACEMOSA | western sycamore |
| Prunus cerasifera# | cherry plum |
| Prunus illicifolia ssp. lyonii | Catalina cherry |
| PRUNUS SUBCORDATA | Sierra plum |
| Pyracantha angustifolia (or hybrids) | firethorn |
| Pyracantha fortuneana [=crenatoserrata] | Chinese firethorn |
| QUERCUS AGRIFOLIA var. AGRIFOLIA | coast live oak |
| RIBES CALIFORNICUM var. CALIFORNUCUM | hillside gooseberry |
| RIBES MALVACEUM var. MALVACEUM | pink flowering currant |
| Robinia pseudoacacia | black locust |
| ROSA CALIFORNICA var. CALIFORNICA | California rose |
| ROSA GYMNOCARPA | wood rose |
| ROSA CALIFORNICA var. ORTHOCANTHA [=NUTKANA var. NUTKANA] | straight-thorned rose |
| Rubus armeniacus [=discolor] | Himalayan blackberry |
| Rubus ulmifolius var. anoplothyrsus [=inermis]# | thornless blackberry |
| RUBUS URSINUS | California blackberry |
| SALIX LAEVIGATA | red willow |
| SALIX LASIOLEPIS [=var. LASIOLEPIS] | arroyo willow |
| SALIX LASIOLEPIS [=var. BIGELOVII] | arroyo (=Bigelow’s) willow |
| SAMBUCUS NIGRA ssp. CAERULEA [=MEXICANA] | blue elderberry |
| SYMPHORICARPOS ALBUS var. LAEVIGATUS | bush snowberry |
| SYMPHORICARPOS MOLLIS | creeping snowberry |
| TOXICODENDRON DIVERSILOBUM | poison-oak |
| VACCINIUM OVATUM | California huckleberry |
Tending the Ancient Shoreline Hill (TASH) 