Nature & Science
Welcome to the Nature and Science section of the John Muir National Historic Site website. There is a large variety of plants, animals and insects that inhabit this park, including the many acres of Mount Wanda. We work hard to protect and preserve this land and it's inhabitants. There are many native and some non-native species that thrive here. We have provided lists of all the animals, plants and insects that we are aware of. From time to time, we are looking for volunteers to help with maintaining the plants and land around the John Muir NHS and Mount Wanda. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact the park. Apple
Apricot Atlas Cedar Autumn Sage Black Locust Black Walnut Blue Elderberry Bluegum Eucalyptus California Poppy California Wild Rose California Fuchsia California Hibisucs California Scrub Oak Canary Island Date Carmel Creeper Catalina Cherry Cedar-of-Lebanon Chasmanthe Cherokee Rose Chinese Wisteria Coast Live Oak Coast Silk Tassel Common Fig Cork Oak Coulter Pine Coyote Bush Deodar Cedar Douglas Iris English Hawthorn English Walnut Fuchsia-flowering Gooseberry Giant Sequoia Grapes: Muscat,Tokay, Zinfandel Harison's Yellow Rose Honey Locust Honey Mesquite Incense Cedar Italian Stone Pine Japanese Plum Japanese Flowering Quince Jeffery Pine Lady Bank's Rose Lemon Loquat Manzanita Matillija Poppy Mexican FanPalm Mourning Cypress Naked Lady Olive Orange Oregon Grape Oregon White Oak Pacific Dogwood Pacific Willow Peach Pear Pecan Periwinkle Plum Pomegranate Purple Needle Grass Quince Red Fescue Red Hot Poker Redwood Sticky Monkeyflower Strawberry Tree Poacaeae (Grass)
Spike Redtop (Agrostis exarata) California Brome (Bromus carinatus) Blue Wild Rye (Elymus glaucus) Giant Wild Rye (Leymus codensatus) Creeping Wild Rye (Leymus triticoides) California Melic (Melica californica) Torrey Meli (Melica torreyana) Foothill Needlegrass (Nasella lepida) Purple Needlegrass (Nasella pulchra) One-sided Bluegrass (Poa secunda) Few-flowered fescue (Vulpia microstachys) Amaranthaceae (Amaranth)
Anacardiaceae (Sumac) Apiaceae(Carrot) Western Poison Oak Western Poison Ivy Rattlesnake weed Bladder Parsnip Mountain Sweet Cicely Foothill Lomatium Kellogg's Yampah Purple Sanicle Pacific Snakeroot Aristolochiaceae (Birthwort) California Dutchman's Pipe Asclepiadaceae (Milkweed) Heart-leaved Milkweed Narrowleaf Milkweed Asteraceae (Sunflower) Yarrow Blow Wives California Dandelion California Sagebrush California Mugwort Woodland Aster Pacific Aster Coyote Brush Horseweed Golden Yarrow Fluff Weed Prostrate Pigweed Turkey Vulture
Mallard, male White-tailed Kite Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Sharp-shinned Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Ferruginous Hawk American Kestrel Wild Turkey California Quail Rock Pigeon Band-tailed Pigeon Mourning Dove Barn Owl Western Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl White-throated Swift Anna's Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Allen's Hummingbird Acorn Woodpecker Red-breasted Sapsucker Nuttall's Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Western Wood-Pewee Black Phoebe Say's Phoebe Ash-throated Flycatcher Olive-sided Flycatcher Pacific-slope Flycatcher Cassin's Vireo Hutton's Vireo Warbling Vireo Steller's Jay Western Scrub-Jay American Crow Violet-green Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Chestnut-backed Chickadee Oak Titmouse Bushtit White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Bewick's Wren House Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Western Bluebird American Robin Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Varied Thrush Northern Mockingbird European Starling Cedar Waxwing Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Townsend's Warbler Hermit Warbler Yellow Warbler Wilson's Warbler Western Tanager Spotted Towhee California Towhee Chipping Sparrow Lark Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Black-headed Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting Red-winged Blackbird Western Meadowlark Hooded Oriole Purple Finch House Finch Pine Siskin Lesser Goldfinch Lawrence's Goldfinch American Goldfinch Spiders Virginia Opossum
Bobcat Striped Skunk Brush Mouse Deer Mouse Western Pocket Gopher California Vole Common Raccoon Coyote Common Gray Fox Black-tailed Deer - Odocoileus hemionus columbianus Bats Big brown bat California myotis Fringed myotis Little brown bat Yuma myotis Silver-haired bat Western red bat Hoary bat Mexican free-tailed bat (alternate name: Brazilian free-tailed bat) Select a Park:Select a Species Category (optional):
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Last updated: November 14, 2018