Clusters of small white kāwaʻu flowers opening among the tree’s glossy, leathery leaves. Photo: Forest & Kim Starr (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 US). Ilex
Alani growing as a many-branched shrub along a windswept Maui ridge, its leaves held in distinctive whorls. Photo: Forest & Kim Starr (Wikimedia Commons, CC
A dense Tucker oak thicket at Vasquez Rocks Natural Area, its gray-green leaves packed tightly on wiry branches. Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, via Wikimedia Commons
A Santa Cruz Island oak branch showing its glossy leaves and spring catkins, photographed at the UC Regional Parks Botanic Garden. Photo: John Rusk, via
Santa Cruz cypress growing in its narrow native habitat among pines and chaparral on sandy soils of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Photo: Pacific Southwest Region
Pacific scrub oak forms dense, low thickets on the slopes of Santa Cruz Island. Photo: Awinch1001, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Quercus pacifica, the
Coast sandalwood growing in dry coastal shrubland on Maui, its pale blue-green leaves distinguishing it from surrounding vegetation. Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, via Wikimedia
Sitka Willow’s silky, silver-backed leaves along Willapa National Wildlife Refuge. Photo: Chris Light, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Salix sitchensis, known as Sitka Willow (also
A mature Mueller Oak rooted in a crack between granite boulders along the Barker Dam Trail, Joshua Tree National Park. Photo: Robb Hannawacker/NPS, Wikimedia Commons
Hooker Willow forming a dense, wind-sculpted dune thicket on the Oregon coast. Photo: Gordon Leppig & Andrea J. Pickart, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) Salix hookeriana,
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