Here are our picks for the best independently owned plant nurseries near Los Angeles. April 4, 2022 The Indigenous people of northern Baja and Southern California have long harvested white sage ...

Poachers are stealing wild white sage at an alarming rate from its Southern California habitat and selling it to smudge stick makers. Here’s how to save the native plant. Now, here are other ...

foragers White sage isn’t the only native plant whose numbers are in rapid decline because of poaching and foraging in Southern California and Baja California. Meza Calles said stands of ...

From San Luis Obispo south to Baja California, white sage grows natively and has been used by Native ... filmmakers Rose Ramirez and Deborah Small explain the importance of the plant in pollination, ...

white sage is in high demand. The demand has become so great that many Chumash people (of what is now Southern California) are concerned that the plant is being overharvested. The United States ...

Black said many plants are medicinal or culturally ... Other species include California rose, blue elderberry, white sage, and purple sage. Black, an environmental soil scientist and graduate ...

For the native flora here in California ... bees with pink and white flowers. While fire helps some plants grow, too many fires can push others out. Buckwheat and sage used to litter the coast ...