This week’s featured California native plant is the cow parsnip (Heracleum maximum). It not only grows in California, but in most of the United States, and is the only plant in the genus Heracleum native to North America.

Learn to identify common edible plants and forage for your own food in the Bay Area.

Propagation - or starting plants from other plants - is easier than it sounds! Save yourself time and money otherwise spent at the nursery, and continue to stay home and keep the community safe.