Grass Walk

Join the California Center for Natural History for an easy hike learning about the grasslands of Knowland Park.

Californian grasslands contain incredible native plant diversity, but are also some of the most extensively altered ecosystems in our state. Knowland Park is home to a now-rare assemblage of native grass species, as well as their forb associates.

On our afternoon walk, we will discuss some of the technical details of what it means to be a grass, and also how to identify members of this complex and diverse plant family. Here we can see many interesting California native grass species blooming, such as Purple needlegrass, California oat grass and Blue wild rye. We can also compare and contrast the grasses with their monocot relatives, the sedges and rushes.