TITLE

Audubon at home: HOLLYWOOD NATIVE

AUTHOR(S)

Tweit, Susan J.

PUB. DATE

July 2005

SOURCE

Audubon;Jul/Aug2005, Vol. 107 Issue 4, p28

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article informs about a real-life crusade by American actress Rene Russo to save her hometown's true heritage: its indigenous plants. At the end of a lane in the Santa Monica Mountains outside Los Angeles, California, an ocher retaining wall topped with native sandstone rises above the road but doesn't quite conceal the quiet revolution in landscaping taking place behind it. The plants that spill over the wall in colorful profusion are native to these steep canyons: Cedros Island snapdragon with vivid scarlet flowers; silver-gray mats of hummingbird sage; rosettes of spiky foothill yucca, and succulent dudleya; California wild grape; ceanothus with wrinkled green foliage and snow-white blossoms; coast tassel bush; and a California sycamore with patchwork bark. For the past century southern Californians have been replacing these "weeds" with every exotic imaginable, from Cuban palms to South African calla lilies, transforming the region and inadvertently eliminating habitat for many wildlife species.

ACCESSION #

17504241

Tags: PLANT conservation;  RUSSO, Rene, 1955-;  ENDANGERED plants;  PLANTS, Protection of;  WEEDS

 

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