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{{Short description|Botanical garden in California}}
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[[Image:Regional Parks Botanic Garden trees.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Redwoods shading the forest area of the garden.]]
The '''Regional Parks Botanic Garden''' is a 10-acre (4 hectare) [[botanical garden]] located in [[Tilden Regional Park]] in the [[Berkeley Hills]], east of [[Berkeley, California]], in the [[United States]]. It showcases [[California native plants]], and is open to the public. The garden was founded on January 1, 1940.

==Specimens==
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Notable specimens include nearly all the state's [[conifer]]s and [[oak]]s, a very good collection of wild [[lilac]]s ([[Ceanothus]] species), perhaps the most complete collection of California [[manzanita]]s anywhere, expanding collections of Californian native [[bunchgrass]]es and aquatics, and representatives of some 300 rare and endangered vascular taxa of California. The garden is organized into sections, each representing a distinctive natural area in California:
[[File:Wyethia helenioides—RPBG.jpg|thumb|[[Wyethia helenioides]], gray mule's ears, in the garden]]
[[File:Regional Parks Botanic Garden - Berkeley, CA - DSC04447.JPG|thumb|View of the Botanic Garden in November 2013]]
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* [[Southern California]]
* [[Mount Shasta|Shasta]]-[[Klamath Basin|Klamath]]
* Valley-Foothill
* Santa Lucia
* [[Channel Islands of California|Channel Islands]]
* [[Sierra Nevada (U.S.)|Sierra]]n
* [[Redwood Empire|Redwood]]
* Sea Bluff
* Pacific Rain Forest
* Franciscan
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with subsections:
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* [[Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge|Antioch Dunes]]
* Coastal Dunes
* Pond
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Collected plants include: 
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*  [[silktassel]]s
*  [[manzanita]]s
*  [[osoberry]]
*  [[Ribes|currants]]
*  [[barberries]]
*  [[Dutchman's pipe]]
*  [[fuchsia-flowered gooseberry]]
*  [[Cardamine californica|milkmaid]]s
*  [[Dirca occidentalis|western leatherwood]]
*  [[scoliopus]]
*  [[redbud]]
*  [[California poppy]]
*  [[trillium]]s
*  [[Dodecatheon|shooting star]]s
*  [[wallflower]]s
*  [[fritillaria]]s
*  [[Erythronium|fawn lilies]]
*  [[rock cress]]
*  [[pussy willow]]s
*  [[California rose-bay]] or rhododendron
*  [[woolly blue curls]]
*  [[ninebark]]
*  [[mountain spiraea]]
*  [[summer holly]]
*  [[ceanothus]]
*  [[Collinsia|Chinese houses]]
*  [[Iris (plant)|iris]]es
*  [[styrax]]
*  [[Liatris|blazing star]]
*  [[monkeyflower]]s
*  [[Fremontodendron|fremontia]]s
*  [[carpenteria]]
*  [[Layia platyglossa|tidy tips]]
*  [[bush poppy|bush poppies]]
*  [[brodiaea]]s
*  [[mariposa tulip]]s
*  [[cacti]]
*  [[clarkia]]s
*  [[Philadelphus|mock orange]]
*  [[Rhododendron occidentale|western azalea]]
*  [[matilija poppy]]
*  [[fireweed]]
*  [[Holodiscus discolor|ocean spray]]
*  [[sweet shrub]]
*  [[Aquilegia|columbine]]s
*  [[penstemon]]s
*  [[Mimulus cardinalis|scarlet mimulus]]
*  [[buckwheat]]s
*  [[Oenothera|evening primroses]]
*  [[Eucalyptus|gums]]
*  [[Delphinium|larkspur]]
*  [[lupin]]es
*  [[California fuchsia]]s
*  [[tarweed]]s
*  [[hibiscus]]
*  [[helianthus]]
*  [[Symphoricarpos|snowberries]]
*  [[madrone]]
*  [[Populus sect. Aegiros|cottonwood]]s
*  deciduous [[oak]]s
*  [[dogwood]]s
*  [[Crataegus|hawthorn]]
*  [[willow]]s
*  [[vine maple]]
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== See also ==
* [[List of botanical gardens in the United States]]

== External links ==
{{Commons|Regional Parks Botanic Garden}}
* {{Official|https://nativeplants.org}}

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[[Category:Botanical gardens in California]]
[[Category:Berkeley Hills]]
[[Category:Tilden Regional Park]]
[[Category:Parks in Contra Costa County, California]]
[[Category:East Bay Regional Park District]]