SBVC Botanical Gardens
fostering ecological discoveries & stewardship
Explore the wonders of a botanical garden where plants and a diverse array of insects and other invertebrates thrive. Our garden offers a unique learning experience for students and provides a beautiful outdoor space for our community to enjoy.
This is home to over 50 species of plants, each with unique vegetative and flowering characteristics and biological adaptations of fascinating evolutionary and ecological histories. The garden showcases different regions of local biodiversity and present a sight of plant evolution with living fossils which evolved millions of years ago!
This botanical garden also offers ideas of design, planting, and maintenance practices that are sustainable and highly beneficial to our California's native plants and native wildlife, while you can also learn more about their sociocultural significance.
ORGANISM OF THE WINTER!
These majestic trees are an evergreen species. They are a food source to mammals and birds, and provide shelter to a diversity of many-legged critters. This plant species is a major representatives of our local Oak Woodland macrohabitat (often seen in the foothills of the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mts.) They flower in Feb-Apr, wind-pollinate, and fruits (acorns) mature in Aug-Oct. In our garden, we have an individual with a branch cover of approx. 1.5-2 m/5-6 ft.
Coast Live Oak
Quercus agrifolia
Located southeast of the Health & Life Sciences (HLS) and
north to the Gym.
