Sequoia sempervirens

Coast redwood

Family: Cupressaceae · Type: tree · Native

Coast redwood is a native tree found in northern coastal California, western Klamath Ranges, and central coastal areas in redwood forest habitats at elevations below 1,100 meters. Its distinctive feature is the ability to sprout vigorously from its base when cut or from its entire crown after fire, with massive trunks reaching up to 110 meters tall and 9 meters in diameter. Growing with thick red-brown bark up to 30 centimeters thick and downswept branches, this tree forms a narrow conical to cylindrical crown that remains largely unbranched in its lower half. Its leaves are of two distinct types: small appressed awl-like leaves on rapidly growing stems and longer spreading linear leaves 5 to 25 millimeters long that grow in two roughly ranked rows. The seed cones are small and spherical, measuring 13 to 35 millimeters, containing 2 to 7 seeds with narrow lateral wings.

Habitat: Redwood forest

Elevation: < 1100 m

Bioregions: NCo, w KR, NCoRO, w NCoRI, n&ampc CCo, SnFrB, n SCoRO

California counties: Humboldt, Marin, Monterey, Del Norte, Mendocino, Alameda, Los Angeles, Orange, Contra Costa, Riverside, Santa Cruz, Sonoma, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Yolo, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, Napa, Butte, Sutter, Sacramento, Tulare, Colusa, San Francisco, Siskiyou, San Luis Obispo, San Diego, Calaveras, Tehama

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.