Image of the UC Davis Arboretum California Foothill Collection.

California Foothill Collection

California Foothill Collection

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The California Foothill Collection displays large trees and shrubs native to the foothills surrounding the Central Valley, including several majestic 200-year-old Valley oaks, pines, ceanothus, and several species of native currants and gooseberries, whose flowers produce a delicious fragrance in mid-winter. Visitors can see a hillside covered with graceful native grasses used as groundcovers.

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Photo of waterway foothill collection in fall by Tiffany Wright adjusted