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Micromeria douglasii
''Micromeria douglasii'', or yerba buena,〔 is a rambling aromatic herb of western and northwestern North America, ranging from maritime Alaska southwards to California. The plant takes the form of a sprawling, mat-forming perennial, and is especially abundant close to the coast. The name "yerba buena" derives from Spanish for "good herb" and is applied to various other plants.
Molecular evidence places the species within the Clinopodium complex rather than Micromeria.〔Bräuchler, C, et al. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2010 May;55(2):501-23 Molecular phylogeny of Menthinae (Lamiaceae, Nepetoideae, Mentheae) --Taxonomy, biogeography and conflicts〕
== Name ==
The plant's most common name, "yerba buena", the same in English and Spanish, is an alternate form of the Spanish ''hierba buena'' (meaning "good herb"). The name was bestowed by pioneer Catholic priests of Alta California as they settled an area where the plant is native. It was so abundant there that its name was also applied to the settler's town adjacent to Mission San Francisco de Asís. In 1846, the town of Yerba Buena was seized by the United States during the Mexican-American War, and its name was changed in 1847 to San Francisco, after a nearby mission. Three years later, the name was applied to a nearby rocky island; today millions of commuters〔As of March 2015, 270,000 vehicles a day http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/esc/tollbridge/SFOBB/Sfobbfacts.html〕 drive through the tunnel on Yerba Buena Island that connects the spans of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge.
Yerba buena is also used as a common name for other plants with aromatic foliage.
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