57 California native plants that survived the Ice Age to live on today June 28, 2024 Home Explore The Naturalist's Journal 57 California native plants that survived the Ice Age to live on today Share FacebookTwitterEmail At the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, Jessie George and other paleobotanists — the folks who study ancient plants the way paleontologists study prehistoric bones — are compiling a list of California native plants that survived the Ice Age and the region’s first huge climate change and are still alive today.