page_title: San Benito County, California
section_title: Fauna and flora
hierarchical_section_title: San Benito County, California / Geography / Fauna and flora
caption_attribution_description: English: Tumey Hills recreation area, BLM [1]. Photo by Michael Westphal, BLM.
context_page_description: San Benito County, officially the County of San Benito, is a county located in the Coast Range Mountains of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 55,269. The county seat is Hollister.
  San Benito County is included in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area.
  El Camino Real passes through the county and includes one mission in San Juan Bautista.
context_section_description: There are a number of plant communities that occur in San Benito County including grasslands and chaparral; however, one of the more unusual is the Sargent cypress forest. 
  Benitoite, the official gem of the State of California, was discovered in San Benito County.  The county is also home to the San Benito evening primrose (Camissonia benitensis); and Illacme plenipes, a millipede having more legs than any other millipede species, discovered in the county in 1926. The plant genus Benitoa was named for San Benito County.
caption: Tumey Hills BLM recreation area, near Interstate 5
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