| Rain Low :30 Rain High :75 USDA Zone :7 |
| Genus | Species | Variety | Cultivar | Common Name | Max Height | Full Sun | Part Sun | Full Shade | |
| Acer | negundo | californicum | California Box Elder | 15 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Achillea | millefolium | californica | Yarrow | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Achillea | millefolium | rosea | Island Pink | Pink Yarrow | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. |
| Adiantum | capillus-veneris | Maidenhair Fern | 0.5 | no | no | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Adiantum | jordanii | Maidenhair Fern | 0.5 | no | no | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Aesculus | californica | Buckeye | 15 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Agrostis | pallens | Bent Grass | 0.8 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Allium | crispum | Wild Onion | 0.3 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Anaphalis | margaritacea | Pearly Everlasting | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Aquilegia | eximia | Serpentine Columbine | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Arbutus | menziesii | Madrone | 25 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Arctostaphylos | Ian Bush Manzanita | Manzanita | 2 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Arctostaphylos | Sonoma Manzanita Bush | Stanford Manzanita | 2 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Arctostaphylos | glandulosa | campbelliae | Eastwood Manzanita | 2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Arctostaphylos | manzanita | Dr. Hurd Manzanita Tree | Northern California Manzanita | 5 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Arctostaphylos | manzanita_x_densiflora | Austin Griffiths Manzanita | Austin Griifin's Manzanita | 3.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Arctostaphylos | mariposa | Mariposa Manzanita | 3 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Arctostaphylos | myrtifolia | Ione Manzanita | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Arctostaphylos | obispoensis | San Luis Obispo Manzanita | Serpentine Manzanita | 2.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Arctostaphylos | pungens | Mexican Manzanita | 2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Aristolochia | californica | Sierra Giant Pipe Vine | California Dutchman's Pipe | 15 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | |
| Artemisia | californica | California Sagebrush | 4 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Artemisia | californica | Canyon Gray | Canyon Grey | Trailing Sagebrush | 0.5 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. |
| Asclepias | eriocarpa | Monarch Milkweed | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Asclepias | erosa | Desert Milkweed | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Asclepias | vestita | Woolly Milkweed | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Aster | ascendens | Purple Aster | 0.4 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Baccharis | viminea | Mulefat | 4 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Baeria | chrysostoma | Coast Goldfields | 0.2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Brodiaea | pulchella | Wild Hyacinth | 0.4 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Calandrinia | ciliata | Red Maids | 0.2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Calochortus | argillosus | Clay Mariposa Lily | 0.4 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Calycanthus | occidentalis | Spice Bush | 3 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Calystegia | macrostegia | macrostegia | Island Morning Glory | 9 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Carex | praegraclis | Clustered Field Sedge | 0.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Carex | serratodens | Bifid Sedge | 1.5 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Carpenteria | californica | Bush Anemone | 3 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Castilleja | subinclusa | Long-leaf paintbrush | 0 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Ceanothus | cuneatus | Buckbrush | 2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Ceanothus | cuneatus | Sierra mt. lilac | Sierra Buckbrush | 3 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Ceanothus | oliganthus | Pozo Rocket | 2.2 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Ceanothus | roderickii | Pine Hill Ceanothus | 0.1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Cercis | occidentalis | Western Redbud | 5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Chaenactis | glabriuscula | Pinchusion Flower | 0.5 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Chenopodium | californicum | Indian lettuce | 0.1 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Chlorogalum | pomeridianum | Soap Plant | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Chrysopsis | villosa | Hairy Golden-aster | 0.5 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Chrysothamnus | nauseosus | Rabbitbrush | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Cirsium | proteanum | Red Thistle | 2 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Clarkia | unguiculata | Mountain Garland | 1 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Collinsia | heterophylla | Chinese Houses | 0.5 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Corethrogyne | filaginifolia | California Aster | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Crataegus | douglasii | Hawthorn | 10 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Cucurbita | foetidissima | Calabazilla | 4 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Cupressus | macnabiana | 12 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Cupressus | nevadensis | Piute Cypress | 10 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Delphinium | cardinale | 2 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Deschampsia | elongata | 1 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Dicentra | chrysantha | 2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Dicentra | formosa | Pacific Bleeding Heart | 0.5 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Diplacus | aurantiacus | Orange Bush Monkey Flower | 1 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Diplacus | calycinus | Rock Monkey Flower | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Diplacus | fasciculatus | Azalea-flowered Diplacus | 0.7 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Dodecatheon | clevelandii | 0.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Elymus | condensatus | Giant Wild Rye | 2 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Elymus | triticoides | Alkali Rye | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Ephedra | californica | 2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Ericameria | arborescens | Golden Fleece | 2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Eriodictyon | californicum | Yerba Santa | 2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Eriodictyon | tomentosum | Woolly Yerba Santa | 2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Eriogonum | bailey | bailey | Annual Field Buckwheat | 0.5 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Eriogonum | elongatum | 2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Eriogonum | heermanii | Heermans Buckwheat | 1.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Eriogonum | nudum | pubiflorum | 0.7 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Eriophyllum | lanatum | grandiflorum | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Eschscholzia | caespitosa | 0.5 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Forestiera | neomexicana | Desert Olive | 3 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Fraxinus | dipetala | 7 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Fraxinus | latifolia | Oregon Ash | 10 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Fraxinus | velutina | Velvet Ash | 10 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Gilia | tricolor | 0.3 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Gnaphalium | microcephalum | thermale | Feltleaf everlasting | 2 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Grindelia | camporum | Giant Gum Plant | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Heteromeles | arbutifolia | Christmas Berry | 8 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Hordeum | brachyantherum | californicum | California Barley | 0.5 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Horkelia | cuneata | 0.1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Horkelia | cuneata | puberula | Star Potentilla | 1 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Iris | munzii | Tulare Lavender Iris | 1 | no | no | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Juglans | hindsii | 16 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Juncus | dubius | 1.2 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Juniperus | californica | California Juniper | 5 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Keckiella | breviflora | 1.5 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Koeleria | macrantha | June Grass | 0.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Lasthenia | glabrata | Goldfields | 0.1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Lathyrus | vestitus | Wild Pea | 2 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Lewisia | cotyledon | Siskiyou Lewsia | 0.5 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Linum | lewisii | Blue Flax | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Lithophragma | heterophylla | 0.2 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | |||
| Lomatium | utriculatum | Common Lomatium | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Lonicera | interrupta | Chaparral Honeysuckle | 2 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Lotus | purshianus | Lotus | 0.8 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Lotus | strigosus | Annual Lotus | 0.3 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Lupinus | albifrons | Silver Bush Lupine | 1.5 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Lupinus | densiflorus | aureus | Golden Lupine | 0.3 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Lupinus | nanus | Sky Lupine | 0.5 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Mahonia | dictyota | 2 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Malacothamnus | marrubioides | 1.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Melica | californica | California Melica | 1 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Melica | imperfecta | California Melic | 0.5 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Mentha | arvensis | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Mimulus | fremontii | 0.1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Mirabilis | californica | Wishbone Bush | 0.8 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Monardella | antonina | Butterfly Mint Bush | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Monardella | breweri | Mustang Mint | 0.5 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Monardella | palmeri | 0.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Monardella | villosa | Coyote Mint | 0.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Monardella | villosa | obispoensis | 0.6 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Monardella | virides | Green Monardella | 0.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Monolopia | lanceolata | Common Monolopia | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Montia | perifoliata | Miner's Lettuce | 0.3 | no | no | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Muhlenbergia | rigens | Deer Grass | 1.5 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Orthocarpus | densiflorus | Owl's Clover | 0.2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Pellaea | andromedaefolia | Coffee Fern | 1 | no | no | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Penstemon | Margarita BOP | Margarita BOP Penstemon | 0.7 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Penstemon | centranthifolius | Scarlet Bugler | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Penstemon | incertus | Western Desert Penstemon | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Phacelia | imbricata | Pine Bee Flower | 0.5 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Phacelia | tanacetifolia | Lacy Phacelia | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Philadelphus | lewisii | Wild Mock Orange | 2 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Pinus | attenuata | 15 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Pinus | coulteri | Coulter Pine | 20 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Pinus | monophylla | Pinyon Pine | 15 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Pinus | sabiniana | Digger Pine | 25 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Pityrogramma | triangularis | Goldenback Fern | 0.5 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Platanus | racemosa | California sycamore | 25 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Platystemon | californicus | Cream Cups | 0.7 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Plectritis | ciliosa | 1 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Poa | scabrella | Pine bluegrass | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Polypodium | hesperium | Western Polypody | 0.2 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Populus | fremontii | Western Cottonwood | 20 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Prunus | ilicifolia | Hollyleaf Cherry | 5 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Prunus | virginiana | demissa | Choke Cherry | 10 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | |
| Psoralea | orbicularis | Giant Clover | 0.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Ptelea | crenulata | Western Hop tree | 5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Pteridaceae | aquilinum | pubescens | Bracken Fern | 1 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | |
| Quercus | berberidifolia | Scrub Oak | 7 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Quercus | douglasii | Blue Oak | 15 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Quercus | durata | 3 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Quercus | wislizenii | Interior Live Oak | 15 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Rhamnus | californica | Coffeeberry | 3 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Rhamnus | californica | cuspidata | 3 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Rhamnus | crocea | ilicifolia | 4 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Rhus | trilobata | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Ribes | amarum | Bitter Gooseberry | 1 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Ribes | californicum | Hillside Gooseberry | 1 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Ribes | divaricatum | 2 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Ribes | malvaceum | 2 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Ribes | quercetorum | Yellow Gooseberry | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Ribes | sanguineum | glutinosum | Pink-Flowered Currant | 2 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | |
| Rosa | californica | California wild rose | 1 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Rosa | gymnocarpa | Wood Rose | 2 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Rubus | ursinus | Pacific blackberry | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Salix | exigua | Narrowleaf Willow | 4 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Salix | goodingii | San Joaquin Willow | 10 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Salix | goodingii | variabilis | San Joaquin Willow | 30 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Salix | hindsiana | hindsiana | 5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Salix | laevigata | Red Willow | 10 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Salix | lasiolepis | Arroyo Willow | 5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Salvia | Gracias | Creeping sage | 0.2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Salvia | Mrs. Beard | 0.5 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Salvia | carduacea | Thistle Sage | 0.5 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Salvia | sonomensis | Creeping Sage | 0.3 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Salvia | spathacea | Hummingbird Sage | 0.5 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Salvia | spathacea | Powerline Pink | Giant Hummbingbird Sage | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Sambucus | mexicana | Tapiro | 4 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Sanicula | bipinnata | Poison Sanicle | 1 | no | no | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Sanicula | crassicaulis | Snakeroot | 1 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Scutellaria | austinae | Skull Cap | 0.2 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Sidalcea | malvaeflora | sparsiflora | California Checker Mallow | 0.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Sisyrinchium | bellum | Blue-Eyed Grass | 0.7 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Smilacina | stellata | False Solomons Seal | 1 | no | no | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Solanum | umbelliferum | incanum | 0.7 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Solidago | californica | California Goldenrod | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Stachys | albens | White hedge nettle | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Staphylea | bolanderi | Bladder Nut | 6 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Stipa | cernua | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Stipa | coronata | 1.2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Stipa | pulchra | Purple Stipa | 1.2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Styrax | officinalis | californica | 2 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Symphoricarpos | albus | laevigatus | Common Snowberry | 4 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | |
| Symphoricarpos | rivularis | 4 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | |||
| Thalictrum | polycarpum | Meadow Rue | 1 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Thermopsis | macrophylla | macrophylla | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Trichostema | lanceolatum | Vinegar weed | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Umbellularia | californica | Bay Laurel | 16 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Verbena | lasiostachys | Weedy Verbena | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Viola | pedunculata | Violet | 0.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Vitis | californica | California Grape | 3 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Zauschneria | californica | Catalina | Island California Fuchsia | 0.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Zauschneria | californica | mexicana | Common California Fuchsia | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. |