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Abies amabilis
Pacific Silver Fir
Lovely Fir is a tall narrow tree that grows best near the sea shore in Washington. This fir doesn't like frozen ground, heat nor drought and grows fairly slow. Any questions George?...
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Acer circinatum
Vine Maple
Native from British Columbia along the coast to northern California and up along much of the Cascade mountain ranges. Bark is smooth and reddish. Leaves are small for a maple, flowers are 10-20 in a c...
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Acer glabrum
Mountain Maple
Mountain Maple is a small deciduous tree that is our 'Japanese Maple" that grows to 10-12 foot tall and is small enough to be included in residential landscaping. Mountain maple needs regular water ...
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Acer macrophyllum
Big Leaf Maple
Big leaf maple is a deciduous Tree, to 50 feet, but normally more like 30 feet ,often developing several trunks. Large maple leaves colorful in autumn. Native from Alaska to southern California.(You ...
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Agrostis thurberiana
A perennial grass of the sierra conifer forests. Growing in openings and meadows at 6-8000 feet....
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Alnus rhombifolia
White Alder
White alder is a fast deciduous tree to 20' first years then slower to 50 ft.. Native to moist canyons on the west coast. A nice- looking and fragrant shade tree. It likes sun and water. It is not ...
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Arctostaphylos canescens
Hoary Manzanita
Hoary Manzanita is an evergray shrub to 6', and grows in sand or rocky soil along the northern California coast. This species needs good drainage (no standing water after 60 minutes in a 1 foot deep ...
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Arctostaphylos columbiana
Hairy Manzanita
An evergreen, 5-10' high shrub, Hairy Manzanita grows along the coastal plains in the evergreen forest from northern California to British Columbia. A fuzzy, light- green plant that grows under pines,...
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Arctostaphylos nevadensis
Pinemat Manzanita
This is another species that is excellent in its range, and a pain elsewhere. If you have a mountain cabin in snow country this one's worth trying as a groundcover as it grows about 8 foot across and ...
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Arnica parryi sonnei
Frog Flower
A flat perennial with rhizomes forming clump to edge of moisture, up to several feet across. Native to moist places in the east central Sierras. The flowers 1" yellow composites (DYC). Use with Heleni...
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Balsamorhiza sagittata
Arrowleaf balsamroot
syn Buphthalmum sagittata, Espeletia s., E. helianthoides, Balsamorhiza h..
Arrowleaf balsamroot grows from the Southern Sierra Nevada mountains up in British Columbia and across to Colorado. A large ...
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Betula occidentalis
Western mountains 200-8000 ft. moist but not wet situations, deciduous tree to 20 feet a beautiful background for azaleas and such under high shade, won't look at its best under drought but seems to s...
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Camassia quamash
Camas
A perennial bulb that grows in wet meadows. The flowers are quite showy blue. Northern Coastal Calif. We've had nothing but problems with it at our site....
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Carex fracta
Fragile Sheathed Sedge
A beautiful green perennial that lives in mountain meadows, road cuts, rocky slopes, and seeps. The soil can be fairly dry, but as it dries out the foliage will fade. This sedge looks kinda like som...
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Castanopsis sempervirens
Bush Chinquapin
A slow growing bush that lives in the middle elevations of inner California mountains into southern Oregon. In the wild they grow in raw granitic gravel/sand/rock. Companion plants include Abies conc...
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Ceanothus cordulatus
Snowbush
A high elevation shrub, 4-6' high and 8' wide, has a tendency to go deciduous in the winter cold,and summer heat leaving a spiny bush with white bark , fragrant white flowers, useful as large scale gr...
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Ceanothus gloriosus exaltatus Emily Brown
Emily Brown Ceanothus is a small scale groundcover about one to two feet high and four to six feet across. The small holly leaves are dark green with dark red-brown stems. Emily Browns dark blue flo...
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Ceanothus sanguineus
Redstem Ceanothus
syn. Ceanothus oreganus. Redstem Ceanothus grows from California up into Brish Columbia and east to Montana. This white flowered mountain lilac grows as a small bush in between the forest trees. ...
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Cercis occidentalis
Western Redbud
Redbud is a deciduous shrub to small tree, 14', flowers magenta, Feb.-April. Western Redbud is native on dry slopes (usually next to a spring or seasonal creek), coast ranges and Sierra foothills to...
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Cornus stolonifera
Red Stem Dogwood
Syn: Cornus sericea ssp. sericea. The American Dogwood is an elegant open shrub with creamy white flower clusters in spring and red stems. Cornus sericea ssp. occidentalis is nearly identical to C. s...
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Corylus cornuta californica
Native to many shady moist spots from Santa Cruz and Yosemite north to B.C.. One of our customers report a grove in the Santa Barbara Area. One of the early Spanish expeditions along the coast in 1543...
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Deschampsia elongata
A grass that disappears in summer(drops to a faint brown patch), a light grass that blows in the breeze on slowly draining soils that are wet in spring and dry in summer. ...
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Elymus glaucus
Blue Wildrye
A big grass that grows in open meadows, fields, ditch banks, road cuts, etc.. Beautiful if you are a cow. Short lived and rather weedy, blue rye is a good plant to seed into road cuts, horse pastures ...
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