| 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. | |
| Aesculus | californica | Buckeye | 15 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Agastache | urticifolia | Horse Mint | 0.5 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Agrostis | thurberiana | 0 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | |||
| Alnus | oregana | Red Alder | 50 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Alnus | rhombifolia | White Alder | 30 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Alnus | rubra | Red Alder | 50 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Anemopsis | californica | Yerba Mansa | 0.1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Aquilegia | formosa | Western Columbine | 0.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Aquilegia | shockleyi | Desert Columbine | 0.7 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Aristolochia | californica | Sierra Giant Pipe Vine | 15 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Artemisia | douglasiana | Mugwort | 1 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Asclepias | fascicularis | Narrow-Leaf Milkweed | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Aster | chilensis | California Aster | 1.2 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Baccharis | douglasii | Marsh Baccharis | 2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Baccharis | emoryi | Emory Baccharis | 3 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Baccharis | glutinosa | Sticky Baccharis | 2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Baccharis | sergiloides | Squaw Waterweed | 2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Betula | occidentalis | 6 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Bidens | laevis | Joaquin Sunflower | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Calliandra | eriophylla | Fairy Duster | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Calycanthus | occidentalis | Spice Bush | 3 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Carex | fracta | Fragile Sheathed Sedge | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Carex | praegraclis | Clustered Field Sedge | 0.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Carex | senta | Rough Sedge | 1 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Carex | spissa | San Diego sedge | 1.5 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Carex | subfusca | Rusty Sedge | 0.3 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Celtis | reticulata | Hackberry | 10 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Cephalanthus | occidentalis | californica | Buttonwillow | 5 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Chenopodium | californicum | Indian lettuce | 0.1 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Chilopsis | linearis | Desert Willow | 10 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Clematis | lasiantha | 5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Cornus | californica | California Dogwood | 3 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Cornus | glabrata | Brown Twig Dogwood | 3 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Cornus | nuttallii | Western Dogwood | 10 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Cornus | occidentalis | Western Dogwood | 3 | no | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Cornus | stolonifera | Red Stem Dogwood | 5 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Cyperus | eragrostis | Nutsedge, Umbrella Sedge | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Deschampsia | elongata | 1 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Dicentra | formosa | Pacific Bleeding Heart | 0.5 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Distichlis | spicata | stricta | Alkali Grass | 0.1 | yes | no | 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. | ||
| Epilobium | angustifolium | Fireweed | 2 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Epipactis | gigantea | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Forestiera | neomexicana | Desert Olive | 3 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Fragaria | virginiana | platypetala | Western Alpine Strawberry | 0.1 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | |
| Fraxinus | latifolia | Oregon Ash | 10 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Fraxinus | latifolia X velutina | Ash | 8 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Helenium | puberulum | What happened to the Flower? | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Heleocharis | macrostachya | Common Spike Rush | 1 | no | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Heleocharis | montevidensis | 0.2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Heleocharis | palustris | 0.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Heleocharis | parishii | Parishs Spike Rush | 0.2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Hibiscus | californica | Rose-Mallow | 2.5 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Iris | hybrids | 1 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | |||
| Juglans | hindsii | 16 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Juncus | balticus | Baltic Rush | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Juncus | dubius | 1.2 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Juncus | effusus | Common Rush | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Juncus | macrophyllus | Long leaf rush | 0.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Juncus | oxymeris | Pointed Rush | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Juncus | patens | Common Rush | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Juncus | phaeocephalus | phaeocephalus | Brown Headed Creeping Rush | 0.3 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Juncus | textilis | Basket Rush | 2 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Juncus | xiphiodes | Iris Leaved Rush | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Lathyrus | jepsonii | californicus | 0.7 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Lepidospartum | squamatum | 2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Lilium | pardalinum | Leopard Lily | 1 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Lilium | pardalinum | giganteum | Red Giant | 0.5 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | |
| Lobelia | cardinalis | graminea | 2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Ludwigia | peploides | peploides | Water Primrose | 0.1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Mahonia | aquifolium | Compacta | Creeping Oregon Grape. | 0.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Mentha | arvensis | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Mimulus | cardinalis | 1 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | |||
| Mimulus | guttatus | Seep Monkey Flower | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Mimulus | lewisii | Monkey Flower | 0.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Mimulus | moschatus | Musk Flower | 0.2 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Mimulus | tilingii | Creeping Monkey | 0.3 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Oenothera | caespitosa | marginata | Evening Primrose | 0.3 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Parnassia | palustris | californica | Grass-of-Parnassus | 0.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Physocarpus | capitatus | 2 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | |||
| Platanus | racemosa | California sycamore | 25 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Pluchea | sericea | Arrow Weed | 2 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Pluchera | odorata | odorata | Salt Marsh Fleabane | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Populus | angustifolia | Mammoth | Narrow Leaf Cottonwood | 15 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Populus | fremontii | Western Cottonwood | 20 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Populus | fremontii | Zapata | 20 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Populus | fremontii | Carrizo | Fremont Cottonwood | 20 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Populus | fremontiiX | Calm | Fremont Cottonwood | 20 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Populus | tremuloides | Quaking Aspen | 12 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Populus | trichocarpa | Black Cottonwood | 30 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Potentilla | egedii | Marsh Cinquefoil | 0.1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Potentilla | glandulosa | Sticky Cinquefoil | 0.7 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Potentilla | pectinisecta | Bodie Buttercup | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Prunella | vulgaris | lanceolata | Self Heal | 0.2 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | |
| Psoralea | macrostachys | Butterfly Alfalfa | 3 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Psoralea | orbicularis | Giant Clover | 0.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Quercus | agrifolia | Coast Live Oak | 20 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Quercus | lobata | Valley Oak | 25 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Rhododendron | occidentale | Western Azalea | 3 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Ribes | aureum | aureum | Golden Currant | 2 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | |
| Ribes | nevadense | Pink Sierra Currant | 2 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Rosa | californica | California wild rose | 1 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Rubus | leucodermis | Western Raspberry | 2 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Rubus | ursinus | Pacific blackberry | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Salix | eastwoodii | Sierra Willow | 2 | 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 | lasiandra | Pacific willow | 3 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Salix | lasiolepis | Arroyo Willow | 5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Salix | lasiolepis | bracelinae | 3 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Salix | melanopsis | Longleaf Willow | 4 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Sambucus | mexicana | Tapiro | 4 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Scirpus | californicus | California Bulrush | 2 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Scirpus | maritimus | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | |||
| Shepherdia | argentea | Silver Buffaloberry | 10 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Sidalcea | oregana | Checker | 1 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Sisyrinchium | californicum | Golden-Eyed Grass | 0.8 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Spergularia | marina | Salt-Marsh Sand Spurry | 0.3 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Stachys | ajugoides | ajugoides | Persnickety Pink | Pink Hedge Nettle | 0.7 | no | yes | no | Picture and Description. |
| Stachys | albens | White hedge nettle | 1 | 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. | |||
| Thuja | plicata | Giant Cedar | 60 | yes | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Typha | domingensis | Southern Cat-Tail | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Urtica | holosericea | Giant Stinging Nettle | 3 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Verbena | lasiostachys | Weedy Verbena | 1 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Vitis | californica | California Grape | 3 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Vitis | girdiana | S. Cal. Grape | 3 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Washingtonia | filifera | California Fan Palm | 16 | yes | no | no | Picture and Description. | ||
| Woodwardia | fimbriata | Giant Chain Fern | 2 | no | yes | yes | Picture and Description. | ||
| Zauschneria | californica | Catalina | Island California Fuchsia | 0.5 | yes | yes | no | Picture and Description. |