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Eriogonum heermannii
Heermanns Buckwheat
Eriogonum heermannii, what a neat buckwheat, dark green foliage of E. grande rubescens, flowers are a soft butter yellow. Butterflies use the plant, the plant looks good enough for most any garden. Th...
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Eriogonum nudum pubiflorum
A slender spike of white or pink or yellow flowers. It harbors a deliteful little insect that mirrors the flower petals. (I thought I'd knocked a flower off when I took the picture, until it turned, l...
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Eriophyllum lanatum grandiflorum
A grey perennial, 1-2 ft., 2 inch, yellow, daisy-like flowers, good garden plant, full sun, dry conditions, good mixed with penstemons, blue-eyed grass. It has good flowers for cutting. The perennial ...
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Eschscholzia caespitosa
Eschscholzia caespitosa is an annual poppy with bright yellow flowers. It grows to about a foot tall. It is (was) common in the foothills above the San Joaquin Valley and southern California foothills...
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Forestiera neomexicana
Desert Olive
Desert Olive is a deciduous shrub that grows fast to 6-8 ft.. Native from N. Central Calif. to Riverside and east to Colo. and Tex.. Useful fast filler for desert conditions, drought tolerant after es...
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Fraxinus dipetala
A deciduous tree to 20 ft., Calif. foothills, fragrant white flower clusters, drought tolerant but better with summer water. Associated plants range from Pinus Sabiniana with Arctostaphylos viscida, ...
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Fraxinus latifolia
Oregon Ash
Oregon Ash is a tree of the meadows and stream banks of the Willamette Valley in Oregon. In California this Ash is usually in more sheltered locations and a smaller tree. It takes centuries to become ...
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Fraxinus velutina
Velvet Ash
Velvet Ash is a small deciduous tree, ranging from Santa Barbara county south to San Diego county. It grows usually less than 30 feet tall and grows very fast. Velvet Ash needs regular water until i...
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Gilia tricolor
A small little annual with somewhat tubular purple flowers and yellow centers. Massed they can be quite showy. We have seen them in many soils and many climates on the edges of the foothills or San Jo...
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Gnaphalium microcephalum thermale
Feltleaf everlasting
(syn. Gnaphalium canescens ssp. thermale, Gnaphalium albidum, Pseudognaphalium thermale) A grey short lived perennial that grows in open loose ground. Common in fresh road cuts or in burned over area...
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Grindelia camporum
Giant Gum Plant
Synonyms: Grindelia robusta, Grindelia procera. This hardy, colorful plant is a perennial that grows from the north coast ranges to Baja in dry washes, and road edges in sandy or clay soils. Grindel...
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Grindella hirsutula
Hairy gumplant
Hairy gum plant is not that hairy or gummy. It's a little herbaceous
perennial that grows in the coastal areas of California from Ventura to
Napa. Gum plant grows on some very heavy adobe soils and se...
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Gutierrezia californica
California matchweed
California matchweed is a little perennial that grows along the edges of the San Joaquin Valley. Foliage is bright green and flowers are little yellow stars. Just a little different (odd in the head) ...
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Hazardia squarrosus grindelioides
Saw toothed goldenbush
A small little sub-shrub with yellow flowers that frequents road cuts of southern California. This is one of the plants that can grow on those awful cuts.
syn. Haplopappus squarrosus ssp. grindel...
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Heteromeles arbutifolia
Toyon
Toyon, or as it's sometimes called, Christmas Berry, is an evergreen shrub to small tree that usually grows to 6-8 ft. high and 4-5 ft. wide. Toyon can go to 15-20' tall if it's old and happy and beco...
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Hordeum brachyantherum californicum
California Barley
Commonly grows in fields dominated by alien grasses and weeds (Bromus diandrus, Agrostis sp. Erodium sp. Hordeum jubatum, etc) grazed, no trees in evidence, north slope, soil clay/serpentine, many ...
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Horkelia cuneata
A small perennial that is common in coastal dunes and interior dunes from San Francisco to San Diego. Included here primarily for those of you in sand dunes.(You need something.)...
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Horkelia cuneata puberula
Star Potentilla
This little perennial grows from San Luis Obispo County down through San Diego county in the sandy moist spots away from the coast. Plant with monkey flowers, Deer grass, and Calfiornia fuchis in par...
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Iris munzii
Tulare Lavender Iris
Native to the Tule river, Tulare County. A rhizomophic perennial that grows a foot or two high with 3 inch, pale blue flowers. This one likes a lot of water with good drainage. It will form iris clump...
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Juglans hindsii
A deciduous tree to 50 ft. Native in scattered spots throughout California. A fast tree with edible nuts, garden tolerant. There has been some controversy as to whether these trees were planted by CA....
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Juncus dubius
A 1-2 ft. tall perennial that spreads by rhizomes along the edges of streams or ponds. Dark green, good fill in, good looking....
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Juniperus californica
California Juniper
Shrub-tree, bluish berries, 10-15\', no water after established, coast ranges and Sierras, edible berries. Very alkali tolerant. It is very ornamental! This tree has bluish-gray foliage and is drought...
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Keckiella breviflora
Yawning Penstemon
This bush penstemon is a sprawling subshrub that usually props itself up on a rock or neighbor so you can see the purple striped, white flowers. Keckiella breviflora is a plant for tough situations a...
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Koeleria macrantha
June Grass
A small perennial grass that looks like it belongs in a Japanese Garden. Although it grows in pine wood and heavy chaparral I've seen it only on the edge of a coastal prairie site at Vandenberg Air Fo...
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Lasthenia glabrata
Goldfields
A small little early spring annual that is a pioneer species in many bad habitats. In the San Joaquin Valley it makes mass displays of bright yellow in areas that are still intact. It will grow in any...
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