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Arctostaphylos uva-ursi suborbiculata San Bruno
California Bearberry
A manzanita introduction by Ken Taylor from San Bruno mountain. This Arctostaphylos might be the uva-ursi forma leobreweri saved from extinction by James Roof. Nice plant, tolerant of gardens and eve...
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Arctostaphylos viridissima
McMinn's Manzanita
Sprawling shrub manzanita to 8-12 feet wide, two to eight foot tall, light green foliage with reddish new growth. A nice looking plant with glossy green leaves and a shiny clean appearance. It doesn'...
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Arctostaphylos viscida ssp. viscida
Whiteleaf manzanita
Whiteleaf manzanita grows from Kern County north to about the Oregon Border. It is not very garden tolerant but easily grown in native gardens. In the Sierra Nevada it is a common chaparral component...
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Arctostaphylos wellsii Wells Manzanita
Wells Manzanita
(synonym is Arctostaphylos pilosula ssp. pismoensis)A 6', gray foliage, red trunk and stems, a very clean and neat 'reserved' plant with red-brown bark. This manzanita grows in the Arroyo Grande, Sa...
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Argemone munita
Prickly Poppy
Short lived perennial. A very thorny plant that is nearly unweedable. Why do we grow it? It has 3" white flowers much like Matilija poppy and is excellent in desert gardens or mountain sites. We don'...
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Aristolochia californica
California Pipevine
California Dutchman's Pipe or Pipe Vine is a deciduous vine with one inch purple striped pipe-shaped flowers. Pipe vine likes part-shade and regular water. This California native vine has become f...
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Artemisia californica
California Sagebrush
California sagebrush is an evergray shrub, three to four foot high. This sage brush is native to much of central and southern California and is part of the 'sage' in coastal sage scrub. Artemisia cal...
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Artemisia californica Canyon Gray Canyon Grey
Trailing Sagebrush
An evergray shrub, 1ft high 4ft across. A gray groundcover that likes sun, good to fair drainage. It is very drought tolerant ,almost deer proof,and makes a gray fuzzy mat 1ft tall. Its best if it is ...
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Artemisia douglasiana
Mugwort
California mugwort is a three foot perennial that has a funny sage odor. Native on stream banks,ditch banks, road cuts or other disturbed areas. Mugwort has the reputation of removing the ill effect...
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Artemisia dracunculus
Tarragon
(Syn. Artemisia dracunculoides, Artemisia glauca) Tarragon (probably not the variety called French Tarragon, the culinary herb) is a very unattractive weed of disturbed places. Worldwide, maybe native...
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Artemisia ludoviciana
White Sagebrush
Artemisia ludoviciana, White Sagebrush is a rhizomatous perennial native from Baja to Ontario Canada and down to Arkansas. I've only seen it once in the wild and that was at 5500 feet in the San Jacin...
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Asclepias cordifolia
Purple milkweed
Asclepias cordifolia, Purple milkweed or Heart leafed milkweed is native to northern California,the Sierra Nevada mountains, Oregon, and western Nevada. Purple milkweed grows in all sorts of plant com...
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Asclepias eriocarpa
Monarch Milkweed
Perennial, 3ft large 5in leaves, fruits 4in horns, flowers compound 4-5inch cluster. In our area covered with monarch caterpillars during the summer. The Bullocks Orioles use the dead stems for nests...
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Asclepias fascicularis
Narrowleaf Milkweed
Narrow-leaved Milkweed has narrow leaves and a wider native range and a whole lot more garden tolerance than most of the other native species. Asclepias fascicularis is a perennial with three foot ta...
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Asclepias vestita
Woolly Milkweed
A gray-green sprawling perennial that grows along the east edge of the San Joaquin Valley. One of the milkweeds that are used by the butterflies as a food source. Poisonous to cattle, horses and peopl...
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Baccharis pilularis consanguinea
Coyote Brush
Deer proof throughout Ca. (so-far). You might want to cover it for the first year. Drought tolerant, very usefull for hedges or fence lines, much underused. Water 1/week until est. then 1/month or so ...
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Baccharis sarothroides
Broom Baccharis
A fast growing shrub(it losses its leaves but looks evergreen, like a broom plant). Very colorful yellow flowers make a great show in summer. Use for stream bank stabilization in S. California. It wil...
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Bloomeria crocea
Golden Stars
Golden stars are perennial corms with many yellow flowers attached at a central point on top of a tall stem. The structure resembles a dandelion head. Golden stars can be found in clay and serpentine...
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Bloomeria crocea aurea
Golden Stars
Corm, 2 ft., flowers yellow in cluster (like exploding fire works), April-June, South coast ranges, Channel Islands, drought tolerant, we carry this only occasionally....
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Bothriochloa barbinodis
Cane Bluestem
Cane Bluestem,Plumed Beard-grass Native from San Diego to Samta Barbara east to Oklahoma and down into the tropics. Rather ugly and best used as a limited ingredient in seed mixes.
(syn. Andropog...
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Brickellia californica
Brickellbush
A 2' perennial with gray foliage . Do not put in a highly visible area as, although the plant is not ugly, it's not pretty either. The reason we grow it is for the wonderful fragrance that fills the a...
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Brodiaea pulchella
Wild Hyacinth
Dichelostemma pulchella, Corms, 1' in height, blue 1" flowers, spring, throughout Ca.,UT, Nev,Ariz.,tolerates most conditions with good drainage, little water after est..Butterfly plant. One of the e...
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Calochortus albus
Fairy Lantern
We occasionally grow this species. Plants with bulbs and linear leaves, in the lily family, grows best in partly shady, mostly clay to lighter granitic soils in the central western portion of the Cal...
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Calochortus species
Mariposa Lilly
Bulbs. 1', flowers like tulip, yellow, purple to white, part shade to full sun, no summer water, in most of Ca. perfect drainage. It takes 3-5 years from seed to grow the bulb up to salable size. Ever...
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Calochortus weedii
Weeds Mariposa
Native throughout much of San Diego Co.. In De Luz it is under Adenostoma fasciculatum and Rhus ovata, in the Jamul area it is mixed with Juniperus calif. and Keckiella ternata. Calochortus are not fo...
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