Plants For Coastal Sage Scrub

Butterfly Mint Bush, Monardella antonina (sounds better than San Antonio Hills Monardella) is a one foot perennial covered with balls of pale purple with some pink, being worked constantly by every... Learn more.

Wavyleaf Dune Mint is native to the coastal dunes of southern San Luis Obispo county and northern Santa Barbara county. It can often be found on the unstabilized dunes. It is fragrant and one of the... Learn more.

A 1-2 ft perennial with fuzzy green leaves and 1inch purple flowers. Native from Santa Barbara to Orange Co.. Wow! What a pulchritudinous perennial. You know old age when you take 5 different picture... Learn more.

A fragrant perennial that lives in San Diego County. Grows in semi-moist pockets in the San Diego Mountains from near the coast to inland peaks. Its habitat is typical for monardellas, north open s... Learn more.

This monardella grows in rocky/sandy washes in San Diego County in the coastal hills from Poway to the Mexican Border. A late flowering monardella that can commonly be in bloom for a Thanksgiving feas... Learn more.

A lovely little perennial that grows in sand on hard pan in the Nipomo-Lompoc area. A very worthwhile addition to a perennial garden(as are most Monardellas). In the garden it has proven to be very st... Learn more.

Coyote Mint, Monardella villosa, is a two-foot-high perennial with gray-green leaves and light purple clusters of flowers in summer. This Monardella is native to the California coast ranges. This c... Learn more.

This Monardella is a fuzzy little perennial with large pale pinkish lavender flowers that are relished by butterflies, and occasionally a hummingbird that's looking for a breath freshener. Smells li... Learn more.

The delicate little plants commonly under Oaks in spring. These plants give the appearance of a lush fairy woodland to the Nursery in Spring, by mid-summer they've completely disappeared. Other forms ... Learn more.

(Chorizanthe californica) Annual, small , with tiny white flowers (calyx), in the buckwheat family, grows in dry, sandy areas of coastal sage scrub, in the southwestern part of California. Learn more.

Baby Blue Eyes is an annual that looks like a delicate little garden plant that often grows many sunny hot spots where it looks out of place. Plant with Poppies or Goldfields to make an eye popping fl... Learn more.

This plant used to be in most of the road cuts of Southern California. Clumps 3 ft. by 10 feet Across of 2 inch pink-white flowers are common. This plant is low to the ground so it needs bare groun... Learn more.

A cactus with yellow to red flowers, prickly, red fruit, very important wildlife plant, somewhat low, sprawling plant, forms wide clumps, can invade disturbed, denuded areas. SCo, sPR, ChI, Mex. Learn more.

Baja California Birdbush grows only in one spot in California, San Ysidro - north end of Tijuana Hills. Ornithostaphylos is very slow growing, it takes a couple of years for us to make a 6 inch high ... Learn more.

A semi-parasitic annual common in areas that still have some annual native plants left. Difficult to grow in anything other than a wildflower mix. Learn more.

syn. Castilleja purpurascens. low-growing annual, with purplish flowers, very showy in spring , grows in masses. a well-known California wildflower, believed to be a green, root-parasite, grows under ... Learn more.

Oso Berry, Osmaronia cerasiformis, is found in the wild  in either relatively highly forested areas in part or high shade or north slopes in fairly moist partial shade, sandy topsoil, clay subsoil. U... Learn more.

A 1 foot perennial with drooping maroon 2" flowers in Jan.-Mar.. Native from Monterey to San Diego Co. (and on the nursery site). It will tolerate sun to part shade, little or no summer water. You nee... Learn more.

Indian Warrior is a hemiparasitic plant that is commonly associated with manzanitas in much of coastal California. Pedicularis can grow by it's little lonesome (but it will be little, yellow and lon... Learn more.

Bird's Foot Fern is one tough fern. About one foot tall, native throughout California and tolerant of wind, drought, sun to partial shade. Pellea mucronata grows in full unprotected rock cracks abo... Learn more.

Penstemon heterophyllus X 'Margarita BOP' is a nice tidy perennial that looks like candy tuft or a dwarf boxwood when not in flower, and a mass of bright sky blue to reddish purple flowers when in ... Learn more.

This Penstemon grows in the chaparral in the California coast ranges from Monterey county north to the San Francisco Bay area and in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains ranging into the pinyon junip... Learn more.

Penstemon spectabilis is a 3' perennial with lavender flowers in April-June. Native in dry creek beds, hill sides and coastal bluffs of southern California. A very showy border plant, (at the back, ... Learn more.

Foothill Penstemon is a tough cookie. This Penstemon grows in the inner coast ranges from the Bay Area down through San Diego. It will grow to about 18 inches tall and wide. This Penstemon is hardy to... Learn more.

California Phacelia is an attractive little perennial with curling purple flower clusters. Great for butterfly gardens especially in the Bay area. California Phacelia is also native to Los Angeles cou... Learn more.