Plants For Coastal Sage Scrub
A gray perennial, with scurfy leaves, prostrate, spreading , good as groundcover, in sandy, coastal areas, at seaside, flowers insignificant, birds and small mammals eat seeds and foliage, also useful... Learn more.
This is now considered A. lentiformis ssp. lentiformis. Formerly it was thought a separate ssp. of A. lentiformis, because coastal plants had larger leaves and fruits. A large evergreen shrub to 8 ft... Learn more.
A 3 ft perennial with green-brown stems and green leaves. Very fast in wet-moist places. Baja to Humboldt and the Central Sierra. Baccharis species are the nectary sources for most of the predatory wa... Learn more.
This Baccharis looks like a natural, stable hybrid between Mulefat(Baccharis viminea) and Baccharis pilularis var. consanguinea(Coyote Brush). Common in sandy washes throughout the inner areas of sou... Learn more.
A deciduous willow -like shrub to 10 feet. Male and female flowers are on separate plants. Long, vertical stems make the appearance of this plant undesirable for the formal garden, but in a wild gard... Learn more.
Baccharis pilularis consanguinea, Coyote Brush, is usually deer proof throughout California. (You might want to cover it for the first year.) It's drought tolerant, very useful for hedges or fence li... Learn more.
Pozo Surf was chosen as the name because Parking Strip Coyote Brush as a name stinks. Lowly Coyote brush is an attempt to develop some Southern California forms of native plants. This plant seems to... Learn more.
Baccharis Pigeon Point' grows into a one foot tall by twelve foot wide dark-green groundcover. This is the preferred form of Dwarf Coyote Brush for slope stabilization and landscaping in almost all... Learn more.
As with 'Pigeon Point' but more of a mounder that seems to grow to only 6' across and 1' tall. Its leaves are like 'Twin Peaks'. Baccharis species are the nectary sources for most of the predatory was... Learn more.
Native along coast from Sonoma to Monterey Co. A very adaptable groundcover. Near coast,1 ft. high 10 ft. wide, small leaves, evergreen. As you go inland the plant changes into a shrub. The leaves ge... Learn more.
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... Learn more.
Mulefat is an eight foot evergreen shrub, protect from deer,elk,etc.for first few years, grows from coastal areas to Tex., usually around water sources, but not always. In some areas like where the 14... Learn more.
Cane Bluestem, Plumed Beard-Grass. Native from San Diego to Santa Barbara east to Oklahoma and down into the tropics. Rather ugly and best used as a limited ingredient in seed mixes. Syn. Andropogon... Learn more.
Glaucous, annual, with fleshy leaves and red-purple flowers, sandy areas, and sea bluffs, uncommon. SCo, ChI, Baja. Dies and shrivels after flowering, noticeable in the spring when flowering. A compon... Learn more.
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... Learn more.
Located in grasslands, perennial bulb, one ft. hgt., fls. white-lavender, soil clay-serpentine, in areas of higher serpentine, sunny, dry, in summer, assoc. pls., Calystegia subacaulis ssp. episc... Learn more.
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... Learn more.
Annual, low, spreading stems or flat to the ground, leaves in a basal rosette, flowers minute, in sandy, open areas, coast, chaparral, desert, forest. disappears after flowering. sSN, Teh, sSnJV, SCoR... Learn more.
This coastal/Island Morning Glory is a twining vine with large creamy flowers. Calystegia macrostegia is native in rocky areas of coastal chaparral and coastal sage scrub on most of the channel islan... Learn more.
Calystegia purpurata, or Purplish Morning Glory, is a perennial vine well enough behaved to use on a trellis next to your house. Flowers are large and cheerful, foliage looks like glossy salad gree... Learn more.
Twining perennial, large creamy-white flowers, beautiful triangular leaves, full sun to part shade, coastal sage scrub/chaparral/ oak woodland, clay/ serpentine soil, some associates are Bloomeria cr... Learn more.
Sand Mat is a somewhat prostrate, herbaceous, tufted, spiny perennial, with minute scalelike flowers. It grows in sandy areas along the coast. The foliage appears white. Sand Mat likes full sun, seas... Learn more.
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... Learn more.
San Luis Obispo sedge is different form most other sedges, it doesn't seem to go dormant, and it seems to be somewhat drought tolerant. Carex obispoensis also prefers serpentine or other heavy clays. ... Learn more.
Sanddune Sedge, Carex pansa is a very small creeping dune plant, with leaves making little tufts where it is happy. The happier the plant, the bigger the lawn. Needs near beach sand. The only time I... Learn more.
