Astragalus trichopodus
Southern California Locoweed
Southern California Locoweed grows from Santa Barbara to Orange County into Chino hills. So if you live in the Los Angeles Basin this is the locoweed for you and some of your butterflies. Some of the...
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Atriplex californica
Saltbush
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...
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Atriplex lentiformis Breweri
Brewers Salt Bush
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...
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Baccharis douglasii
Marsh Baccharis
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...
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Baccharis emoryi
Emory Baccharis
This Baccharis looks like a natural, stable hybrid between Mulefate(Baccharis viminea) and Baccharis pilularis var. consanguinea(Coyote Brush). Common in sandy washes throughout the inner areas of So...
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Baccharis glutinosa
Water Wally
A deciduous willow -like shrub to 10 feet. Syn: Baccharis salicifolia (Jepson). Male and female flowers are on separate plants. Long, vertical stems make the appearance of this plant undesirable for t...
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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 pilularis consanguinea Pozo Surf
Lowly Coyote brush
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...
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Baccharis pilularis pilularis Pigeon Point
Dwarf Coyote Brush
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...
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Baccharis pilularis pilularis Santa Ana
Dwarf Bachharis
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...
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Baccharis pilularis pilularis Twin Peaks
Dwarf Coyote Brush
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...
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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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Baccharis viminea
Seep Willow
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...
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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.
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Calandrinia maritima
Seaside Calandrina
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 com...
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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 argillosus
Clay Mariposa Lily
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. epis...
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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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Calyptridium monandrum
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...
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Calystegia macrostegia
California Morning Glory
This coastal/Island Morning Glory is a twining vine with large creamy flowers. Calystegia macrostegia is native in rocky areas of chaparral, coastal sage scrub on most of the channel islands. Does bes...
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Calystegia purpurata
Purplish Morning Glory
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...
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Calystegia subacaulis ssp. episcopalis
Morning-Glory
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...
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Cardionema ramosissimum
Sand Mat
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...
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Carex fracta
Fragile Sheathed Sedge
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...
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Carex obispoensis
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. ...
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