Plants For Coastal Sage Scrub

Annual, biennial, perennial, 1 ft., orange to orange-red, fragrant flowers, March - July, (longer with water), sun to part shade, dry to garden tolerant. We had one that lived for 2-3 years here and g... Learn more.

Perennial, 1 ft. with cream-yellow flowers in spring. Native from Pt. Reyes to Ore. on coastal cliffs. Needs sun, low water requirements. A good garden subject, fragrant. Much like a creamy stock. Learn more.

The Dune Wallflower grows in the sand along the coast of San Luis Obispo county. It is a one to two foot tall perennial with bright yellow flowers. The botanists cannot agree what it is but it is a cu... Learn more.

Munz lists four flavors of California Poppy that have largely geographic separations. We finally gave up and are lumping most here as the trade doesn't seem to separate them. It seems a California ... Learn more.

Munz lists four 'tendencies' that have largely geographic separations. An inland perennial form that ranges away from the coast from Wash. to S.Cal. This is var. crocea that has large orange flowers ... Learn more.

Munz lists four tendencies that have largely geographic separations. A perennial form with gray roughish leaves and prostrate stems. Surf to Monterey.Foliage is diminutive, flowers are normal to large... Learn more.

Munz lists four tendencies that have largely geographic separations. This annual form, var. peninsularis, around the San Joaquin Valley and S. Calif. Use the form if you possibly can that is in your a... Learn more.

Cliff Spurge is an unusual shrub or sub-shrub with white flowers that grows on sandy coastal bluffs. Cliff Spurge does not grow as well in inland areas with cold winters and hot summers, but is great ... Learn more.

Desert Olive is a deciduous shrub that grows fast to 6-8 feet. Native from northern central California to Riverside and east to Colorado and Texas. Useful fast filler for desert conditions, drought to... Learn more.

California Glory was introduced by Rancho Santa Ana Garden in 1962. It is a hybrid between F. californicum and F. mexicanum. It is one of the better hybrids in its stability and flower show. Flannel b... Learn more.

Ken Taylor owned a nursery in the Aromas area for years. Taylor Nursery produced native plants and very rare or unusual exotics. Taylor nursery was also into bonsai which is why he probably was afte... Learn more.

Pacific Sunset was introduced by Rancho Santa Ana Garden. This flannel bush is a hybrid between F. californicum and F. mexicanum. Flannel bushes like lighter soils with moisture nearby, but not nex... Learn more.

Island Snapdragon is a perennial, 2 1/2 ft. by 4 ft.. Flowers are red, snapdragon like, in spring. Native to Channel Islands. Likes to sun to part shade. It is drought tolerant (looks better with wate... Learn more.

Two-toned Everlasting is a Greenish perennial that has leaves with white-woolly- grey undersides and small creamy yellow flowers, not showy. Weedy in cultivated watered areas under certain environme... Learn more.

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 ... Learn more.

Syn: Grindelia camporum var. camporum and Grindelia camporum var. bracteosum. See Grindelia camporum. Learn more.

Grindelia stricta venulosa (or pachyphylla) is a coastal bluff plant from the bay area. Coastal Groundcover Gum Plant is a great plant to mix with Baccharis Pigeon Point and Penstemon Margarita BOP t... Learn more.

(Syn. Eriocarpum j., Sideranthus j., Machaeranthera j.) A shrubby damn yellow composite from dry chaparral/coastal sage scrub slopes in San Diego County and Baja. It looks kinda like a funny looking t... Learn more.

A sprawling little perennial that has merit in revegetation and butterfly gardens. It is trivial until it flowers, then is a bright spot of yellow with a butterfly on it. (Syn. Isocoma menziesii var.... Learn more.

Island Hazardia is a grey perennial with unusual foliage and flowers. No one knows what to do with it, but the collectors have to have one because it's so weird. Use as a rock garden plant or plant in... Learn more.

A common perennial from coastal bluffs into interior chaparral, common on road cuts mixed in with squirrel holes, hence, its name. A 1-2ft high perennial that grows to 2-3ft across. Its 1/2inch yellow... Learn more.

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... Learn more.

A little non-descript perennial that grows in openings amoungst shrubs,. When it flowers it turns into a small sun. In Lompoc the glowing mounds of Sunrose are along the trails with Ceanothus imp.imp... Learn more.

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 be... Learn more.

Showy annual to short-lived perennial, with coarse foliage and a cluster of bright yellow flowers at the top of the plant. Grows in open, sandy, disturbed areas. Not for formal areas, but should be a... Learn more.