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Ceanothus maritimus
Bluff California Lilac
Maritime California Lilac is native San Luis Obispo county where it grows on old ocean beaches and bluffs. The soil varies from a near adobe through red clay on hard pan to a gray sand-rock compos...
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Clarkia unguiculata
Mountain Garland
An annual with slender petaled pink flowers up a 2-3' stem. Not showy unless massed. Useful on north or east slopes up to and under oaks and pines. Native on the nursery site. Easy to grow....
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Coreopsis gigantea
Giant Coreopsis
Coreopsis gigantea, Giant Coreopsis, is a perennial to 4 feet. Giant Coreopsis looks like a tropical tree with 3 inch yellow daisies on top, a very different plant, not very tolerant of adobe or poor...
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Coreopsis maritima
Beach Coreopsis
Perennial, 2 feet high, yellow flowers, spring to summer. Native to coast dunes, south dunes, south coast. It likes full sun,water until est. only, intolerant of frost. It's wind tolerant, best in san...
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Cressa truxillensis
Cressa
Low, tufted, subshrub, with gray, woolly leaves, white flowers, in the morning-glory family, in low alkaline and saline areas,. situated in many habitats. Is listed as being invasive or possess...
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Croton californicus
Croton
A small, gray-scurfy perennial, with no perceptible flowers, grows in open areas between shrubs such Ericameria ericoides, Salvia mellifera, Artemisia californica.Lives in the coastal sage scrub and ...
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Cryptantha clevelandii
Cryptantha
Small annual, grows in sandy or rocky areas, sometimes serpentine, with tiny, insignificant white flowers, with hairy leaves and stems, fine for a wild garden. sNCo, sNCoRI, CW, SCo, ChI, Baja, CA....
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Distichlis spicata
Saltgrass
This species looks like bermuda grass and can be treated as such. Use as lawn, for restoration in salt marshes, excellent in parks. It will handle heavy traffic if it is in its element. Gallon plants ...
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Encelia californica
Coast Sunflower
Perennial shrub, 3-4 ft. high, good large scale ground cover with 2 inch daisy, Native from Santa Maria to San Diego. Not frost tolerant, will recover from 27 deg. F. but will die to ground, at about ...
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Equisetum hymale
This Horsetail is wide ranging throughout the world with a very complicated species complex.
(Equisetum hiemale, Hippochaete hiemale var. californica) ...
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Ericameria ericoides
Mock Heather
(Haplopappus ericoides) A 3-4' perennial that is covered each year with bright yellow flowers., It grows on the dunes and old dunes in pure beach sand. People plant real heather in the beach towns and...
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Erigeron foliosus blochmaniae
A plant from coastal sand dunes. We grow this for site- specific plantings to mitigate new construction. (Those of you that oversee these jobs should know that most of the time the plants themselves ...
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Erigeron glaucus
Seaside Daisy
Seaside daisy(Erigeron glaucus) can be found along the coast from Cambria north to central Oregon, and just to be different also on the Channel Islands. Seaside daisy is usually found on clay ocean b...
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Erigeron glaucus Authur Menzies
Authur Menzies
The flower is large and showy on this, but that is the problem with it. The flower, we normally only see one flower per plant, per year. If you have a conventional garden this plant is acceptable, oth...
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Erigeron glaucus Cape Sebastian
Seaside Daisy
A beautiful perennial for small gardens, borders, or butterfly gardens. Well liked by many types of butterflies that are native along the coast.
Part-shade or afternoon shade inland, full sun near coa...
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Erigeron glaucus x Wayne Roderick Daisy
Wayne Roderick
This one is impressive. Erigeron Wayne Roderick is lower, darker green with smaller leaves than the species, and is believed to be of hybrid origin, with one of the parents being Erigeron glaucus. Th...
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Eriogonum cinereum
Perennial shrub to 4 ft.,(usually 2 ft.) whitish pink clusters on grey foliage, a plant for erosion control in dry coastal areas. The plantings here have survived 15 F. deg. with no damage, dead at @1...
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Eriogonum latifolium
Coast Buckwheat
A small buckwheat of the coastal dunes and bluffs from Monterey into southern Oregon. Bluffs and dunes, in beach sand or fast draining clay. (Resembles E. grande rubescens.) The leaves are preferred b...
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Eriogonum parvifolium
Cliff Buckwheat
A perennial, 2 ft. by 2 ft.. Native near coast from Monterey to San Diego, shade to sun, red-green foliage, reddish-pink flowers. This one does well in the San Joaquin and in the warmer areas of the s...
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Eriophyllum staechadifolium artemisiaefolium
Yellow Yarrow
Yellow Yarrow grows near the coast it is a flat to mounding perennial with gray foliage that is covered with yellow when it flowers. Commonly found growing on coastal bluffs with Dudleya ceaspitosa, C...
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Erysimum concinnum
Point Reyes Wallflower
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....
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Erysimum insulare
Dune Wallflower
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...
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Erysimum menziesii
Menzies' wallflower
Erysimum menziesii is a one foot high and wide perennial with bright yellow flowers, native on sand dunes Ft. Bragg to Humboldt, on the rare list. Very easy to grow. We began to think of it as a weed ...
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Eschscholzia californica
California Poppy
Munz lists four tendencies that have largely geographic separations. This type, a perennial of the dunes and Bluffs along the coast from Channel Islands to the Mendocino coast is the standard of seed ...
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Eschscholzia californica maritima
California Poppy
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...
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