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Alnus rubra
Red Alder
Deciduous tree fast to 10', moderate to 20', slow to 50'. It is native to N. Ca. to Alaska. It grows best near the coast and will tolerate salty brackish water. It needs water, sun to shade. It is nit...
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Anemopsis californica
Yerba Mansa
Yerba Mansa is a stoloniferous perennial that has large, waxy, dull gray-green leaves that lay flat and forms mats that from a distance look like a permanent pasture. This is a marsh and creekside pla...
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Artemisia douglasiana
Mugwort
California mugwort is a three foot perennial that has a funny sage odor. Native on stream banks,ditch banks, road cuts or other disturbed areas. Mugwort has the reputation of removing the ill effect...
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Artemisia dracunculus
Tarragon
(Syn. Artemisia dracunculoides, Artemisia glauca) Tarragon (probably not the variety called French Tarragon, the culinary herb) is a very unattractive weed of disturbed places. Worldwide, maybe native...
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Aster chilensis
California Aster
California aster has summer flowers that make showy
cheerful displays along roadsides of much of Coastal Southern
California. This perennial aster will disappear (or need to be pruned
to the ground...
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Bidens laevis
Joaquin Sunflower
Joaquin Sunflower grows in marshy areas, along creeks, and pond edges in California and across to Virginia. A very showy yellow daisy that works well in wetter sections of the garden. Plant it in a su...
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Calamagrostis canadensis
Blue-joint
Blue Joint grows as a large creeping grass in wet places or meadows from Manitoba to New Mexico, Newfoundland to California. In California Blue-joint lives from about Tulare Co. north in the Sierras, ...
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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 senta
Rough Sedge
A green perennial grass-like plant that grows along creek channels. Plant in cobble for a creek effect, plant with other Carex species, Mimulus species, (that is where the old separation between moi...
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Carex spissa
San Diego sedge
A gray, perennial, grass-like sedge that grows along creek channels. Very dramatic specimen plant for a conventional garden or wet native garden. Plant in cobble for a creek effect, plant with other...
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Cyperus eragrostis
Nutsedge, Umbrella Sedge
Grows in seasonal creeks, wet areas commonly with with Salix lasiolepis, Ambrosia sp., Quercus agrifolia and Populus. Prefers wet soil, clay or gravel. Thrives in a disturbed plant community, rhizomat...
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Deschampsia elongata
Slender hairgrass
This clumping perennial grass is so soft, and pretty, with really thin soft stems and leaves. Slender Hair Grass disappears in summer (drops to a faint brown patch); is a light grass that blows in the...
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Elymus glaucus
Blue Wildrye
A big grass that grows in open meadows, fields, ditch banks, road cuts, etc.. Beautiful if you are a cow. Short lived and rather weedy, blue rye is a good plant to seed into road cuts, horse pastures ...
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Epipactis gigantea
Stream Orchid
Giant helleborine is a perennial Orchid that grows in wet or moist places. Stream Orchid will go dormant at the first sign of drought. Grows all over the West from Tex. to B.C. to S.Dakota, always in...
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Equisetum hymale
Scouring rush
This Horsetail is wide ranging throughout the world with a very complicated species complex.
(Equisetum hiemale, Hippochaete hiemale var. californica) ...
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Gnaphalium microcephalum thermale
Feltleaf everlasting
(syn. Gnaphalium canescens ssp. thermale, Gnaphalium albidum, Pseudognaphalium thermale) A grey short lived perennial that grows in open loose ground. Common in fresh road cuts or in burned over area...
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Helenium puberulum
What happened to the Flower?
This plant has brought great hoots from less than kind customers. That's the flower? Is the common response. You got to be kidding is another. Personally I think the plant is interesting and a valuab...
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Heleocharis macrostachya
Common Spike Rush
A 1 foot high rhizomatous dark green plant. It looks like a miniature rush, or a funny-looking lawn grass. It needs regular moisture. It grows throughout the west and much of the world along streams, ...
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Heleocharis palustris
A one foot high rhizomatous dark green plant. It looks like a miniature rush, or a funny-looking lawn grass. It needs regular moisture. It grows throughout the west and much of the world along strea...
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Hibiscus californica
Rose-Mallow
A large perennial that will die to the ground under any drought stress. Use in an area of seasonal flooding or next to a pond. Flowers are large and showy. Not hardy. We lost ours to cold.
(Hibicus ...
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Hordeum brachyantherum
Meadow barley
Meadow Barley grows from Baja California to Labrador, New Mexico to Alaska.
A tufted perennial for an interest plant next to a pond or along a moist path. Looks lush with a little water.
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Iris hybrids
Rhizomes, perennial, 2 foot high with 3 inch blue through yellow flowers, full sun near coast, afternoon shade inland, much easier and faster-growing than straight species, does best with some organi...
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Juncus balticus
Baltic Rush
Baltic Rush grows in the Baltic Sea area, Canada from Labrador across and down into so. CA., also in S. A. It forms stiff clumps arising from runners and grows around water sources. If you have regula...
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Juncus dubius
A 1-2 ft. tall perennial that spreads by rhizomes along the edges of streams or ponds. Dark green, good fill in, good looking....
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Juncus macrophyllus
Long leaf rush
A rather nondescript spike of green until it flowers. Flowers make a creamy delicate cloud on top of this delicate bunch of stuff that looked like grass. Native from Paso Robles down California in th...
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