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Abronia pogonantha
Desert Sand Verbena
Desert Sand Verbena has white to light purple flowers and gray leaves. It is a wonderful annual verbena from the clean sandy areas of the Mojave desert, southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, and on ...
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Agave utahensis
Century Plant
Native to east Mojave desert on limestone soils. The flowering stems are not branching as in Agavi deserti, but the flower clusters arise along the stem on short one-inch stalks. From a distance, it...
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Antirrhinum coulterianum
Coulters Snapdragon
Antirrhinum coulterium, Coulters snapdragon is another one of the many plants that is not supposed to be living on the Santa Margarita nursery site, but it is here. One of those surprise! Guess what I...
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Arabis pulchra gracilis
Beautiful Rockcress
Arabis pulchra var. gracilis, or Beautiful Rockcress, is a three foot tall perennial with purple flowers. This colorful perennial is a member of the mustard family. It is very much like wallflower b...
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Arctostaphylos glauca
Big Berry Manzanita
Big berry Manzanita is an evergreen shrub to small tree, with red-brown bark, 7-10' foot high and wide. It will be lower and wider where there is snow. In the Mt. Pinos area the bush grows 2-3' tall a...
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Aristida purpurea
Purple 3-awn
Purple three awn grass is a perennial grass of the Kansas prairie that can be spotted in many small patches throughout Southern California. A grass lovers dream grass, small clumps of green stems with...
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Astragalus Douglasii
Douglas milkvetch
Douglas milkvetch is really a nice little plant that causes no problems that I've seen while creating a visually delightful addition to the garden. This little locoweed grows on the Santa Margarita ...
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Atriplex canescens
Four-wing Salt Bush
Four-wing Salt Bush is an evergray shrub that grows to 5ft. Native to dry areas, western U.S.. Needs full sun. It becomes very drought tolerant after a few good waterings. The whole plant is edible (y...
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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 sergiloides
Squaw Waterweed
A 4-6 ft, shrub that will be leafless under stress. In spring if it is happy it is covered with bright yellow flowers. Native from Inyo to Utah to San Diego....
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Baileya multiradiata
Desert Marigold
A short lived perennial that grows to 2 foot high and lives in the deserts of the Southwest. Its flowers look like yellow marigolds on a light green marigold plant. Easily rotted with too much water. ...
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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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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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Celtis reticulata
Hackberry
Celtis reticulata, or Hackberry, is a small, deciduous tree to 30'which grows best in full sun (a minimum of six hours of direct sunlight), and with regular water but can become very drought tolerant...
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Cercis occidentalis
Western Redbud
Redbud is a deciduous shrub to small tree, 14', flowers magenta, Feb.-April. Western Redbud is native on dry slopes (usually next to a spring or seasonal creek), coast ranges and Sierra foothills to...
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Chilopsis linearis
Desert Willow
Large deciduous shrub to small tree. (There is one in McFarland 30\'+tall.) Its long narrow leaves are willow-like. Its flowers are fragrant, pink to lavender. They appear in May and keep coming until...
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Chrysothamnus nauseosus
Rabbitbrush
Rabbit brush is a nondescript two to four foot perennial that erupts in late summer with a passionate display of appealing yellow that has stopped many an artist and ...
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Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus
Rabbit Brush
This rabbit brush grows in the mountains along the edge of the desert from Southern California to B.C. east to Montana and New Mexico. A small rabbit brush, not usually more than a meter high.
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Cirsium occidentale venustum
Red Thistle
Venus Thistle is a rather large, tomentose, ( covered with short, soft, matted, white hairs) biennial (sometimes annual) thistle with 1-2" bright red flowers. Very showy. Can grow to six feet tall....
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Cucurbita foetidissima
Coyote Melon
A coarse, trailing perennial, with gray-green, rough leaves, yellow flowers, and a large root, undergoes dormancy after flowering and fruiting. Occurs often in sandy areas. Produces a gourd, not edibl...
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Dalea fremontii
Indigo Bush
Indigo Bush is a four foot tall deciduous shrub with whitish stems and purple pea flowers. It grows in the western deserts in creosote bush scrub and Great Basin sage plant communities. As it lives...
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Delphinium parishii
Sky Blue Larkspur
As Delphinium cardinale but blue, more drought tolerant but less garden tolerant....
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Diplacus calycinus
Rock Monkey Flower
This monkey flower is a little startling to see a monkey flower in full sun amongst the cactus and saltbrush. We saw it in the Pinyon-Juniper , Joshua Tree Woodland and in full Creosote woodland among...
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Dyssodia thurberi
Dainty Yellow Composite
Perennial, 6 in. high, 1 ft. across, western deserts to 5500 ft. needs good drainage and no summer water (along coast) or a little (inland) after established, very showy rock garden plant, gets very ...
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Elymus condensatus
Giant Wild Rye
A large clumping green grass. Native in the interface zone between plant communities or in openings. Commonly in areas that have seeps in winter. Drought resistant in most areas. In the desert areas,...
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