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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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Encelia actoni
Mountain bush sunflower
Mountain bush sunflower is a perennial shrub, 4 ft. tall with yellow daisy flowers. Grey foliage and yellow flowers stand out in a garden. Needs sun and very limited water after the first few months. ...
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Ephedra nevadensis
Nevada Ephedra
Mormon tea grows along the western edges of the California deserts and up into Southeastern Oregon, across Nevada into Utah and down into Arizona. This ephedra is a small leafless shrub that flowers ...
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Ephedra viridis
Green Mormon Tea
Green Mormon Tea is an evergreen shrub, 4 ft., desert areas, Calif. to Utah, looks like leafless shrub. In many desert locations both species (E. californica and Ephedra virides) exist together. Ephed...
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Eriodictyon angustifolium
Narrow-leafed Yerba Santa
Associated plants are Yucca breviflora, Eriodictyon angustifolium, and Fremontia californica....
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Eriodictyon trichocalyx
Smooth leaf yerba santa
Smooth leaf yerba santa is native to the Mountains of Southern California. Mixed habitats range from forest through Joshua Tree woodland, alwasys on the edges of the desert, but not in the desert....
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Eriogonum bailey bailey
Annual Field Buckwheat
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. We don't sell it. This picture is mostly to remember what it was....
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Eriogonum fasciculatum foliolosum
California Buckwheat
California Buckwheat the common one that grows in most of the populated areas of California and is hardy to -10 and very drought tolerant. We've had customers remove rose bushes to plant this one a...
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Eriogonum fasciculatum polifolium
Interior California Buckwheat
California interior buckwheat ia as Eriogonum fasciculatum but grayer and tougher, hardy to -20 . Foliolosum and polifolium overlap in many areas. Most notably around Lebec, Palmdale, Lancaster and ju...
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Eriogonum inflatum
Desert Trumpet
A funny looking perennial with small pink flowers on a 3' stalk. The stalk is inflated in the middle. This plant is all over the east end of our county and across over to Ariz. and Colorado. Hoover sa...
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Eriogonum nudum pubiflorum
A slender spike of white or pink or yellow flowers. It harbors a deliteful little insect that mirrors the flower petals. (I thought I'd knocked a flower off when I took the picture, until it turned, l...
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Fallugia paradoxa
Apache Plume
Apache Plume has white rose flowers, small leaves that are finely divided, fruits are plume-like. It grows normally to 3-4 feet, but can grow to 6 ft.. Native to deserts to S. Calif. east to Texas....
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Ferocactus acanthodes
Compass Barrel Cactus
(Ferocactus cylindraceus) A slow growing mound of thorns to maybe 6 ft. Tall and a foot wide. The 3 inch across yellow- orange flowers appear in May - July. Give sun, very fast draining soil, and li...
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Fremontodendron California Glory
Flannel Bush, Fremontia
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...
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Fremontodendron Ken Taylor
Ken Taylors Flannel
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...
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Fremontodendron Pacific Sunset
Flannel Bush
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...
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Haplopappus linearifolius
Narrowleaf goldenbush
(Ericameria linearifolia, Stenotopsis linearifolia) Perennial, 3 ft., yellow flowers 1 inch across, March- May, throughout Calif., Utah, Ariz., full sun, drought tolerant, good drainage, cold tolerant...
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Isomeris arborea
Bladderpod
Bladderpod is a distinctive plant with unusual yellow flowers and cool fruits that when dry, resemble a paper lantern that rattles (the seeds inside the dried fruit rattle around). In the southern des...
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Juniperus californica
California Juniper
Shrub-tree, bluish berries, 10-15\', no water after established, coast ranges and Sierras, edible berries. Very alkali tolerant. It is very ornamental! This tree has bluish-gray foliage and is drought...
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Lepidium fremontii
Desert Alyssum
Desert Alyssum is an one foot perennial that likes the conditions it's native to in the Mojave Desert from Mojave to Utah. It needs perfect drainage and full sun. The fragrant white flowers are on a ...
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Lepidospartum squamatum
Scale Broom
A shrub that can grow to chin height. It looks like a bunch of green corn stalk brooms tied together with yellow flowers on top. It grows in season stream bottoms. Very showy when in flower, ugly the ...
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Lupinus excubitus
Grape soda lupine
Grape soda lupine is one of the smaller bush lupines with many different forms that range from the desert to mountains. The foliage is gray, the flowers are purple and smell like grape soda. Do not w...
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Mahonia fremontii
Desert Mahonia
(Berberis fremontii) Evergreen shrub, 4', Mojave Desert to Utah, yellow flowers, yellowberries, spiny leaves, full sun, excellent drainage, slow but tough. Deer proof....
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Maurandya antirrhiniflora
Snapdragon Vine
A 6-10' long vine of thread-like stems bearing 1" magenta or purple-blue flowers. (It is a surprise which you will get as they seem to change even after we sort them.) It can be very showy on a sunny ...
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Mimulus fremontii
A delicate little perennial that grows in sandy scree areas throughout much of Central and S. Calif.. Not available in the trade (or through us) it is included here for identification. ...
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