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Aristolochia californica
California Pipevine
California Dutchman's Pipe or Pipe Vine is a deciduous vine with one inch purple striped pipe-shaped flowers. Pipe vine likes part-shade and regular water. This California native vine has become f...
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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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Asclepias californica
California Milkweed
Asclepias californica, California milkweed is one of the most beautiful milkweeds in California. It has deep purple flowers and almost white gray fuzzy foliage. It is very drought tolerant even occrui...
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Asclepias cordifolia
Purple milkweed
Asclepias cordifolia, Purple milkweed or Heart leafed milkweed is native to northern California,the Sierra Nevada mountains, Oregon, and western Nevada. Purple milkweed grows in all sorts of plant com...
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Asclepias fascicularis
Narrowleaf Milkweed
Narrow-leaved Milkweed has narrow leaves and a wider native range and a whole lot more garden tolerance than most of the other native species. Asclepias fascicularis is a perennial with three foot ta...
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Asclepias speciosa
Showy Milkweed
Showy Milkweed is a perennial, with three foot tall stems and large gray five inch leaves, fruits 4" horns, flowers compound 4-5" cluster like a Forth of July firework. In our area ...
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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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Baccharis pilularis consanguinea
Coyote Brush
Deer proof throughout Ca. (so-far). You might want to cover it for the first year. Drought tolerant, very usefull for hedges or fence lines, much underused. Water 1/week until est. then 1/month or so ...
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Calochortus albus
Fairy Lantern
We occasionally grow this species. Plants with bulbs and linear leaves, in the lily family, grows best in partly shady, mostly clay to lighter granitic soils in the central western portion of the Cal...
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Camassia quamash
Camas
A perennial bulb that grows in wet meadows. The flowers are quite showy blue. Northern Coastal Calif. We've had nothing but problems with it at our site....
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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 globosa
Globe Sedge
A dark green mounding sedge that always looks like it just got watered. Globe sedge grows throughout the redwoods, conifer forests and oak woodlands all long the California coastal area. ...
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Carex serratodens
Bifid Sedge
Bifid referring to the top of the fruit covering which is cleft into two parts, , somewhat tufted perennial to 5 ft. hgt., mostly in the coast ranges of CA, more uncommon in the Sierra Nevada, lvs, fl...
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Ceanothus Concha
California Mountain Lilac
Ceanothus 'Concha' is one of the oldest and best hybrid ceanothus. Ours are 4' high by 4' wide, and they grow larger in milder climates. This cultivar has deep blue flowers, is drought tolerant, and ...
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Ceanothus foliosus
Wavy Leaf Mountain lilac
Wavy Leaf Ceanothus is an evergreen shrub that can grow to four or five feet inland, one to two foot near the coast with wind. Near the coast in cool summer areas Ceanothus foliosus prefers full sun, ...
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Ceanothus Frosty Blue
Frosty Blue Mountain Blue
Ceanothus Frosty Blue' is an evergreen mountain lilac that grows to six or eight feet tall and about as wide. A little nipping here and there can move it taller or narrower. The flowers are a medium ...
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Ceanothus griseus horizontalis Yankee Point
Carmel Mountain Lilac
Ceanothus Yankee Point' is an evergreen shrub that commonly grows two or three feet tall and ten feet wide. A mounding mass of glossy green with blue flowers in Mar-May. Does best near coast, good i...
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Ceanothus integerrimus
Deer Brush
Deer brush is a semi-deciduous bush that is polymorphous. Some forms are so nearly evergreen as to be evergreen, eight foot tall, bush like with nearly glossy large rounded leaves. While others are ...
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Ceanothus Joyce Coulter
Creeping Mountain Lilac
Ceanothus Joyce Coulter' is an evergreen mountain lilac groundcover , 2 foot high by 8 foot wide, with flowers of medium blue. Joyce Coulter blooms in March-May, has dark green foliage, and is ...
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Ceanothus papillosus
Wart Stem California Lilac
Ceanothus papillosus is a five foot evergreen with scented foliage and stunning deep blue flowers. A glorious plant in almost all respects. It is serpentine tolerant, drought tolerant, and I...
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Ceanothus parryi
Ceanothus parryi is an evergreen shrub to six feet in most gardens, can make eighteen feet in the wild. Small, dark green leaves on a tight rounded bush, make it an attractive plant. Flower show is ...
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Ceanothus sorediatus
Jim Bush
Ceanothus sorediatus can be an very fast and vigorous evergreen shrub with dark green foliage with a hint of grey that grows to twenty feet. This is another chameleon. In interior clays it will be ver...
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Ceanothus thyrsiflorus Big Sur California lilac
Big Sur Lilac
This California lilac is an evergreen 5' shrub to small tree. (This form is more of a four foot mound.)Flowers May-June with a good light blue show. They are not very cold hardy. They usually grow b...
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Ceanothus thyrsiflorus repens
Low Blue Blossom
Ceanothus thyrsiflorus repens is a prostrate Ceanothus with lots of attractive sky blue flowers. Low blue blossom is found north of Monterey county in the northern coastal plant communities. Ceanoth...
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