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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
This Horsetail is wide ranging throughout the world with a very complicated species complex.
(Equisetum hiemale, Hippochaete hiemale var. californica) ...
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Erigeron philadelphicus
Philadelphia Daisy
This form came (with permission) from the Forest Service camp at Mono Lake. This is a California form of a plant that is very wide ranging that grows in middle elevations in Calif. and across the U.S....
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Geranium californicum
California Geranium
California Geranium is a perennial, pink flowers, June-July, damp meadows, high elevations, Sierra Nevada, a rock garden subject, has flourished here with reg. water, very hardy. We've seen them on th...
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Geranium viscosissimum
Sticky Geranium
Sticky Geranium is a six inch to one foot tall perennial with one inch pink flowers with reddish-purple lines on the petals and lovely dissected leaves. It flowers from June through August. Sticky Ger...
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Geum macrophyllum
Big Leaf Avens
This Geum grows in moutain meadows, along trails, springs and seeps at higher elevations in California. In Canada and the rest of the northern hemisphere Big Leaf Avens grows all the way down to sea ...
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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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Hordeum brachyantherum californicum
California Barley
Commonly grows in fields dominated by alien grasses and weeds (Bromus diandrus, Agrostis sp. Erodium sp. Hordeum jubatum, etc) grazed, no trees in evidence, north slope, soil clay/serpentine, many ...
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Horkelia rydbergii
Bolander's Horkelia
This Horkelia grows in our mountains from the Big Bear area across to Mt. Pinos and in the higher mountains up into Monterey County. A low green, aromatic perennial that is a magnet for native insects...
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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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Iris missouriensis
Western Blue Flag
Native from S. Dakota to southern California to B.C., A 1 ft. perennial with 2-3 inch, pale lavender flowers. Grows at higher elevations, in mountainous areas of California, emerges through snow in sp...
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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 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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Juncus occidentalis
Western Rush
Western rush occurs in spots throughout the west. Never in covering hillsides, always in a nook or cranny that is seasonally wet in winter and dry in summer. This is a very nice looking plant that sho...
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Juncus oxymeris
Pointed Rush
A very big coarse Rush that has edges. I have seen these rushes in only two spots so far, both in the mountains, one in Sequoia at 7500 ft and one in Mt. Abel area at 5000 ft. (It does grow every wher...
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Juncus xiphiodes
Iris Leaved Rush
A creeping rush of meadows and creeks. It looks like a small Iris leaved thicket with stars on top. Give water, sun and water. It does not care as long as it has water. You can almost plant in under w...
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Lilium parryi
Lemon Lily
Lilium parryi, Lemon Lily, has large 3 inch wide and 4 inch long lemon yellow flowers that have a delightful fragrance. Lemon Lily is native from middle to high elevations in southern California and ...
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Lilium wigginsii
Wiggins Lily
A plant that looks like a 1' tall Leopard Lily. The flowers are large yellow with purple spots.This is a nice lily that we can't ever seem to grow enough of. New name is Lilium pardalinum ssp. wiggins...
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Lupinus polyphyllus bernardinus
Blue-Pod Lupine
High elevation perennial that grows in wet seeps in and around snow fields. Large very showy blue flowers. They seem to be hardy to -10 in open areas with no snow. It froze out of here Dec. 1990. If y...
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Machaeranthera lagunensis
(Machaeranthera asteroides var. lagunensis)A wonderful perennial from around Big Bear down through San Diego County and into Baja. A meadow/open forest/ chaparral species that grows well in an english...
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Mahonia M. piperiana x M. aquifolium x M. amplectans Golden Abundance
A hybrid of three California native Oregon grapes. It's always been confusing calling a Mahonia or Berberis Oregon Grape. It's not a grape and they are native from California up in to Idaho and Britis...
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Mimulus moschatus
Musk Flower
A seep monkey flower from the forests of central and northern California. ...
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Mimulus primuloides
Monkey Moss
A water-loving perennial that is flat with tubular 1"yellow flowers. A ground cover for small, moist situations, creek side situations. Grows in mountains of north-central California north and into th...
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Muhlenbergia montana
Mountain Muhly
A small little perennial that grows in our western mountains.The most likely place to find Mountain Muhly in California is Yosemite Valley.
Companion plants include Mutton Grass (Poa fendleriana), We...
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Parnassia palustris californica
Grass-of-Parnassus
(Syn. Parnassia californica) A plant to be included in a meadow or along a high alpine stream. Circumpolar. The California form having smaller flowers that are cream colored (with less green). It is n...
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