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Penstemon oreocharis
Meadow Penstemon
A flat perennial with 3" long 1/2"wide dark green leaves. Bright lavender-blue flowers in clusters on a 4-6" spire. Best for moist spots (not wet spots). Not as drought tolerant in interior heat. It w...
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Penstemon procerus
Small penstemon
Small Penstemon is native in the higher elevations of California throughout much of the rest of the US and Southern Canada. Useful in a small moist rock garden. Use with Eriogonium umbellatum, a boul...
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Penstemon rydbergii
Meadow Penstemon
A flat perennial with 3"l ong 1/2" wide dark green leaves. Bright lavender-blue flowers in clusters on a 4-6" spire. Best for moist spots (not wet spots). Not as drought tolerant in interior heat. It ...
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Poa fendleriana
Mutton Grass
Mutton Grass is so called as it grows a bunch grass in many of the drier plant communities of the west and plains and is preferred by sheep. A fair sized bunch grass of soft texture, humm-m, tasty. I ...
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Populus tremuloides
Quaking Aspen
A deciduous tree to 20 or 30 foot. It does not like to live at lower elevations. It has survived in some spots where it shouldn\'t for a long time. But it is slow compared to its speed at higher eleva...
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Potentilla fructicosa
(Syn. Pentaphylloides f., Dasiophora f., Potentilla fruticosa var. parvifolia, Potentilla floribunda, Fragaria fruticosa) Shrubby Cinquefoil grows along streams, in meadows and in openings in the fore...
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Potentilla glandulosa nevadensis
Nevada Cinquefoil
This Potentilla grows from Southern California mountains through the Sierra Nevada up into Nevada and Washington. A very nice little perennial that looks like it belongs on a Quebec balcony. Use with...
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Potentilla pectinisecta
Bodie Buttercup
A 1 ft. perennial with deeply cut dark green leaves. Native to the mountains bordering the Mojave Desert. A different rock garden plant. It has grown here in full sun with no water or care. If you tri...
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Prunella vulgaris lanceolata
Self Heal
A clumping perennial of forests and meadows from Alaska to S. Cal.. Western Self heal differs from the European form largely by a narrower leaf. Use in a meadow or natural lawn. It is a low lying pere...
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Puccinellia nuttalliana
Nuttall's alkali grass
Nuttall's alkali grass grows in alkaline moist spots. You know, those troublesome spots that do not drain and have salt rings about them. This plant is also know as Poa airoides and Puccinellia airoid...
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Rosa woodsii ultramontana
Mountain Rose
A fragrant rose that needs some summer water and part shade in the interior. In higher elevations or near the coast give it sun and good air flow. This rose has the best hips for tea of any I've smell...
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Rubus leucodermis
Western Raspberry
An arching dec. shrub-vine. Thorny with whitish stems, green leaves and red to black raspberry-like berries. I\'ve only seen western Raspberry in the redwoods/Douglas Fir around Willits. It was a bram...
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Rudbeckia californica
California Coneflower
California coneflower is a large showy perennial that grows in seeps or meadows for 400-7800 feet from the middle Sierras into southern Oregon and down along the California coast ranges into Del Nor...
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Salix eastwoodii
Sierra Willow
A fuzzy grey almost groundcover willow of the upper middle Sierras. ...
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Sidalcea oregana
Checker
A 4\" high perennial with pink flowers, and green foliage. A rock garden plant that you\'ll find along the edges of meadows, north moist rocky slopes and seasonal seep/snow pockets in many western sta...
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Solidago canadensis elongata
Canada Goldenrod
A very large showy perennial that grows in seasonal seeps. Give regular water, part shade to full sun. ...
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Stipa columbiana
(Syn. Achnatherum nelsonii ssp. dorei)A narrow grayish perennial bunchgrass. Where it gets semi-regular water it has naturalized in the nursery. Native from Northern Calif to Alaska to Tex....
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Thalictrum fendleri
Mountain Meadow Rue
A perennial with delicate columbine -like flowers that is covered with spires of very airy, dainty flowers in spring, and with beautiful, delicate foliage. Perfect for a shade garden, with some moistu...
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Thuja plicata
Western Red Cedar
An evergreen tree with dark green summer foliage, red-brown-green foliage in winter. It is native from coastal Alaska to Alberta and down to N. Calif. If left alone and given time it will be a 200\' t...
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Vancouveria hexandra
Inside out flower
Inside out flower is a semideciduous perennial that makes a scale scale groundcover in a shade garden. In the wild you'll find it under Maples, Alders, Douglas fir, larch and others. In your garden it...
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Viola palustris
Alpine marsh violet
Alpine marsh violet is an easy to grow native violet that grows throughout much of the world. Fritillary butterfly uses violets. This violet is also known as Viola Howellii, V. epipsila, V. repens, V....
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Woodwardia fimbriata
Giant Chain Fern
A very large fern. They can get to be 6 ft. tall in the wild and look like Tasmanian Tree fern. This can make a spot look very old.(As in Bedrock or and old Dino movie.) It grows in seeps or springs t...
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Wyethia mollis
Woolly Mule's Ears
Woolly Mule Ears grow on both sides of the Sierras from Fresno County up into Eastern Oregon and Nevada. Wyethia mollis (syn. Alarconia a., Helianthus longifolius, H. Hookerianus, robusta, foliosa, so...
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