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Eschscholzia californica crocea
Munz lists four 'tendencies' that have largely geographic separations. An inland perennial form that ranges away from the coast from Wash. to S.Cal. This is var. crocea that has large orange flowers ...
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Fraxinus latifolia
Oregon Ash
Oregon Ash is a tree of the meadows and stream banks of the Willamette Valley in Oregon. In California this Ash is usually in more sheltered locations and a smaller tree. It takes centuries to become ...
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Heleocharis macrostachya
Common Spike Rush
A 1 foot high rhizomatous dark green plant. It looks like a miniature rush, or a funny-looking lawn grass. It needs regular moisture. It grows throughout the west and much of the world along streams, ...
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Heleocharis palustris
A one foot high rhizomatous dark green plant. It looks like a miniature rush, or a funny-looking lawn grass. It needs regular moisture. It grows throughout the west and much of the world along strea...
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Iris macrosiphon
Rhizome, 2 ft. in height, yellow to purple flowers, north central Calif., full sun to part shade, does best with some organic matter, leaf mulch, on soil....
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Juglans hindsii
A deciduous tree to 50 ft. Native in scattered spots throughout California. A fast tree with edible nuts, garden tolerant. There has been some controversy as to whether these trees were planted by CA....
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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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Juniperus occidentalis
Western Juniper
The huge trees of Western Ceder are OLD, older than me and I'm old. 2000-3000 years is possible for some of the big old trees. For most of us expect to grow a bush, if you're young you might live to s...
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Lasthenia glabrata
Goldfields
A small little early spring annual that is a pioneer species in many bad habitats. In the San Joaquin Valley it makes mass displays of bright yellow in areas that are still intact. It will grow in any...
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Lotus purshianus
Lotus
Annual, weedy plant of roadsides, open, dry, disturbed areas, thickly branched, fixes nitrogen. CA(exc DSon), to CAN, cUS, Mex. Used for soil stabilization and forage for livestock. Larval food plant ...
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Lupinus latifolius
A large flowered gray leaved perennial that grows from L.A. to Wash. state. The flowers are a medium blue-purple. Showy. Full sun. Little or no water after the first month or so in most locales....
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Lupinus succulentus
Arroyo Lupine
This is a very big annual.
It grows to waist high with deep blue flowers.
It is very useful for bank stabilization as it has a 3 foot root system.
Typical western San Luis Obispo County...
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Malacothamnus fremontii
Fremont's Bush Mallow
Malacothamnus fremontii , Fremont's Bush Mallow grows in the hills of the coast ranges and the Sierra Nevada from about Modesto, Stockon to Sacramento. Flowers are pink on very fuzzy foliage. Spread...
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Melica californica
California Melica
California melica is common in many sites ranging from oak covered north slopes to gullies covered with Baccharis. Common associated plants are Diplacus, Ferns, Lonicera, and Ribes. Use in moist rock ...
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Mentha arvensis
Field Mint
A small little 1' perennial with a small blue flower clusters on a spike of scented green leaves. This one grows at higher elevations along creeks and in meadows. It has managed to make its way around...
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Monardella villosa subserrata
Coyote Mint
A bright blue-purple Coyote Mint. It looks like a garden perennial that lights up the garden. Native to the middle Sierras and middle Coast ranges up to Oregon. It ranges in the areas where the Canyon...
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Nemophila menziesii
Baby Blue Eyes
Baby Blue Eyes is an annual that looks like a delicate little garden plant that often grows many sunny hot spots where it looks out of place. It is useful with poppies or goldfeilds to make an eye pop...
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Penstemon neotericus
Keck Penstemon
A 1-2' perennial with grey foliage and bright blue 1" flowers that start out yellow. The flowers are decent but the plant is not vigorous and unstable in many settings (even though our soil and climat...
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Platanus racemosa
California sycamore
A fast 75' deciduous tree. It will grow to 15-20 ft. in 5-10 years. It is along creeks in the foothills and coast ranges of Calif.. It takes takes wind, heat, but not drought tolerant until establishe...
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Populus fremontii
Western Cottonwood
A deciduous tree. Plant and stand back, very fast with regular water, on one site 30' in a year. We grow male trees, females have cotton. An excellent shade tree. Keep away from septic system. Do not ...
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Populus fremontii Zapata
Fremont Cottonwood
''Zapata'comes from a parent tree that is 80' tall and 40' wide out in a stream bed of a customers property. I had to stand on my pickup roof with a 10' pole pruner to get a bottom branch. It is nativ...
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Potentilla gracilis
Cinquefoil
A 1 foot perennial with 1\" yellow flowers. Native from San Diego to B.C.. It likes full sun, reg. water. It will normally flower for about the month of July. It has been stable here with little or no...
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Quercus garryana
White oak
Quercus garryana is a deciduous tree much like Quercus Lobata but twisted and bent a little. A 'white oak'. The range of the 'white oaks' seem to Quercus engelamannii in Southern California, Quercus l...
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Quercus kelloggii
Kellogg Oak
Kellogg or California Black oak is a fifty foot deciduous tree. Its leaves turn yellow, orange, red in fall. Native to mountains of Sierra Neveda, and coast ranges. In the southern part of its range ...
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Ranunculus californicus
Buttercup, Crowfoot
A perennial with dissected foliage, and bright, yellow flowers that emerge in early to mid spring, grows best in deeper, clay soil, goes deciduous in summer. Usually on a north slope with Hordeum brac...
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