Plants For Northern Oak Woodland

 Yerba Santa (Eriodictyon californicum) with white flowers - grid24_12
Eriodictyon californicum Yerba Santa

A five ft. perennial shrub. Native Americans and early settlers used it for a cure-all. Now used for soil stabilization; will sucker along roots and tie-up a bank area. It's very drought tolerant. A p... Learn more.

Eschscholzia californica crocea - grid24_12
Eschscholzia californica var. 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 ... Learn more.

Fraxinus latifolia,  Oregon Ash in the wild up by Forestville - grid24_12
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. It takes centuries to become a 150 ft. specimen ... Learn more.

Heleocharis macrostachya Common Spike Rush - grid24_12
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, ... Learn more.

Heleocharis palustris, Spikerush, is here shown in its natural habitat.  - grid24_12
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 stream... Learn more.

Iris macrosiphon, Ground Iris, whose flowers range from cream to purple, grows in the northern part of California.  - grid24_12
Iris macrosiphon Ground Iris

Bowl-Tubed Iris has a weak rhizome and 1-2 ft. greenish-gray leaves, yellow to purple flowers. Native to north central California and likes full sun to part shade with regular water. This iris does ... Learn more.

Here is a photo of the unripe fruits of Juglans hindsii, Northern California Walnut. - grid24_12
Juglans hindsii Northern California walnut

Northern California walnut is a deciduous tree to 50 ft that is native in scattered spots throughout California. A fast tree with edible nuts, garden tolerant. There has been some controversy as to w... Learn more.

Juncus oxymeris Pointed Rush - grid24_12
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... Learn more.

This pretty western Juniper tree was at about 9000 feet in the San Bernardino range. - grid24_12
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... Learn more.

In this very old photo, circa 1980, Lasthenia glabrata, Goldfields, is here living up to its name, in the shadscale scrub of the Carrizo Plains, San Luis Obispo county, California. - grid24_12
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... Learn more.

Seeds of Lace parsley - grid24_12
Lomatium dasycarpum Woolly fruit desert parsley

Woolly fruit desert parsley grows in openings in the chaparral, coastal sage scrub, up into the pines of Mt. Pinos and Mt. Laguna, through the Sierras and coast ranges below 7000 ft. The larval of the... Learn more.

Lotus purshianus, Spanish clover, Spanish Lotus  - grid24_12
Lotus purshianus Lotus

This annual Lotus, 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 ... Learn more.

An old picture of Lupinus latifolius - grid24_12
Lupinus latifolius Broad Leaf Lupine

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. Learn more.

Lupinus succulentus Arroyo Lupine.is an annual - grid24_12
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... Learn more.

Malacothamnus fremontii,  Fremont's Bush Mallow flowers - grid24_12
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... Learn more.

Melica californica California Melica - grid24_12
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 ... Learn more.

Mentha arvensis, Field Mint, is one of the mint species that is used commercially in mint tea.  - grid24_12
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... Learn more.

A monarch Swallowtail on Coyote Mint. - grid24_12
Monardella villosa var. subserrata Coyote Mint

Monardella villosa subserrata is a 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 r... Learn more.

Nemophila menziesii, Baby Blue Eyes, can be  massively inhibited by alien species of Erodium, especially Erodium botrys, in the central coast ranges of California.  - grid24_12
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. Plant with Poppies or Goldfields to make an eye popping fl... Learn more.

We lost this beautiful Penstemon in the early 1990's. Penstemon neotericus,  Keck Penstemon wanted a little more sun and water, less cold. - grid24_12
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... Learn more.

In this photo you can see the pattern of the bark of a Platanus racemosa, California Sycamore, growing in Arroyo Grande, California.  - grid24_12
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... Learn more.

Populus fremontii, Western Cottonwood along hwy 58 - grid24_12
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 ... Learn more.

Populus fremontii,  Zapata Fremont Cottonwood tree with fall color - grid24_12
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... Learn more.

Potentilla gracilis Cinquefoil - grid24_12
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... Learn more.

Garry Oak , also known as Oregon White Oak or Oregon Oak, Quercus garryana - grid24_12
Quercus garryana White oak

Oregon 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 engelmannii, in Southern Califor... Learn more.

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