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Lilium kelleyanum
Kelly's Lilly
Lilium kelleyanum is a wonderful lily from the Sierra Nevada mountains. Native along streams and moist areas in part-shade. In their habitat they are 4-6 tal; out of their habitat they make a delicate...
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Lilium pardalinum
Panther lily
Lilium pardalinum is similar to Lilium Humboldtii but a species that is next to streams. (The British call it a panther lily, California calls it Leopard Lilly) It needs a little more water and is a...
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Lilium pardalinum giganteum
Sunset
As pardalinum but bigger flowers. The British have cultivar names \'Red Giant\' and \'Sunset\' This one tolerates sun and heat better than the straight species and is half of the height. This is list...
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Lobelia cardinalis
Cardinal Flower
Cardinal flower is a flat perennial herb with 1-2 inch red flowers in 1-2 foot spike of 20 or more. It grows in bogs. It has nice cut flowers. It is a hummingbird flower. Useful in the background of ...
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Ludwigia peploides peploides
Water Primrose
Water primrose grows directly in the water fromm S.America to Baja and north to Oregon. Flowers are a delightful 1 inch(10-20 mm.) sunflower yellow. These plants are easy to grow, just put them into a...
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Mahonia aquifolium Compacta
Creeping Oregon Grape.
Mahonia aquilfolium Compacta is probably a native plant, but there seems to be little information of it's origins. (If you hold the patent on it we never found you.) Compacta likes coastal sand. If yo...
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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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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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Mimulus cardinalis
Scarlet Monkey Flower
A perennial to 3'. It likes sun to full shade and regular water. It has 2" red tubular flowers most of the year. An aggressive seeder that should be used in revegetation or large gardens, (or for thos...
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Mimulus guttatus
Seep Monkey Flower
Mimulus guttatus is an annual to sometimes perennial that grows in seeps, springs or along creeks. Useful along the edges of ponds or the fountains. Very floriforus for months in spring-summer. Seep ...
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Mimulus lewisii
Monkey Flower
Similar to Mimulus cardinalis but flowers are rose red or pink and it needs more water than Mimulus cardinalis. 20" tall. Native to middle to high elevations of the Sierra Nevada and much of the highe...
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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 tilingii
Creeping Monkey
A creeping perennial with 1 inch yellow flowers that make a 1 ft carpet of yellow at high elevations throughout most of the western states. It does o.k. here but needs constant moisture. Good near str...
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Oenothera caespitosa marginata
Evening Primrose
A short-lived perennial (ours seem to last 5-6 years). The native range is in the desert ranges from S.Ca. to E.Wash and Utah. It has white-pink 3" flowers that fade to pink. The 12" leaves are from b...
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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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Physocarpus capitatus
Ninebark
Physocarpus capitatus, or Ninebark, is a deciduous bush with tiny white flowers in 3"-5" clusters, flowering May through July. Native to the coast ranges and the Sierra Nevada mountains to British Co...
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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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Pluchea sericea
Arrow Weed
A 5ft evergreen (gray) bush. It grows in sandy washes where there is moisture. Native from the San Luis Obispo county into the Deserts to Texas.. The flowers are lavender and relatively showy. This on...
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Populus angustifolia Mammoth
Narrow Leaf Cottonwood
This Sierran tree looks like a narrow leaf Black Cottonwood. crossed with a quaking aspen. The cottonwood of much of the Rockies makes it into California around Bishop, Mammoth and the White Mountains...
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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 Carrizo
Fremont Cottonwood
'Carrizo', This form is for interior plantings only. It will get rust if the climate is too moist. This form is very tough. It should do fine in most desert sites and even into parts of the Great Basi...
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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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Populus fremontiiX Calm
Fremont Cottonwood
'Calm' is from the California Living Museum in Bakersfield, this is at the mouth of Kern Canyon.This is a series of plants and they are not sex defined, they can have cotton. We use these for revegeta...
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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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Populus trichocarpa
Black Cottonwood
A deciduous tree, fast to 100'. Native from San Diego County to Alaska. There seems to be two distinct forms (as different as Sambucus species or Dendromecon species that are split) of this. Part shad...
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