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Antennaria microphylla
Littleleaf Pussytoes
This is a cute little perennial that has a cute little flower that looks like littleleaf pussytoes.
This Antennaria is the the most wide ranging of the Pussytoes growing from California to Ontario Ca...
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Arctostaphylos hooveri Hoovers Manzanita
Hoovers Manzanita is an evergray 10' X `6' bush with red stems that has proved intractable in our climate and soil. This species has an interesting leaf appearance, because of the long, silvery, hair...
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Artemisia cana
Silver Sage
This aromatic little bush makes a little mound of gray. Useful in places like Big Bear where you have an old log and wagon wheel you want to make look like Bodie or Death valley. Use as a level level ...
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Artemisia nova
Black sagebrush
Black sagebrush grows at slightly higher elevations(5000-11,0000 ft.) than Artemisia tridentata in thin rocky soils. (Artemisia nova, also known as Artemisia arbuscula ssp. nova, A. tridentata subsp....
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Artemisia tridentata
Great Basin Sage Brush
An evergray shrub. 4 feet tall and wide. Native to dry areas of the western US. Needs full sun. It is very drought tolerant, needs good drainage. Its seeds are edible. Chewed leaves said to aid diges...
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Atriplex polycarpa
Alkali Saltbush
Shrub, gray-white, not the prettiest but the toughest, used for bird and animal cover in revegetation. Dioecious. (Note: The Atriplexes from arid enviroments have a C4 photosynthetic pathway which is...
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Baccharis glutinosa
Water Wally
A deciduous willow -like shrub to 10 feet. Syn: Baccharis salicifolia (Jepson). Male and female flowers are on separate plants. Long, vertical stems make the appearance of this plant undesirable for t...
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Baccharis viminea
Seep Willow
Mulefat is an eight foot evergreen shrub, protect from deer,elk,etc.for first few years, grows from coastal areas to Tex., usually around water sources, but not always. In some areas like where the 14...
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Balsamorhiza sagittata
Arrowleaf balsamroot
syn Buphthalmum sagittata, Espeletia s., E. helianthoides, Balsamorhiza h..
Arrowleaf balsamroot grows from the Southern Sierra Nevada mountains up in British Columbia and across to Colorado. A large ...
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Bloomeria crocea aurea
Golden Stars
Corm, 2 ft., flowers yellow in cluster (like exploding fire works), April-June, South coast ranges, Channel Islands, drought tolerant, we carry this only occasionally....
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Brickellia californica
Brickellbush
A 2' perennial with gray foliage . Do not put in a highly visible area as, although the plant is not ugly, it's not pretty either. The reason we grow it is for the wonderful fragrance that fills the a...
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Calochortus species
Mariposa Lilly
Bulbs. 1', flowers like tulip, yellow, purple to white, part shade to full sun, no summer water, in most of Ca. perfect drainage. It takes 3-5 years from seed to grow the bulb up to salable size. Ever...
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Castilleja subinclusa
Long-leaf paintbrush
(Castilleja Jepsonii) This paintbrush grows in association with California buckwheat, Desert Buckwheat and great Basin Sage along the east side of the southern Sierras through the Transverse ranges an...
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Cercocarpus ledifolius
Desert mountain mahogany
Curl leaf mountain mahogany is an evergreen shrub or small tree to 15 feet tall, that grows in desert mountains of the western U.S. Excellent as a tough screen or accent plant, and an attractive pla...
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Chamaebatiaria millefolium
Fern Bush
Fern bush grows in rocky places in the sagebrush, pinyon-juniper and other mountain communities from California to Utah, Southeast Oregon, Idaho and down into Arizona. Aromatic herbage and a pretty w...
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Chrysothamnus nauseosus
Rabbitbrush
Rabbit brush is a nondescript two to four foot perennial that erupts in late summer with a passionate display of appealing yellow that has stopped many an artist and ...
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Chrysothamnus nauseosus consimilis
Nevada Rabbit Brush
Alkaline open valleys from San Diego to Shasta and east through the Great Basin along the desert edges. Assoc. with Arc. parryana, Pinus monophylla, and Artemisia tridentata....
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Chrysothamnus nauseosus hololeucus
Rabbitbrush
Sandy washes of the Central California deserts and west to Cuyama. Commonly associated with Zauschneria lat. viscida and Soldiago confinus in the transverse ranges. At lower elevations Rabbit brush i...
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Dodecatheon pulchellum
Shooting Star
This Shooting Star grows in mountain meadows from California to Wisconsin, from Missouri to Alaska. Beautiful pink flowers with a purple center. ...
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Elymus cinereus
Basin Wildrye
Basin Wildrye is a 2-4' clump of grass that is native in the Great Basin area. It extends into Calif. along the east sierras. It is one of the most important forage plants of the sage brush community...
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Eriogonum caespitosum
Silver Buckwheat
A small perennial with yellow-red flowers and grey-silver foliage. A rock garden plant for tough situations in higher elevations. The buckwheats are very important butterfly plants and one of the pil...
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Eriogonum fasciculatum polifolium
Interior California Buckwheat
California interior buckwheat ia as Eriogonum fasciculatum but grayer and tougher, hardy to -20 . Foliolosum and polifolium overlap in many areas. Most notably around Lebec, Palmdale, Lancaster and ju...
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Eriogonum inflatum
Desert Trumpet
A funny looking perennial with small pink flowers on a 3' stalk. The stalk is inflated in the middle. This plant is all over the east end of our county and across over to Ariz. and Colorado. Hoover sa...
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Eriogonum umbellatum
Sulfur Flower
Eriogonum umbellatum, is the lowest of these, it grows only 3 inches tall and 3 foot wide, showy yellow flowers, an excellent small groundcover for higher elevations or colder parts of the U.S. A fla...
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Eriogonum umbellatum polyanthum Shasta Buckwheat
Sulfur Buckwheat
Eriogonum umbellatum polyanthum is a wide ranging form normal in the middle elevation Sierras, yellow flowers on a 1ft high by 3ft plant, likes good soil some summer water, good drainage. This Shasta ...
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