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Acalypha californica
Copper Leaf
Evergreen shrub (perennial) 3 ft. high, native to Baja and San Diego, red catkin -type flower clusters and leaf color make it a neat attractive plant effective in coastal gardens. This plant looks ver...
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Acer negundo californicum
California Box Elder
A deciduous tree, usually 30', possible to 50'. California Box Elder is native to the mountains of central and northern California. Acer negundo var. californicum has a bad rap because of the box elde...
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Achillea millefolium rosea Island Pink
Pink Yarrow
(Achillea borealis ssp. californica (Munz)) Island Pink. Yarrow is a perennial that spreads by rhizomes. It varies by locale from one to four feet. Some plants of each population will have 3- 4"clu...
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Adiantum capillus-veneris
Maidenhair Fern
A small fern 18 inches high that grows in moist shade or north slope, throughout most of California and the U.S. Maidenhair will go summer dormant if allowed to dry out. It's deer proof. Native to MA...
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Agoseris grandiflora
Mountain dandelion
Mountain dandelion is a little perennial with large dandelion seed 'balls'. These 'balls' (head of fruits) are up to 2 inches across. Large yellow flowers, leafless flowering stems, leaves near the b...
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Alnus rhombifolia
White Alder
White alder is a fast deciduous tree to 20' first years then slower to 50 ft.. Native to moist canyons on the west coast. A nice- looking and fragrant shade tree. It likes sun and water. It is not ...
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Amelanchier alnifolia
Western Service Berry
This Service Berry, is a very slow-growing, deciduous shrub to 10', with edible blue berries 1/4" across. This good wildlife plant ranges from North Dakota to southern California, is an attracti...
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Anaphalis margaritacea
Pearly Everlasting
Pearly Everlasting is a rather weedy perennial that Painted Ladies visit. If you're old and male don't get excited, Painted Ladies are butterflies. PE has an interesting flower that looks like a small...
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Arbutus menziesii
Madrone
Usually a small evergreen tree Madrone has peeling, reddish-brown bark, and red edible berries. Sometimes, in some areas, Madrone can become a real tree, but usually it looks more like a manzanita ...
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Arctostaphylos glandulosa mollis
Evergreen bush, usually about 4' tall. It has 1 1/2" gray leaves, red-brown stems. Amoung the toughest of the manzanitas, roots and spreads to 10' wide, usually on sandstone or clay. This would be one...
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Arctostaphylos glauca Ramona Manzanita
Ramona Manzanita
A really glorious Big Berry manzanita from the San Vicente/Ramona area. The mother plant was growing out of a rocky out cropping next to a golf course. Red bark, a very open form with very clean glos...
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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 douglasiana
Mugwort
California mugwort is a three foot perennial that has a funny sage odor. Native on stream banks,ditch banks, road cuts or other disturbed areas. Mugwort has the reputation of removing the ill effect...
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Asclepias fascicularis
Narrowleaf Milkweed
Narrow-leaved Milkweed has narrow leaves and a wider native range and a whole lot more garden tolerance than most of the other native species. Asclepias fascicularis is a perennial with three foot ta...
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Aster chilensis
California Aster
California aster has summer flowers that make showy
cheerful displays along roadsides of much of Coastal Southern
California. This perennial aster will disappear (or need to be pruned
to the ground...
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Baccharis douglasii
Marsh Baccharis
A 3 ft perennial with green-brown stems and green leaves. Very fast in wet-moist places. Baja to Humboldt and the Central Sierra. Baccharis species are the nectary sources for most of the predatory wa...
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Baccharis pilularis consanguinea
Coyote Brush
Deer proof throughout Ca. (so-far). You might want to cover it for the first year. Drought tolerant, very usefull for hedges or fence lines, much underused. Water 1/week until est. then 1/month or so ...
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Baeria chrysostoma
Coast Goldfields
(Lasthenia chrysostoma) Coast Gold Fields are an annual wild flower found in the coast ranges. Although they are small, only about three inches at their best, they are very showy in numbers. They h...
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Calandrinia ciliata
Red Maids
Almost prostrate, spreading annual, the rose-red flowers opening mostly in the afternoon, dotted in fields, open areas of mostly woodland and grassland habitats, sandy or loamy soils, showy in spring,...
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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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Calystegia macrostegia
California Morning Glory
This coastal/Island Morning Glory is a twining vine with large creamy flowers. Calystegia macrostegia is native in rocky areas of chaparral, coastal sage scrub on most of the channel islands. Does bes...
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Carex globosa
Globe Sedge
A dark green mounding sedge that always looks like it just got watered. Globe sedge grows throughout the redwoods, conifer forests and oak woodlands all long the California coastal area. ...
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Carex subbracteata
Native to moist spots to seasonally wet areas, Small-bracted Sedge, perennial to 5 ft. hgt., grassland, brushland, woodland, sea level to 5000 ft., somewhat common, CA coast ranges, lvs flat, frequen...
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Ceanothus L.T. Blue
White Bark Mountain Lilac
L.T.Blue is eight foot tall and four foot wide. This ...
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Ceanothus lemmonii
Trinity Ceanothus
Ceanothus lemmonii is an evergreen, spreading shrub or large scale groundcover. Native to northern California where it likes partial shade to full sun. Trinity Ceanothus doesn't tolerate poor drainag...
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