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Ceanothus leucodermis
White Bark California Lilac
White bark California Lilac is an evergreen shrub to eight feet tall and six to ten feet wide. With the white bark and azure blue flowers, the bush makes quite a show in spring. This Ceanothus is n...
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Ceanothus sorediatus
Jim Bush
Ceanothus sorediatus can be an very fast and vigorous evergreen shrub with dark green foliage with a hint of grey that grows to twenty feet. This is another chameleon. In interior clays it will be ver...
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Cephalanthus occidentalis californica
Buttonwillow
Buttonwillow can occur as a 3 foot bush to 20 foot tree (Kern Canyon). It's deciduous, likes sun, water, and tolerates alkaline soil. The leaves are 3-6", and smooth, dark- green. The 1-2" creamy whi...
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Chaenactis glabriuscula
Pinchusion Flower
Low-growing annual with yellow flowers, very showy when massed, excellent butterfly flower for adult butterflies. Grows in open, sandy areas. Appropriate for unwatered native gardens, or for ecologica...
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Chenopodium californicum
Indian lettuce
Perennial to 3.5 ft. in height, with a caudex (thickened, woody stem base), flowers are insignificant, best in a wild garden as it shrivels to the ground in the dry season, survives with the aid of i...
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Chrysopsis villosa
Hairy Golden-aster
Telegraph Weed. Synonyms: Heterotheca villosa / Heterotheca sessiliflora. A hairy, perennial, branching near the upper portion of the plant, with many varieties that ranges throughout California in ...
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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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Clematis ligusticifolia
Western white clematis
Clematis ligusticifolia very similar to Clematis las.. This one grows in our area with Populus fremontii, Rosa californica, and Platanus racemosa, etc.. Riparian interface with many communities. Th...
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Corethrogyne filaginifolia
California Corethrogyne
California Aster, the original common name was California Corethrogyne. (Lessingia filaginifolia, Aster filaginifolia, Aster tomentellius, Aplopappus haenkei, Corethrogyne tomentella, Corethrogyn...
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Cornus glabrata
Brown Twig Dogwood
A deciduous shrub that grows to 4' in bad conditions and 10' in moist shade. It has brown stems, green/brown/red leaves, creamy white flower clusters. It is always next to or in a stream. It grows do...
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Cucurbita foetidissima
Coyote Melon
A coarse, trailing perennial, with gray-green, rough leaves, yellow flowers, and a large root, undergoes dormancy after flowering and fruiting. Occurs often in sandy areas. Produces a gourd, not edibl...
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Delphinium nudicaule
Canyon delphinium
A smaller form of Delphinium cardinale that grows in the mixed evergreen forest, chaparral and yellow pine forest openings. Usually you'll find it along stream banks, north slopes, east slopes or near...
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Diplacus aurantiacus australis Ramona
Narrow Leaf Southern Monkey Flower
Some botanists would like to call this sticky monkey flower but it is not very sticky. The botanists over the years have called it all sorts of names, with no cross references, very confusing. Botanis...
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Diplacus longiflorus Conejo monkey flower
Conejo Monkey Flower
A BIG monkey flower from the Thousand Oaks Area. This monkey flower can almost be the size of a shrub. Mix with sages, penstemons or other bright perennials to make a wonderful wildlife/butterfly gard...
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Dodecatheon clevelandii insulare
Island shooting star is a perennial wildflower with pink flowers that hang pendant with petals thrown back. Island shooting star is similar to Padres Shooting Star, Dodecatheon clevelandii, but a lit...
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Dudleya cymosa
Liveforever
This genus is named for the first head of the botany department at Stanford University, Professor William Russell Dudley. This species of Dudleya has yellow-red flowers. They are displayed on short s...
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Elymus condensatus
Giant Wild Rye
A large clumping green grass. Native in the interface zone between plant communities or in openings. Commonly in areas that have seeps in winter. Drought resistant in most areas. In the desert areas,...
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Elymus condensatus Canyon Prince
Giant Wild Rye
A large clumping grass. The silver gray foliage is very distinct. Native in the interface zone between plant communities or in openings. Commonly in areas that have seeps in winter. Drought resistant...
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Eriogonum bailey bailey
Annual Field Buckwheat
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. We don't sell it. This picture is mostly to remember what it was....
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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 gracile
Wild Buckwheat
Annual, wild buckwheat, leaves in a rosette at the base of the plant, flowers tiny, in pom-pom-shaped clusters at the top of the flowering stems. This genus provides larval food plants for various sp...
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Eriogonum parvifolium
Cliff Buckwheat
A perennial, 2 ft. by 2 ft.. Native near coast from Monterey to San Diego, shade to sun, red-green foliage, reddish-pink flowers. This one does well in the San Joaquin and in the warmer areas of the s...
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Eriophyllum confertiflorum
A perennial, 1-2 ft., bright yellow flowers in early summer, does best with full sun, a little summer water, good drainage, excellent with penstemons. Cold tolerant to 5 deg.F. or less. This one is 'h...
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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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Eschscholzia californica peninsularis
Munz lists four tendencies that have largely geographic separations. This annual form, var. peninsularis, around the San Joaquin Valley and S. Calif. Use the form if you possibly can that is in your a...
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