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Arctostaphylos manzanita Dr. Hurd Manzanita Tree
Northern California Manzanita
Dr. Hurd Manzanita is an evergreen, multi-branched, treelike hybrid shrub with glossy, light green foliage and grows up to 15', one of the biggest of the big manzanitas. Dr. Hurd is more garden toler...
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Arctostaphylos mariposa
Mariposa Manzanita
Mariposa Manzanita is native to the lower margins of the Sierra chaparral community. (see also A. glauca, A. viscida and A. manzanita.) The red trunks and grey foliage are dramatic. NOT GARDEN TOLERA...
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Arctostaphylos mewukka
Indian Manzanita
This manzanita species is an evergreen shrub, 3-8' tall, native to the central Sierra Nevada from 2500-6000' elevation. A crown sprouter, it will regrow from the live root system after fires and so is...
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Arctostaphylos nevadensis
Pinemat Manzanita
This is another species that is excellent in its range, and a pain elsewhere. If you have a mountain cabin in snow country this one's worth trying as a groundcover as it grows about 8 foot across and ...
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Arctostaphylos parryana Snow Lodge Manzanita
Parry Manzanita
Arctostaphylos parryana, Parry Manzanita, or Snow Lodge Manzanita, is a very clean, light-green, evergreen shrub to 3' X 6', wider than tall, native from 3000-7500' north and east of Los Angeles. Par...
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Arctostaphylos patula
Greenleaf Manzanita
Greenleaf Manzanita is an evergreen shrub that is common in areas of heavy snow at higher elevations in the eastern Sierras through Utah and north into Oregon, extending down into Lake County, Califo...
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Arctostaphylos pringlei drupacea Idyllwild Manzanita
Pinkbract Manzanita
This manzanita has slightly fuzzy sticky foliage and flowers. Gray foliage starts out kinda brown pink and grows out green-gray. Because the flower bracts can be red, the flower cluster can appear to ...
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Arctostaphylos pungens
Pointleaf Manzanita
Mexican manzanita is an evergreen shrub around six foot tall, (usually taller than wide) that grows from Montana to Mount Tamalpais (just north of the Golden gate)south to Baja, and on to Texas. Mex...
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Arctostaphylos silvicola Ghostly Manzanita
Santa Cruz Manzanita
A very gray almost white-pink plant with red bark. One of the most gray plants I've ever seen, much grayer than lavender or lavender cotton. Evergray shrub to 8ft., native to the central coast mount...
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Arctostaphylos Sonoma Manzanita Bush
Stanford Manzanita
Sonoma manzanita was not impressive until it flowered. The large pink flowers made quite an impression on everyone. The foliage is neat, green, and glossy. The bark is deep red and clean. A nice plan...
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Arctostaphylos tomentosa
Woollyleaf Manzanita
A grey fuzzy leaf manzanita with smooth red bark. Woollyleaf manzanita grows in the pine forest of Cambria and throughout the pine forests up into the Bay area. ...
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Arctostaphylos viscida ssp. viscida
Whiteleaf manzanita
Whiteleaf manzanita grows from Kern County north to about the Oregon Border. It is not very garden tolerant but easily grown in native gardens. In the Sierra Nevada it is a common chaparral component...
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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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Artemisia dracunculus
Tarragon
(Syn. Artemisia dracunculoides, Artemisia glauca) Tarragon (probably not the variety called French Tarragon, the culinary herb) is a very unattractive weed of disturbed places. Worldwide, maybe native...
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Artemisia ludoviciana
White Sagebrush
Artemisia ludoviciana, White Sagebrush is a rhizomatous perennial native from Baja to Ontario Canada and down to Arkansas. I've only seen it once in the wild and that was at 5500 feet in the San Jacin...
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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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Asarum caudatum
Wild Ginger
Perennial 1' by 3'and larger, large dark-green heart-shaped leaves 3" across, small reddish 'bat' flowers. An excellent groundcover along coast in part shade or redwood garden. It needs regular water ...
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Asarum hartwegii
Marbled Wild Ginger
A perennial that will sometimes be evergreen sometimes no. leaves are marbled green, and the flowers are maroon. This grows at 1000-2500 m. in N. Ca. and Oregon. A SLOW grower (one leaf for years) an...
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Asclepias californica
California Milkweed
Asclepias californica, California milkweed is one of the most beautiful milkweeds in California. It has deep purple flowers and almost white gray fuzzy foliage. It is very drought tolerant even occrui...
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Asclepias cordifolia
Purple milkweed
Asclepias cordifolia, Purple milkweed or Heart leafed milkweed is native to northern California,the Sierra Nevada mountains, Oregon, and western Nevada. Purple milkweed grows in all sorts of plant com...
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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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Asclepias speciosa
Showy Milkweed
Showy Milkweed is a perennial, with three foot tall stems and large gray five inch leaves, fruits 4" horns, flowers compound 4-5" cluster like a Forth of July firework. In our area ...
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Astragalus Douglasii
Douglas milkvetch
Douglas milkvetch is really a nice little plant that causes no problems that I've seen while creating a visually delightful addition to the garden. This little locoweed grows on the Santa Margarita ...
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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 emoryi
Emory Baccharis
This Baccharis looks like a natural, stable hybrid between Mulefate(Baccharis viminea) and Baccharis pilularis var. consanguinea(Coyote Brush). Common in sandy washes throughout the inner areas of So...
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