Plants For Yellow Pine Forest

Bahia dissecta, Ragged leaf bahia is a little fuzzy gray perennial with yellow flowers. - grid24_12
Bahia dissecta Ragged leaf bahia

Ragged leaf bahia is a little fuzzy gray perennial that kinda turns green and grows tall when it flowers with yellow flowers. You know, the little fuzzy wallflower and turns into a beautiful flower ri... Learn more.

Balsamorhiza sagittata Arrowleaf balsamroot - grid24_12
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 ... Learn more.

Betula occidentalis, Water Birch, in early spring with its pendent catkins (flower clusters).  - grid24_12
Betula occidentalis Water Birch

Western mountains 200-8000 ft. moist but not wet situations, deciduous tree to 20 feet a beautiful background for azaleas and such under high shade, won't look at its best under drought but seems to s... Learn more.

Bouteloua gracilis Blue Gramma - grid24_12
Bouteloua gracilis Blue Gramma

A tufted perennial grass. Florets and seeds are in a distinct ornamental structure. It is native in the upper elevations of the southern California desert mountains to Wisconsin and south into ... Learn more.

Boykinia occidentalis,  likes shady moist conditions.  - grid24_12
Boykinia occidentalis Coast Boykinia

Western Boykinia grows in moist woods or along streams from the Santa Monica mountains up through both the coast ranges and Sierra Nevada mountains into Washington and east to Montana. A very nice per... Learn more.

Brickellia grandiflora, tasselflower brickellbush - grid24_12
Brickellia grandiflora Golden Sashay

It is like Brickellia californica but needs a little more water and is more garden tolerant. Its flowers are bigger. A 2' perennial with light green foliage . Do not put in a highly visible area as, a... Learn more.

Brodiaea pulchella, or Dichelostemma capitatum,  Wild Hyacinth, flowers in very early spring, and so provides nectar for pollinators, when not much else is flowering.  - grid24_12
Brodiaea pulchella Wild Hyacinth

Corms, 1' in height, blue 1" flowers, spring, throughout Ca.,UT, Nev,Ariz.,tolerates most conditions with good drainage, little water after established. Butterfly plant. One of the earlier wildflowers... Learn more.

Calochortus albus, Fairy Lantern can be white or pink - grid24_12
Calochortus albus Fairy Lantern

We occasionally grow this species. Plants with bulbs and linear leaves, in the lily family, grows best in partly shady, mostly clay to lighter granitic soils in the central western portion of the Cal... Learn more.

A closeup of the flower of Calycanthus occidentalis, Spice Bush, with the leaves below it.  - grid24_12
Calycanthus occidentalis Spice Bush

Spicebush has fragrant, burgundy flowers, (April-Aug.), that smells kind of like a delicate red wine (if there is such a thing). Native to the mountains of central and northern California. Common a... Learn more.

Sideview of a single flower of Campanula rotundifolia, California Harebell. - grid24_12
Campanula rotundifolia California Harebell

A flat perennial with 1" blue flowers arising to 6" above the dark green foliage. This plant likes regular water. It should grow fine in any watered garden but prefers higher elevations in California.... Learn more.

Carex fracta. Fragile Sheath Sedge - grid24_12
Carex fracta Fragile Sheathed Sedge

A beautiful green perennial that lives in mountain meadows, road cuts, rocky slopes, and seeps. The soil can be fairly dry, but as it dries out the foliage will fade. This sedge looks kinda like som... Learn more.

Carex praegracilis (clustered field sedge) - grid24_12
Carex praegracilis Clustered Field Sedge

Common in meadows, open, wet areas, marshes, seeps, seasonally wet edges of ponds, frequently alkaline soil, wide distribution , valleys up to middle elevations in CA, grows in western NA, to central ... Learn more.

Carex sartwelliana Yosemite Sedge - grid24_12
Carex sartwelliana Yosemite Sedge

(Synonym Carex yosemitana) A medium sized sedge That grows in meadows from southern California up into northern California. This can make a lumpy-lawn like mat if it is happy. I guess I could describe... Learn more.

Carex serratodens Bifid Sedge

Bifid referring to the top of the fruit covering which is cleft into two parts, , somewhat tufted perennial to 5 ft. hgt., mostly in the coast ranges of CA, more uncommon in the Sierra Nevada, lvs, fl... Learn more.

Bush Anemone,  Carpenteria californica is a nice clean bush that explodes into flower. Try this plant in a container or large pot if you have a deck or patio. - grid24_12
Carpenteria californica Bush Anemone

Bush Anemone, Carpenteria californica is an evergreen shrub, 6' by 3' in the garden, 8 ft. X 12 ft. with a 6-12 inch trunk in the wild. Carpenteria is native to the foothills of Fresno County, wher... Learn more.

Bush Chinquapin, Castanopsis sempervirens up in the Sierras - grid24_12
Castanopsis sempervirens Bush Chinquapin

A slow-growing bush, also called Bush Chinquapin, that lives in the middle elevations of inner California mountains into southern Oregon. In the wild they grow in raw granitic gravel/sand/rock. Comp... Learn more.

Ceanothus crassifolius in flower in the wild south of Corona - grid24_12
Ceanothus crassifolius Hoary-leaved Ceanothus

A large shrub, small tree, to 12 ft, white flowers, native to S.Ca. mountains, crinkly leaves 1/4-1/2" leaves with white fuzzy undersides, a tough plant, for interior Ca., drought resistant, should be... Learn more.

The white form of Buckbrush, Ceanothus cuneatus - grid24_12
Ceanothus cuneatus Buckbrush

Buckbrush or Wedgeleaf Ceanothus is a fragrant evergreen shrub, flowers vary from blue to white, in Mar-May. Native from Oregon to Baja in the coast ranges and Sierra Nevada mountains. Likes full su... Learn more.

Ceanothus foliosus will grow flat in an exposed area with wind. - grid24_12
Ceanothus foliosus Wavy Leaf Mountain lilac

Wavy Leaf Ceanothus is an evergreen shrub that can grow to four or five feet high in inland areas, and one to two feet high near the coast (with wind). Near the coast in cool summer areas Ceanothus fo... Learn more.

We took this photo of Ceanothus greggii vestitus at dusk. - grid24_12
Ceanothus greggii var. vestitus Mountain Buckbrush

Mountain Buckbrush is a Ceanothus growing in the Tehachapi Mountains, the western transverse ranges, the White and Inyo ranges and the desert mountains of southern California. Commonly grows to less... Learn more.

Ceanothus Yankee Point as flat groundcover with blue flowers. - grid24_12
Ceanothus griseus var. horizontalis 'Yankee Point' Carmel Mountain Lilac

Ceanothus Yankee Point' is an evergreen shrub that commonly grows two or three feet tall and ten feet wide. A mounding mass of glossy green with blue flowers in Mar-May. Does best near coast, but g... Learn more.

Deer brush flowers - grid24_12
Ceanothus integerrimus Deer Brush

Deer brush is a semi-deciduous bush that is polymorphous. Some forms are so nearly evergreen as to be evergreen, eight foot tall, bush - like with nearly glossy large, rounded leaves, while others a... Learn more.

Ceanothus lemmonii has a grey look to it with green and blue mixed in. - grid24_12
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... Learn more.

Ceanothus prostratus grows along the Northern California coast and Middle Sierras up into Washington State. - grid24_12
Ceanothus prostratus Squaw Carpet

Ceanothus prostratus var. occidentalis, or Squaw Carpet, is an evergreen ground cover that grows on open slopes. and under Douglas Firs, Jeffrey or Ponderosa pines from near sea level to 7000+' elev... Learn more.

Ceanothus velutinus in the Eastern Sierras - grid24_12
Ceanothus velutinus var. velutinus Snowbrush

Ceanothus velutinus velutinus is similar to C. velutinus var. laevigatus but is much more hardy. It was burnt this year at June Lake at -20 degrees F.(?). It only reaches a height of 4' in its range. ... Learn more.

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