Plants For Yellow Pine Forest

Jamesia americana californica Cliffbush - grid24_12
Jamesia americana var. californica Cliffbush

Jamesia americana is a wonderful perennial/deciduous shrub of the Sierras and east to Utah. Cliffbush tolerates high calcium soils, drought, garden conditions, frost, heat. If you have a mountain man... Learn more.

Juncus occidentalis, Western Rush with flower head - grid24_12
Juncus occidentalis Western Rush

Western rush occurs in spots throughout the west. Never in covering hillsides, always in a nook or cranny that is seasonally wet in winter and dry in summer. This is a very nice looking plant that sho... Learn more.

Juncus oxymeris Pointed Rush - grid24_12
Juncus oxymeris Pointed Rush

A very big coarse Rush that has edges. I have seen these rushes in only two spots so far, both in the mountains, one in Sequoia at 7500 ft and one in Mt. Abel area at 5000 ft. (It does grow every wher... Learn more.

Juniperus communis montana, Dwarf Juniper makes a spilling ground cover. - grid24_12
Juniperus communis var. montana Dwarf Juniper

Juniperus communis montana is a  prostrate ground cover native to higher elevations in Northern and Eastern California  Mountains to Northern Alaska to Greenland. A common, low mountain ground cover ... Learn more.

This pretty western Juniper tree was at about 9000 feet in the San Bernardino range. - grid24_12
Juniperus occidentalis Western Juniper

The huge trees of Western Ceder are OLD, older than me and I'm old. 2000-3000 years is possible for some of the big old trees. For most of us expect to grow a bush, if you're young you might live to s... Learn more.

Keckiella breviflora, Yawning Penstemon, is so pale, with purple lines, and ranges from the valley to the mountains of California.  - grid24_12
Keckiella breviflora Yawning Penstemon

This bush penstemon is a sprawling subshrub that usually props itself up on a rock or neighbor so you can see the purple striped, white flowers. Keckiella breviflora is a plant for tough situations a... Learn more.

Red beardtongue is designed for hummingbirds - grid24_12
Keckiella corymbosa Redwood Penstemon

Red Penstemon is a trailing perennial that grows in the mountains of central and northern California. You'll find it in serpentine soils, or the redwood belt or volcanic soils.Dark green foliage and d... Learn more.

A close up of Whorl leaf penstemon flowers. - grid24_12
Keckiella ternata var. septentrionalis Whorl Leaf Penstemon

Whorl Leaf Penstemon, Keckiella ternata septentrionalis, is a wispy perennial shrub to 4', sometimes sending leafless 8' stems through surrounding plants, popping the bright red flower clusters out of... Learn more.

Leptodactylon pungens hwy 18 just north of cactus spring big bear - grid24_12
Leptodactylon pungens Granite Gilia

Granite Gilia is a rock garden plant that lives in the rocky areas of many a western mountain tops. Needs good drainage, and a spot in the rocks. This could be a crack that you can dig into in a rock,... Learn more.

Lewisia cotyledon, Siskiyou Lewsia, here flowering in its native plant community, with scree soil. - grid24_12
Lewisia cotyledon Siskiyou Lewsia

Perennial, flowers rose-pink, 2" across, June, narrow, red-green leaves form basal rosette in early spring, leaves die back in June, British Colombia to San Bernardino Mtns. to Rocky Mtns., not alkali... Learn more.

Lewisia rediviva - grid24_12
Lewisia rediviva Bitter Root

Perennial, flowers rose-pink, 2" across, June, narrow, red-green leaves form basal rosette in early spring, leaves die back in June, British Colombia to San Bernardino Mtns. to Rocky Mtns., not alkali... Learn more.

Here in the Yellow Pine Forest, Libocedrus decurrens, Incense Cedar, grows in swales and moister spots, and looks like a traditional Christmas tree. - grid24_12
Libocedrus decurrens Incense Cedar

Incense Cedar is an evergreen tree fairly slow to 150', in your or my lifetime we might see a 30' tree. Native from Ore. to Baja. It's serpentine tolerant, heat and drought tolerant. It will tolerate ... Learn more.

Even though these Humboldt Lilies were next to the bird bath, they we far enough away to be dry.
Lilium humboldtii bloomerianum, Humboldt Lily - grid24_12
Lilium humboldtii var. bloomerianum Humboldt Lily

Humboldt Lily, Lilium humboldtii bloomerianum is beautiful lily has large 3-4" red-yellow flowers on 3' spikes. At higher elevations Humboldt Lily; has grown to 6'. This subspecies is native from ... Learn more.

Lilium kelleyanum, Kelly's Lilly flowers - grid24_12
Lilium kelleyanum Kelly's Lilly

Lilium kelleyanum is a wonderful lily from the Sierra Nevada mountains. Native along streams and moist areas in part-shade. In their habitat they are 4-6 tall, out of their habitat they make a delicat... Learn more.

Lilium pardalinum, Panther Lily, is called that because of its spots, seen here on the recurved tepals. - grid24_12
Lilium pardalinum Panther lily

Lilium pardalinum is similar to Lilium Humboldtii but a species that is next to streams. (The British call it a panther lily, California calls it Leopard Lilly) It needs a little more water and is a... Learn more.

Here a clump of Lilium pardalinum var.  giganteum "Sunset" are flowering in the Santa Margarita nursery. - grid24_12
Lilium pardalinum var. giganteum Sunset

As pardalinum but bigger flowers. The British have cultivar names 'Red Giant' and 'Sunset' This one tolerates sun and heat better than the straight species and is half of the height. This is listed b... Learn more.

Lilium parryi,  Lemon Lily, has fragrant "Easter-Lily-type" flowers. - grid24_12
Lilium parryi Lemon Lily

Lilium parryi, Lemon Lily, has large 3 inch wide and 4 inch long lemon yellow flowers that have a delightful fragrance. Lemon Lily is native from middle to high elevations in southern California and ... Learn more.

Lilium wigginsii, Wiggins Lily, is now considered a subspecies of Lilium pardalinum, and has been very easy to grow. - grid24_12
Lilium wigginsii Wiggins Lily

Lilium wigginsii, Wiggins Lily,  plant that looks like a delicate Leopard Lily. This lily grows in bogs, creeks, lakes and seeps  up on both sides of the California Oregon Border under Douglas Fir, W... Learn more.

Linum lewisii, Blue Flax, has flowers of the most sky-blue, and each flower only seems to last one day, and so are even more precious.  - grid24_12
Linum lewisii Blue Flax

A 2-3 foot perennial with delicate leaves and true blue sky flowers from Mar. to Sept.. Native to middle to high elevations, Alaska to southern California. A good garden flower. Showy, every morning ... Learn more.

Seeds of Lace parsley - grid24_12
Lomatium dasycarpum Woolly fruit desert parsley

Woolly fruit desert parsley grows in openings in the chaparral, coastal sage scrub, up into the pines of Mt. Pinos and Mt. Laguna, through the Sierras and coast ranges below 7000 ft. The larval of the... Learn more.

Lonicera ciliosa Orange Honeysuckle - grid24_12
Lonicera ciliosa Orange Honeysuckle

Orange Honeysuckle grows on north slopes and creek and river banks from the very north of California to British Columbia and Montana. For you southern California folks Orange Honeysuckle looks like a ... Learn more.

Lonicera interrupta, Chaparral Honeysuckle, is a quiet background plant that grows well in the shade of oaks, and also likes morning sun.  - grid24_12
Lonicera interrupta Chaparral Honeysuckle

A sprawling, deciduous shrub with yellow honeysuckle flowers. Native from central and northern California mountains. It likes full sun to shade, dry conditions. Great on banks. It has edible berry b... Learn more.

Lotus purshianus, Spanish clover, Spanish Lotus  - grid24_12
Lotus purshianus Lotus

This annual Lotus, weedy plant of roadsides, open, dry, disturbed areas, thickly branched, fixes nitrogen. CA(exc DSon), to CAN, cUS, Mex. Used for soil stabilization and forage for livestock. Larval ... Learn more.

Silver Bush Lupine, Lupinus albifrons - grid24_12
Lupinus albifrons Silver Bush Lupine

Sliver Bush Lupine is a 3-5' perennial with flowers 3" blue spikes on a white-silver bush. Many varieties range from S. Ore. to N. Baja. It needs full sun, good drainage, will tolerate some water but... Learn more.

An old picture of lupinus breweri - grid24_12
Lupinus breweri

A small, usually matted(by snow) perennial Lupine of moderate elevations of Mtn. Pinos to Oregon. Brewer's Lupine is named after William Brewer who was part of the Calif. State Geological Survey party... Learn more.

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