Plants For Chaparral

A small little annual with somewhat tubular purple flowers and yellow centers. Massed they can be quite showy. We have seen them in many soils and many climates on the edges of the foothills or San Jo... Learn more.

Two-toned Everlasting is a Greenish perennial that has leaves with white-woolly- grey undersides and small creamy yellow flowers, not showy. Weedy in cultivated watered areas under certain environme... Learn more.

A native biennial or short-lived perennial that grows in disturbed places.This species is a pioneer plant that helps to prepare the site, and aids in the establishment of longer-lived plants in the n... Learn more.

Biennial to short-lived perennial, from a taproot, small insignificant white flowers, gray-woolly leaves, weedy, short-lived plant, best for butterfly gardens, can become weedy under certain condition... Learn more.

(syn. Gnaphalium canescens ssp. thermale, Gnaphalium albidum, Pseudognaphalium thermale) A grey short lived perennial that grows in open loose ground. Common in fresh road cuts or in burned over area... Learn more.

California matchweed is a little perennial that grows along the edges of the San Joaquin Valley. Foliage is bright green and flowers are little yellow stars. Just a little different (odd in the head) ... Learn more.

(Syn. Eriocarpum j., Sideranthus j., Machaeranthera j.) A shrubby damn yellow composite from dry chaparral/coastal sage scrub slopes in San Diego County and Baja. It looks kinda like a funny looking t... Learn more.

Narrowleaf Goldenbush is a perennial, 3 ft., with yellow flowers 1 inch across, March- May, growing throughout California, Utah, and Arizona. Does best in full sun, is drought tolerant, needs good dr... Learn more.

A common perennial from coastal bluffs into interior chaparral, common on road cuts mixed in with squirrel holes, hence, its name. A 1-2ft high perennial that grows to 2-3ft across. Its 1/2inch yellow... Learn more.

A small little sub-shrub with yellow flowers that frequents road cuts of southern California. This is one of the plants that can grow on those awful cuts. syn. Haplopappus squarrosus ssp. grindel... Learn more.

A 1 foot high rhizomatous dark green plant. It looks like a miniature rush, or a funny-looking lawn grass. It needs regular moisture. It grows throughout the west and much of the world along streams, ... Learn more.

A one foot high rhizomatous dark green plant. It looks like a miniature rush, or a funny-looking lawn grass. It needs regular moisture. It grows throughout the west and much of the world along stream... Learn more.

A little non-descript perennial that grows in openings amoungst shrubs,. When it flowers it turns into a small sun. In Lompoc the glowing mounds of Sunrose are along the trails with Ceanothus imp.imp... Learn more.

A 1' perennial with 2" yellow daisy flowers in May-Oct.. Native to central and south coast ranges. A showy plant that the deer don't seem to eat. Freezes to the ground each winter but comes back with ... Learn more.

Toyon, or as it's sometimes called, Christmas Berry, is an evergreen shrub to small tree that usually grows to 6-8 ft. high and 4-5 ft. wide. Toyon can go to 15-20' tall if it's old and happy and be... Learn more.

Island Alum Root is a two foot perennial with 3' spikes of small pinkish flowers emerging from February to April. Native to the Channel Islands. This alum root likes part to full shade. A good edgin... Learn more.

Holodiscus discolor commonly known as Ocean Spray, Cream Bush, California Spiraea, Meadow Sweet. Holodiscus discolor is a deciduous shrub that normally grows to 4-5 feet but can grow to 7feet. The 5 i... Learn more.

This little perennial grows from San Luis Obispo County down through San Diego county in the sandy moist spots away from the coast. Plant with monkey flowers, Deer grass, and California fuchsias in p... Learn more.

Horkelia parryi is a beautiful small- scale groundcover from the Ione area. The foliage is feathery and soft, and smells like a pine forest. It has small, white, star -shaped flowers. It is excellent ... Learn more.

Southern California Walnut is an uncommon shrub or tree to 15-25 ft., grows along stream beds from Ventura south. This plant is important to wildlife as it provides food and nesting sites for many bir... Learn more.

Northern California walnut is a deciduous tree to 50 ft that is native in scattered spots throughout California. A fast tree with edible nuts, garden tolerant. There has been some controversy as to w... Learn more.

A 1-2 ft. tall perennial that spreads by rhizomes along the edges of streams or ponds. Dark green, good fill in, good looking. Learn more.

A rather nondescript spike of green until it flowers. Flowers make a creamy delicate cloud on top of this delicate bunch of stuff that looked like grass. Native from Paso Robles down California in th... Learn more.

A wonderful creeping groundcover for seasonally wet (winter) spots near the coast. A frogs delight. Use where the soil is shallow and wet in the winter in place of lawn., A rush that looks superficial... Learn more.

Yellow Bush Snapdragon is a three foot or so perennial shrub that will go deciduous under drought stress. In most California gardens in late fall and early winter this Penstemon will be tacky, BUT, y... Learn more.