Plants For Coastal Sage Scrub

A 4-5' perennial. The flowers are blue to yellow on 6" spikes. The foliage is dark green. It has very rapid growth. It grows from Ventura into Ore.. This plant is an aggressive seeder and should not b... Learn more.

A 4-6' perennial. Its blue flowers are on a 4" spike. The bush is 4' silver mound. It grows well in coastal sand. Native from L.A. to S.F.. It will take some drought, needs near perfect drainage, tole... Learn more.

A creeping lupine that grows along in much of the California coastal valleys. Grows in openings between the oaks and chaparral. Foliage is silver gray. Learn more.

A large flowered gray leaved perennial that grows from L.A. to Wash. state. The flowers are a medium blue-purple. Showy. Full sun. Little or no water after the first month or so in most locales. Learn more.

A silky gray shrub with blue flowers. Showy. This one grows from Lompoc to San Diego and inland to the eastern edges of the Coastal Sage Scrub(San Dimas). Fast and somewhat unstable. 'Normal life' @ 5... Learn more.

An annual that grows to 1 foot and has light blue flowers. It is very fuzzy. Learn more.

This is a very big annual. It grows to waist high with deep blue flowers. It is very useful for bank stabilization as it has a 3 foot root system. Typical western San Luis Obispo County... Learn more.

An annual lupine with violet flowers, found in open areas and also after burns. Truncate leaf lupine seems to like serpentine areas where there's a little soil on top of rock. Lupines fix atmospher... Learn more.

Waterjacket,  Lycium andersonii, is a wonderful plant from the desert. The Wolfberries are savored by every critter out there. The plants are nice looking have a fair flower show and easy to grow i... Learn more.

A very unusual california native. It looks like a desert plant, but grows under Torrey pines, in open chaparral right next to the coast. Learn more.

A fast 50' evergreen tree. Its flowers are white with yellow centers and appear spring-summer. Native to Ca. Islands. Its conifer shape looks like a redwood until you look close. It needs good drainag... Learn more.

Mahonia aquilfolium Compacta is probably a native plant, but there seems to be little information of it's origins. (If you hold the patent on it we never found you.) Compacta likes coastal sand. If yo... Learn more.

Nevin's Barberry is an evergreen shrub that grows slowly to 5 feet then can slowly become a slightly larger tree-shrub covered with yellow flower spikes, 2" long in Mar.-Apr.. This is followed by hund... Learn more.

Native to San Clemente Is. where it grows on rocky caynon walls(probably hiding from the feral animals.) A rare plant CNPS 1B, R-E-D 3-3-3 State/Fed. CE/FE Learn more.

Davidson's Bush Mallow is a six to eight foot tall perennial that looks like a large hibiscus bush with two inch pink hibiscus- like flowers. The plant looks like a hybrid between Lavatera assurgenti... Learn more.

Malacothamnus densiflorus, or dense flowered bush mallow, grows from San Diego up to the west slopes around Palm springs and west to Orange County. Nice flower and easy to grow. Makes a good backgrou... Learn more.

Bush mallow, Malacothamnus fascicularis is a 4-6' evergreen shrub with pink, 1" flowers, cover the gray-green plant. It likes full sun to part shade, little water after established. A hedge plant fo... Learn more.

This bush mallow lives in Carmel valley in openings in the chaparral. Malacothamnus palmeri var. involucratus, Carmel Valley Bush Mallow is very drought tolerant and does best in full sun. Learn more.

Laurel Sumac is a large evergreen shrub with shiny red-green foliage. It has clusters of small white flowers that are enjoyed by many insects in late spring. Yet the Laurel Sumac's foliage seems to b... Learn more.

Wild Cucumber is a climbing or trailing perennial vine, with very large tuberous root, called man-root, prickly fruits that looke similar to cucumbers, not edible, but used medicinally by the Native C... Learn more.

California melica is common in many sites ranging from oak covered north slopes to gullies covered with Baccharis. Common associated plants are Diplacus, Ferns, Lonicera, and Ribes. Use in moist rock ... Learn more.

California Melic is a two feet high delicate perennial grass. In inland areas commonly on east/north slope, in part shade, under trees and shrubs, Pinus sabiniana, Quercus agrifolia, in oak woodland... Learn more.

Blazing Star is a very large and showy annual. Its three inch, yellow flowers stand out like a small California Flannel Bush (Fremontodendron species). One plant may have 25-35 flowers. It is native i... Learn more.

Wishbone Bush is a trailing to ascending perennial sub-shrub with many stems arising from base, pretty, rose-pink flowers, undergoes dormancy after flowering . Place in out-of-the-way spot where dry... Learn more.

Mirabilis multiflora is a small perennial that peeks out from under rocks with magenta flowers. Native from the southern San Joaquin to Baja it ranges to the coast in San Diego. Useful in dry perenni... Learn more.