Plants For Coastal Sage Scrub

Rhamnus crocea, Redberry - grid24_12
Rhamnus crocea Redberry

An evergreen shrub that usually grows to 2' inland and flat near coast. It will get to about 6' across. Native to the coast ranges from Napa to Baja. It likes full sun near the coast and afternoon sha... Learn more.

Rhus integrifolia, Lemonade Berry flower cluster. This is a great plant for coastal bluffs from San Diego to San Luis Obispo. In inner San Diego county it looks like a small oak tree with these flowers. - grid24_12
Rhus integrifolia Lemonade Berry

Lemonade Berry is an evergreen shrub to 8' inland, 2' tall in view of ocean. Native from about Santa Barbara south(the ones that are in the Arroyo Grande area, may or may not be native). In San Diego ... Learn more.

Rhus trilobata, Squaw Bush Sumac with the fall color of red. - grid24_12
Rhus trilobata Fragrant Sumac

Rhus trilobata (aromatica), Fragrant Sumac is a very tidy looking deciduous shrub. It has a very attractive arching habit and some of the most beautiful fall color in warmer drier climates. Rhus trilo... Learn more.

 Golden Penny, Ribes aureum gracillimum, is a bigger and better Golden Currant. - grid24_12
Ribes aureum var. gracillimum 'Golden Penny' Golden Currant

Golden Penny, Ribes aureum gracillimum, is a bigger and better Golden Currant. It grows to 4 ft. tall and 3 ft. wide with larger yellow flowers and good sized berries.I have no idea if our Ribes aureu... Learn more.

Ribes californicum Hillside Gooseberry - grid24_12
Ribes californicum Hillside Gooseberry

Ribes californicum, Hillside Gooseberry is a deciduous shrub with white-purple flowers in Feb.-Mar.. Hillside Gooseberry is native to the coast ranges. The Southern  California form is Ribes cali... Learn more.

Ribes divaricatum, Spreading Gooseberry, here produces delicate magenta (sepals) and white (petals) flowers, in small clusters along the stem.  - grid24_12
Ribes divaricatum Spreading Gooseberry

Deciduous shrub to 5'. The thorniest of the gooseberries. A stream side bush or moist coastal understory plant. Spreading Gooseberry can be used as a bramble in the shade for the wildlife or to make a... Learn more.

White Chaparral Currant, Ribes indecorum is native from southern Monterey Co., to San Diego, it used to be a common shrub throughout the Los Angeles basin and the Santa Monica Mountains. - grid24_12
Ribes indecorum White flowering currant

Ribes indecorum, or White chaparral currant is a deciduous shrub that grows to six feet or so. White flowering cuurant makes showy sprays of white under our oaks in Jan.-Mar. . Native to the south ... Learn more.

Ribes specosum, Fuchsia flowered Gooseberry,  in flower with Anna Hummingbird up in left corner - grid24_12
Ribes speciosum Fuchsia-Flowering Gooseberry

Fuchsia flowering or fuchsia flowering gooseberry, Ribes speciosum, is a four foot shrub with red fuchsia-like flowers that appear in Jan.-May after the foliage emerges.  This gooseberry has spiny ... Learn more.

Evergreen  currant  or Catalina perfume  flowers. - grid24_12
Ribes viburnifolium Evergreen Currant

Catalina Perfume or Evergreen currant is a two to three foot evergreen perennial shrub that can grow to eight feet wide, but can be held easily in a two foot flower bed. The heavily scented dark g... Learn more.

Romneya coulteri,  Matilija Poppy thicket - grid24_12
Romneya coulteri Matilija Poppy

Matilija Poppy, Romneya coulteri,  is a perennial/shrub to eight feet tall and if in a light soil forever wide(It spreads by rhizomes). The large paper-mache flowers are white with a yellow center. ... Learn more.

Romneya trichocalyx Matilija Poppy - grid24_12
Romneya trichocalyx Matilija Poppy

The only difference between this and R. Coulteri is a fuzzy calyx and the leaves are a little narrower. A perennial Matilija Poppy to eight feet tall. This form of Matilija Poppy has six inch flower... Learn more.

Rosa gymnocarpa Wood Rose - grid24_12
Rosa gymnocarpa Wood Rose

Wood Rose is a delicate sub-shrub that arches up to 3'. Normally 2'. A bristly slender shrub with fairly large fragrant pink flowers. This looks like a little formal perennial in cultivation. In the ... Learn more.

Rosa minutifolia - grid24_12
Rosa minutifolia

Desert Rose, or Rosa Silvestre grows from the red clay of El Rosario (in Baja) up onto Otay Mesa. A really thorny dwarf rose with single pink flowers. The thorns are close and intense, but will not bi... Learn more.

Rosa spithamea, Ground Rose flower - grid24_12
Rosa spithamea Ground Rose

Ground rose grows in small colonies in Central California from the San Luis Obispo area up into Mendocino and Humbolt and in the Sierras from Tulare to Yuba. Rosa spithamea has a poorly defined var. s... Learn more.

Rubus ursinus, Pacific blackberry in the wild - grid24_12
Rubus ursinus Pacific blackberry

Rubus ursinus, Pacific blackberry, is a  native blackberry that ranges from Baja to British Columbia and into Idaho. In southern California this blackberry doesn't always set fruit. It appears like ... Learn more.

Salix goodingii San Joaquin Willow - grid24_12
Salix gooddingii San Joaquin Willow

A 15-30' deciduous shrub-tree. Yellow stems and light green leaves. Native through much of the Southwest. Not a fast grower. It spends most of its first few year growing roots. We have seen this in th... Learn more.

Salix gooddingii var. variabilis San Joaquin Willow

A 15-30ft deciduous shrub-tree. Yellow stems and light green leaves. Native through much of the Southwest. Not a fast grower. It spends most of its first few year growing roots. Learn more.

Salix lasiolepis, Arroyo Willow, as bush - grid24_12
Salix lasiolepis Arroyo Willow

A 10-20\' deciduous shrub or tree. We list it for stream bank stabilization. This one is native to most of Ca. north to Idaho and Alaska. It is native on the nursery site in the seasonal creek. A pion... Learn more.

Salvia Bee's Bliss as a sage groundcover. - grid24_12
Salvia 'Bee's Bliss' Creeping Sage

Salvia Bee's Bliss Sage came out of the University of California Botanic Garden, discovered by Roger Raiche and named by Marcia Donehue. It makes a nice low, silver ground cover.Bee's Bliss sage grow... Learn more.

Salvia Carl Nelson. - grid24_12
Salvia 'Carl Neilsen'

Sorry I can't find any information about the person or the plant, but we have some in inventory so I have to fill in the blanks. This sage is maybe a native hybrid. It behaves as a non-native. A Salvi... Learn more.

Nice blue flowers on a one foot tall and 3-4 feet wide bush. - grid24_12
Salvia 'Daras Choice' Dara's Choice Sage

Dara's Choice is a lovely vibrant green sage with blue flowers. A hybrid between Salvia mellifera and Salvia sonomensis. A hardy groundcover, Dara's Choice grows 2 ft tall and 3ft across. Easy to grow... Learn more.

Salvia Gracias in flower. - grid24_12
Salvia 'Gracias' Creeping sage

Salvia sonomensis X Salvia clevelandii 'Gracias' is all the information we can find as to the history of the plant. The plant is definitely a Salvia sonomensis, the hybridization with S. clevelandii ... Learn more.

A pale swallowtail on Salvia Pozo Blue. - grid24_12
Salvia 'Pozo Blue' Grey Musk Sage

Salvia Pozo Blue is very drought tolerant three foot green-gray perennial. A hybrid of Salvia clevelandii and Salvia leucophylla. It is one of our older Las Pilitas selections. We named it for th... Learn more.

White sage, Salvia apiana has incredible leaves. - grid24_12
Salvia apiana White Sage

Salvia apiana, White sage is a  five foot evergreen perennial. The flowers emerge in summer and are white with a little lavender. They pucker-back with the stamens hanging out to the sides. White sag... Learn more.

Salvia apianaXclevelandii Vicki  Romo with an Anna's Hummingbird - grid24_12
Salvia apianaXclevelandii 'Vicki Romo' Vicki Romo white sage

Salvia Vicki Romo was apparently a hybrid between Salvia clevelandii, Salvia apiana, maybe Salvia leucophylla and others. Betsy Clebsch reports in Sages for Every Garden "It was introduced in 1993 and... Learn more.