Plants For Coastal Sage Scrub

Arctostaphylos pacifica x is an evergreen groundcover that is very garden tolerant and grows well with regular waterings. This is supposed to be like A. glandulosa, but it looks much more like A. uv... Learn more.

'Brother James' Manzanita is from the eastern edge of the Arctostaphylos pajaroensis population. Starts were given to us by Brother James when he was at Mission San Juan Batista. These are small ma... Learn more.

Paradise Manzanita, is a sprawling evergreen shrub, that can be used as a ground cover or small border. This manzanita has dark red bark, white to pink flowers, depending upon climate that year and... Learn more.

Margarita's Joy manzanita is an interesting natural hybrid that occurs on the central coast. A very neat, tight and clean manzanita that is small enough to fit in most gardens. Dainty. The plant is g... Learn more.

Burton Mesa ground cover form of Arctostaphylos purrissima is a bright green, evergreen one foot by four foot tall. Purrissima is very tolerant of sand and can grow in beach sand in coastal regions. I... Learn more.

Petite Margarita is a very small manzanita that grows on one of the hills south of Lompoc. Similar to Arctostaphylos myrtifolia with its delicate leaves and sprawling habit. Grows to maybe two feet ... Learn more.

Rainbowensis is a lower moundy Big Berried Manzanita. We grew some for a remediation in South Riverside County, and are growing new plants off of the extra plants. We have not played with the plants ... Learn more.

Shag Bark Manzanita, Arctostaphylos rudis, is an evergreen shrub a foot and a half or so tall and 3 feet wide. It does best in coastal sand and sun. Shag Bark Manzanita  is a great choice for N... Learn more.

Arctostaphylos rudis 'Burton Beauty' looks a bit like a columnar 'Howard McMinn'; However, unlike 'Howard McMinn' that grows in northern California in clay soil and moderate rainfall, Burton Beauty gr... Learn more.

Arctostaphylos tomentosa ssp. subcordata is a manzanita that is supposed to only occur on the Channel Islands, but occurs (according to Smith and Hoover, and we found it in a couple of surveys also), ... Learn more.

'Point Reyes' manzanita has lovely dark green leaves. It grows rapidly as long as it has regular irrigation to get established. Its final height is 2-5 inches tall and width is 10 feet. This is a co... Learn more.

Radiant Manzanita, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi is a prostrate evergreen ground cover with pink flowers and red berries. Native throughout the northern US, and both coasts. On the west coast it grows fr... Learn more.

Evergreen groundcover that is dark green with some red. Very garden tolerant and it tolerates regular water. A very formal dark green with reddish hues. Our mother plants were less than a foot tall (... Learn more.

A manzanita introduction by Ken Taylor from San Bruno mountain. This Arctostaphylos might be the uva-ursi forma leobreweri saved from extinction by James Roof. Nice plant, tolerant of gardens and eve... Learn more.

A 6', gray foliage, red trunk and stems, a very clean and neat 'reserved' plant with red-brown bark. This manzanita grows in the Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo, and Avila area on sandstone, and sand o... Learn more.

Purple three awn grass is a perennial grass of the Kansas prairie that can be spotted in many small patches throughout Southern California. A grass lovers dream grass, small clumps of green stems with... Learn more.

California sagebrush, Artemisia californica is an evergray shrub, three to four foot high. This sage brush is native to much of Central and Southern California and is part of the 'sage' in coastal... Learn more.

Artemisia californica ' Canyon Gray', is a low spreader. This silver ground cover is drought tolerant and deer resistant. Leaves are also fragrant. It can be  less than 1ft high and about 4ft across. ... Learn more.

Artemisia californica 'Montara is a selection from San Mateo Co. and appears to be a natural hybrid between Artemisia californica and Artemisia pycnocephala.(Both forms have a diploid chromosome count... Learn more.

California Mugwort, Artemisia douglasiana,  is a three foot perennial that has a funny sage odor. Native on stream banks, ditch banks, road cuts or other disturbed areas. Very useful for creek b... Learn more.

(Syn. Artemisia dracunculoides, Artemisia glauca) Tarragon (probably not the variety called French Tarragon, the culinary herb) is a very unattractive weed of disturbed places. Worldwide, maybe native... Learn more.

San Diego Sagewort lives in the coastal valleys of southern San Diego, from about Escondido south in washes and ravines where there\'s a little more ground moisture. This plant, along with its cousin,... Learn more.

California aster ( Symphyotrichum chilense) has summer flowers that make showy cheerful displays along roadsides of much of Coastal Southern California. Great for a woodland shade garden or full su... Learn more.

Nuttall's Milkvetch grows on coastal bluffs and along the coastal strand. If the conditions are harsh with salt spray or drought they will be soft, fuzzy gray. If the conditions are easy and life good... Learn more.

Southern California Locoweed grows from Santa Barbara to Orange County into Chino hills. So if you live in the Los Angeles Basin this is the locoweed for you and some of your butterflies. Some of the ... Learn more.