Plants For Northern Juniper Woodland

Arctostaphylos hooveri, Hoovers manzanita grows into a medium sized bush. - grid24_12
Arctostaphylos hooveri 'Hoovers Manzanita'

Hoovers Manzanita is an evergray 10' X `6' bush with red stems that has proved intractable in our climate and soil. This species has an interesting leaf appearance, because of the long, silvery, hair... Learn more.

Artemisia cana var. bolanderi Silver Sage

This aromatic little bush makes a little mound of gray. Useful in places like Big Bear where you have an old log and wagon wheel you want to make look like Bodie or Death valley. Use as a small Great ... Learn more.

Artemisia tridentata, Great Basin Sage Brush, growing in the Santa Margarita nursery garden.  - grid24_12
Artemisia tridentata Great Basin Sage Brush

An evergray shrub. 4 feet tall and wide. Native to dry areas of the western US. Needs full sun. It is very drought tolerant, needs good drainage. Its seeds are edible. Chewed leaves said to aid digest... Learn more.

Balsamorhiza sagittata Arrowleaf balsamroot - grid24_12
Balsamorhiza sagittata Arrowleaf balsamroot

syn Buphthalmum sagittata, Espeletia s., E. helianthoides, Balsamorhiza h.. Arrowleaf balsamroot grows from the Southern Sierra Nevada mountains up in British Columbia and across to Colorado. A large ... Learn more.

 Cercocarpus ledifolius, Desert mountain mahogany or Curl leaf mountain mahogany.on a shelf overlooking  the Mono Lake Basin. - grid24_12
Cercocarpus ledifolius Desert mountain mahogany

Curl leaf mountain mahogany is an evergreen shrub or small tree to 15 feet tall, that grows in desert mountains of the western U.S. Excellent as a tough screen or accent plant, and an attractive pla... Learn more.

 Chamaebatiaria millefolium, Fern Bush or Desert Sweet in flower up in Inyo National Forest. - grid24_12
Chamaebatiaria millefolium Fern Bush

Fern bush, Chamaebatiaria millifolium, grows in rocky places in the sagebrush, pinyon-juniper and other mountain plant communities from California to Utah, southeast Oregon, Idaho and down into A... Learn more.

Epipactis gigantea, Stream Orchid. I think this was at Big Bear - grid24_12
Epipactis gigantea Stream Orchid

Giant Helleborine or Stream Orchid, Epipactis gigantea,  is a perennial orchid that grows in wet or moist places. Stream Orchid will go dormant at the first sign of drought. Grows all over the West ... Learn more.

Eriogonum caespitosum Silver Buckwheat

A small perennial with yellow-red flowers and grey-silver foliage. A rock garden plant for tough situations in higher elevations. The buckwheats are very important butterfly plants and one of the pil... Learn more.

Eriogonum ovalifolium Cushion Buckwheat grows into a little mat. - grid24_12
Eriogonum ovalifolium Cushion Buckwheat

Cushion Buckwheat grows along the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada up into Alberta. A true rock garden type plant. Put two or three boulders together and cover with a loose mineral soil such as deco... Learn more.

Eriogonum umbellatum var. chlorothamnus , Sulphur-flower buckwheat - grid24_12
Eriogonum umbellatum var. chlorothamnus 'June Lake' Shrub Sulphur Buckwheat

Eriogonum umbellatum var. chlorothamnus. A shrubby mound of sulphur for a high elevation garden. Full sun and mountain scree. Click here for more about California Buckwheats Learn more.

Shasta Buckwheat or Sulfur  Buckwheat flowers can add a lot of color to a native garden in summer. - grid24_12
Eriogonum umbellatum var. polyanthum 'Shasta Buckwheat' Sulfur Buckwheat

Eriogonum umbellatum var. polyanthum, is a wide ranging form normal in the middle elevation Sierra Nevada mountains, with yellow flowers on a 1 ft high by 3 ft wide plant; likes a little summer water,... Learn more.

Gnaphalium microcephalum thermale Feltleaf everlasting - grid24_12
Gnaphalium microcephalum var. thermale Feltleaf everlasting

(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.

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.

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.

Mentha arvensis, Field Mint, is one of the mint species that is used commercially in mint tea.  - grid24_12
Mentha arvensis Field Mint

A small little 1' perennial with a small blue flower clusters on a spike of scented green leaves. This one grows at higher elevations along creeks and in meadows. It has managed to make its way around... Learn more.

Sorry we don't have one in the ground, forgot.  - grid24_12
Muhlenbergia montana Mountain Muhly

A small little perennial that grows in our western mountains.The most likely place to find Mountain Muhly in California is Yosemite Valley. Companion plants include Mutton Grass (Poa fendleriana), We... Learn more.

Penstemon roezlii, Roezl's beardtongue, Roezl's penstemon. - grid24_12
Penstemon roezlii Roezl's penstemon

Roezl's penstemon is a little rock garden perennial to grows from north western Nevada through north eastern California, Northern Sierras and southern Oregon. This Penstemon grows in open rich ground ... Learn more.

Ribes cereum, Wax Currant, growing in the Yellow Pine Forest, at Big Bear, California.  - grid24_12
Ribes cereum Wax Currant

syn. R. cereum var. pedicellare, R.c. var. farinosum, R. c. var. viridescens, Ribes inebrians, R. reniforme, R. balsamifera, , R. spaethianum, R. pumilium, R. churchii. Wax currant or Squaw currant ... Learn more.

Senecio douglasii,  Butterweed overlooking the nursery - grid24_12
Senecio douglasii Butterweed

A two-three foot perennial with one-inch yellow daisies. It looks like a grey marguerite. It is useful in revegetation, bank stabilization, or in dryland gardens. Give sun and little or no water in mo... Learn more.

Shepherdia argentea Silver Buffaloberry - grid24_12
Shepherdia argentea Silver Buffaloberry

Buffaloberry(Shepherdia argetea) ia a thorny deciduous shrub that is dioecious. Silver buffalo berry has silvery leaves, white stems, and as it gets older, red berries in a wall of thorns. It is nat... Learn more.

Stipa speciosa along hwy 138 in Pinon Hills - grid24_12
Stipa speciosa Desert needle grass

(Syn. Achnatherum speciosa) Desert needle grass is a 1-2' bunch grass that is native to Mojave and Colorado deserts and the s. Coast ranges and s.Sierra. Use for dry banks and paths , full sun, little... Learn more.

Long flowered Snowberry,. Symphoricarpos longiflorus flowers are delicate and pink. - grid24_12
Symphoricarpos longiflorus Desert Snowberry

(synonym:Symphoricarpos fragrans) Desert Snowberry is a small-leaved plant with dainty, pink tubular flowers that grows in moister spots in the desert mountains under Junipers, Pinus monophylla and ... Learn more.

Symphyotrichum ascendens, Western aster, is a plant of the mountains, but grows well at lower elevations also. - grid24_12
Symphyotrichum ascendens Western aster

A flat perennial with a 6" flower spike with 2"purple flowers. Likes sun, regular water unless you're in a mountain climate with more than 30 inches of rainfall. Grows from southern California to Albe... Learn more.

Trifolium willdenovii. Tomcat Clover - grid24_12
Trifolium Clover

Our Native clovers are mostly annuals. We do not sell the seed but we do encourage the plants. The native clovers should not mowed or killed until the flowers are allowed to produce seed. This page ... Learn more.

Yucca whipplei var. intermedia Chaparral Yucca

The same as Yucca whipplei percusa but this one forms a 2-3' wide clump instead of a 4' patch of 1-2' plants. A nice plant native in an area that gets to -10 regularly with 10-15" of rainfall. Learn more.