Plants For Southern Oak Woodland

Nemophila maculata, Fivespot, is a popular annual wildflower, that grows  in the Sierra Nevada mountains and the Sacramento Valley.  - grid24_12
Nemophila maculata Fivespot

A 1 foot annual that has 1 inch white flowers with purple spots. Learn more.

Nemophila menziesii, Baby Blue Eyes, can be  massively inhibited by alien species of Erodium, especially Erodium botrys, in the central coast ranges of California.  - grid24_12
Nemophila menziesii Baby Blue Eyes

Baby Blue Eyes is an annual that looks like a delicate little garden plant that often grows many sunny hot spots where it looks out of place. Plant with Poppies or Goldfields to make an eye popping fl... Learn more.

Oenothera californica California Evening primrose, and it smells GOOD - grid24_12
Oenothera californica California Evening Primrose

This plant used to be in most of the road cuts of Southern California. Clumps 3 ft. by 10 feet Across of 2 inch pink-white flowers are common. This plant is low to the ground so it needs bare groun... Learn more.

Bakersfield Cactus, Opuntia treleasei - grid24_12
Opuntia treleasei Bakersfield Cactus

Historically, Bakersfield cactus covered large areas of the southern San Joaquin Valley. Our plants came from Jack Zaninovich who had a little nursery that grew plants for the Kern chapter of Californ... Learn more.

Orthocarpus densiflorus, Owl's Clover in a field of grassy weeds - grid24_12
Orthocarpus densiflorus Owl's Clover

A semi-parasitic annual common in areas that still have some annual native plants left. Difficult to grow in anything other than a wildflower mix. Learn more.

Penstemon grinnellii, Southern Woodland Penstemon, is rare, elusive, and so "cool lavender" for a garden.  - grid24_12
Penstemon grinnellii Southern woodland Penstemon

Grinnell's Beard tongue or Penstemon grinnellii, is a 1 1/2 ft. high perennial with blue green leaves , 1" pink-violet flowers on a 2 ft. spike in late spring - early summer. This dryland penstemon l... Learn more.

Penstemon heterophyllus, Foothill Penstemon  - grid24_12
Penstemon heterophyllus Foothill Penstemon

Foothill Penstemon is a rather long lived(30 years?) perennial with hundreds of one inch violet flowers on three foot spikes in April- Aug.. Native to dry hills in the coast ranges. It likes full sun,... Learn more.

Penstemon heterophyllus subsp. purdyi (Purdy's penstemon  - grid24_12
Penstemon heterophyllus var. purdyii

Very similar to Penstemon heterophyllus but a little lower, darker green and little less cold hardy. Use this one if your rainfall is above 30 inches. In garden situations this form is happier than P.... Learn more.

Penstemon X parishii, Parish's Penstemon is a hot pink - grid24_12
Penstemon parishii

Penstemon parishii seems to have the cold tolerance and drought tolerance of centranthifolius with the flowers and flowering of P.clevelandii, the plant matures to 3' with a 3' flower spike of the ... Learn more.

An old photo of Penstemon parishii, Pilitas Pink - grid24_12
Penstemon parishii 'Pilitas Pink'

This plant seems to have the cold tolerance and drought tolerance of centranthifolius with the flowers and flowering of P.clevelandii, the plant matures to 3ft with a 3ft flower spike of the hottest p... Learn more.

We no longer grow Penstemon parishii, Pozo_Pink - grid24_12
Penstemon parishii 'Pozo Pink'

This plant seems to have the cold tolerance and drought tolerance of centranthifolius with the flowers and flowering of P.clevelandii, the plant matures to 3ft with a 3ft flower spike of the hottest p... Learn more.

Phacelia californica just filling in container. - grid24_12
Phacelia californica California Scorpionweed

California Phacelia is an attractive little perennial with curling purple flower clusters. Great for butterfly gardens especially in the Bay area. California Phacelia is also native to Los Angeles cou... Learn more.

Phacelia tanacetifolia Lacy Phacelia - grid24_12
Phacelia tanacetifolia Lacy Phacelia

An annual wildflower of sizable portions that grows under creosote and other desert shrubs in the Mojave, Quercus dumosa, Q. Douglasiana and Juniperus californica and other dryland trees in the Califo... Learn more.

In this photo you can see the pattern of the bark of a Platanus racemosa, California Sycamore, growing in Arroyo Grande, California.  - grid24_12
Platanus racemosa California Sycamore

A fast 75' deciduous tree. It will grow to 15-20 ft. in 5-10 years. It is along creeks in the foothills and coast ranges of Calif.. It takes takes wind, heat, but not drought tolerant until establishe... Learn more.

Platystemon californicus, Cream Cups - grid24_12
Platystemon californicus Cream Cups

A annual wildflower. In the past it was common in open fields and following fires. Now largely replaced with weedy annual grasses, starthistle, and mustard. Cream cups used to be included in wildflowe... Learn more.

Populus fremontii, Western Cottonwood along hwy 58 - grid24_12
Populus fremontii Western Cottonwood

A deciduous tree. Plant and stand back, very fast with regular water, on one site 30' in a year. We grow male trees, females have cotton. An excellent shade tree. Keep away from septic system. Do not ... Learn more.

Populus fremontii,  Zapata Fremont Cottonwood tree with fall color - grid24_12
Populus fremontii 'Zapata' Fremont Cottonwood

''Zapata'comes from a parent tree that is 80' tall and 40' wide out in a stream bed of a customers property. I had to stand on my pickup roof with a 10' pole pruner to get a bottom branch. It is nativ... Learn more.

a Populus fremontii ,Carrizo Fremont Cottonwood tree - grid24_12
Populus fremontii var. Carrizo Fremont Cottonwood

'Carrizo', This form is for interior plantings only. It will get rust if the climate is too moist. This form is very tough. It should do fine in most desert sites and even into parts of the Great Basi... Learn more.

Populus fremontiiX Calm Fremont Cottonwood - grid24_12
Populus fremontiiX var. Calm Fremont Cottonwood

'Calm' is from the California Living Museum in Bakersfield, this is at the mouth of Kern Canyon.This is a series of plants and they are not sex defined, they can have cotton. We use these for revegeta... Learn more.

Potentilla glandulosa,  Sticky Cinquefoil flower - grid24_12
Potentilla glandulosa Sticky Cinquefoil

Sticky Cinquefoil is a one to two foot tall perennial with creamy, yellow flowers. It has soft pinnately compound leaves and red stems. It is found along the coast of California and in the foothills o... Learn more.

Desert almond, Prunus fasciculata - grid24_12
Prunus fasciculata Desert Almond

A rather nondescript deciduous shrub to 6\'. It\'s flowers are mot showy. There are little almonds on it in summer. It is a good transition plant between the oaks and the desert. It is also a good wil... Learn more.

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Quercus acutidens x Scrub Oak

Another of the scrub oaks. This one can usually be differentiated as the bush looks a little different in that the leaf is between Quercus agrifolia and Quercus dumosa in size with a duller cast to it... Learn more.

Quercus agrifolia, Coast Live Oak silhouette.  - grid24_12
Quercus agrifolia Coast Live Oak

This California oak tree has dark green holly-like leaves and is native to the coast ranges of California. This, like most of the other oaks is a climax species and needs a little protection and lov... Learn more.

Quercus alvordiana, Eastmans Oak with a mass of leaves. - grid24_12
Quercus alvordiana Eastmans Oak

A tree form of scrub oak. A semi-evergreen tree to 15-20 ft.. Native to inner coastal areas of central Calif.. A tough, small tree, ideal for smaller gardens. It is fast compared to blue oak. We have... Learn more.

Engelmann Oak, Quercus engelmannii  - grid24_12
Quercus engelmannii Mesa Oak

Engelmann Oak is a spreading tree to 50ft. It is evergreen in its range. A slow but nice tree. Engelmann Oak has a tendency to become deciduous regularly here. It is native from Pasadena to Baja. Its... Learn more.

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