Plants For Valley Grassland

Speckled Clarkia or one of the flowers called Farewell to Spring. We do not sell these as container plants. They are rapidly being replaced by Ripgut, Bromus diandrus as they favor the same situation... Learn more.

Mountain Garland is a delicat annual with slender petaled pink flowers up a 2-3' stem. Works well in high shade, Oak understory. Useful on north or east slopes up to and under oaks and pines. Native o... Learn more.

Coyote Melon grows in many soils from the edge of the coastal sage scrub through the desert into Nevada and Arizona. A native gourd that develops a large root that supports the rather weird moth Melit... Learn more.

Small perennial, goes dormant in summer, has a 1 foot high flower cluster with 1/2 inch shooting stars, good in woodland garden or north slope. We ship them in Jan-Feb. This plant is one of the first ... Learn more.

Island shooting star is a perennial wildflower with pink flowers that hang pendant with petals thrown back. Island shooting star is similar to Padres Shooting Star, Dodecatheon clevelandii, but a lit... Learn more.

San Luis Obispo Live forever,(Dudleya murina) grows around San Luis Obispo of serpentine rock out croppings. It likes sun and about 2-3 inches of clay on rock that literally drips with water in spring... Learn more.

Blue Wild-Rye. This plant species is highly variable, and hybridizes with some other species of wild-rye. It is not related to the cereal rye, except that they are both grasses. This plant is common h... Learn more.

Evergreen shrub, 5 ft., dry areas, central and southern California, and stems used for tea. Ephedra spp. are good wildlife plants. Grows with Eriogonum fasciculatum polifolium, Encelia actoni, Bricke... Learn more.

Eriophyllum lanatum var. grandiflorum, Common Woolly Sunflower is a grey perennial, 1-2 ft. high, with yellow, daisy-like flowers, wo inches across; a good garden plant, liking full sun to part-day s... Learn more.

Eschscholzia caespitosa is an annual poppy with bright yellow flowers. It grows to about a foot tall. It is (was) common in the foothills above the San Joaquin Valley and southern California foothills... Learn more.

Munz lists four 'tendencies' that have largely geographic separations. An inland perennial form that ranges away from the coast from Wash. to S.Cal. This is var. crocea that has large orange flowers ... Learn more.

Munz lists four tendencies that have largely geographic separations. This annual form, var. peninsularis, around the San Joaquin Valley and S. Calif. Use the form if you possibly can that is in your a... Learn more.

A small little annual with somewhat tubular purple flowers and yellow centers. Massed they can be quite showy. We have seen them in many soils and many climates on the edges of the foothills or San Jo... Learn more.

Synonyms: Grindelia robusta, Grindelia procera. This hardy, colorful plant is a perennial that grows from the north coast ranges to Baja in dry washes, and road edges in sandy or clay soils. Grindel... Learn more.

California matchweed is a little perennial that grows along the edges of the San Joaquin Valley. Foliage is bright green and flowers are little yellow stars. Just a little different (odd in the head) ... Learn more.

A 1 foot high rhizomatous dark green plant. It looks like a miniature rush, or a funny-looking lawn grass. It needs regular moisture. It grows throughout the west and much of the world along streams, ... Learn more.

A one foot high rhizomatous dark green plant. It looks like a miniature rush, or a funny-looking lawn grass. It needs regular moisture. It grows throughout the west and much of the world along stream... Learn more.

Commonly grows in fields dominated by alien grasses and weeds (Bromus diandrus, Agrostis sp. Erodium sp. Hordeum jubatum, etc) grazed, no trees in evidence, north slope, soil clay/serpentine, many ... Learn more.

A small little early spring annual that is a pioneer species in many bad habitats. In the San Joaquin Valley it makes mass displays of bright yellow in areas that are still intact. It will grow in any... Learn more.

A very showy yellow-white annual composite that grows to six inches tall and a foot across. The flowers look a great deal like Gazanias. Mixed with poppies and Lupines it is so cheerful in early summe... Learn more.

Sliver Bush Lupine is a 3-5' perennial with flowers 3" blue spikes on a white-silver bush. Many varieties range from S. Ore. to N. Baja. It needs full sun, good drainage, will tolerate some water but... Learn more.

A 1-2' annual with deep blue flowers. Native on the nursery site in gravelly soil in part shade to full sun. Foliage delicately dissected, not coarse like some of the other lupine species. more specif... Learn more.

An annual that grows to about a foot high and two foot across. It has nice yellow flowers. I saw it in flower in 1993 in the Buttonwillow area. It was the only native left alive in the area that was o... 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.

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.