Plants For Yellow Pine Forest

Ephedra viridis, Green Ephedra, grows in many dry areas of California, and is showy at certain times of the year, with its yellow pollen cones.   - grid24_12
Ephedra viridis Green Mormon Tea

Green Mormon Tea is an evergreen shrub, 4 ft., desert areas, Calif. to Utah, looks like leafless shrub. In many desert locations both species (E. californica and Ephedra virides) exist together. Ephed... Learn more.

Epilobium angustifolium, Fireweed, emerges thickly after forest fires, at higher elevations in California. - grid24_12
Epilobium angustifolium Fireweed

Fireweed is a 2-3' perennial covered with 1" pink flowers. The name Fireweed originated as it's a pioneer plant, one that is one of the first plants emerging after a fire Excellent to enhance a woodl... 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.

Equisetum hymale Scouring rush - grid24_12
Equisetum hymale Scouring rush

This Horsetail is wide ranging throughout the world with a very complicated species complex. (Equisetum hiemale, Hippochaete hiemale var. californica) Learn more.

Equisetum kansanum (laevigatum), Dwarf Horsetail, grows in wet places, and formerly was used to scour pots and pans.  - grid24_12
Equisetum kansanum Dwarf Horsetail

The perennial form that we grow has small 1/4 inch leaves that grow foot tall. It was found in a creek in the Fraizer Park area. Each year it appears when the soil warms up. Each year it goes to slee... Learn more.

Eriastrum densifolium var. austromontanum

A 1ft perennial. with bright blue flowers. It grows in gravelly soil. Very showy when in flower, invisible when not. Very drought tolerant. Native to many inland valleys and mountains. Learn more.

Ericameria arborescens, Golden Fleece after dark - grid24_12
Ericameria arborescens Golden Fleece

A very fast growing large perennial that looks like a cross between a margarite and rabbit brush. Use in sunny rocky spots for dramatic color or to stablize the site until the pines or oaks kick in. P... Learn more.

A closeup of Ericamerica cuneata - grid24_12
Ericameria cuneata Wedgeleaf Goldenbush

Wedgeleaf Golden bush, Cliff Goldenbush or Cliff Heathgoldenrod is native in rocky crevices along the mountain edges of the southwestern deserts. Native from Baja to Nevada (along the east side of th... Learn more.

 Yerba Santa (Eriodictyon californicum) with white flowers - grid24_12
Eriodictyon californicum Yerba Santa

A five ft. perennial shrub. Native Americans and early settlers used it for a cure-all. Now used for soil stabilization; will sucker along roots and tie-up a bank area. It's very drought tolerant. A p... Learn more.

Eriodictyon trichocalyx, Smooth Leaf Yerba Santa  flowers - grid24_12
Eriodictyon trichocalyx Hairy Yerba Santa

Hairy Yerba Santa, Eriodictyon trichocalyx, is native to the mountains of Southern California. Where it produces some of the most attractive flowers of the Yerba Santa in California. It grows in mixe... Learn more.

Eriogonum bailey bailey Annual Field Buckwheat - grid24_12
Eriogonum bailey var. bailey Annual Field Buckwheat

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. We don't sell it. This picture is mostly to remember what it was. Click here for more about California Buckwheats 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 compositum var. lancifolium (arrowleaf buckwheat)  - grid24_12
Eriogonum compositum Northern Buckwheat

Its native from N. Calif. to E. Washington, Idaho to 7500 feet. Its flowers are very light yellow flowers in a tight cluster. It has dark green foliage. It tolerates containers better than many. This ... Learn more.

Eriogonum nudum pubiflorum, Naked buckwheat in its native habitat. - grid24_12
Eriogonum nudum var. pubiflorum Naked buckwheat

Naked buckwheat is a slender spike of white or pink or yellow flowers. It harbors a delightful little insect that mirrors the flower petals. (I thought I'd knocked a flower off when I took the pictur... Learn more.

Acmon Blue Butterfly on Sulfur Buckwheat in the Santa Margarita garden. - grid24_12
Eriogonum umbellatum Sulphur Flower buckwheat

Sulphur flower buckwheat, Eriogonum umbellatum is one of the lowest of the perennial buckwheats, growing only 3 inches tall and 3 ft. wide, with showy yellow flowers and grey foliage; is an excellent... 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.

Eriogonum ursinum Mat buckwheat's - grid24_12
Eriogonum ursinum Mat buckwheat

Eriogonum ursinum is native to the middle elevations of the northern Sierra Nevada mountains, growing in full sun in most areas, afternoon shade in desert areas. Water once/week until established, th... Learn more.

This Buckwheat always looks delightful in flower and nondescript when not.  - grid24_12
Eriogonum wrightii var. subscaposum Wright's Buckwheat

Eriogonum wrightii subscaposum is a small buckwheat, compact and mounding with the plant not exceeding a foot tall. Wright's Buckwheat has slender pale pink flower spikes. This is a a desert buckwhe... Learn more.

Eriogonum kennedyi austromontanum in and about Big Bear. - grid24_12
Eriogonum kennedyi Kennedy's buckwheat

Kennedy's Buckwheat is a flat little perennial with white flowers that grows on mountain slopes from San Bernardino up onto the east slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains, north into Mono County and... Learn more.

A variable Checkerspot on an Eriophyllum confertiflorum - grid24_12
Eriophyllum confertiflorum Golden Yarrow

Golden-Yarrow, is a dryland perennial, 1-2 ft. high, with bright yellow flowers in early summer. It does best with full sun and well draining. But can also often be seen in dry clay soil in part sha... Learn more.

Eriophyllum lanatum var. grandiflorum; Common Woolly Sunflower is very diverse. The keys are problematic on this species as ours are commonly 8 rays, sometime 7, sometimes 9. - grid24_12
Eriophyllum lanatum var. grandiflorum Common Woolly Sunflower

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.

Erysimum capitatum, Western Wallflower, in a closeup photo showing the inflorescence.  - grid24_12
Erysimum capitatum Western Wallflower

Annual, biennial, perennial, 1 ft., orange to orange-red, fragrant flowers, March - July, (longer with water), sun to part shade, dry to garden tolerant. We had one that lived for 2-3 years here and g... Learn more.

 Festuca californica, California Fescue.  - grid24_12
Festuca californica California Fescue

California Fescue grows in greenish gray tufts very much like a cross between Deer Grass and needle Grass. If you are into grasses it makes a good planting. Deer grass in the drainage, California Fesc... Learn more.

Festuca idahoensis, Idaho Fescue, is adaptable, and grows in sun or shade. - grid24_12
Festuca idahoensis Idaho Fescue

Idaho Fescue is a small tidy bunchgrass. It is native from around San Francisco to Canada. Idaho Fescue is good for a meadow grass in cool summer areas, but also grows in hot summer areas with higher... Learn more.

Wood Strawberry, Fragaria californica, tastes pretty good. Can be used in a container or as a small groundcover. - grid24_12
Fragaria californica Wood Strawberry

Wood Strawberry is a perennial, with white flowers, edible red fruits, and spreads by horizontal above ground stems (stolons). Fragaria californica, (F. vesca), Wood Strawberry makes a  good ground co... Learn more.

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