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California Native Plant Page


Welcome to our new Native Plant Page. This page has links to the database entries for all of the California native plants that we grow and also features articles about native plants and links to other sites that have information about California native plants. The information is written by our staff horticulturist Randy Baldwin with contributuions by Carol Bornstein, author and past director of horticulture at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.


Native Plant Articles
Arctostaphylos	California's Native Jewels
Ceanothus	California's True Blues by Carol Bornstein
Mimulus	Masses of Monkeyflowers by Carol Bornstein
Salvia	Riders of the Purple Sage (many are natives!)

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Abutilon palmeri - Indian Mallow Achillea millefolium 'Island Pink' Island Pink Yarrow Aesculus californica - California Buckeye Agave - Century Plant Agave shawii - Shaw's Agave Agave shawii 'Marginata' - Shaw's Varigated Agave Agave sebastiana 'Silver Lining' - Cedros Island Agave Agave sobria ssp. frailensis - Gulf of California Agave Agave utahensis eborispina - Ivory-spined Agave Allium unifolium - One-leaf onion Arctostaphylos - Manzanita Arctostaphylos densiflora 'Howard McMinn' Howard McMinn Manzanita Arctostaphylos densiflora 'White Lanterns' White Lanterns Manzanita Arctostaphylos 'Emerald Carpet' Emerald Carpet Manzanita Arctostaphylos 'John Dourley' John Dourley Manzanita Arctostaphylos manzanita 'Dr. Hurd' - Dr. Hurd Manzanita Arctostaphylos 'Pacific Mist' - Pacific Mist Manzanita Arctostaphylos 'Sunset' - Sunset Manzanita Artemisia - California Sagebrush Artemisia californica - California Sagebrush Artemisia californica 'Canyon Gray' - Coastal Sagebrush Artemisia ludoviciana ssp. albula - Desert Silver Wormwood Artemisia ludoviciana 'Valerie Finnis' - Silver Wormwood Artemisia pycnocephala 'David's Choice' - Coastal Sagewort Asclepias fascicularis - Narrow-leaved Milkweed Asclepias speciosa - Showy Milkweed Atriplex lentiformis 'Naomi' - Quail bush Baccharis pilularis 'Pigeon Point' - Dwarf Coyote Brush Berberis (Mahonia) - Oregon Grape Berberis 'Golden Abundance' - Golden Abundance Oregon Grape Berberis nevinii - Nevin Barberry Berberis aquifolium var. repens - Creeping Barberry Bothriochloa barbinodis Silver Wormwood Bouteloua (Mahonia) - Blue Grama Grass Bouteloua gracilis Blue Grama Grass Bouteloua gracilis 'Blonde Ambition' - Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Bouteloua gracilis 'Pesta as de Angeles' - California Blue Grama Calamagrostis foliosus - Mendocino Reed Grass Calamagrostis 'Little Nootka'(C. nutkaensis x C. foliosa) - Little Nootka Reed Grassi Carex - Sedges Carex harfordii 'Tunitas Creek' - Harford's Sedge Carex praegracilis [C. Pansa, Hort.] - California Field Sedge Carex praegracilis 'Chia' - Chisai California Sedge Carex subfusca - Rusty Sedge Carex tumulicola - Foothill Sedge Carpenteria - California Anemone Carpenteria californica - California Anemone Carpenteria californica 'Elizabeth' - Elizabeth California Anemone Ceanothus - California Lilac Ceanothus arboreus 'Powder Blue' - Island Ceanothus Ceanothus 'Blue Lolita' - Blue Lolita California Lilac Ceanothus 'Centennial' - Centennial Ceanothus Ceanothus 'Concha' - Concha Ceanothus Ceanothus 'Cynthia Postan' - Cynthia Postan Ceanothus Ceanothus 'Dark Star' - Dark Star Ceanothus Ceanothus gloriosus 'Anchor Bay' - Pt. Reyes Ceanothus Ceanothus gloriosus 'Heart's Desire' - Pt. Reyes Ceanothus Ceanothus griseus horizontalis - Carmel Creeper Ceanothus Ceanothus griseus horizontalis 'Diamond Heights' - Diamond Heights Ceanothus Ceanothus griseus horizontalis 'Yankee Point' - Yankee Point Ceanothus Ceanothus griseus 'Point Sal' - Point Sal Wild Lilac Ceanothus hearstiorum - Hearst Ranch Buckbrush Ceanothus impressus 'Vandenberg' - Santa Barbara Ceanothus Ceanothus 'Joyce Coulter' - Joyce Coulter Ceanothus Ceanothus maritimus 'Frosty Dawn' - Maritime Ceanothus Ceanothus maritimus 'Point Sierra' - Maritime Ceanothus Ceanothus 'Ray Hartman' - Ray Hartman Wild Lilac Ceanothus thyrsiflorus 'Snow Flurry' - Snow Flurry Ceanothus Ceanothus Tuxedo ['FIT02'] PP20,754 Ceanothus 'Wheeler Canyon' - Wild Lilac Cercis occidentalis - Redbud Chilopsis linearis - Desert Willow Chlorogalum pomeridianum - Soap Lily Coreopsis gigantea [Leptosyne gigantea] - Giant Coreopsis Cupressus - Cypress Cupressus guadalupensis 'Greenlee's Blue Rocket' - Guadalupe Cypress Cupressus macrocarpa - Monterey Cypress Cupressus marcrocarpa 'Lemon Yellow' - Golden Monterey Cypress Danthonia californica - California Oatgrass Dendromecon harfordii - Island Bush Poppy Dudleya - Live Forever Dudleya brittonii - Giant Chalk Dudleya Dudleya brittonii 'Green Form' - Green Giant Chalk Dudleya Dudleya cymosa ssp. pumila - Canyon Live-Forever Dudleya hassei - Catalina Island Live-Forever Dudleya edulis - Ladies' Fingers Dudleya ingens - Baja Live-Forever Dudleya pachyphytum' - Cedros Island Live-Forever Dudleya 'Palos Verdes' - Palos Verdes Live- Forever Dudleya pulverulenta - Chalk Live-Forever Dudleya rubens - Red flowering Live-Forever Dudleya saxosa ssp. aloides - Desert Dudleya Dudleya verityi - Verity's Live-Forever Eleocharis montevidensis - Sand Spikerush Elymus - See Leymus Encelia californica 'Paleo Yellow' - California Bush Sunflower Epilobium [Zauschneria] - California Fuchsia Epilobium 'Bowman's #1' - Bowman's California Fuchsia Epilobium canum 'Catalina' - Catalina California Fuchsia Epilobium canum 'Diamondback' - Diamondback California Fuchsia Epilobium canum var. latifolium 'Everett's Choice' - Everett's California Fuchsia Epilobium 'Sidewinder' - Sidewinder California Fuchsia Epilobium 'Sierra Salmon - Salmon California Fuchsia Erigeron - Seside Daisy Erigeron glaucus 'Bountiful' - Bountiful Seaside Daisy Erigeron glaucus 'Cape Sebastian' - Cape Sebastion Seaside Daisy Erigeron glaucus 'Sea Breeze' PP12,076 Erigeron 'WR' Wayne Roderick Daisy Eriogonum - Buckwheat Eriogonum crocatum - Saffron Buckwheat Eriogonum fasciculatum 'Warriner Lytle' - California Buckwheat Eriogonum giganteum - St. Catherine's Lace Eriogonum grande var. rubescens - San Miguel Island Buckwheat Eriogonum grande var. rubescens 'Red Ranger' - Red San Miguel Island Buckwheat Eriophyllum nevinii 'Canyon Silver' [Constancea nevinii] - Woolly Sunflower Eriophyllum staechadifolium - Seaside Woolly Sunflower Erysimum insulare - Island Wallflower Euphorbia xanti - Baja Spurge Festuca californica 'River House Blues' - Ron's California Fescue Festuca californica 'Willit's Giant' - Willit's California Fescue Festuca rubra 'Point Joe' - Point Joe Fescue Fremontodendron - Flannel Bush Fremontodendron 'California Glory' - Californi Glory Flannel Bush Fremontodendron 'Dara's Gold' - Dara Emery's Flannel Bush Fremontodendron 'Ken Taylor' - Ken Taylor's Flannel Bush Fremontodendron mexicanum - Southern Flannel Bush Galvezia speciosa - [Gambelia speciosa] - Island Snapdragon Galvezia speciosa 'Boca Rosa' - Red Island Snapdragon Galvezia speciosa 'Firecracker' - Red Island Snapdragon Galvezia speciosa 'Pink Panther' - Pink Island Snapdragon Garrya elliptica 'Evie' - Evie's Silk Tassel Bush Grasses Bothriochloa barbinodis - Cane Bluestem Bouteloua gracilis - Blue Gramma Grass Bouteloua gracilis 'Blonde Ambition' - Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Bouteloua gracilis 'Pesta as de Angeles'- California Blue Grama Calamagrostis foliosus - Mendocino Reed Grass Calamagrostis 'Little Nootka' (C. nutkaensis x C. foliosa) - Little Nootka Danthonia californica - California Oatgrass Festuca californica 'River House Blues' - Ron's California Fescue Festuca californica 'Willit's Giant' - Willit's California Fescue Festuca rubra 'Point Joe' - Point Joe Fescue Leymus 'Canyon Prince' - Canyon Prince Wild Rye Leymus 'Gaviota Gray'- Gaviota Canyon Prince Wild Rye Leymus triticoides Lagunita - Lagunita Wild Rye Melica imperfecta - Coast Range Melic Muhlenbergia asperifolia - Alkali Muhly Muhlenbergia emersleyi - Bull Grass Muhlenbergia rigens - Deer Grass Sporobolus wrightii - Giant Sacaton Grindelia stricta var. platyphylla 'Ray's Carpet' - Coastal Gum Plant Hesperoyucca [Yucca] - Our Lord's Candle Hesperoyucca whipplei - Our Lord's Candle Hesperoyucca whipplei 'RBG' - Large Our Lord's Candle Heteromeles - Toyon, California Holly Heteromeles arbutifolia - Toyon Heteromeles arbutifolia 'Davis Gold' - Yellow Toyon Heuchera - Corral Bells and Alum Root Heuchera 'Canyon Belle' (Santa Barbara Botanic Gardend Into) Heuchera 'Canyon Chimes' (Santa Barbara Botanic Gardend Into) Heuchera x brizoides 'Bressingham White' - White Coral Bells Heuchera x brizoides 'Firefly' - Red Coral Bells Heuchera 'Canyon Belle' (Santa Barbara Botanic Gardend Into) Heuchera 'Canyon Duet' (Santa Barbara Botanic Gardend Into) Heuchera 'Canyon Melody' (Santa Barbara Botanic Gardend Into) Heuchera 'Canyon Pink' (Santa Barbara Botanic Gardend Into) Heuchera 'Lillian's Pink' - Large Pink Coral Bells Heuchera maxima - Island Alumroot Heuchera 'Rosada' - Pink Hybrid Alum Root Heuchera 'Santa Ana Cardinal' (Rancho Santa Ana Intro) Heuchera 'Wendy' (Rancho Santa Ana Intro) Hyptis 'Silver Lining' - Desert Lavender Iris - Native Iris Iris douglasiana - Douglas Iris Iris douglasiana 'Canyon Snow'- White Douglas Iris Iris PCH hybrid 'Canyon Sunshine' - Yellow Pacific Coast Hybrid Iris Iris PCH hybrid 'Deep Lavender' - Lavender Pacific Coast Hybrid Iris Iris PCH hybrid 'Dorothea's Ruby' - Red Pacific Coast Hybrid Iris Iris PCH hybrid 'Gold' - Gold Pacific Coast Hybrid Iris Iris PCH hybrid 'Ivory Queen' - White Pacific Coast Hybrid Iris Iris PCH hybrid 'Joey' - Yellow Pacific Coast Hybrid Iris Iris PCH hybrid 'Lavender' - Lavender Pacific Coast Hybrid Iris Iris PCH hybrid 'Little Toby' - Red & Gold Pacific Coast Hybrid Iris Iris PCH hybrid 'Midnight' - Purple Pacific Coast Hybrid Iris Iris PCH hybrid 'Pale Purple' - Pale Purple Pacific Coast Hybrid Iris Iris PCH hybrid 'Purple' - Purple Pacific Coast Hybrid Iris Iris PCH hybrid 'Purple & White' - Purple & White Pacific Coast Hybrid Iris Iris PCH hybrid 'Red Violet' - Violet Pacific Coast Hybrid Iris Iris PCH hybrid 'Rubies' - Red Pacific Coast Hybrid Iris/li> Iris PCH hybrid 'Sky Blue & White' - Blue & White Pacific Coast Hybrid Iris Iris PCH hybrid 'Yellow' - Yellow Pacific Coast Hybrid Iris Juncus - Rushes Juncus effusus pacificus 'Quartz Creek' - Quartz Creek Soft Rush Juncus patens - California Gray Rush Juncus patens 'Elk Blue' 1994 SMG Introduction Keckiella cordifolia 'Mountain Flare' - Orange Heartleaf Penstemon SMG 2016 Introduction Lepechinia fragrans - Fragrant Pitcher Sage Lessingia filaginifolia 'Silver Carpet' - Carpet Beach Aster Leymus [Elymus] - Wild Rye Leymus 'Canyon Prince' - Canyon Prince Wild Rye Leymus 'Gaviota Gray' - Gaviota Wild Rye Leymus triticoides Lagunita - Lagunita Wild Rye Lupines Lupinus albifrons - Silver Bush Lupine Lupinus latifolius - Broadleaf Lupine Lyonothamnus asplenifolius - Island Ironwood Marsilea vestita - Hairy Water Clover Melica imperfecta - Coast Range Melic Mimulus [Diplacus]- Monkeyflower Mimulus aurantiacus - Sticky Monkeyflower Mimulus bifidus 'Esselen' - Apricot Monkeyflower Mimulus'Burst Berry' ['Bosburber'] PP25,167 - Red Monkeyflower Mimulus'Burst Lemon' ['Bosburem'] PP25,150 - Yellow Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Burst Orange' ['Balburanim'] PP29,434 - Orange Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Fiesta Marigold' - Persoff Red & Orange Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Georgie Red' PP22,916 - Red Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Georgie Tangerine' PP23,441 - Orange Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Georgie White' PP22,917 - White Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Georgie Yellow' PP22,945 - Yellow Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Hybrid Orange' Verity Orange Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Jack' - Persoff Red Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Jelly Bean Apricot' - Persoff Apricot Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Jelly Bean Dark Pink' - Persoff Pink Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Jelly Bean Gold' - Persoff Gold Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Jelly Bean Lemon' - Persoff Yellow Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Jelly Bean Orange' - Persoff Orange Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Jelly Bean Purple Pink' - Persoff Orange Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Jelly Bean Red' - Persoff Red Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Jelly Bean Terracotta' - Persoff Red Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Jelly Bean White' - Persoff White Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Jelly Bean Yellow' - Persoff Yellow Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Midnight' - Tom Nuccio Select Red Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Payne's Yellow' - Theodore Paynes Yellow Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Princess Laura' - Jelly Bean Light Orange Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Pumpkin' - Dagmar Collins Orange Monkeyflower Mimulus puniceus [M. aurantiacus var. puniceus] - Red Sticky Monkey-flower Mimulus 'Ruby Silver' - Ruby-red Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Sam' - Persoff Pale Yellow Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Sunset Ridge' -Sunset Ridge Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Trish' - Persoff Pink Monkeyflower Mimulus 'Valentine' - Verity Red Monkeyflower Monardella villosa ssp. franciscana 'Russian River' - Coyote Mint Myrica californica - Pacific Wax Myrtle Muhlenbergia asperifolia - Alkali Muhly Muhlenbergia emersleyi - Bull Grass Muhlenbergia rigens - Deer Grass Nolina parryi ssp. wolfii - Giant Nolina Penstemon - Beardtongue Penstemon eatonii - Firecracker Beardtongue Penstemon heterophyllus 'Margarita 'BOP' - Blue Bedder Penstemon Peritoma arborea [Isomeris] - Bladderpod Platanus racemosa 'Witness Tree' - California Sycamore Prunus ilicifolia ssp. lyonii - Catalina Cherry Quercus - Oak Quercus agrifolia - Coast Live Oak Quercus berberidifolia - California Scrub Oak Quercus tomentella - Island Oak Rhamnus - Coffeeberry Rhamnus califomicus [Frangula californica] - Coffeeberry Rhamnus californica 'Eve Case' - Eve Case Coffeeberry Rhamnus californica 'Mound San Bruno' - Mound San Bruno Coffeeberry Rhamnus californica 'Leatherleaf' - Leatherleaf Coffeeberry Rhus integrifolia - Lemonade Berry Rhus lentii - Pink Flowering Sumac Rhus ovata - Sugar Bush Ribes - Currants and Gooseberry's Ribes speciosum - Fuchsia-flowering Gooseberry Ribes viburnifolium - Catalina Currant Ribes viburnifolium 'Spooner's Mesa' - San Diego Evergreen Currant Romneya coulteri - Matilija Poppy Rosa californica 'Elsie' - California Rose Salvia - Sage Salvia 'Allen Chickering' (S. clevelandii x S. leucophylla) Salvia apiana - White Sage Salvia 'Bee's Bliss' Bee's Bliss Groundcover Sage Salvia brandegeei 'Pacific Blue' - Santa Rosa Island Sage Salvia cedrosensis - Cedros Island Sage Salvia clevelandii 'Winnifred Gilman' - Blue Sage Salvia 'Dara's Choice' - Dara Emery's Sage Salvia 'Desperado' (Salvia apiana x Salvia leucophylla) Salvia leucophylla 'Amethyst Bluff' - Large Purple Sage Salvia leucophylla 'Point Sal Spreader' - Spreading Purple Sage Salvia 'Oso Falls' (Salvia apiana x Salvia leucophylla) Salvia spathacea - Hummingbird Sage Salvia spathacea 'Las Pilitas' - Las Pilitas Hummingbird Sage Romneya coulteri - Matilija Poppy Scirpus cernuus - Low Bulrush Senecio palmeri 'Silver and Gold' - Guadalupe Island Senecio Sisyrinchium Sisyrinchium bellum - Blue-eyed Grass Sisyrinchium californica - Golden-Eyed Grass Solanum - Night Shade Solanum umbelliferum 'Midhill' - Kathy Echols Nightshade Solanum xanti 'Mountain Pride' - Purple Nightshade Sphaeralcea 'La Luna' - La Luna Globemallow Sporobolus wrightii - Sacaton Symphiocarpos - Snowberry Symphoricarpos albus 'Tilden Park' - Tilden Snowberry Symphoricarpos mollis - Creeping Snowberry Teucrium glandulosum 'Cedros' - Desert Germander Trichostema - Bluecurls Trichostema lanatum - Woolly Blue Curls Trichostema 'Midnight Magic' - Midnight Magic Blue Curls Trichostema parishii - Mountain Bluecurls Typha angustifolia - Cattail Umbellularia californica - California Bay Venegasia carpesioides - Canyon Sunflower Verbena Verbena lilacina 'De La Mina' - Cedros Island Verbena Verbena lilacina 'Paseo Rancho' - Pink Cedros Island Verbena Vitis 'Roger's Red' - Roger's California Grape Yucca - See Hesperoyucca Zauschneria- See Epilobium

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