Plants For Chaparral

Golden Currant, Ribes aureum gracillimum is very similar to Ribes aureum aureum but has yellow flowers that turn red. They are both forms of Golden currant. BUT, Ribes aureum aureum grows in places l... Learn more.

Ribes californicum, Hillside Gooseberry is a deciduous shrub with white-purple flowers in Feb.-Mar.. Hillside Gooseberry is native to the coast ranges. The Southern  California form is Ribes cali... Learn more.

Ribes indecorum, or White chaparral currant is a deciduous shrub that grows to six feet or so. White flowering cuurant makes showy sprays of white under our oaks in Jan.-Mar. . Native to the south ... Learn more.

Ribes malvaceum, Pink Chaparral Currant, is a five foot deciduous shrub with pink flower clusters in Oct.-Mar.. Native to slopes in the coast ranges. Pink Chaparral Currant likes sun in coast and cool... Learn more.

Pink Flowering currant is a five foot deciduous shrub with long showy pink flower clusters that cover the plant in January to March. Ribes sanguineum glutinosum is native to canyons and north slop... Learn more.

Fuchsia flowering or fuchsia flowering gooseberry, Ribes speciosum, is a four foot shrub with red fuchsia-like flowers that appear in Jan.-May after the foliage emerges.  This gooseberry has spiny ... Learn more.

Catalina Perfume or Evergreen currant is a two to three foot evergreen perennial shrub that can grow to eight feet wide, but can be held easily in a two foot flower bed. The heavily scented dark g... Learn more.

Matilija Poppy, Romneya coulteri,  is a perennial/shrub to eight feet tall and if in a light soil forever wide(It spreads by rhizomes). The large paper-mache flowers are white with a yellow center. ... Learn more.

The only difference between this and R. Coulteri is a fuzzy calyx and the leaves are a little narrower. A perennial Matilija Poppy to eight feet tall. This form of Matilija Poppy has six inch flower... Learn more.

California Rose is a deciduous shrub with 1-2" pink flowers that is the wild rose of much of California.  This wild rose has fragrant 3/4" red smooth fragrant hips. The hips are of good quality for te... Learn more.

Wood Rose is a delicate sub-shrub that arches up to 3'. Normally 2'. A bristly slender shrub with fairly large fragrant pink flowers. This looks like a little formal perennial in cultivation. In the ... Learn more.

Ground rose grows in small colonies in Central California from the San Luis Obispo area up into Mendocino and Humbolt and in the Sierras from Tulare to Yuba. Rosa spithamea has a poorly defined var. s... Learn more.

Mojave Rose looks like a cross between Rosa californica and Rosa woodsii var. ultramontana. This rose grows in springs in the Mojave Desert. Not super thorny, nice flower with nice hips. Should be us... Learn more.

Rubus ursinus, Pacific blackberry, is a  native blackberry that ranges from Baja to British Columbia and into Idaho. In southern California this blackberry doesn't always set fruit. It appears like ... Learn more.

A grey willow that is 4-6ft tall in our area. It can get to 15ft in the San Joaquin Valley. It is native all over Calif. (below 3000ft) and into Baja and Oregon. Excellent for stream stabilizing as it... Learn more.

A 10-25\' deciduous tree-shrub. A stream-side plant. It likes full sun and water. Good for stream stabilization. This species is native to much of Ca. thru Ariz. to Utah. It is native on the nursery s... Learn more.

We have the sub-species Bracelinae mixed in with the species on the site. The sub-species is smaller is size and has narrow leaves. Learn more.

Salvia Bee's Bliss Sage came out of the University of California Botanic Garden, discovered by Roger Raiche and named by Marcia Donehue. It makes a nice low, silver ground cover.Bee's Bliss sage grow... Learn more.

Sorry I can't find any information about the person or the plant, but we have some in inventory so I have to fill in the blanks. This sage is maybe a native hybrid. It behaves as a non-native. A Salvi... Learn more.

'Celestial Blue' Sage was named by the founder of Las Pilitas nursery, Bert Wilson, for his wife Celeste and introduced to the nursery trade by him. It was a seedling that came from seed he col... Learn more.

Dara's Choice is a lovely vibrant green sage with blue flowers. A hybrid between Salvia mellifera and Salvia sonomensis. A hardy groundcover, Dara's Choice grows 2 ft tall and 3ft across. Easy to grow... Learn more.

Salvia sonomensis X Salvia clevelandii 'Gracias' is all the information we can find as to the history of the plant. The plant is definitely a Salvia sonomensis, the hybridization with S. clevelandii ... Learn more.

Salvia Pozo Blue is very drought tolerant three foot green-gray perennial. A hybrid of Salvia clevelandii and Salvia leucophylla. It is one of our older Las Pilitas selections. We named it for th... Learn more.

Salvia apiana, White sage is a  five foot evergreen perennial. The flowers emerge in summer and are white with a little lavender. They pucker-back with the stamens hanging out to the sides. White sag... Learn more.

Compact white sage is about half the size of the regular white sage, but the leaves are the same. The flowers are on a slender spike with very quaint clean flowers that are perfectly sized for bumbl... Learn more.