Plants For Chaparral

Cuesta pass checkerbloom is a 1-2' perennial with 1"pink flowers on green-grey stems. A nice looking plant for serpentine areas or in most gardens. In the wild it is summer dormant, with a little wate... Learn more.

Checkers, Sidalcea neomexicana, has a clump of dark green leaves six inches or so across producing two feet tall stems with many one inch wide mauve flowers. Wow, that was a long sentence, if that was... Learn more.

Jojoba is an evergreen shrub 3-4 ft. tall,, dioecious, smooth, gray-green leaves. Native to dry slopes bordering Mojave Desert and throughout S. Arizona. It likes full sun, no water after established.... Learn more.

Blue-eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium bellum is a 1 foot tall perennial with 1 inch blue flowers in Jan.-June. It is widely distributed in California on open, grassy slopes, Redwood forests. Blue Eyed Grass ... Learn more.

Commonly grows in shady places, under Oaks, in oak woodland/coastal sage scrub. Flowers are in a raceme followed by white berries. Goes dormant in the summer when no rain fall occurs and dies to base... Learn more.

Perennial with white flowers, that goes deciduous in the summer, berries eaten by many species of birds and small mammals. Grows best in partial shade, somewhat straggly, Entire plant is poisonous to ... Learn more.

Bluewitch is a 1-2' perennial with 1"flowers bright blue, with yellow centers and blooms most of the year. It has silver-gray foliage. Native in chaparral, Juniper-Oak woodland in central Calif. coast... Learn more.

Native to slopes and canyons in chaparral on Santa Catalina and Guadalupe Is.. Flowers are showy. The normal reaction to first observations of customers is whoa, what is it?, a tomato with blue flower... Learn more.

Purple nightshade is a 2-3' tall perennial with one inch wide purple flowers and dark green foliage. It is native in areas that receive 10-20" of rainfall. The variation obispoense (Hoover) is nativ... Learn more.

A beautiful 2-3' perennial with dark green glossy foliage and deep blue-purple 1" flowers that are scented like violets but better. A sweet wonderful headturning smell. Native to the Gaviota pass area... Learn more.

A seep plant in lower elevations can be found in sunny road cuts at higher elevations. Native from the coast to Death Valley. Its 2' plumes of yellow flowers brighten many areas of Calif.. Easy to gro... Learn more.

This hedge nettle is native to moist spots in much of California. A good plant to put under the bird bath, in a dryland garden. Stachys albens will increase by rhizomes to the edge of the moist spot.... Learn more.

California Hedgenettle, Stachys bullata, is native to the coast ranges from San Francisco to Los Angeles. From April through August 1/2"pink flowers emerge on a 1-2' interrupted spike that make excell... Learn more.

Nodding Needle Grass is a 2-3' perennial bunch grass that grows in the foothills of California. Leaves glaucous,(covered with a thin film of wax, that makes the leaf appear more bluish, whitish) gray... Learn more.

Giant needlegrass is a bunch grass, 4 ft. high, distinctive, grows in the mountains of central and southern California, for dry banks and paths, full sun, little water. The Stipas occur throughout Cal... Learn more.

A 1-2 ft. perennial bunch grass, native to most of the foothills of California. Native on the nursery site under deciduous oaks in part-shade and sometimes in full sun. Usually, cattle take these gras... Learn more.

Purple Needle Grass is dry-land bunch grass. In the wild it is in the open spots in Oak Woodland mixed with Calochortus species, Long stem Buckwheat, Yucca whipplei, Golden Yarrow and wildflower... Learn more.

(Syn. Achnatherum speciosa) Desert needle grass is a 1-2' bunch grass that is native to Mojave and Colorado deserts and the s. Coast ranges and s.Sierra. Use for dry banks and paths , full sun, little... Learn more.

Streptanthus campestris, Southern Jewel flower grows in openings in the Pinyon Juniper Woodland and Yellow Pine forests of Southern California. It's a short lived perennial or bi-annual so do not use ... Learn more.

A 4-6 foot deciduous shrub with one inch petulant white flowers. (May not be fully deciduous in some situations.) Native from San Luis Obispo to San Diego Cos.. It's showy when in flower. Looking lik... Learn more.

(Styrax officinalis var. redivivus), SOuthern Snowdrop Bush, is native in San Luis Obispo county about 15 miles from us, and south down through San Diego. Grows on reddish sand stone or decomposed gra... Learn more.

Common Snowberry, Symphoricarpos albus laevigatus is a chin-high, deciduous shrub, gradually forming a thicket by way of its rhizomes, or underground stems. Common Snowberry is native to the coast ... Learn more.

Creeping Snowberry grows on north slopes, in ravines, and sometimes is all that's left of an oak woodland in full sun. The more coastal the setting the more sun this snowberry can handle. In som... Learn more.

(see S. albus laevigatus, http://www.laspilitas.com/plants/667.htm) A 2-4ft deciduous shrub, gradually forming a small thicket 4-6ft wide. Native to the coast ranges, San Luis Obispo north to Alaska. ... Learn more.

Southern Umbrellawort lives on the Santa Margarita nursery site, which seems to be close to, or, the northen range for the species. Which is very interesting in it's self. Why did it stop here? San B... Learn more.