Plants For Coastal Sage Scrub

A large clumping grass. The silver gray foliage is very distinct. Native in the interface zone between plant communities or in openings. Commonly in areas that have seeps in winter. Drought resistant ... 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.

A common fire follower. Whispering Bells would be an excellent additive to seed mixtures for ersion control and and fire following seed mixture, if you can find it. Learn more.

Bush Sunflower, Encelia californica, is an evergreen perennial sunflower shrub, 3-4 ft high. Encelia californica is a good large-scale ground cover with 2 inch daisy flower. Native from Santa Maria to... Learn more.

Brittlebush is commonly a small perennial shrub, 2-3 ft. tall, 3 feet wide with greenish-gray to whitish-gray leaves and 2-3 inch yellow daisy flowers. In the Mojave desert this bush makes the hil... Learn more.

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.

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

Almost indentical to Eriastrum. 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 ma... Learn more.

(Haplopappus ericoides) A 3-4' perennial that is covered each year with bright yellow flowers. It grows on the dunes and old dunes in pure beach sand. People plant real heather in the beach towns and ... Learn more.

A plant from coastal sand dunes. We grow this for site- specific plantings to mitigate new construction. (Those of you that oversee these jobs should know that most of the time the plants themselves ... Learn more.

Seaside daisy (Erigeron glaucus) can be found along the central coast of California to central Oregon, and just to be different, also on the Channel Islands. Seaside daisy is usually found on clay oce... Learn more.

Erigeron glaucus 'Cape Sebastian' beautiful perennial for small gardens, borders, or butterfly gardens. Well liked by many types of butterflies that are native along the coast. Part-shade or afternoo... Learn more.

The flower is large and showy on this, but that is the problem with it. The flower, we normally only see one flower per plant, per year. If you have a conventional garden this plant is acceptable, oth... Learn more.

Erigeron x 'Wayne Roderick' is lower, darker green with smaller leaves than the species, and is believed to be of hybrid origin, with one of the parents being Erigeron glaucus. This one is impressive... Learn more.

Santa Cruz Island Buckwheat, Eriogonum arborescens, is a shrub to three feet. This buckwheat is native to the Channel Islands. Associated plants include Artemisia californica, Brickellia californ... Learn more.

Ashyleaf buckwheat is a perennial shrub to 4 ft., (usually 2 ft.) with whitish-pink flower clusters on grey foliage, a plant for erosion control in dry coastal areas. The plantings here have survived... Learn more.

Eriogonum crocatum Saffron Buckwheat is a one foot perennial with Sulfur yellow flowers, leaves woolly-white like a Dusty Miller. Native to Ventura Co. Very drought tolerant. Cold hardy a to about 2... Learn more.

Longstem Buckwheat is the buckwheat for dried flowers. The long delicate wands of gray foliage and pink flowers make a great foil for ferns and roses. Use in a neglected rock garden, rock face you don... Learn more.

This variety of California Buckwheat is the common one that grows in most of the populated areas of California and is hardy to 0 F(but a sustained freeze of days can kill it) and very drought toler... Learn more.

A flat perennial to 6' across. Hardy to 15 degrees. (froze out of here, sorry) Very effective in the San Joaquin Valley, coastal valleys and along the coastal bluffs. Flowers pink on dark green foliag... Learn more.

Saint Catherine's Lace is an evergreen shrub that commonly grows to four feet. This is a big buckwheat, native to the Channel Islands, with pinkish-white flowers fading to rust red, emerging May-D... Learn more.

Annual, wild buckwheat, leaves in a rosette at the base of the plant, flowers tiny, in pom-pom-shaped clusters at the top of the flowering stems. This genus provides larval food plants for various sp... Learn more.

Red Buckwheat, Eriogonum grande var. rubescens, originates from the Channel Islands off the coast of California, and has red or pink flowers that bloom from June-October. For a similar look but with ... Learn more.

Eriogonum heermannii, what a neat buckwheat, dark green foliage of E. grande rubescens, flowers are a soft butter yellow. Butterflies use the plant, the plant looks good enough for most any garden. Th... Learn more.

Buckwheats are very important butterfly plants and one of the pillars of their communities. Cliff buckwheat is the host plant for many species of butterfly including the rare El Segundo Blue, Euphil... Learn more.