Plants For Coastal Sage Scrub

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 staechadifolium var. artemisiaefolium, Yellow Yarrow, here flowering in a coastal area of central California.  - grid24_12
Eriophyllum staechadifolium var. artemisiaefolium Yellow Yarrow

Seaside Woolly Sunflower grows near the coast. This Eriophyllum species is a flat to mounding, 2 ft. high perennial with gray foliage that is covered with yellow when it flowers. Commonly found growin... Learn more.

Erysimum ammophilum Coast Wallflower - grid24_12
Erysimum ammophilum Coast Wallflower

Beach wallflower or Coast Wallflower is a short lived perennial with bright yellow flowers. The disjunct range of beach wallflower includes central California and the southern south coast of Californ... 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.

Erysimum concinnum, Point Reyes Wallflower, has pretty white, fragrant flowers.  - grid24_12
Erysimum concinnum Point Reyes Wallflower

Perennial, 1 ft. with cream-yellow flowers in spring. Native from Pt. Reyes to Ore. on coastal cliffs. Needs sun, low water requirements. A good garden subject, fragrant. Much like a creamy stock. Learn more.

Erysimum insulare, Dune Wallflower, here showing its mustard ancestry. - grid24_12
Erysimum insulare Dune Wallflower

The Dune Wallflower grows in the sand along the coast of San Luis Obispo county. It is a one to two foot tall perennial with bright yellow flowers. The botanists cannot agree what it is but it is a cu... Learn more.

Eschscholzia californica
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Eschscholzia californica California Poppy

Munz lists four flavors of California Poppy that have largely geographic separations. We finally gave up and are lumping most here as the trade doesn't seem to separate them. It seems a California ... Learn more.

Eschscholzia californica crocea - grid24_12
Eschscholzia californica var. crocea

Munz lists four 'tendencies' that have largely geographic separations. An inland perennial form that ranges away from the coast from Wash. to S.Cal. This is var. crocea that has large orange flowers ... Learn more.

Eschscholzia californica maritima, California Poppy with it's cheery center that's a bee bull's eye - grid24_12
Eschscholzia californica var. maritima Coastal California Poppy

Munz lists four tendencies that have largely geographic separations. A perennial form with gray roughish leaves and prostrate stems. Surf to Monterey.Foliage is diminutive, flowers are normal to large... Learn more.

Eschscholzia californica peninsularis - grid24_12
Eschscholzia californica var. peninsularis

Munz lists four tendencies that have largely geographic separations. This annual form, var. peninsularis, around the San Joaquin Valley and S. Calif. Use the form if you possibly can that is in your a... Learn more.

Euphorbia misera Cliff Spurge - grid24_12
Euphorbia misera Cliff Spurge

Cliff Spurge is an unusual shrub or sub-shrub with white flowers that grows on sandy coastal bluffs. Cliff Spurge does not grow as well in inland areas with cold winters and hot summers, but is great ... Learn more.

Forestiera neomexicana, Desert Olive, is growing here in a moist swale in overgrazed rangeland in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains of California. - grid24_12
Forestiera neomexicana Desert Olive

Desert Olive is a deciduous shrub that grows fast to 6-8 feet. Native from northern central California to Riverside and east to Colorado and Texas. Useful fast filler for desert conditions, drought to... Learn more.

Fremontodendron California Glory Flannel Bush, Fremontia - grid24_12
Fremontodendron 'California Glory' Flannel Bush, Fremontia

California Glory was introduced by Rancho Santa Ana Garden in 1962. It is a hybrid between F. californicum and F. mexicanum. It is one of the better hybrids in its stability and flower show. Flannel b... Learn more.

Fremontodendron "Ken Taylor"  - grid24_12
Fremontodendron 'Ken Taylor' Ken Taylors Flannel

Ken Taylor owned a nursery in the Aromas area for years. Taylor Nursery produced native plants and very rare or unusual exotics. Taylor nursery was also into bonsai which is why he probably was afte... Learn more.

Fremontodendron Pacific Sunset  flowers - grid24_12
Fremontodendron 'Pacific Sunset' Flannel Bush

Pacific Sunset was introduced by Rancho Santa Ana Garden. This flannel bush is a hybrid between F. californicum and F. mexicanum. Flannel bushes like lighter soils with moisture nearby, but not nex... Learn more.

Galvezia speciosa, Island Snapdragon, is very sensitive to frost, has pretty red flowers, and ranges from the California Channel Islands to Mexico.  - grid24_12
Galvezia speciosa Island Snapdragon

Island Snapdragon is a perennial, 2 1/2 ft. by 4 ft.. Flowers are red, snapdragon like, in spring. Native to Channel Islands. Likes to sun to part shade. It is drought tolerant (looks better with wate... Learn more.

Pseudognaphalium biolettii (Gnaphalium bicolor), Bioletti's rabbit-tobacco. or twocolor cudweed courtesy of Jerry Baker - grid24_12
Gnaphalium bicolor Two-toned Everlasting

Two-toned Everlasting is a Greenish perennial that has leaves with white-woolly- grey undersides and small creamy yellow flowers, not showy. Weedy in cultivated watered areas under certain environme... Learn more.

Grindella hirsutula, Hairy gumplant, flower and buds. - grid24_12
Grindelia hirsutula Hairy gumplant

Hairy gum plant is not that hairy or gummy. It's a little herbaceous perennial that grows in the coastal areas of California from Ventura to Napa. Gum plant grows on some very heavy adobe soils and ... Learn more.

Grindelia robusta - grid24_12
Grindelia robusta

Syn: Grindelia camporum var. camporum and Grindelia camporum var. bracteosum. See Grindelia camporum. Learn more.

Grindelia stricta venulosa, this  Gum Plant makes a small ground cover on coastal bluffs. - grid24_12
Grindelia stricta var. venulosa Coastal Groundcover Gum Plant

Grindelia stricta venulosa (or pachyphylla) is a coastal bluff plant from the bay area. Coastal Groundcover Gum Plant is a great plant to mix with Baccharis Pigeon Point and Penstemon Margarita BOP t... Learn more.

 
Haplopappus junceus Rush-like Bristleweed

(Syn. Eriocarpum j., Sideranthus j., Machaeranthera j.) A shrubby damn yellow composite from dry chaparral/coastal sage scrub slopes in San Diego County and Baja. It looks kinda like a funny looking t... Learn more.

Haplopappus venetus furfuracea Furry DYC - grid24_12
Haplopappus venetus var. furfuracea Furry DYC

A sprawling little perennial that has merit in revegetation and butterfly gardens. It is trivial until it flowers, then is a bright spot of yellow with a butterfly on it. (Syn. Isocoma menziesii var.... Learn more.

Hazardia detonsa, Island Hazardia, is a great perennial for the pollinator garden. - grid24_12
Hazardia detonsa Island Hazardia

Island Hazardia is a grey perennial with unusual foliage and flowers. No one knows what to do with it, but the collectors have to have one because it's so weird. Use as a rock garden plant or plant in... Learn more.

Hazardia squarrosa, Yellow Squirrel Cover, is a great nectar source for insect pollinators.  - grid24_12
Hazardia squarrosus Yellow Squirrel Cover

A common perennial from coastal bluffs into interior chaparral, common on road cuts mixed in with squirrel holes, hence, its name. A 1-2ft high perennial that grows to 2-3ft across. Its 1/2inch yellow... Learn more.

Hazardia squarrosus ssp. grindelioides is also know as a Saw toothed goldenbush. This one has a Behl or Mormon Metalmark Butterfly enjoying it. - grid24_12
Hazardia squarrosus var. grindelioides Saw toothed goldenbush

A small little sub-shrub with yellow flowers that frequents road cuts of southern California. This is one of the plants that can grow on those awful cuts. syn. Haplopappus squarrosus ssp. grindel... Learn more.