Plants For Lodgepole Forest

A small little perennial that grows in our western mountains.The most likely place to find Mountain Muhly in California is Yosemite Valley. Companion plants include Mutton Grass (Poa fendleriana), We... Learn more.

A glorious annual from the desert edges of the Sierras. We don't grow. Nama is included only for drool purposes. Learn more.

Indian rice grass is a one foot perennial with a delicate lace work of seed 'pods'. It looks like a bunch grass that was electrocuted. The Indians used the seed for food. Use in small grass garden or... Learn more.

Silky locoweed is a nitrogen fixing perennial that grows from the Yukon down into New Mexico, east to Oklahoma and west to the White Mountains of California. The silky white foliage and indigo blue fl... Learn more.

A perennial that is 2\" tall with purple flowers in clusters covering the plant bring the total height of the plant to 6\" with a width of 1\'. Native to the Sierras 8000-12000\' and White Mountains. ... Learn more.

Small Penstemon is native in the higher elevations of California throughout much of the rest of the US and Southern Canada. Useful in a small moist rock garden. Use with Eriogonium umbellatum, a boul... Learn more.

Roezl's penstemon is a little rock garden perennial to grows from north western Nevada through north eastern California, Northern Sierras and southern Oregon. This Penstemon grows in open rich ground ... Learn more.

(Penstemon rostriflorus,Penstemon bridgesii, penstemon bridgesii amplexicaulis.), Bridges Penstemon is a 1-2' perennial with 2-3' spikes of 2 inch red flowers in summer. It likes moderate to high elev... Learn more.

Littlefeaf Mock Orange is a small banana/orange/pinapple/vanilla scented fragrant shrub that is drought tolerant. This mock orange grows in light shade to full sun and unlike it's cousin does not lik... Learn more.

Limber Pine Pinus Flexilis slow growing conifer. It has been used for bonsai. It will tolerate sun along the coasts and at higher elevations. If happy a tall tree. In cultivation 20-30 ft. It froze he... Learn more.

Pinus murrayana,(P.contorta murraya or P. contorta latifolia, HA! It doesn't look the same, smell the same, or grow the same as P. contorta. A very different tree and the botany has caused our custome... Learn more.

A higher elevation form of Pinus ponderosa. This pine has done fine in the nursery here. It does not grow nearly as fast as P. ponderosa. It seems to be nice looking and very cold tolerant. It grows o... Learn more.

Mutton Grass is so called as it grows a bunch grass in many of the drier plant communities of the west and plains and is preferred by sheep. A fair sized bunch grass of soft texture, humm-m, tasty. I ... Learn more.

A deciduous tree to 20 or 30 foot. It does not like to live at lower elevations. It has survived in some spots where it shouldn\'t for a long time. But it is slow compared to its speed at higher eleva... Learn more.

Shrubby Cinquefoil grows along streams, in meadows and in openings in the forest. Native all over the top of the planet. Our forms in the west are a little different from the European flavors in the c... Learn more.

A 3-6' short deciduous shrub. The flowers are scented yellow. It flowers from April to May. Native to moist areas, central Sierra Nevada east to Rocky Mtns. It likes sun to part shade. It can tolerate... Learn more.

syn. R. cereum var. pedicellare, R.c. var. farinosum, R. c. var. viridescens, Ribes inebrians, R. reniforme, R. balsamifera, , R. spaethianum, R. pumilium, R. churchii. Wax currant or Squaw currant ... Learn more.

A fragrant rose that needs some summer water and part shade in the interior. In higher elevations or near the coast give it sun and good air flow. This rose has the best hips for tea of any I've smell... Learn more.

(Syn. Achnatherum nelsonii ssp. dorei)A narrow grayish perennial bunchgrass. Where it gets semi-regular water it has naturalized in the nursery. Native from Northern Calif to Alaska to Tex. Learn more.

Needle and thread is a tufted little perennial grass that is probably the most wide ranging bunch grass of the west. syn. Hesperostipa comata, Stipa juncea, S. capillata, S. comata var. intermedia, ... Learn more.

(syn. S.rotundifloius)A 3-4' deciduous sub-shrub, with small pink flowers. We've seen this plant N. of Bishop next to Pinus jeffreyi, Purshia tridentata and glandulosa, Eriogonum umbellatum var. chlor... Learn more.

A 3-4' deciduous sub-shrub, with small pink flowers. We've seen this plant N. of Bishop next to Pinus jeffreyi, Purshia tridentata and glandulosa, Eriogonum umbellatum var. chlorothamnus and Penstemon... Learn more.

Symphoricarpos vaccinioides is 3-4\' deciduous sub-shrub, with small pink flowers. We\'ve seen this plant N. of Bishop next to Pinus jeffreyi, Purshia tridentata and glandulosa, Eriogonum umbellatum ... Learn more.

A perennial with delicate columbine -like flowers that is covered with spires of very airy, dainty flowers in spring, and with beautiful, delicate foliage. Perfect for a shade garden, with some moistu... Learn more.

Our Native clovers are mostly annuals. We do not sell the seed but we do encourage the plants. The native clovers should not mowed or killed until the flowers are allowed to produce seed. This page ... Learn more.