Plants For Pinyon-Juniper Woodland

Salvia dorrii, Desert Sage, Purple Sage, or Desert Purple Sage is a beautiful shrub, sub-shrub that grows to 2-3ft. with gray foliage and deep, deep blue flowers and purple bracts. Desert Sage nee... Learn more.

Rose Sage is a 3 foot tall shrub with attractive blue flowers in showy purple bracts. This sage is similar to S. dorrii which occurs in juniper woodlands. Salvia pachyphylla needs no summer water in ... Learn more.

Buffaloberry(Shepherdia argetea) ia a thorny deciduous shrub that is dioecious. Silver buffalo berry has silvery leaves, white stems, and as it gets older, red berries in a wall of thorns. It is nat... 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.

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.

Desert Mallow is a two foot perennial with many one inch orange flowers on a two to three foot spike with gray, almost fuzzy foliage. Desert Hollyhock is another name for the plant with its flower... Learn more.

Flame Checkers, Sphaeralcea munroana is small perennial sub-shrub with 1" reddish orange flowers on leafy spikes. Sphaeralcea munroana is native to Placer County, California, to Canada and Wyoming... Learn more.

A perennial, 2ft, flowers orange, gray foliage, Inyo Co. to Colo., Jun.-Jul., sun, drought tolerant, good drainage. 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.

A 4' perennial with a 3'spike of small yellow flower. It is a very showy and unusual desert plant. It needs full sun and no water after established. It will survive in dry areas. "Those on the tall st... Learn more.

Stanleya pinnata, Princes Plume , is a 2' perennial with 3' yellow flower spikes. No water after established. Native from just east and souh of us to North Dakota and Texas. Its leaves can be used a... 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.

This little bunch grass grows along the desert edges of much of the west. It's never forms a prairie, but is in little clumps amongst the wildflowers. This needle grass tolerates desert condition to n... 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.

(synonym:Symphoricarpos fragrans) Desert Snowberry is a small-leaved plant with dainty, pink tubular flowers that grows in moister spots in the desert mountains under Junipers, Pinus monophylla and ... Learn more.

A rather low sprawling deciduous shrub that forms a sparse groundcover at middle to high elevations surrounding the S.Ca. deserts into Nev.,Ariz.. We\'ve seen them growing in part shade and just out o... Learn more.

Syn. Tetradymia axillaris longispina. Cottonthorn is a summer deciduous perennial shrub from the Desert. A pain to grow in any numbers at all, but we do eckkkk out a few occasionally. When insanity h... Learn more.

Thamnosma montana, Desert Rue, Turpentine Broom grows from Baja, through California deserts up into Death Valley, across to South Western Utah and down into central Arizona. It's in the citrus family... Learn more.

Vinegar weed, or Turpentine weed is an annual (We do not sell) occurs along the inner sections of the coast ranges from British Columbia to Baja. In our area it is common in the Salinas Valley, throug... 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.

A little 1' tall by 3' across perennial that has bright pink-purple flowers. It likes good drainage and some summer water. It looks like the non-native verbena in many ways. It is native to 4000-6000'... Learn more.

Differing from Vitis californica largely in geographic area, Desert Grape is native to Southern California and the islands. Desert Grape has silvery foliage and attractive black fruit. The grapes are ... Learn more.

Woolly Mule Ears grow on both sides of the Sierras from Fresno County up into Eastern Oregon and Nevada. Wyethia mollis (syn. Alarconia a., Helianthus longifolius, H. Hookerianus, robusta, foliosa, so... Learn more.

Chaparral Yucca is a large yucca that is in many ways similar to Joshua Tree. Being a large yucca branching from the base, makes a dramatic focal plant for the desert effect in a non-desert garden. ... Learn more.