Plants For Valley Grassland

This is a very big annual. It grows to waist high with deep blue flowers. It is very useful for bank stabilization as it has a 3 foot root system. Typical western San Luis Obispo County... Learn more.

A very showy annual native that lives in openings throughout the interior. Monolopia is one of the annuals that were part of the spring flush(moisture and energy capture) of many of the interior (non... Learn more.

Deer grass is a 3 foot perennial with 2 foot plumes rising above the plant. Muhlenbergia rigens looks like a small pampas grass but without the bad leaf cuts and the aggressive seeding. Native to much... Learn more.

Fivespot, Nemophila maculata is a delicate little annual wildflower native to the Foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Petals are white with purple dots at the tips. Learn more.

A semi-parasitic annual common in areas that still have some annual native plants left. Difficult to grow in anything other than a wildflower mix. Learn more.

syn. Castilleja purpurascens. low-growing annual, with purplish flowers, very showy in spring , grows in masses. a well-known California wildflower, believed to be a green, root-parasite, grows under ... Learn more.

Low Annual, with villous hairs (long, soft hairs), covering the leaves, the flowers are colorless, in spikes, still attractive, leaves in a cluster at the base of the plant, nice for a small annual na... Learn more.

A annual wildflower. In the past it was common in open fields and following fires. Now largely replaced with weedy annual grasses, starthistle, and mustard. Cream cups used to be included in wildflowe... Learn more.

(P. Californica) A pretty pink-flowered annual that commonly grows on north slopes in the shade of Quercus douglasii, Pinus Sabiniana, etc., mixed with Poa and Stipa. Usually occurs in small colo... Learn more.

A grayish clumps about a 1' tall and across, grows around hot springs in upper Napa Valley, tolerates very alkaline soil and water, with some summer water will stay evergreen. It froze in Dec. 1990 at... Learn more.

A deciduous tree. Plant and stand back, very fast with regular water, on one site 30' in a year. We grow male trees, females have cotton. An excellent shade tree. Keep away from septic system. Do not ... Learn more.

''Zapata'comes from a parent tree that is 80' tall and 40' wide out in a stream bed of a customers property. I had to stand on my pickup roof with a 10' pole pruner to get a bottom branch. It is nativ... Learn more.

'Carrizo', This form is for interior plantings only. It will get rust if the climate is too moist. This form is very tough. It should do fine in most desert sites and even into parts of the Great Basi... Learn more.

'Calm' is from the California Living Museum in Bakersfield, this is at the mouth of Kern Canyon.This is a series of plants and they are not sex defined, they can have cotton. We use these for revegeta... Learn more.

California Buttercup, Ranunculus californicus is a cheery yellow perennial that grows in amongst Blue Oak woodland. In between Oaks it is often growing in clay soil although it can also be found in se... 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.

A sprawling 3' deciduous shrub. Its flowers are yellow in Mar.-May. Native to foothill slopes in south coast ranges and Sierra Nevada. It likes sun to part shade, partly dry to moderate water. This is... Learn more.

A 15-30' deciduous shrub-tree. Yellow stems and light green leaves. Native through much of the Southwest. Not a fast grower. It spends most of its first few year growing roots. We have seen this in th... Learn more.

A 15-30ft deciduous shrub-tree. Yellow stems and light green leaves. Native through much of the Southwest. Not a fast grower. It spends most of its first few year growing roots. Learn more.

Salvia Pozo Blue is very drought tolerant three foot green-gray perennial. A hybrid of Salvia clevelandii and Salvia leucophylla. It is one of our older Las Pilitas selections. We named it for th... Learn more.

A very colorful annual of hot interior areas. We do not generally grow annuals. Here's a native sage page where you can see all the sages of California. Learn more.

A perennial with small yellow flowers, that will grow well in shady areas of oak woodland under trees such as Quercus douglasii and Pinus Sabiniana, with Achillea millefolium, Galium sp., Thysanocarp... Learn more.

Native in our San Luis Obispo area in the shade of Quercus douglasii and Pinus Sabiniana. In oak woodland/chaparral sites where the understory is dominated by alien, annual grasses, this Sanicule su... Learn more.

A two-three foot perennial with one-inch yellow daisies. It looks like a grey marguerite. It is useful in revegetation, bank stabilization, or in dryland gardens. Give sun and little or no water in mo... 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.