Plants For Yellow Pine Forest

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.

Salvia sonomensis is a creeping flat perennial sage that can spread to 10' across. The sage flowers are blue-violet from May to June, appearing in a 6"spike above gray-green leaves that lie on the ... Learn more.

Salvia 'Mrs. Beard' appears to be a stable hybrid of Creeping Sage, Salvia sonomensis and Black Sage, Salvia mellifera that's  low growing with a nice blue flower. A low growing, dark green sage that ... Learn more.

Sambucus caerulea, Blue Elderberry is native from Alberta to Mexico. It is very similar to Sambucus mexicana but needs more water and better soil. It might be more desirable in a watered back yard as ... 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.

Scutellaria austinae (Syn Scutellaria siphocampyloides), Skull Cap, is a little perennial that forms a clump a foot wide. The flowers are deep royal blue. Native to much of the mountains of Calif. up ... Learn more.

A perennial, flowers yellow, May-July, blue-green leaves in rosettes, rocky places, mountainous areas of Calif., sun to part shade, water sparingly except in winter-spring. Set plant at an angle so wa... Learn more.

Giant Sequoia is a grey conifer with moderate growth. Sequoiadendron giganteum is slower, grayer, more drought tolerant, and more cold tolerant than Sequoiadendron sempervirens. This Redwood will mak... Learn more.

A 4\" high perennial with pink flowers, and green foliage. A rock garden plant that you\'ll find along the edges of meadows, north moist rocky slopes and seasonal seep/snow pockets in many western sta... Learn more.

Parish's catchfly is a little perennial from the San Bernardino Mountains where it grows in dry rocky slopes. The butter colored flowers can make rock garden very interesting. They are not really nond... Learn more.

A 1-3" perennial, light green leaves with 1/2" yellow flowers. Its only use is in a bonsai pot to mimic irises or other creek plants. It also might work well in a minature rock garden. Learn more.

Commonly grows in shady places, under Oaks, in oak woodland/coastal sage scrub. Flowers are in a raceme followed by white berries. Goes dormant in the summer when no rain fall occurs and dies to base... Learn more.

A very large showy perennial that grows in seasonal seeps. Give regular water, part shade to full sun. Learn more.

A seep plant in lower elevations can be found in sunny road cuts at higher elevations. Native from the coast to Death Valley. Its 2' plumes of yellow flowers brighten many areas of Calif.. Easy to gro... Learn more.

Mountain Spirea is a little deciduous sub-shrub with reddish pink flowers in clusters two-three across. Flowers late summer when nothing else is even green but the vacationers show up for the last tr... 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.

Short-spiked Hedge Nettle is a light green perennial with globe-shaped, compact, clusters of white/maroon flowers and fragrant leaves. Commonly associated with serpentinite soil. This perennial needs... Learn more.

Companion plants include Dicentra, Asarum hartwegii, Acer macrophyllum, Cornus nuttallii, Actaea rubra ssp. arguta, Torreya californica, Heuchera micrantha, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus kelloggii, C... 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.

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.

A 4-6 foot deciduous shrub with one inch petulant white flowers. (May not be fully deciduous in some situations.) Native from San Luis Obispo to San Diego Cos.. It's showy when in flower. Looking lik... Learn more.

Common Snowberry, Symphoricarpos albus laevigatus is a chin-high, deciduous shrub, gradually forming a thicket by way of its rhizomes, or underground stems. Common Snowberry is native to the coast ... 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 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.

(see S. albus laevigatus, http://www.laspilitas.com/plants/667.htm) A 2-4ft deciduous shrub, gradually forming a small thicket 4-6ft wide. Native to the coast ranges, San Luis Obispo north to Alaska. ... Learn more.