Bay Natives, an online nursery, carries a wide selection of rare and endemic Bay Area native plants plus many choice species from across the state of California: distinctive and little-known native plants for the urban landscape.
Please register before shopping and be sure to browse our full plant list. Our growing grounds are not open to the public, and we require a minimum $100 order.
We
deliver to your home or job site; or you can pick up plants at
our loading dock in San Francisco's Mission District.
Sales only in the Bay Area, but we can ship seeds.
| Acer circinatum | Vine Maple | |||
 4 to 20 ft. tall. Likes partial shade. Very similar to Japanese Maple. |
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| (16) | 10" tree band | $ 20.00 | ||
| Adiantum aleuticum | Five-finger Fern | |||
 Elegant fern for deep shade requires regular moisture, normally found in the spray of waterfalls and dripping wet cliffs in the forest. Up to 2 1/2 ft. tall. Formerly Adiantum pedatum. Native to greater Bay Area. |
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| (10) | 4" pot | $ 10.00 | ||
| Aesculus californica | California Buckeye | East Alameda Co. | ||
 Large deciduous shrub or tree, 20 to 36 ft. high. Showy white flowers 4-12 in. long. Drought tolerant. Full sun. Native to San Francisco and greater Bay Area.
Various toxic qualities; ground up seeds used by Native Californians to stun fish making them easier to catch. |
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| (2) | 15 gal | $ 100.00 | ||
| Arctostaphylos pumila | Sandmat Manzanita | |||
 An endangered endemic from the sand dunes of Monterey Bay, this gorgeous manzanita grows 3 feet tall with greyish-green foliage the texture of fine velvet. Its tight habit and attractive coloration make this an outstanding choice for the garden, especially in the sandy soils it prefers. |
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| (16) | 1 gal | $ 16.00 | ||
| Arctostaphylos refugioensis | Refugio manzanita | Santa Barbara | ||
 Exquisite specimen from the Santa Ynez Mountains above Refugio Beach. Grows 8-15' tall with architectural habit, leaves tightly clasped and overlapping with red margins, big bloomer. |
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| (2) | 5" tree band | $ 10.00 | ||
| (1) | 5 gal | $ 0.00 | ||
| status: STOCK PLANT - not for sale; wish-list propagate | ||||
| Asclepias fascicularis | Narrowleaf Milkweed | |||
 Delicate narrow leaves and fairly neat appearance. Tolerates shade. Habitat plant for the larvae of the monarch butterfly. |
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| (155) | 2" rose pot | $ 2.50 | ||
| Atriplex lentiformis ssp. breweri | Brewer's Saltbush | |||
 Lovely silvery white foliage year round. Excellent wildlife plant. Can be sheared to a tidy 5 ft tall and wide, or in hot sunny moderately-watered conditions, can be 8-foot tall & 25 foot wide. This is an excellent and under-utilized plant, locally native to the Bay Area, that tolerates harsh soils & poor drainage. -Pete, Paul & KK |
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| (12) | 10" tree band | $ 16.00 | ||
| Calamagrostis stricta inexpansa | Thurber's Reedgrass | Pt. Reyes | ||
 Handsome dark green spreading grass for sun or light shade. Winter dormant but clean and green all summer with a little extra water. Point Reyes is the southern limit of the species in California. |
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| (3) | 1 gal | $ 10.00 | ||
| Calocedrus decurrens | Incense Cedar | |||
 A large, fragrant, and beautiful evergreen tree that thrives in serpentine and other low-nutrient soils. Foliage can remain all the way to the ground, so it makes a beautiful large soft-edged hedge if you hand-clip back to the brown stems to shape. Shearing doesn't look right given the coarse open angular texture of the foliage and will cause the tips to turn brown for a while till they recover. |
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| (20) | 24" box | $ 250.00 | ||
| status: special order, call to verify | ||||
| Ceanothus 'Julia Phelps' | California Lilac | |||
 Similar to Dark Star but a bit wider spreading. |
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| (100) | 15 gal | $ 100.00 | ||
| status: special order, call to verify | ||||
| Ceanothus 'Ray Hartman' | Ray Hartman Ceanothus | |||
 A reliable, tall, fast-growing and big-blooming selection, this hybrid of C. arboreus and C. thyrisflorus makes an excellent screen or can be shaped into an attractive street tree. Larger leaves, similar to the Yankee Point spreader. |
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| (3) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Cercocarpus betuloides | Mountain mahogany | |||
 Large shrub to a small tree. Generally a chapparal component but I've seen one thrive next to a lawn for decades becoming a nice patio tree. |
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| (11) | 1 gal | $ 13.50 | ||
| Comarostaphylos diversifolia | Summer Holly | So. Cal. | ||
 Similar to Toyon but makes fruit in summer. More closely related to Arbutus, but looks more like Toyon. |
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| (1) | 1/2 gal | $ 15.00 | ||
| Coreopsis gigantea | Giant Coreopsis | Southern CA | ||
 Giant Coreopsis grows to 8-foot with a stout tree-like trunk and produces dozens of large showy sunflowers. It grows along the coast from LA north and on the Channel Islands. |
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| (3) | 1 gal | $ 45.00 | ||
| Cornus glabrata | Brown Dogwood | |||
 Fast to establish in well-watered habitats, the deciduous brown dogwood has smooth attractive foliage that attracts a wide variety of wildlife. More compact and tidy than other native dogwoods, this is an excellent choice for fall color in the garden. |
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| (19) | 10" tree band | $ 18.00 | ||
| (4) | tree pot | $ 22.00 | ||
| Corylus cornuta | Hazel | |||
 Looks great in the under-story of large trees in groves of multi-trunk tree/shrubs in a fountain shape. Autumn leaves make a rich mulch. Nuts are tasty but few & other critters usually get them first. The wide translucent mint shaped leaves catch the light in dark shady forests. Grows compact when wind clipped in coastal scrub. |
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| (11) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| Epilobium canum | California Fuchsia | |||
 CA fuchsia blooms in October, a welcome source of color in the fall landscape. It retains attractive silvery low growing foliage year round and spreads by the root. Can be mowed in the winter to keep tidy. |
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| (3) | 9" tree band | $ 10.00 | ||
| Eriogonum grande rubescens | Rosy Buckwheat | |||
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| (13) | 9" tree band | $ 9.00 | ||
| Erysimum capitatum | Western wallflower | Mount Diablo | ||
 Yellow-flowering wallflower that brightens the dry sunny slopes of Mount Diablo and other local natural areas. |
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| (3) | 1 gal | $ 15.00 | ||
| Festuca idahoensis 'Siskiyou Blue' | ||||
 A gorgeous blue cultivar of the reliable Idaho fescue, among the Bay Area's best and most useful drought-tolerant bunchgrasses. Excellent as a color accent or deployed in quanitity as a coastal meadow. |
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| (17) | 5" tree band | $ 7.00 | ||
| Forestiera pubescens | Desert Olive | Mines rd. Alameda Co. | ||
 Deciduous shrub from desert washes, fairly unusual in the Bay Area, easy to grow. Makes small yellow flowers and little olive-like fruits. |
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| (7) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Fragaria vesca | Wood Strawberry | Edgehill, SF | ||
 A fast and easy groundcover for partial shade, the woodland strawberry gives wonderful white rose-flowers in the spring followed by a bounty of compact, tasty fruit. Soft velvety green leaves take on attractive shades of red when given less water and more sun. |
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| (16) | 4" pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| Grindelia stricta ssp. venulosa | Point Reyes Gumplant | Marin | ||
 Prostrate form with big leathery leaves. AKA G. stricta platyphylla or G. latifolia. |
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| (10) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Heteromeles arbutifolia | Toyon | |||
 One of California's most deeply emblematic species, Toyon is a large shrub to medium tree with evergreen foliage, a big white bloom in summer, and abundant red berries in December (hence the alternative common name "Christmas Berry"). Excellent as a hedgerow or other screen, but also wonderful as a specimen plant or focal point in the garden. One of the best native species to attract birds and other beneficial wildlife. |
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| (2) | tree pot 2 | $ 40.00 | ||
| (10) | 5 gal | $ 30.00 | ||
| Heterotheca sessiliflora ssp. bolanderi | Hairy Goldenaster | San Bruno Mtn. | ||
 An extraordinary groundcover for full sun; lovely silver-grey foliage with velvet texture and cheerful yellow flowers. Completely drought-tolerant and a good butterfly plant. This is a local selection from San Bruno Mountain. |
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| (7) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Heuchera 'Canyon Delight' | Coral Bells | |||
 Fairly small with magenta pink flowers. |
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| (59) | 5" tree band | $ 5.00 | ||
| (2) | 4" pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| Heuchera rubescens var. alpicola | Pink Alumroot | Eastern Sierra. | ||
 A nice compact form with pink flowers Small leaves. drought tolerant. |
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| (6) | 5" tree band | $ 6.00 | ||
| Holodiscus discolor | Ocean Spray | Sonoma Co | ||
 A gorgeous and adaptable shrub for both sun or shade, Ocean Spray has fine scalloped leaves, a prolific and frothy white bloom, and the ability to thrive under conditions of garden water or total drought. |
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| (11) | 9" tree band | $ 10.00 | ||
| Horkelia californica | Horkelia | Delta, Bay Area | ||
 Good groundcover for neglected sunny rocky spot. Interesting musky fragrance when stepped on. |
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| (52) | 5" tree band | $ 6.00 | ||
| Iris douglasiana PCH | Douglas Iris Pacific Coast Hybrids | |||
 A beautiful flower and thick dark leaves. Great for erosion, part sun or full shade. Pacific coast hybrids from Strybing. |
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| (100) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Iris macrosiphon | Long-tubed Iris | East Bay | ||
 Gorgeous deep blue with narrow leaves, picky rock garden culture. |
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| (2) | super cone | $ 14.00 | ||
| Juncus phaeocephalus | Brown Headed Rush | |||
 Similar to xiphiodes but a bit narrower and considerably shorter. |
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| (30) | 9" tree band | $ 8.00 | ||
| Koeleria macrantha | June Grass | Bay Area | ||
 A medium-size bunchgrass with an effervescent habit -- the light-green blades seem to lift themselves into the breeze. Lovely seedheads are held tight, like stalks of wheat. A local, desirable, beautiful, highly emblematic Bay Area grass. |
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| (39) | 100 plugs | $ 100.00 | ||
| status: call to verify availability | ||||
| Lavatera assurgentiflora | Island tree mallow | |||
 Fast-growing, many-branched tree covered with bright pink blossoms throughout the year. Hummingbird magnet.Similar to Malacothamnus |
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| (4) | 1 gal | $ 15.00 | ||
| Lessingia filaginifolia var. californica | California Beach Aster | |||
 Spreading form of this beautiful late summer bloomer makes the bees & butterflies happy. |
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| (8) | 9" tree band | $ 9.00 | ||
| Leymus condensatus 'Canyon Prince' | Canyon Prince Giant Wild Rye | |||
 Very large spreading grass; can become invasive. Great for naturalizing and crowding out non-native weeds. Sand-lover. |
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| (8) | 9" tree band | $ 9.00 | ||
| Lilium paryii | Lemon Lily | |||
 A rare fragrant beauty. |
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| (11) | 1/2 gal | $ 10.00 | ||
| Lupinus albifrons | Silver Lupine | |||
 The caterpillar food plant of San Francisco's rare and endangered Mission Blue butterfly, Silver Lupine grows 3-4 feet tall with feathery silver foliage and a heavy summer bloom of bright blue blossoms. A proven favorite for low maintenance, wildlife attraction, and unparalleled beauty. |
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| (0) | 2 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Mimulus 'Cream' | Sticky Monkey Flower | |||
 A delectable cultivar of sticky monkey flower, Mimulus "Cream' gives a bounty of buttery white flowers throughout the summer. Loves full sun and little water; requires good drainage. |
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| (5) | 5 gal | $ 33.00 | ||
| Oemleria cerasiformis | Osoberry | Briones | ||
 A local selection from the East Bay, this deciduous shrub produces buckets of tasty edible berries. A proud member of the native habitat garden and/or sustainable kitchen garden. |
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| (1) | 2 gal | $ 20.00 | ||
| Penstemon azureus var. angustissimus | Harlequin Beardtongue | |||
An easy 18" perennial for full sun and well drained soils, very drought and frost tolerant. The flower buds emerge in shades of yellow, then develop a deeper bluish hue as they open and mature into robust purple. Happiest on a rocky south-facing hillside. |
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| (2) | 1 gal | $ 15.00 | ||
| Penstemon centranthifolius | Scarlet Bugler | Mt. Diablo | ||
 Hummingbird bliss for the rock garden. |
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 16.00 | ||
| Penstemon eatonii | Firecracker Penstemon | |||
 A dry-loving member of the sagebrush scrub, this showy penstemon loves full sun and is prized by the discerning horticulturalist for its tall scarlet flower spikes. |
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| (2) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Periderieia kelogii | Yampah | |||
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| (10) | 10" tree band | $ 12.00 | ||
| Pinus contorta | Shore Pine | Mendocino | ||
 A wind-sculpted beauty. Nice for a large bonsai subject. |
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| (1) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| (1) | 15 gal | $ 100.00 | ||
| Plantago maritima | Sea plantain or goose tongue | |||
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Poa secunda | Pine Bluegrass | East Bay | ||
Beautiful fine textured small bunchgrass. Goes dormant in the dry season. AKA Poa scrabrella. |
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| (35) | 5" tree band | $ 4.00 | ||
| status: small 4-22-09 | ||||
| (30) | 5" tree band | $ 4.00 | ||
| Polemonium pulcherrimum | Sky Pilot | |||
This alpine beauty has 12-inch showy blue flowers, glossy pinnate foliage. Summer water and good drainage in sun or part shade. |
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| (2) | 1 gal | $ 15.00 | ||
| Prunus illicifolia ssp. lyonii | Catalina Cherry | |||
 From the Channel Islands, a tall, robust form of the Islais cherry. Grows to 40 feet or more. Large and dark and shiny leaves and long panicles of white flowers on this Catalina Island native tree. Birds love the berries. |
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| (6) | tree pot 2 | $ 45.00 | ||
| status: potted 12/12/08 | ||||
| Ptelea crenulata | California Hoptree | Mt. Diablo | ||
 Interesting large deciduous shrub from the citrus family with glossy citrus scented leaves. |
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| (5) | 2 gal | $ 24.00 | ||
| Quercus douglasii | Blue oak | |||
 The blue oak earns its common name from the tint of its exquisite deciduous foliage, particularly when the beautiful new growth emerges in early spring. The tree can reach 20-60 feet tall, growing in thin soils or from crevices between rocks, and it is an important member of many old-growth oak groves in the east bay and elsewhere. |
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| (5) | tree pot 2 | $ 30.00 | ||
| (12) | tree pot | $ 25.00 | ||
| Ribes viburnifolium | Catalina Perfume | Catalina Island | ||
 More of a groundcover than a vine but distinct from all the shrub form Ribes. Glossy green leaves thrive in dry shade. |
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| (6) | 5 gal | $ 30.00 | ||
| Salvia clevelandii | Cleveland's sage | |||
 An upright evergreen shrub to six feet
or more, with silvery-green leaves and
a showy blue flower display in summer,
this drought-tolerant hummingbird
magnet was named for the western
botanist Daniel Clevelend, not for the
city in Ohio. The wonderful fragrance of its foliage hits you at twenty paces. |
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| (12) | 9" tree band | $ 9.00 | ||
| Satureja douglasii | Yerba Buena | |||
 This fast-growing minty groundcover with the heavenly fragrance once covered large swaths of the Bay Area, giving its Spanish name Yerba Buena ("good herb") to the original pueblo that later became San Francisco. A delightful, medicinal, and iconic choice from our local flora that deserves a spot in every garden. |
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| (15) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Sedum spathulifolium 'mini' | Stonecrop | |||
 This variety has a smaller silvery blue purple leaf. |
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| (21) | 4" pot | $ 5.00 | ||
| Smilacina stellata | Slim Solomon | |||
 Great spreader for mulched shade plantings. |
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| (30) | 1 gal | $ 12.50 | ||
| Solidago californica | Goldenrod | Bay Area | ||
| Easy to grow, with yellow flowers in late summer. | ||||
| (3) | 9" tree band | $ 10.00 | ||
| Spiraea douglasii | Spiraea | Tilden Botanical Garden | ||
 Named after the Greek for "shrub," this is the Platonic ideal of the form: 3-6 ft. tall with lustrous reddish-green deciduous leaves and an upright bloom of rose-colored racemes densly flowered. Found in moist, rocky areas including serpentine. Needs garden water. |
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| (1) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| Styrax officionalis | Snowbell Bush | |||
 Small delicate deciduous tree with fragrant snowdrop blossoms. Looks similar to Cercis/Redbud in leaf. |
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| (1) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| (10) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Symphoricarpos albus | Snowberry | |||
 Such an adaptable plant, this small shrub is perfect for filling in the background, but actually very charming in the foreground too. Foliage looks shimmering and delicate, yet stands up to tough conditions. Deciduous. |
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| (2) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| (4) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| Symphoricarpos mollis | Creeping Snowberry | Santa Cruz | ||
 Local species low growing from Santa Cruz Mountains. |
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| (18) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Thalictrum fendleri | Meadowrue | |||
 Charming perennial for part shade with some moisture. These are dioecious so you'll need a male and female plant to set seed. |
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| (6) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| status: Mt. Diablo | ||||
| Torreya californica | California Nutmeg | Tilden | ||
 A California endemic, this slow-growing tree puts on about a foot a year (up to 140 feet) with horizontal branches and aromatic wood. The seeds were a highly esteemed foodstuff of California Indians and will attract numerous birds and other wildlife. |
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| (3) | 5 gal | $ 45.00 | ||
| Trifolium wormskjoldii | Springbank Clover | Bay Area | ||
 Lovely low-growing perennial clover, local to legendary El Polin Spring in the Presidio of San Francisco (among others). It does best with some water, and makes a plausible lawn substitute. |
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| (7) | 4" pot | $ 8.00 | ||
| Triteleia laxa | Ithuriel's Spear | |||
 Gorgeous blue summer flowers from an edible bulb. This is authentic local stock salvaged from a construction site near Dolores Park (San Francisco) just ahead of the bulldozers. Triteleia are best to dig when dormant in early fall but they can be transplanted with some soil in winter when the roots are short and the leaves begin to shoot. Call for availability and details. |
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| (13) | 9" tree band | $ 10.00 | ||
| Viola adunca | Western Dog Violet | |||
 A nice vigorous woodland violet with pretty blue flower. |
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| (10) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Viola glabella | Stream Violet | |||
Vigorous perennial with yellow flowers from wet forests. |
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Woodwardia fimbriata | Giant Chain Fern | |||
 Beautiful, LARGE fern given adequate water. can take sun or shade. does not like to dry out. do not fertilize. |
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| (3) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Yucca whipplei | Our Lord's Candle | |||
 A rosette of long succulent pointed leaves up to three feet long. The bloom shows it is a lily relative. |
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 17.00 | ||
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