Bay Natives is an online nursery for avid gardeners and the landscaping trade. We focus on rare and endemic Bay Area natives, but also carry choice native species from across the state of California -- a selection of distinctive and little-known wild plants for the urban landscape. Our growing grounds are not open to the public, and we ask for a minimum $100 order. We offer delivery of plants ordered online directly to your job site or pickup at our office in the mission . We only sell in the Bay Area though it's possible to ship seeds.
| Acer circinatum | Vine Maple | |||
 4 to 20 ft. tall. Likes partial shade. Very similar to Japanese Maple. |
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| (1) | 15 gal | $ 150.00 | ||
| Acer negundo | Box Elder | Napa Co, Napa River | ||
 Multistem shrub or small tree, 6-18 ft. high. Moist to fairly dry slopes and canyons. Photos by east bay wilds |
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| (10) | tree pot 2 | $ 35.00 | ||
| Adenostoma fasciculatum | Chamise | Santa Cruz Mtns. | ||
 A common component of chaparral, chamise is evergreen and drought tolerant, a good choice as a low-maintenance shrub for neglectful or low-irrigation gardeners. Older specimens can become dry and flammable; not recommended for planting near house. |
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| (5) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Arctostaphylos densiflora 'Howard Mcminn' | Howard Mcminn Manzanita | |||
 Medium-sized manzanita with neat green leaves & red stems which thrives in garden conditions - including clay. Grows 3-5 ft high and 5-7 ft wide. |
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| (5) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Armeria maritima | Sea Thrift | |||
 Grass-like perennial groundcover with cheerful pink flowers on 6" stems. Likes full sun and little water once established. Easy to multiply by divisions. |
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| (9) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (4) | 5" tree band | $ 8.00 | ||
| Artemisia pycnocephala 'David's Choice' | Beach Sagewort | |||
 Very reliable in garden conditions, low grower with silver leaves and no fragrance, flowers inconspicuous but foliage gorgeous. Prefers sun and sandy soil. |
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| (10) | 5" tree band | $ 6.00 | ||
| Baccharis pilularis 'Pigeon Point' | Dwarf Coyote Brush | |||
 Dwarf form. |
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| (10) | 9" tree band | $ 8.50 | ||
| 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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| (18) | 1 gal | $ 10.00 | ||
| Carex pansa | Pacific Dune Sedge | Asilomar | ||
 One of the most popular sedges for creating an alternative lawn. More of a wild meadow, it looks best unmowed with water twice per month, but trimming with weed whacker twice or thrice per year keeps it more tidy. Click the photo for pictures of a wild stand on a coastal bluff and a planted inland meadow. Up to 18" tall but floppy & soft. Works well for irrigated rooftop gardens. A David Amme selection. 1.7 plugs per square foot at 10-inch triangular spacing for good one season coverage; planting a larger size will allow wider spacing. |
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| (70) | 3" rose pot | $ 4.00 | ||
| (9) | 100 plugs | $ 100.00 | ||
| status: call to verify availability 4-19-08 | ||||
| Carpenteria californica | Bush Anemone | Fresno Co. | ||
 A fast-growing shrub 5-9 feet tall with silvery shredding bark (on old stems), an oblong blue-green leaf, and a spectacular flower of white touched with gold. It naturally grows in hot dry places, but will take some shade and a good deal of garden water in summer. Blooms best with eastern exposure or in conditions of partial high dappled shade. |
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| (2) | 5 gal | $ 36.00 | ||
| Ceanothus 'Dark Star' | California Lilac | |||
 'Dark Star' is the Ceanothus cultivar with the deepest, most intense shade of blue flowers. Often blooms twice in the Bay Area: once in spring and a bonus in fall. Completely drought-tolerant and loves full sun, fast-growing to 5-6 feet tall and 7-8 feet wide. |
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| (3) | 5 gal | $ 38.00 | ||
| Ceanothus 'Julia Phelps' | California Lilac | |||
 Medium sized selection with glossy crinkly leaves & a beautiful blue flower. |
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| (6) | $ 10.00 | |||
| 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. |
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| (2) | 15 gal | $ 100.00 | ||
| 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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| (4) | tree pot | $ 22.00 | ||
| Corylus cornuta | Hazel | |||
 Looks great in 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 making it seem bright. Grows compact when wind clipped in coastal scrub also. |
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| (0) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| Darmera peltata | Indian Rubarb | |||
 This is a wetland plant with attractive foliage that reaches 5 feet across per leaf; wonderful in a streamside wild setting but much smaller in a container. |
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| (3) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Dudleya farinosa | North Coast Dudleya | Edgehill Mtn. SF | ||
 Mix of green and silver in the same population. |
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| (5) | 3" rose pot | $ 7.00 | ||
| Epipactis giganteum | Stream Orchid | |||
 Summer blooming streamside orchid. Easy to grow with some water the clumps will just keep growing. |
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| (12) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Erysimum franciscanum | Franciscan wallflower | |||
 This bright, fragrant, and rare denizen of San Francisco's open spaces (Twin Peaks, Mount Davidson, Bernal Hill, and others) makes a charming addition to the mixed flower bed. White flowers, enchanting scent, and the irresistable solidarity of bolstering populations of local endangered species. An uncommon local perennial 1-2 feet tall with fragrant yellow- to cream-colored flowers, found on serpentine outcrops and occasionally in coastal dunes. In the garden, it likes full sun and requires excellent drainage. |
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| (2) | 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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| (52) | 5" tree band | $ 6.00 | ||
| (1) | 9" tree band | $ 10.00 | ||
| 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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| (18) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Gallium californicum | California Bedstraw | San Bruno Mt. | ||
 This native bedstraw is a finer textured climber and not at all invasive like the non-native garden weed and it's more sun and drought tolerant, adding a fine green texture climbing up coyote brush or artemisia. |
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| (6) | 4" pot | $ 8.00 | ||
| 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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| (25) | 5" tree band | $ 6.00 | ||
| Heuchera 'Canyon Delight' | Coral Bells | |||
 Fairly small with magenta pink flowers. |
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| (2) | 9" tree band | $ 8.00 | ||
| Juncus phaeocephalus | Brown Headed Rush | |||
 Similar to xiphiodes but a bit narrower and considerably shorter. |
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| (4) | 9" tree band | $ 8.00 | ||
| Lithophragma heterophyllum | Woodland Star | San Rafael | ||
 Nice tiny plant with small reddish saxifrage basal leaves, spreads by root, pretty white star flowers on spikes, good on steep slopes with some shade. Good in cracks of a mortared stone wall. Summer dry is no problem but I don't think extra water will hurt them. |
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| (29) | 4" pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| Lonicera involucrata var. ledebourii | Twinberry | Presidio SF | ||
 A shrub form of honesuckle with attractive flowers & fruit. |
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| (3) | 5 gal | $ 30.00 | ||
| Lupinus variicolor | Many-colored Lupine | San Francisco | ||
 A true local champion, this easy groundcover for full sun grows wild on the grassy slopes and exposed peaks of Bernal Hill, Twin Peaks, Mount Davidson, Bayview Hill, and other natural areas of San Francisco. Feathery blue-green foliage and bountiful blue blossoms throughout spring and summer. This butterfly magnet is a specialized host for the endangered Mission Blue. |
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| (0) | 5" tree band | $ 8.00 | ||
| (8) | 4" pot | $ 8.00 | ||
| Melica californica | Oniongrass | San Rafael | ||
 Glistens in the sun and dances in the breeze. Likes sun and sharp draining rocky soils, and will go dormant in summer but still has an attractive golden silvery seed heads until the rains. Fresh growth makes a beautiiful fine textured clump. |
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| (90) | 2" rose pot | $ 2.50 | ||
| Monardella odoratissima | Mountain Pennyroyal | Sierra | ||
 A climbing pennyroyal that also spreads by runners, this smaller-leafed specimen has the sweetest smelling foliage of them all. |
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| (7) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Muhlenbergia rigens | Deer Grass | |||
 Large clumping grass makes balls of leaves to 3 feet and spikes of flowers beyond. Generally occurs neer water but drought tolerant in gardens. |
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| (8) | 9" tree band | $ 8.00 | ||
| Myrica californica | Pacific Wax Myrtle | |||
 A handsome and fast-growing evergreen to 18 feet or more, adaptable to sun or shade, with bursts of new growth in lustrous light green set off against mature foliage of darker hue and waxier texture. Excellent when sheared as a hedge (it responds well to cutting) or pruned into a specimen tree by thinning the bushy branches to reveal their forking architecture. A proud community member of redwood forests and mixed oak woodlands in the Bay Area. |
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| (10) | 1 gal | $ 15.00 | ||
| Poa secunda | Pine Bluegrass | East Bay | ||
Beautiful fine textured small bunchgrass. Goes dormant in the dry season. AKA Poa scrabrella. |
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| (287) | 5" tree band | $ 5.00 | ||
| Polystichum munitum | Sword Fern | |||
 A coarse evergreen fern 2-4 feet tall with many fronds (up to 75-100) common in damp woodlands below 2500 ft. Easy and bold in the garden. |
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Ranunculus californica | California Buttercup | Briones | ||
 Nice addition to a wildflower meadow for February flowers, then recedes in summer. Seasonally damp east slopes with Dodecatheon. |
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| (2) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Rhamnus illicifolia | Holly-leaved Redberry | East Bay | ||
 Similar to R. crocea but larger leaf and eventually a larger shrub or tree. |
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| (1) | 5 gal | $ 30.00 | ||
| status: suffered some dieback by spring 08 | ||||
| Rhamnus tomentella | Hoary Coffeeberry | |||
 6-8 ft tall evergreen shrub with blue-green leaves. does best with weekly summer watering or deep source of moisture. lovely contrast with R. californica. |
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| (5) | tree pot 2 | $ 40.00 | ||
| Rhus ovata | Sugarbush | So. Cal. inland | ||
 Evergreen shrub with beautiful red flush on new growth 4-10 foot with a sweet tasting gummy fruit similar to Rhus integrifolia. |
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| (1) | 15 gal | $ 130.00 | ||
| Ribes 'White Icicle' | ||||
 Gorgeous white-blooming cultivar of Ribes sanguineum, wide habit, tolerates sun or shade, winter-deciduous but among the very first plants to bloom (in Janurary or February). |
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| (6) | 5" tree band | $ 6.00 | ||
| Ribes sanguineum var. glutinosum | Flowering Currant | Claremont | ||
 A spectacular deciduous shrub that blooms in February with long pink tassels, flowering currant can reach 10 feet tall and wide. It loves both sun and shade, grows quickly, and ranks among the most easy and adaptable favorites in the garden for both man and bird. |
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| (7) | 9" tree band | $ 11.00 | ||
| 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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| (7) | 5 gal | $ 30.00 | ||
| Romanzoffia californica | Mistmaidens | |||
 Charming little misty cliff dweller, does fine with just winter rains and dormant in summer. |
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| (29) | 4" pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| Salvia brandegei | Brandegee Sage | Santa Rosa Island | ||
 Similar to our local Salvia mellifera (Black Sage) but with smaller green leaves and beautiful blue flowers. |
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| (3) | 5 gal | $ 30.00 | ||
| Salvia clevelandii | Cleveland sage | So. Cal. | ||
 An upright evergreen shrub three to six feet or more, with silvery-green leaves and a showy blue flower display in summer. The wonderful fragrance of the foliage hits you at twenty paces. |
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| (19) | 5" tree band | $ 6.00 | ||
| (4) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Sidalcea malvaeflora | Checkerbloom | San Bruno Mtn. | ||
 Hearty low spreading perennial wildflower for the coastal prairie.
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Sisyrinchium bellum | Blue-eyed Grass | |||
 Mix them in with bunchgrasses. |
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| (7) | 9" tree band | $ 8.00 | ||
| Smilacina stellata | Slim Solomon | |||
 Great spreader for mulched shade plantings. |
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| (64) | 1 gal | $ 12.50 | ||
| Vaccinium ovatum | Evergreen Huckleberry | |||
 Succulent winedark berries (reputedly the tastiest of all native berries) emerging from the distinctive vase-shaped ericaceous flower, and luscious red new foliage maturing into deep shades of green -- behold the textural symphony of California huckleberry. Extremely adaptable to sun or shade, water or drought, wind or fog, this is a long favorite of savvy gardeners. Try planting it in an old tree stump, and watch it propsper! |
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| (3) | 5 gal | $ 45.00 | ||
| Whipplea modesta | Modesty | |||
 Known as Yerba De Selva or Modesty for its innocuous character. Keator's description says it always looks like its about to burst into spectacular growth. It is easy & looks good all year round. Very similar to Yerba Buena in appearance and culture. Needs some shade. |
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| (4) | 4" pot | $ 7.00 | ||
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