Bay Natives: the San Francisco source for native plants.
Our new retail nursery is open seven days a week at Pier 96 on San Francisco's historic industrial southern waterfront. Find us at 10 Cargo Way next to Heron's Head Park.
We carry 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.
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| Acer circinatum | Vine Maple | |||
 4 to 20 ft. tall. Likes partial shade. Very similar to Japanese Maple. Fall color and spring flush color varies for each individual. |
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| (1) | 10" tree band | $ 18.00 | ||
| (1) | 45 gal | $ 650.00 | ||
| Acer circinatum 'Del's Dwarf' | Vine Maple | |||
| Rare compact form can reach 6 feet in 10 years. Likes partial shade. Very similar to Japanese Maple. Fall color and spring flush color is bronze and orange. Smaller leaves than the species. |
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| (1) | 10 gal | $ 210.00 | ||
| Acer macrophyllum | Big-leaf Maple | |||
 Gorgeous, large, fast-growing deciduous tree. 30 to 100 ft. tall. Sun to part shade. |
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| (1) | 7 gal | $ 80.00 | ||
| status: potted up 5-5-13 | ||||
| Achillea millefolium | Yarrow | |||
 Easy spreading groundcover with ferny foliage and a strong bloom of white to pinkish umbels. Full sun, drought tolerant but also likes summer water. |
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| (11) | D40 | $ 5.00 | ||
| Achillea millefolium 'Island Pink' | Yarrow | So. Cal. | ||
 Light pink flowered form of this easy spreading groundcover with ferny foliage. Full sun, drought tolerant but also likes summer water. |
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| 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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| (2) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| (3) | 10" tree band | $ 15.00 | ||
| Aesculus californica | California Buckeye | San Bruno Mountain | ||
 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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| (7) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| 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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| (11) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| (0) | 15 gal | $ 125.00 | ||
| (1) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| status: Marin County | ||||
| (6) | 7 gal | $ 50.00 | ||
| status: potted up 4-30-13 | ||||
| Agoseris grandiflora | California Dandelion | Bay Area | ||
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| (36) | 2" rose pot | $ 2.00 | ||
| Agrostis pallens Bronze Form | Bronze Bentgrass | |||
 A delicate spreading grass with attractive flowers, often found scrambling up shrubs but it makes a nice thick meadow grass too. Regular mowing makes a fine manicured turf. |
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| (5) | 1 gal | $ 1.20 | ||
| Alnus rhombifolia | White Alder | |||
 A fast-growing tree to 50-80 feet, white alder thrives in riparian zones and other wet habitats, esp. after logging or a fire. The roots fix nitrogen in the soil, making this a valuable member of the ecosystem. White alder wood is valuable for timber and often used for interior finishing, also to smoke meats and fish. |
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| (1) | 15 gal | $ 130.00 | ||
| Alnus rubra | Red Alder | |||
| A fast-growing tree to 70 feet, red alder thrives in riparian zones and other wet habitats, esp. after logging or a fire. The roots fix nitrogen in the soil, making this a valuable member of the ecosystem. Red alder wood is valuable for timber and often used for interior finishing, also to smoke meats and fish. |
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 15.00 | ||
| Anemopsis californica | Yerba Mansa | |||
 Winter dormant wetland perennial with curious flowers like white sea anenomes. Forming a colony via runners like a strawberry, this good fast groundcover grows best when the mother plant can get her roots into fresh running water like a seep or spring. Native Americans used the fragrant foliage of yerba mansa to treat diseases of the skin and blood. |
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| (2) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Aquilegia formosa | Columbine | |||
 Classic Western Columbine, truly a gorgeous plant for early
summer hummingbird fodder. Forms several erect, branched stems; 1 to 3 ft. high. Moist wooded areas. Sun to shade. Native to San Francisco and greater Bay Area. Snails also love it, alas.
Extract of the root was used by Natives to enhance energy and stamina. |
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| (185) | plug | $ 1.50 | ||
| (35) | 3" rose pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| (29) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Arabis blepharophylla | Coast Rock Cress | Bay Area | ||
 A charming and edible cress with a bright pink bloom to 1 foot high, Arabis blepharophylla grows wild on Twin Peaks and other natural areas in the Bay Area. It is listed as uncommon by the Jepson Manual, mostly due to habitat loss. A suitable candidate for the grassland meadow, the rock garden, or even a mixed perennial bed. |
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| (61) | 5" tree band | $ 6.00 | ||
| (42) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| status: potted up 4-2-13 but large | ||||
| Arbutus menziesii | Pacific Madrone | |||
 15 to 120 ft. high evergreen tree (rarely above 30 feet in dry California, larger in Oregon). Exfoliating bark reveals an exquisitely smooth surface the color of red capuccino. Flowers urn-shaped, like a manzanita's but larger; superb edible berries. Likes sun to part shade and well drained acid soil. Native to the greater Bay Area. |
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| (7) | 5 gal | $ 45.00 | ||
| Arctostaphylos 'Austin Griffiths' | Austin Griffiths Manzanita | |||
 10' tall by 6' wide. Similar in many ways to "Dr. Hurd," but smaller. Tolerant of some water but also takes drought. |
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| (1) | 15 gal | $ 200.00 | ||
| Arctostaphylos 'Pacific Mist' | ||||
 Nice low mounding manzanita with erect branching habit. Grey-green leaves. 2-3 ft. high and 6-10 ft. wide. |
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| (0) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| (8) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Arctostaphylos 'Sunset' | Sunset Manzanita | Monterey County | ||
 Natural hybrid of Arctostaphylos hookerii X pajaroensis is more compact, less leggy and more drought tolerant than Pajaro. |
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| (1) | 2 gal | $ 25.00 | ||
| Arctostaphylos bakeri 'Louis Edmunds' | Louis Edmunds Manzanita | |||
 A well-branched shrub from 5 to 8 feet with slender, upswept branches and a greyish-green tint to the foliage. A big and bright pink bloom leads to abundant reddish berries. This cultivar is a beautiful specimen and a reliable performer in northern California. |
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| (5) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| 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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| (1) | 24" box | $ 400.00 | ||
| (8) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (0) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| Arctostaphylos densiflora 'Sentinel' | ||||
 Closely related to 'Howard McMinn.' Gorgeous red bark with dark green-grey leaves. Erect habit, 6-12' high and 4-10 ft. wide. |
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| (0) | 5 gal | $ 38.00 | ||
| Arctostaphylos edmundsii 'Bert Johnson' | Bert Johnson Manzanita | |||
 Lush groundcover for coastal conditions. Forms a flat mat, gray-green leaves, bronze new growth, white flowers with pink tinge. Tolerates clay & heavy water if well drained. Lovely spilling over walls. |
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| (0) | 2 gal | $ 22.00 | ||
| Arctostaphylos hookeri 'Monterey Carpet' | Monterey Manzanita | |||
 One ft. high ground cover spreading to 4 feet. Fine-textured foliage looks delicate but stands up to rough conditions including high winds and total drought on the coast. An excellent choice for the fog belt. |
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| (2) | 1 gal | $ 15.00 | ||
| Arctostaphylos hookeri 'Wayside' | Monterey Manzanita | |||
| 2 ft. high shrubby ground cover spreading to 8 feet & rooting to spread further. Fine-textured foliage looks delicate but stands up to rough conditions including high winds and total drought. An excellent choice for the fog belt, give it part shade in hot climates. |
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| (21) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (2) | 5 gal | $ 38.00 | ||
| Arctostaphylos manzanita 'Dr. Hurd' | Doctor Hurd's Manzanita | |||
 Here's the one your mother warned you about: tall, dark, and handsome, a 6 to 12 ft. shrub to small tree with long crooked branches, smooth reddish bark, and large bright evergreen leaves. Highly seductive. The leaf extract of the Arctostaphylos species has anti-microbal qualities and the berries are edible.
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| (3) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| (4) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| Arctostaphylos morroensis | Morro Manzanita | Central Coast | ||
 A rare and threatened sand dune species endemic to San Luis Obispo County. Smallish silvery leaves to 4-8 feet. |
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| (0) | 7 gal | $ 60.00 | ||
| Arctostaphylos nummularia | Glossy Leaf Manzanita | |||
 2-4' tall, with small, dark green round leaves with reddish tips. Old bark does not peel to smooth red. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Arctostaphylos pajaroensis | Pajaro Manzanita | |||
 Amazing color of new coppery leaves. To 6-ft. but usually 3-ft. and spreading to 12-ft but upright branches. Needs some care or gets leggy, can be pruned. |
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| (0) | 2 gal | $ 29.00 | ||
| status: 'Paradise' | ||||
| Arctostaphylos pumila | Sandmat Manzanita | |||
 An endangered endemic from the sand dunes of Monterey Bay, this gorgeous manzanita grows around 30" tall with greyish-green foliage the texture of fine velvet; new growth is touched with crimson on the edges. Its tight habit and attractive coloration make this an outstanding choice for a small city garden, especially in the sandy soils it prefers. |
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| (1) | 2 gal | $ 29.00 | ||
| Arctostaphylos regismontana | Kings Mountain Manzanita | Santa Cruz Mtns | ||
A rare Bay Area endemic from sandstone and granite outcrops, 6 to 12 ft. The clasping leaves give rich texture to the foliage.
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| (0) | 2 gal | $ 29.00 | ||
| Arctostaphylos rudis | Shagbark Manzanita | Central Coast | ||
 A rare species from old sand dunes along the central coast, Arctostaphylos rudis tolerates full sun, no water, and total neglect (when given adequate drainage). Variable in size from 3 to 12 feet, depending on conditions, with lovely grey-green foliage and pinkish-white flowers in winter. |
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| (3) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Arctostaphylos silvicola | Silver Manzanita | Bonny Doon | ||
 Gorgeous rare manzanita with silver foliage, endemic to the sand hills of Santa Cruz County. |
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| (0) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| status: potted up 5-3-13 | ||||
| (1) | 1/2 gal | $ 10.00 | ||
| Arctostaphylos uva-ursi 'Emerald Carpet' | Emerald Carpet Kinickinick | |||
 Clean and green low-growing groundcover in garden conditions. 4-18 in. high and 6-10 ft. wide with white flowers. This is a widely acclaimed hybrid of Arctostaphylos uva-ursi and A. nummularia. |
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| (2) | 2 gal | $ 22.00 | ||
| (2) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Arctostaphylos viridissima 'White Cloud' | White Cloud Whitehair Manzanita | Santa Cruz Island | ||
 The uncommon whitehair manzanita reaches 4 to 6 ft. tall and wide; the cultivar 'White Cloud' was selected by Bert Johnson for its profuse snowy-white flowers and dense, glossy, dark green leaves. He grew it from a cutting taken on the island in 1979. This is a vigorous and rampant grower for us. |
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| (0) | 2 gal | $ 24.00 | ||
| Aristolochia californica | Pipevine | |||
 Deciduous vine with lush tropical-looking foliage, the exclusive host plant for caterpillars of the Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly. Sun to shade. Stems up to 12ft. long.
Native to San Francisco and greater Bay Area. |
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| (5) | bare root | $ 1.20 | ||
| status: 1-inch seedlings | ||||
| (57) | 3" rose pot | $ 7.00 | ||
| (129) | 5" tree band | $ 7.00 | ||
| 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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| (5) | 1 gal | $ 10.00 | ||
| status: assorted sources & cultivars | ||||
| Armeria maritima ssp. californica | Sea Thrift | Sonoma Coast | ||
 This is a slightly different subspecies from Sonoma Coast with larger leaves & taller flowers. |
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| (4) | 3" rose pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| status: potted up 12-8-12 | ||||
| Armeria maritima white | White Sea Thrift | |||
 Grass-like perennial groundcover with cheerful white flowers on 6" stems. Likes full sun and little water once established. Easy to multiply by divisions. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 10.00 | ||
| 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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| (2) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Artemisia tridentata var. vaseyana | Great Basin Sagebrush | Eastern Sierra | ||
 Three foot silvery fragrant shrub, native to the high desert but does well in Bay Area gardens & looks a LOT nicer than you might think. Photo is different species but gives the general idea. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (3) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Asarum caudatum | Wild Ginger | |||
 Lush groundcover from redwood forests and mixed evergreen woodlands. Likes deep shade, with aromatic leaves and intriguing red flowers like orchids, usually hidden beneath leaves. Native to greater Bay Area. The Indians used these roots as a soothing digestive tea, similar to common ginger. |
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| (30) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Aster chilensis | California Aster | |||
 A lovely and fast-spreading native aster with lavender ray flowers and a golden center. A guaranteed magnet for butterflies & beneficial insects. Plant in full sun. May grow invasive in the garden. |
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| (4) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Aster chilensis (dwarf) | Dwarf California Aster | Tilden | ||
 Low-growing form of our native aster with lavender petals and golden center. A guaranteed magnet for butterflies & beneficial insects. Some varieties can be invasive in the garden but we believe this one is reasonable. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Athyrium filix-femina 'Minutissimum' | Dwarf Lady fern | |||
 Dwarf form of this beautiful bright green deciduous fern which requires lots of moisture & shade. |
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| (67) | 2" rose pot | $ 5.00 | ||
| Atriplex lentiformis ssp. breweri | Brewer's Quailbush | |||
 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, native to the Bay Area, that tolerates harsh soils & poor drainage. |
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| (6) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (3) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| Baccharis pilularis 'San Bruno Lady' | 'San Bruno Lady' Coyote Brush | San Bruno Mtn. | ||
 This semi-dwarf female makes white fluffy seeds. It was growing about 2-feet high in the wild on San Bruno Mountain. An exclusive Bay Natives selection, chosen for beautiful foliage and tight habit. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Baccharis pilularis 'Twin Peaks' | Dwarf Coyote Brush | |||
 Dwarf form. |
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Berberis aquifolium (Mahonia) | Oregon Grape | |||
 Spiny evergreen shrub with edible berries. 3 to 6 ft. high forming thick clumps through rhizomes. Sun to shade. Great habitat plant. Externally used by Natives in salves as a disinfectant. |
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| (1) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| Berberis repens (Mahonia) | Creeping Mahonia | |||
 Low spreading form of the upright oregon grape, no taller than 2 feet. Lovely foliage and showy edible fruit. |
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| (2) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Boykinia occidentalis | Coast Boykinia | |||
 Like a small Heuchera; a lovely shade perennial with abundant pinkish white flowers. |
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| (0) | 3" rose pot | $ 7.00 | ||
| Buchloe dactyloides | Buffalo Grass | |||
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| (23) | 5" tree band | $ 4.00 | ||
| Calycanthus occidentalis | Western Spicebush | |||
 Sprawling 5-8 ft. high deciduous shrub with spicy foliage and fragrant lush vermillion flowers. Likes sun to part shade and moist soils but fairly drought tolerant. |
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| (5) | 15 gal | $ 120.00 | ||
| (1) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (1) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| (0) | 10" tree band | $ 10.00 | ||
| Camissonia cheiranthifolia | Beach Evening Primrose | |||
 Low growing sand-loving perennial with bright yellow flowers that fade to orangish tones. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (0) | 2 gal | $ 20.00 | ||
| 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. Also read this indepth article by David Amme. For shipping, please add one shipping box (see below) per 200 plugs; this is 3-day UPS and it can't ship over the weekend, so orders will go out Mondays, Tuesdays, or Wednesdays. |
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| (150) | plug | $ 1.75 | ||
| Carex praegracilis | Tiburon Field Sedge | Marin | ||
 The Tiburon variety is a recent selection with stiffer leaves and a slightly glaucus ornamental look. |
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| (110) | plug | $ 1.75 | ||
| Carpenteria californica 'Elizabeth' | 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, on north slopes with snow melt ground water, but cultivars will take 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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| (0) | 2 gal | $ 25.00 | ||
| (0) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| (6) | 15 gal | $ 130.00 | ||
| Castilleja exserta | Purple Owl's Clover | |||
| An annual lavender colored variation on our Indian Paintbrush, this wildflower paints the hills of the Bay Area in breathtaking hues. | ||||
| (10) | 1/2 oz seed | $ 35.00 | ||
| (10) | 1/8 oz. seed | $ 15.00 | ||
| (10) | seed packet | $ 10.00 | ||
| status: one gram | ||||
| Ceanothus 'Concha' | Concha California Lilac | |||
 8 foot tall, 10 foot spread with purplish blue flowers coming from reddish buds. A long time popular hybrid, Concha tolerates alkalinity, summer water and drought. |
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| (19) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Ceanothus 'Dark Star' | California Lilac | |||
 'Dark Star' is the Ceanothus cultivar with the deepest, most intense shade of blue flowers. Perhaps the same as Julia Phelps 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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| (25) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (30) | 3" rose pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| (1) | 15 gal | $ 130.00 | ||
| Ceanothus 'El Dorado' | ||||
 A big, fast-growing shrub with interesting yellow and green variegated foliage.
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Ceanothus 'Frosty Blue' | California Lilac | |||
 Reliable 6-8' selection. |
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| (0) | 2 gal | $ 25.00 | ||
| Ceanothus 'Joyce Coulter' | Coulter's California Lilac | |||
 A medium-sized shrub, fast-growing to 3 feet high and 6 feet wide. Full sun, low water, needs good drainage. Similar appearance to Julia Phelps and Dark Star but lower with larger crinkly leaves & lighter flowers - hearstiorum is the next step down in size. |
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| (14) | 3" rose pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| (31) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Ceanothus 'Julia Phelps' | California Lilac | |||
 Similar to Dark Star but a bit wider spreading. |
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| 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. Larger leaves, similar to the Yankee Point spreader. |
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| (0) | 7 gal | $ 65.00 | ||
| status: patio tree 4-foot, | ||||
| (5) | 7 gal | $ 50.00 | ||
| (0) | 15 gal | $ 125.00 | ||
| status: staked columns | ||||
| (1) | 15 gal | $ 130.00 | ||
| Ceanothus 'Tassajara Blue' | California Lilac | |||
| Hybrid between C. arboreus and C. griseus, this selection makes an 8-foot shrub that tolerates drought or garden watering. |
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| (2) | 2 gal | $ 25.00 | ||
| status: potted up 3-13-13 | ||||
| Ceanothus 'Wheeler Canyon' | Wheeler Canyon California Lilac | Ventura | ||
 Numerous red buds unfold, blanketing the whole thing in sky-blue flowers. with medium-sized leaves on a 4-6-foot high, not too wide shrub. Prefers coastal climates. |
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| (1) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| Ceanothus gloriosus 'Anchor Bay' | Point Reyes Ceanothus | Marin | ||
| Popular ground cover to 1 or 2 feet high and 6 feet wide with holly leaves, compact form and relatively deer resistant. Tolerates garden water but doesn't need much. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Ceanothus gloriosus ssp. porrectus | Mount Vision Ceanothus | Point Reyes | ||
| The rare and endangered prostrate shrub, also called Prostrate Holly-leaved Ceanothus, endemic to the Inverness Ridge at Point Reyes, CA. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Ceanothus griseus 'Louis Edmonds' | Carmel Mountain Lilac | |||
| Dark green leaves, medium tall to 3 or 4' and spreading to 10' wide -- survives clay, alkalinity, sand, wind, heat, sun, and water. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (3) | 10 gal | $ 75.00 | ||
| Ceanothus hearstiorum | San Luis Obispo | |||
 Beautiful rich blue flowers & small leaves on a mat-forming plant. Coastal origin, needs some shade and water inland and can even handle water near a lawn. Slow-growing but worth the wait for an elegant, tidy, long-lived ground cover. |
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| (10) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (10) | 2 gal | $ 22.00 | ||
| status: potted up 4-13-13 big | ||||
| Ceanothus thyrsiflorus | California Lilac | |||
 3 to 18 ft. shrub or small tree. Light to deep blue flowers that have a sweet, honey-like fragrance. This is the only Ceanothus locally native to the Bay Area; it also grows in chaparral and on wooded slopes and in mixed evergreen forests from Sta. Barbara co. to S. Oregon. Used on wedding nights by Native Californians, the medicinal part of Ceanothus is the root. This complex herb should be used by “healthy people under stress not sick people under treatment” (Moore).
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| (1) | 15 gal | $ 130.00 | ||
| (1) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| status: arroyo de la cruz | ||||
| Ceanothus thyrsiflorus 'Snow Flurry' | ||||
 White-flowering cultivar of San Francisco's local species of Ceanothus. Robust shrub to 10' tall and wide. |
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| (1) | 2 gal | $ 22.00 | ||
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Buttonwillow | |||
 A vigorous water-loving shrub or small tree 6-30 ft. deciduous, with distinctive reddish-gold new growth and an unusual flower like a white pufferfish. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 15.00 | ||
| Cercis occidentalis | Redbud | |||
 Spectacularly blooming small tree/shrub that needs some inland valley heat to bloom well (not for the beach) and a place to get deep roots into groundwater somehow. |
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| (1) | 15 gal | $ 135.00 | ||
| (2) | 24" box | $ 325.00 | ||
| (3) | 15 gal | $ 162.00 | ||
| status: multi-stem 4-6' | ||||
| 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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| (5) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| Chlorogalum pomeridianum | Soaproot | |||
 Fragrant native lily blooms in the gloaming and early evening. Profuse flower displays. A completely drought-tolerant plant in full sun with good drainage. Native Californians roasted the bulbs for food (but only the inner core is edible); also the whole bulbs function well as field soap (hence the common name). |
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Chrysolepis chrysophylla | Chinquapin | Santa Cruz County | ||
 A chestnut relative with handsome evergreen leaves and tasty nuts (if you can beat the squirrels to them). Use two pairs of pliers with welding gloves to extract the nutmeat from its spiky shell. This gorgeous, slow-growing, and rarely available tree likes acidic, well-drained soil. |
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| (5) | tree pot | $ 35.00 | ||
| (3) | 9" tree band | $ 20.00 | ||
| Clarkia unguiculata | Elegant Clarkia | Colusa Co. | ||
 Big lacy pink tongued flowers on an upright plant. An easy and fast-growing annual with a late and prolific bloom. |
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| (32) | 2" rose pot | $ 3.00 | ||
| (1) | 3" rose pot | $ 5.00 | ||
| Clematis lasiantha | Pipestems | |||
 Beautiful vigorous vine. This species is more drought tolerant and has single larger flowers, as pictured. |
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| (0) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| Clematis ligusticifolia | Virgin's Bower | |||
 Grows along streams and has many flowers in close clusters. Photo is C. lasiantha. |
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| (1) | 10" tree band | $ 14.00 | ||
| (2) | 9" tree band | $ 9.00 | ||
| Collinsia heterophylla | Chinese Houses | |||
 Beautiful annual wildflower, easy from seed, blooms reliably in part shade. Spectacular flowers up to a foot tall will re-seed for a colorful and recurring display year after year. |
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| (1) | 1/2 oz seed | $ 20.00 | ||
| (4) | 2" rose pot | $ 4.00 | ||
| status: potted up 5-25-13 | ||||
| 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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| (12) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Coreopsis maritima | Sea Dahlia | So. Cal. | ||
 Similar to Giant Coreopsis but only 2 feet tall. In the wild, these dry up completely in late spring but light watering and deadheading can keep them blooming almost year round as long as they have good drainage. San Diego to Baja. |
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| (37) | 3" rose pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| Cornus glabrata | Brown Dogwood | |||
 Fast to establish in well-watered habitats, the deciduous brown dogwood has smooth attractive foliage that draws 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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| (5) | tree pot | $ 22.00 | ||
| (8) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| Cornus nutalii | Flowering Dogwood | |||
 Our native Flowering dogwood is the largest species with huge showy flowers. Culture is particular and slow. |
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 18.00 | ||
| Cornus sericea ssp. occidentalis | Red-twig Dogwood | |||
 Large shrub with flat umbels of attractive white flowers in summer. Gorgeous leaves and bark turns beautiful shades of red and yellow in winter. Deciduous, reaches 12 ft tall and wide. Fast growing. Likes wet areas, but is surprisingly drought tolerant. |
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| (0) | 3 gal | $ 30.00 | ||
| (1) | 15 gal | $ 100.00 | ||
| status: San Francisco Source | ||||
| (5) | 1 gal | $ 15.00 | ||
| Corylus cornuta | Hazel | |||
 Hazel trees look great in the dappled understory of a larger canopy, often growing as a multi-trunk with a fountain shape. Nuts are tasty and edible but other critters usually get them first. The wide translucent mint-shaped leaves will catch and hold any available light; after the fall drop, they make a rich mulch. Usually wider than tall (6 to 10 feet), this tree grows more compact when wind-clipped. |
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| (0) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| (2) | 15 gal | $ 150.00 | ||
| (0) | tree pot | $ 22.00 | ||
| Delphinium nudicaule | Red Larkspur | Santa Cruz Mtns. | ||
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| (0) | 5" tree band | $ 8.00 | ||
| Delphinium variegatum | Royal Larkspur | Santa Cruz Mtns. | ||
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| (0) | 5" tree band | $ 8.00 | ||
| Dendromecon hartfordii | Island Bush Poppy | |||
 Coastal island form does well in San Francisco. |
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| (0) | 2 gal | $ 25.00 | ||
| Dichelostemma capitatum | Blue Dicks | San Rafael | ||
 Gorgeous summer dry grassland bulb, these bloom earlier than Tritelieia. |
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| (1) | 5" tree band | $ 10.00 | ||
| Dichondra donelliana | California Ponysfoot | |||
 A good groundcover for open slopes and headlands, tight green mat with attractive foliage, flower inconspicuous. Fills in between bunch grasses, spreads by runners so don't use where you want it contained. Has been used for lawns in the past though that was a different species. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Dodecatheon hendersonii | Shooting Stars | |||
 Beautiful spring ephemeral wildflower for meadows & rock gardens. Requires dry summer dormancy. |
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| (0) | 5" tree band | $ 14.00 | ||
| (4) | 3" rose pot | $ 12.00 | ||
| Dudleya brittonii 'Baja Mar Green' | Dudleya | Baja | ||
 Green form of this large, extra drought-tolerant species from Baja between Rosarito & Ensenada: can be grown in a clay pot and never watered. Flower stems are red; flowers themselves are pale yellow. Full sun will turn the leaf tips red. Over many decades, they mature into 3-foot stalks like miniature Joshua Trees. |
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| (3) | 1 gal | $ 19.00 | ||
| Dudleya caespitosa | Sea Lettuce | Monterey | ||
 Narrow leaves and yellow flowers gradually increase in size. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Dudleya cymosa | Canyon Liveforever | |||
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| (3) | 1 gal | $ 15.00 | ||
| (1) | 3" rose pot | $ 8.00 | ||
| Dudleya edulis | San Diego Dudleya | |||
| Narrow leaves and white flowers gradually increase in size. |
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| (2) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Dudleya farinosa | North Coast Dudleya | Orizaba Outcrop, SF | ||
 Mix of green and silver in the same population. |
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| (3) | 3" rose pot | $ 8.00 | ||
| Dudleya farinosa. | North Coast Dudleya | Edgehill Mtn. SF | ||
| Mix of green and silver in the same population. |
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| (3) | 3" rose pot | $ 8.00 | ||
| Dudleya farinosa.. | North Coast Dudleya | |||
| Mix of green and silver in the same population. |
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| (0) | 2 gal | $ 22.00 | ||
| status: potted up 9-15-12 | ||||
| Dudleya lanceolata | Lance-leafed Liveforever | So. Cal. | ||
| Narrow leaves and orange flowers gradually increase in size. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Elymus glaucus | Blue Wild Rye | |||
 Tough, useful restoration species but doesn't do well in pots and is a short lived bunchgrass. |
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| (55) | plug | $ 1.20 | ||
| (20) | 2" rose pot | $ 2.00 | ||
| 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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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (6) | 3" rose pot | $ 5.00 | ||
| Epilobium canum 'Catalina' | California Fuchsia | |||
| Silver leafed upright form. |
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Epilobium canum ssp. canum | Narrow-leaved California Fuschia | |||
 This form is from Central to Southern foothills, is reported to be more drought tolerant and has beautiful fine textured needle leaves. Less leggy than the straight canum. |
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| (5) | 3" rose pot | $ 5.00 | ||
| Equisetum hymenale | Horsetail | |||
 This one just makes upright stems, no quills. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Ericameria ericoides | Mock Heather | |||
 A local Bay Area beauty, Ericameria grows in sand dunes and other dry, sharp-draining soils. A 3-4' perennial covered in bright yellow flowers for the summer. |
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| (1) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| Erigeron glaucus | Seaside Daisy | Bay Area | ||
 Common reliable native groundcover, drought tolerant, needs some sun. |
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| (14) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Erigeron glaucus 'Cape Sebastian' | Seaside Daisy | |||
 Common reliable native groundcover, drought tolerant, needs some sun. |
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| (4) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Erigeron glaucus 'WR' | Seaside Daisy | |||
 This horticultural hybrid has a more narrow leaf and more consistent lavender-colored flower. Probably at least half non-native. |
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| (8) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Eriogonum parvifolium | Cliff Buckwheat | Moss Landing | ||
 Compact pink or whitish-flowered species. |
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| (6) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Eriogonum fasciculatum | California Buckwheat. | |||
 This species makes a smallish 3-foot woody shrub with needle-like leaves and a loose open habit with abundant pink flowers. Similar to arborescens but smaller. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (0) | 2 gal | $ 20.00 | ||
| Eriogonum grande rubescens | Rosy Buckwheat | San Miguel Island | ||
 Similar in form to our local coast buckwheat but with beautiful rosy colored flowers. Easy care for sunny well drained spots to 12 inches high and 2 feet wide. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| (0) | 1/2 gal | $ 10.00 | ||
| Eriogonum latifolium | Coast Buckwheat | |||
 Our common local low growing species. Great for butterfly nectar! Brown seed heads add interest through late summer. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.50 | ||
| (48) | 2" rose pot | $ 3.00 | ||
| Eriogonum umbellatum | Shasta Sulfur Buckwheat | |||
 Perennial with bright yellow flowers for bees & butterflies. Sun & good drainage. |
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| (9) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Eriophyllum lanatum 'Siskiyou' | Spreading Wooly Sunflower | |||
 This is the ground hugging form of our soft wooded fast growing coastal sage scrub denizen from the Sonoma Coast, which provides wonderful yellow sunflowers in summer. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Eriophyllum stachaedifolium | Lizard Tail | |||
 With beautiful silvery-blueish-green foliage and a bright yellow bloom in summer, Lizard Tail is a distinguished member of the local Franciscan flora. Grows in time into a sprawling evergreen perennial/shrub 30" tall and 5 feet wide; excellent wildlife habitat and good for erosion control in disturbed areas. Easy in the garden with full sun, little water, and good drainage. |
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| (6) | D40 | $ 5.00 | ||
| Eryngium aristulatum | Jepson's Button Celery | East Bay | ||
 Curious wetland/vernal pool perennial with spiky blue flower. |
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| (2) | 1 gal | $ 12.50 | ||
| Erysimum capitatum | Western Wallflower | Mount Diablo | ||
 Yellow wallflower that brightens the dry sunny slopes of Mount Diablo and other local natural areas. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 10.00 | ||
| Erysimum franciscanum var. crassifolium | Dense-leafed Franciscan wallflower | |||
 A more densely-leafed varient of the Franciscan wallflower, generally with a bloom more yellow than cream. |
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| (17) | 3" rose pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| Festuca californica | California Fescue | |||
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Festuca californica 'Gabilan Blues' | Silver-blue California Fescue | |||
| A lustrous cultivar of the robust and drought-tolerant bunchgrass. |
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| (24) | 10" tree band | $ 8.00 | ||
| status: potted up 9-6-12 | ||||
| Festuca californica 'San Rafael Blue' | Silver-blue California Fescue | San Rafael | ||
| Beautiful silvery-blue form! A robust and drought-tolerant bunchgrass, great for dancing down lightly shaded slopes. |
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| (18) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (46) | 5" tree band | $ 5.00 | ||
| 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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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Festuca idahoensis. | Idaho Fescue | San Bruno Mtn. | ||
 This local form is not as silver as those commonly found in the nursery trade. It is a useful and attractive fine textured densely tufted bunchgrass. Idaho Fescue is the dominant grass of many coastal meadows from the SF Bay area, north and in the mountains of the west. |
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| (10) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Fragaria chiloensis | Beach Strawberry | |||
 Forms a thick groundcover, easy and tough even dog tolerant. Beach Strawberry can be distinguished from Wood Strawberry by it's glossy thicker more leathery leaves. |
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| (33) | 3" rose pot | $ 5.00 | ||
| status: potted up 4-16-13 | ||||
| Fragaria vesca | Wood Strawberry | |||
 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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| (1) | 4" pot | $ 5.00 | ||
| Frankenia salina | Alkali Heath | |||
 Little pink flowers on this salt marsh species. |
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| (2) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Fremontodendron 'California Glory' | Flannel Bush | |||
 Large evergreen tree/shrub with fast-growing sprawling habit to 30 feet tall. Gorgeous yellow bloom for most of the year. Extremely drought-tolerant once established.
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| (1) | 5 gal | $ 45.00 | ||
| Fremontodendron 'Ken Taylor' | Spreading Flannel Bush | |||
 This hybrid with ssp. decumbens gets about 3 feet tall & 8 feet wide producing wide yellow flowers throughout the summer. More garden tolerant than most but requires good drainage & deep infrequent watering the first year, no direct summer water after that. |
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| (1) | 5 gal | $ 45.00 | ||
| Fremontodendron ‘San Gabriel’ | Flannel Bush | |||
 Large 15-20' yellow flowering form. |
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| (0) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| Galvezia speciosa 'Boca Rosa' | Island Snapdragon | |||
 This lush and drought-tolerant vine will scramble up arbors, fences, and other landscape structures, swiftly covering them with dark green evergreen foliage and snapdragon blossoms of lipstick red. 'Boca Rosa' differs from 'Firecracker' in having greener leaves, taller growth and more flowers. |
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| (3) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| status: potted up 3-21-13 | ||||
| (8) | 3" rose pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (2) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| status: potted up 3-21-13 | ||||
| Garrya eliptica 'Evie' | Silk Tassel 'Evie' | |||
Evergreen shrub that grows more vertical to 10 or 20 feet and can be kept fairly narrow. Evie's flowers are a bit shorter than the James Roof selection but the flowers are more abundant and it has more compact foliage. |
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| (0) | 15 gal | $ 130.00 | ||
| Garrya eliptica 'James Roof' | James Roof Silk Tassel | |||
| The long-tasseled form most prized by horticulture, named for one of the greatest champions of the Franciscan flora. Very similar to shrubby oaks for most of the year, Garrya puts on a show every January with a big winter bloom hanging from its branches like the silk tassels on graduates' caps. |
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| (0) | 15 gal | $ 130.00 | ||
| Gaultheria shallon | Salal | |||
 Elegant groundcover or low shrub for partial shade, salal has luscious green leaves ringed with a hint of red, and the deep red branches so distinctive in the Erica family, with the same fine clusters of gorgeous urn-shaped blossoms one finds on manzanita and madrone. Salal grows wild on Mount Davidson (San Francisco) and in coastal conditions from Santa Barbara to Alaska. |
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| (1) | 2 gal | $ 18.00 | ||
| Gilia capitata | Globe Gilia | |||
 Beautiful blue flowers attract bees, reseeds readily. Can get up to 18 inches in fertile soil. |
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| (39) | 3" rose pot | $ 4.00 | ||
| status: potted up 5-25-13 | ||||
| (0) | 1/8 oz. seed | $ 6.00 | ||
| (1) | seed | $ 75.00 | ||
| status: 1/4th lb | ||||
| (1) | 1/2 lb. seed | $ 95.00 | ||
| (2) | 1/2 oz seed | $ 15.00 | ||
| (4) | 1 oz. seed | $ 25.00 | ||
| Helenium puburulum | Sneezeweed | Bay Area | ||
Tall inside-out orange daisy. |
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| (2) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Heracleum lanatum | Cow Parsnip | |||
 Huge perennial with flat topped white flowers and loads of seed for birds. Cut them back or knock them over in late summer or fall. This is one of a few 'megaherbs' - shrub sized but dies back to the ground in winter. |
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| (0) | 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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| (5) | 2 gal | $ 25.00 | ||
| (5) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| Heteromeles arbutifolia 'Davis Gold' | Toyon | |||
| Yellow-berried form. |
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| (0) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| Heuchera maxima | Giant Island Alumroot | So Cal Islands | ||
 Big lush evergreen perennial for dry shade or sun on the coast with a little water. |
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| (0) | 2 gal | $ 22.00 | ||
| (0) | 4" pot | $ 8.50 | ||
| Heuchera micrantha | Alum Root | Bay Area | ||
 Our local Heuchera has a small size to 12 inches and white flowers. A charming deer resistant plant for dry shade. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Hibiscus lasiocarpus | California Hibiscus | sacramento river basin | ||
 This is a rare and endangered wetland species. heart-shaped velvety leaves and beautiful red hibiscus flowers. plant grows back larger each year given the right conditions - wet. |
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 16.00 | ||
| Hoita macrostachya | Leather Root | East Bay | ||
 Wetland perennial with purple summer pea flowers on 4-foot sprawling stems. Winter dormant. |
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Holodiscus discolor | Ocean Spray | |||
 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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| (1) | 15 gal | $ 50.00 | ||
| (3) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| Hordeum brachyantherum ssp. brachyantherum | Meadow Barley | East Bay | ||
 A loose spreading rather than bunching grass for seasonally inundated conditions like bio-swales. Charming seed heads. |
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| (106) | plug | $ 1.00 | ||
| (176) | plug | $ 1.00 | ||
| Hordeum brachyantherum ssp. californicum | California Meadow Barley | |||
| Compared to Hordeum brachyantherum ssp. brachyantherum, this species is a little more blue color, likes more dry conditions though it'll take some innundation, has longer awns (hairs) on the flowers with a lighter flower color. |
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| (198) | plug | $ 1.00 | ||
| Iris douglasiana | Douglas Iris | Point Reyes | ||
 Lush deep green wide leafed foliage and a beautiful spring bloom distinguish this gorgeous iris propagated from Pt Reyes stock. A perfect choice for the garden in partial shade. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Iris douglasiana 'Bright Lights' | Douglas Iris Pacific Coast Hybrids | |||
 Dark velvety blue edges bright in middle, wide petals. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Iris douglasiana 'New Yellow' | Douglas Iris Pacific Coast Hybrids | |||
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| (3) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Iris douglasiana blue-purple hybrids | Douglas Iris Pacific Coast Hybrids | |||
 Blackish purple hybrid, a true blue with white stripes, deep blue purple, all with wide petals. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| status: blue with yellow eye | ||||
| Iris longipetala | Long-petaled Iris | Glen Canyon, San Francisco | ||
 Taller species with striated flowers. |
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| (6) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Iris macrosiphon 'Mt. Madonna' | Long-tubed Iris | Santa Clara Co. | ||
 A lovely, compact, and local form of the drought-tolerant long-tubed iris, with gorgeous striations of color on the blossom. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| (8) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| status: divided 12-6-12 | ||||
| (6) | 3" rose pot | $ 7.00 | ||
| status: divided 12-6-12 | ||||
| (0) | 2" rose pot | $ 4.00 | ||
| status: divided 12-6-12 | ||||
| Juncus patens 'Carmen's Grey' | Blue Rush | |||
 Handsome blue-leaved selection of this common clumping wetland grass although it does fine without water given reasonably deep soil it makes nice evergreen clumps to 2 feet. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (13) | 3" rose pot | $ 5.00 | ||
| status: potted up 8-1-12 | ||||
| Juncus patens 'Elk Blue' | Blue Rush | |||
| Handsome blue-leaved selection of this common clumping wetland grass although it does fine without water given reasonably deep soil it makes nice evergreen clumps to 2 feet. |
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| (0) | 2 gal | $ 18.00 | ||
| (0) | 5" tree band | $ 5.00 | ||
| Juncus phaeocephalus | Brown Headed Rush | |||
 Similar to xiphiodes but a bit narrower and considerably shorter. |
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| (0) | 9" tree band | $ 5.00 | ||
| Juncus xiphioides | Iris-leaved Rush | |||
| Interesting, sculptural 'grass' that gets about 2 ft tall, likes sun and lots of water. Can grow in very shallow containers or birdbaths. |
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| (0) | 9" tree band | $ 5.00 | ||
| (0) | 2" rose pot | $ 2.00 | ||
| Lavatera assurgentiflora | Island Tree Mallow | |||
 Fast-growing, many-branched tree covered with bright pink blossoms throughout the year. Hummingbird magnet.Similar to Malacothamnus The name has been changed to Malva assurgentiflora. |
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| (29) | 1 gal | $ 10.00 | ||
| (12) | 3" rose pot | $ 5.00 | ||
| (9) | 5 gal | $ 30.00 | ||
| Layia platyglossa | Tidy Tips | Colusa Co. | ||
 Small yellow and white annual. |
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| (2) | seed | $ 75.00 | ||
| status: 1/4th lb | ||||
| (2) | 1/2 oz seed | $ 15.00 | ||
| (1) | 1/8 oz. seed | $ 6.00 | ||
| (2) | 1 oz. seed | $ 25.00 | ||
| Lessingia filaginifolia var. californica | California Beach Aster | |||
 Spreading form of this beautiful late summer bloomer makes the bees & butterflies happy. The name has been changed to Corethrogyne filaginifolia. |
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Lewisia cotyledon | Cliff Maids (white) | |||
 A spectacular white- to pink-flowering plant with basal rosette of fleshy leaves and a deep taproot, this plant grows in rocky, sandy slopes and is an obvious choice for the rock garden. It needs full sun and excellent drainage. |
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| (4) | 4" pot | $ 12.00 | ||
| status: white | ||||
| 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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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Leymus triticoides | Creeping Wildrye | |||
Big bold spreading grass with blue-green leaf but this selection is more green. Good for bio-swales and filling in large areas. |
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| (20) | 2" rose pot | $ 2.50 | ||
| Lilium pardalinum | Leopard Lily | |||
 This is the common Leopard lily that grows along streams in the forest. |
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| (54) | 3" rose pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| (1) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| status: potted up 3-4-13 | ||||
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |||
 Showy red-flowered plant to 3 feet, commonly found along stream banks and other moist places. Needs garden water. |
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| (2) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| status: potted up 8-26-12 | ||||
| Lomatium californicum | California Celery | San Mateo Co | ||
 Broad leathery ornamental leaves distinguish this perenial dryland parsley relative which provides food for Anise Swallowtail butterfly larvae & flowers for many beneficial insects. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Lonicera hispidula | California Honeysuckle | San Francisco | ||
 Grows as a creeping, understory plant similar to symphoricarpos in dry shade or can grow up as a tall vine with age or water. Nice reddish leaves. |
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| (9) | 10" tree band | $ 12.00 | ||
| Lonicera involucrata | Twinberry | Butte County | ||
 Northern foothills form with yellow flowers and red berries. |
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| (1) | 5 gal | $ 25.00 | ||
| Lonicera involucrata | Twinberry | |||
 An attactive shrubby form of honeysuckle, twinberry grows locally from the Presidio to San Bruno Mountain and graces the gardens of savvy native plant aficionados with its attractive flowers and fruit. In conditions of abundant water it can reach 20 feet tall and wide, but is also drought-tolerant in coastal scrub where it is usually 4 to 8 feet tall. |
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| (24) | 2 gal | $ 22.00 | ||
| status: potted up 4-11-13 large | ||||
| Lotus crassifolius v. otayensis | Otay Mountain Lotus | |||
 Soft velvety grey upright stems to three feet tall. with clusters of purple and white pea-flowers in spring and grey-green oblong leaves. Moderate to full sun. Low to moderate water. The name has been changed to Hosackia crassifolia var. otayensis. |
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| (3) | 5 gal | $ 42.00 | ||
| (2) | 3 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| (4) | 3" rose pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| Lupinus albifrons var. collinus | Silver Lupine | Alameda County | ||
 This is the low-growing form of Silver Bush Lupine, found on Twin Peaks and other open spaces in San Francisco, another host plant for the endangered Mission Blue butterfly. |
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| (0) | $ 12.00 | |||
| Lupinus bicolor | ||||
| Annual, small species. | ||||
| (0) | 5" tree band | $ 5.00 | ||
| Lupinus chamissonis | Chamisso's lupine | |||
This sand-lover grows natively at Baker Beach in the Presidio and elsewhere in the dunes and strands of coastal California. 4' tall with silvery leaves and profuse flowers of soft violet to blue. |
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| (0) | 2 gal | $ 22.00 | ||
| (1) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| (1) | 2 gal | $ 30.00 | ||
| status: potted up 5-14-13 | ||||
| Madia elegans ssp. densifolia | Showy Tarweed | |||
 Big annual with yellow flowers. Walking through a large field of these will turn your jeans oily though the fragrance is not bad. Abundant seeds are edible. Tarweeds are considered a weed to range managers; a wildflower to hikers, bees and birds - an oily nuisance to bush-whackers. |
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| (0) | $ 1.50 | |||
| Malacothamnus fremontii | Fremont's, Bushmallow | |||
 Felty silver leaves, upright habit. Similar to Lavatera assurgentiflora |
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| (3) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| status: potted up 3-21-13, large | ||||
| Melica californica | Oniongrass | Bay Area | ||
 My favorite grass. 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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| (0) | 5" tree band | $ 5.00 | ||
| (0) | plug | $ 1.00 | ||
| Melica imperfecta | Coast Range Oniongrass | |||
 A densely tufted perennial bunchgrass with luscious new growth in spring leading to gorgeous silvery inflorescence. Good for erosion control and once an important forage for elk (but most good native stands now wiped out by overgrazing). |
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| (10) | 1 gal | $ 10.00 | ||
| 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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| (0) | 5 gal | $ 28.00 | ||
| Mimulus 'Firecracker' | Red Bush Monkeyflower | |||
 Narrow, bright red flowers. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Mimulus aurantiacus | Sticky Monkey Flower | |||
 Standard Bay Area orange flower as pictured. |
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| (0) | 1/2 oz seed | $ 15.00 | ||
| (3) | 1/8 oz. seed | $ 6.00 | ||
| (1) | seed | $ 100.00 | ||
| status: 1/4th lb | ||||
| Mimulus bifidus | Azalea-flowered Bush Monkey Flower | |||
 This is not a hybrid, photos are a wild polulation in the Sierras, I haven't seen ours bloom yet though. |
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| (0) | 3" rose pot | $ 5.00 | ||
| Mimulus cardinalis 'Santa Cruz Island Gold' | Golden Channel Islands Monkeyflower | Seed from Santa Cruz Island via Tilden Botanical G | ||
 This is the golden-flowering form of the (usually) scarlet monkeyflower. A wetland species, it needs garden water to be happy in cultivation. Grown from seed collected by Glenn Keator and introduced into the trade by the Tilden Botanical Garden. |
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| (0) | 3" rose pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| Mimulus Salmon | Sticky Monkey Flower | |||
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| (3) | 3" rose pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| status: potted up 4-17-13 | ||||
| (0) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| Mimulus tilingii | Tiling's Monkeyflower | |||
 Low growing species from wet spots in the Sierras, intergrades with M. guttatus. |
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| (0) | 2-3/4" pot | $ 3.00 | ||
| Monardella macrantha | Scarlet Pennyroyal | Monterey | ||
 A trailing perennial with a delightful light mint scent and big, tubular red hummingbird flowers. Likes perfect drainage with a little water and part shade in hot areas. |
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| (51) | 3" rose pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| 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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| (2) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (1) | 3" rose pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| Monardella villosa | Coyote Mint | |||
 A semi-woody shrub/perennial that fits in the Coastal Sage Scrub habitat similar to Sticky Monkeyflower but a bit smaller. The fragrance of the delicate leaves is minty but a bit skunky. Hummingbirds like them. |
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| (0) | 5" tree band | $ 5.00 | ||
| (0) | 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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| (4) | 1 gal | $ 10.00 | ||
| (3) | 10" tree band | $ 8.00 | ||
| (50) | 2" rose pot | $ 2.50 | ||
| 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. The roots fix nitrogen, improving soils, the leaves can be used to season stews like bay laurel and the waxy berries are a delicacy for birds. |
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| (0) | 15 gal | $ 130.00 | ||
| (0) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| (1) | 24" box | $ 350.00 | ||
| status: 8-foot tall specimen | ||||
| (1) | 24" box | $ 300.00 | ||
| status: 6-foot tall specimen | ||||
| (0) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| (14) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (10) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| Nassella cernua | Nodding Needle Grass | |||
 Similar to purple needlegrass. |
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| (70) | plug | $ 1.00 | ||
| Nassella lepida | Foothill Needle Grass | |||
This species is smaller than Purple Needle grass, more suitable for a small garden. Beatiful shimmering in the wind, backlit. |
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| (3) | 1 gal | $ 10.00 | ||
| (21) | 2" rose pot | $ 2.00 | ||
| Nemophila maculata | Five-spot | |||
 Annual wildflower similar to Baby Blue-eyes but white with blue spots. |
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| (2) | 1/2 oz seed | $ 15.00 | ||
| (2) | 1/8 oz. seed | $ 6.00 | ||
| (4) | 1 oz. seed | $ 25.00 | ||
| (2) | 1/2 lb. seed | $ 125.00 | ||
| Nemophila menziesii | Baby Blue Eyes | |||
 Easy carpets of baby-blue bliss for the bees. |
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| (1) | seed | $ 75.00 | ||
| status: 1/4th lb | ||||
| (0) | 1/2 oz seed | $ 15.00 | ||
| (0) | 1/8 oz. seed | $ 6.00 | ||
| (4) | 1 oz. seed | $ 25.00 | ||
| (1) | 4" pot | $ 4.00 | ||
| Oemleria cerasiformis | Osoberry | |||
 This deciduous shrub produces buckets of tasty berries for critters though they are mostly seed. A proud member of the native habitat garden. Osoberry are dioecious; you need a male and female plant to set seed. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| status: male | ||||
| (6) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| Oenothera elata ssp. hirsutissima | Hooker's Evening Primrose | |||
 Tall, vigorous, covered in yellow blossoms! This free-seeding freebooter comes up everywhere it wants to. Hummingbirds like it. AKA Oenothera hookeri |
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| (3) | 1 gal | $ 8.00 | ||
| (4) | 1/8 oz. seed | $ 6.00 | ||
| (2) | 1/2 oz seed | $ 15.00 | ||
| (3) | 1 oz. seed | $ 25.00 | ||
| Osmorhiza berteroi | Sweet Cicely | East Bay | ||
 A little woodland fennel relative with sweet anise flavored young seed pods. |
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| (29) | 3" rose pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| status: potted up 5-21-13 | ||||
| Oxalis oregana 'Klamath Ruby' | Klamath Ruby Redwood Sorrel | |||
 This is not like the invasive weedy Bermuda Buttercups Oxalis but is a slowly spreading Redwood forest species with white to pink flowers and purplish leaves that can be nibbled for the sour flavor. |
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| (2) | 1 gal | $ 15.00 | ||
| Oxalis oregana 'Tilden Pink' | Redwood Sorrel | |||
| This selection from Tilden has extra deep pink flowers. Redwood Sorrel is not like the invasive weedy Bermuda Buttercups Oxalis but is a slowly spreading Redwood forest species with purplish leaves that can be nibbled for the sour flavor. |
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| (0) | 4" pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| Oxalis oregana 'White' | Redwood Sorrel | |||
| A pure white flowered form. This is not like the invasive weedy Bermuda Buttercups Oxalis but is a slowly spreading Redwood forest species with white to pink flowers and purplish leaves that can be nibbled for the sour flavor. |
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| (9) | 1 gal | $ 15.00 | ||
| (13) | 1 gal | $ 15.00 | ||
| status: divided 12-8-12 | ||||
| Penstemon azureus var. angustissimus | Harlequin Beardtongue | |||
An easy 18" perennial for full sun and well drained soils, very drought and frost tolerant, this one also tolerates light shade and moist soils. The flower buds emerge in shades of yellow, then develop a deeper bluish hue as they open and mature into robust purple. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Penstemon eatonii | Firecracker Penstemon | So. Cal. | ||
 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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| (0) | 2 gal | $ 25.00 | ||
| Penstemon grinnellii | Grinnell's Beardtongue | |||
 Similar to P. spectabilis, the large lavender flower has hairs inside which explain the common name Beardtongue. Makes an 18" bush - needs good drainage and summer dormancy. |
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| (9) | 3" rose pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| (19) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| status: potted up 3-20-13 | ||||
| (21) | 1 gal | $ 15.00 | ||
| Penstemon heterophyllus 'Margarita BOP' | Foothill Penstemon | |||
 Beautiful blue flowers with a little more pink than most. This variety is quite tolerant of drought or garden watering. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| status: potted up 12-25-12 | ||||
| Penstemon newberryi var. sonomensis | Sonoma beardtongue | Tilden | ||
 Creeping groundcover with abundant red flowers on showy 2' spikes in summer. A rare and elusive chaparral plant known from fewer than twenty occurrences, it requires good drainage and full sun to part shade. Can be difficult in the garden but worth it for the bloom. Sensitive to heat and frost. Too much water in the summer will kill it. |
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Penstemon palmeri | Scented Penstemon | |||
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| (5) | 4" pot | $ 7.00 | ||
| (23) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Penstemon rydbergii | Rydberg's Penstemon | |||
 A Sierra mountain penstemon with salvia-like whorls of blue flowers. Likes some moisture and full sun. |
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| (3) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Penstemon speciosus | Royal Penstemon | |||
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 10.00 | ||
| Perideridia californica | California Yampah | Mt Diablo | ||
 Endemic to California, this species has a more intricate leaf. Marvelous Anise Swallowtail butterfly larval food plant. No native plant garden should be without a few of these. Any conditions, grows up to 3 feet, then cut back to the base. |
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| (1) | 2 gal | $ 25.00 | ||
| Perideridia kellogii | Western Yampah | |||
 Marvelous Anise Swallowtail butterfly larval food plant. No native plant garden should be without a few of these. Any conditions, grows up to 3 feet, then cut back to the base. |
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| (5) | 1/2 gal | $ 8.00 | ||
| (6) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Phacelia tanacetifolia | Tansy-leafed Scorpionplant | |||
 Elegant blue upright annual that drives bees crazy. |
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| (0) | $ 7.00 | |||
| Philadelphus lewisii | Mock Orange | |||
 Deciduous shrub with sweetly fragrant white flowers. Large vase shape. This species is native to California's northern mountainous regions. |
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| (0) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| Physocarpus capitatus (prostrate) | Ninebark groundcover | San Bruno Mountain | ||
 Low form of the wonderful deciduous shrub; this one stays less than 2 feet tall, with the same lush green foliage (in season) and a white bloom of clustered rose flowers; likes garden water but will thrive on north-facing slopes without and tolerates poor drainage. |
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| (0) | 5" tree band | $ 7.00 | ||
| Pinus lambertiana | Sugar Pine | |||
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 25.00 | ||
| status: very small 2-24-12 | ||||
| Pinus muricata | Bishop Pine | |||
 Beautiful closed-cone pine species of ancient origins with fast-growing multi-stemmed candelabra of fresh growth in shades of luminescent light green against the darker greens of the older branches. Good focal specimen in the garden. |
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| (1) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| Plantago subnuda | Tall Coastal Plantain | East Bay | ||
 Good coastal wildlife species with a rosette of fleshy stemless leaves and small green-brown flowers on dense 1-foot spikes. An important larval host plant for butterflies. AKA goose tongue. |
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| (19) | 4" pot | $ 5.00 | ||
| Platanus racemosa | Western sycamore | Cull Canyon | ||
 Fast-growing deciduous tree, often found in riparian zones. |
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| (2) | 15 gal | $ 100.00 | ||
| (0) | 10" tree band | $ 12.00 | ||
| Polygonum paronychia | Dune Knotweed | San Francisco | ||
 Low-growing easy and fine needle-leafed dune plant. In the garden it doesn't need sand, just sun, where it swiftly forms a tight mat for a fast and attractive drought-tolerant groundcover. |
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| (12) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| status: potted up 9-15-12 | ||||
| Polypodium californicum | California Polypody | Bay Area | ||
 Summer deciduous, the fronds dry up and blow away, then it's the first thing to leaf out with the fall rains. Spreading by rhizomes, can grow in cracks of stone walls and cliffs forming a thick root mass on the surface. |
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| (12) | 4" pot | $ 7.00 | ||
| status: divided 3-9-13 | ||||
| Polypodium californicum 'Sarah Lyman' | California Polypody | |||
| Summer deciduous, first thing to leaf out with the fall rains. |
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| (1) | 3" rose pot | $ 7.00 | ||
| status: divided 12-6-12 | ||||
| (9) | 1 gal | $ 15.00 | ||
| Polypodium scouleri | Leather Fern | Edgehill Mtn. SF | ||
| Evergreen form of polypody fern, does not grow on soil but on rocks and tree branches in fog swept areas. |
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| (9) | 1/2 gal | $ 10.00 | ||
| Polypodium scouleri | Leather Fern | |||
| Evergreen form of polypody fern, does not grow on soil but on rocks and tree branches in fog swept areas. |
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| (65) | 3" rose pot | $ 7.00 | ||
| Polystichum munitum | Sword Fern | |||
 A rugged and robust evergreen fern 2-4 feet tall with numerous fronds, common in damp woodlands below 2500 ft. Easy, beautiful, and bold in the garden. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| (3) | 15 gal | $ 120.00 | ||
| Populus tremuloides | Aspen | |||
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| (4) | 5 gal | $ 24.00 | ||
| status: potted up 5-3-12 | ||||
| Prunus illicifolia | Islais Cherry | |||
 This wonderful and local species (see the old-school population on San Francisco's Bayview Hill) grows evergreen up to 12 feet or more, making a lovely and hardy, bird-friendly, drought-tolerant hedge. |
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| (22) | 3" rose pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| status: potted up 9-22-12 | ||||
| (4) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| (3) | 10 gal | $ 65.00 | ||
| status: potted up 10-27-12 | ||||
| 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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| (0) | 15 gal | $ 130.00 | ||
| Ptelea crenulata | California Hoptree | Mt. Diablo | ||
 Interesting large deciduous shrub from the citrus family with glossy citrus scented leaves. |
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| (1) | 2 gal | $ 25.00 | ||
| (15) | 3" rose pot | $ 8.00 | ||
| status: potted up 9-22-12 | ||||
| (6) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| status: potted up 9-22-12 | ||||
| Quercus agrifolia | Coast live oak | San Mateo Co | ||
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| (10) | 9" tree band | $ 8.00 | ||
| (0) | 15 gal | $ 150.00 | ||
| (1) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (0) | 2" rose pot | $ 5.00 | ||
| Quercus chrysolepis | Canyon Live Oak or Goldencup Oak | Bay Area | ||
 The goldencup, a mid-sized oak usually less than 50 feet tall, has gorgeous leaves dusted underneath with gold, and nice fat acorns nestled in wooly bowl-shaped caps.
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| (5) | tree pot | $ 25.00 | ||
| (5) | 9" tree band | $ 8.00 | ||
| (8) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| status: potted up 9-5-12 | ||||
| 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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| (3) | tree pot 2 | $ 30.00 | ||
| (1) | tree pot | $ 25.00 | ||
| (2) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| (2) | 15 gal | $ 125.00 | ||
| Quercus kellogii | ||||
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| (4) | 9" tree band | $ 12.00 | ||
| Quercus wislizenii | Interior live oak | Mendocino Co | ||
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Similar to Coast Live Oak, for hotter, drier areas. |
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| (11) | tree pot | $ 18.00 | ||
| Ranunculus californica | California Buttercup | Bay Area | ||
 Nice addition to a wildflower meadow for February flowers, then recedes in summer. Seasonally damp east slopes with Dodecatheon. Makes a great long lasting cut flower! |
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| (6) | 3" rose pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| status: potted up 3-7-13 | ||||
| Rhamnus californica | Coffeeberry | |||
 One of the most emblematic of California native plants, coffeeberry is a lustrous evergreen growing to 10 feet tall and wide in full sun. Flowers insignificant; berries are highly attractive to birds. This ranks among the best choices for a beautiful, locally-appropriate, low-maintenance, drought-tolerant shrub. |
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| (0) | 2 gal | $ 22.00 | ||
| Rhamnus californica 'Eve Case' | Coffeeberry | |||
 A compact coastal cultivar of the excellent evergreen shrub. Clean green glossy leaves & berries for wildlife. Usually makes a 5-foot mound. |
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| (0) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| (2) | 2 gal | $ 22.00 | ||
| Rhamnus californica 'Leatherleaf' | Coffeeberry | |||
 Distinctive large dark leathery leaves resemble a Rhododendron. |
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| (0) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| (6) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Rhamnus californica 'Mound San Bruno' | Coffeeberry | San Mateo Co. | ||
| Smaller leaves and a more dense compact habit than the common wild form. 3-7 feet high (perhaps double that) and wider than tall. |
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| (0) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| (4) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Rhamnus californica 'Seaview' | Dwarf Coffeeberry | |||
| Low growing form to 2 feet high and twice as wide. |
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| (0) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| Rhamnus californica. | Coffeeberry | Montara Mountain | ||
| One of the most emblematic of California native plants, coffeeberry is a lustrous evergreen growing to 10 feet tall and wide in full sun. Flowers insignificant; berries are highly attractive to birds. This one hails from local Montara Mountain population and ranks among the best choices for a beautiful, locally-appropriate, low-maintenance, drought-tolerant shrub. |
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| (1) | 2 gal | $ 22.00 | ||
| Rhamnus crocea | Redberry | East Bay | ||
 These are slow growers to 4-5 feet and marvelous miniature shrubs, easy in the garden, an ideal solution for well-drained conditions like chert or sandy soils. Redberry are dioecious; you need a male and female plant to set seed, and these have not been sexed. |
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| (1) | 2 gal | $ 25.00 | ||
| (1) | 1/2 gal | $ 10.00 | ||
| Rhododendron occidentale | Western Azalea | |||
 A secret treasure from the sunny margins of the redwood forest and other moist environments, the western azalea has the most fragrant flowers of any rhododendron we know. Around 15 feet tall at maturity; spectacular bloom through spring and summer; winter deciduous. |
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| (1) | 5 gal | $ 65.00 | ||
| (1) | 5 gal | $ 75.00 | ||
| Rhus integrifolia | Lemonadeberry | Coastal So. Cal. | ||
 Glossy evergreen glosssy leafed shrub 3-10 foot tall and wide, compared to Rhus ovata, this one does better in coastal conditions but still drought tolerant. The fruit makes a nice lemonade flavored extract. |
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| (3) | 2 gal | $ 22.00 | ||
| (0) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| Ribes aureum | Golden Currant | |||
 This one needs some shade and/or moisture and has a more upright form than the similar R. quercetorum
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| (7) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| status: var. gracillimum | ||||
| Ribes californicum | Hillside Gooseberry | |||
 Very prickly, nice fall color. |
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| (3) | 7 gal | $ 60.00 | ||
| Ribes malvaceum | Chapparal Currant | |||
 The best flowering currant for the Bay Area. More drought tolerant, dense growing and sun loving than sanguineum. |
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| (0) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| status: light pink, almost white | ||||
| Ribes malvaceum 'Dancing Tassels' | Chapparal Currant | |||
| Best flowering currant for the Bay Area. More drought tolerant, dense growing and sun loving than sanguineum. Light pink flowered selection from Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden has a long blooming period and longer flower tassels. |
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| (4) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Ribes sanguineum 'Barrie Coate' | Red Flowering Currant | |||
 Deep red selection. |
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| (2) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| (1) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Ribes sanguineum 'Spring Showers' | Flowering Currant | |||
 Light pink selection. |
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| (0) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| 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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| (1) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| (1) | 2 gal | $ 22.00 | ||
| Ribes speciosum | Fuchsia Flowered Gooseberry | |||
 A gorgeous woodland plant with fuchsia-style flowers, this mid-size shrub is quite thorny and thus makes an excellent "green fence" for keeping neighborhood dogs and children out of the garden. Also a hummingbird magnet. |
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| (0) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| (1) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| 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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| (0) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| (2) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| Romneya coulteri | Matileja Poppy | |||
 Also called Fried Egg Plant because of the yellow center and white petals, this vigorous specimen is best on a dry south-facing slope where its 8-foot flower stalks won't flop over onto the path. Spreads readily from fast-running rhizomes. |
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| (3) | 1 gal | $ 18.00 | ||
| Rubus spectabilis var. franciscana | Salmonberry | Bay Area | ||
 A gorgeous deciduous shrub from a vigorous rhizome, salmonberry forms a thicket 6 ft. tall with reddish leaves and delicious edible fruit. Often found at streamsides; needs garden water. |
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| (15) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Salvia 'Bee's Bliss' | ||||
Aromatic and drought-tolerant mounding/spreading groundcover with silvery leaves and a soft blue blossom. 6 feet wide, 2 feet tall. |
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| (2) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Salvia 'Dara's Choice' | cultivar of Sonoma sage | |||
 'Dara's Choice' is likely S. sonomensis x S. clevelandii. Grows with an arching habit to 3 feet high and 6 feet wide, an excellent bloomer. Bright green leaves, striking blue flower. |
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Salvia apiana | White Sage | So. Cal. | ||
 Silver foliage with a strong and wonderful scent, small white flowers on dramatic tall stalks. Once prized by native Americans for burning as ceremonial incense in "smudge rituals." |
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| (3) | 3" rose pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| Salvia clevelandii | Cleveland's sage | |||
 An upright evergreen shrub to 3 or 4 feet, 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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| (3) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| status: 'Deer Spring Silver' | ||||
| Salvia clevelandii 'Winifred Gilman' | Winifred Gilman Sage | |||
 Handsome clevelandii selection with showy deep blue flowers, reddish stems and a sweet fragrance gets 3 feet high and wide. |
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (16) | 5" tree band | $ 6.00 | ||
| Salvia leucophylla 'Point Sal' | ||||
 Vigorous ground cover, 2-3' tall 4'wide with soft green-grey leaves and a lavender flower. |
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Salvia mellifera | Black sage | |||
 Hardy, wind- and drought-tolerant |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Salvia munzii | Munz's Sage | |||
 Small sage, 2-3 feet tall. From far southern CA, so very drought tolerant! Blue flowers. |
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| (14) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Salvia sonomensis | Sonoma sage | |||
 Creeping groundcover to 1 ft. tall and fast-spreading. Leaves are silvery grey. Great on a sunny slope. Deep blue flowers are a hummingbird magnet. Good drainage a must; cannot tolerate irrigation during summer months. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Salvia sonomensis 'Nefertierra Jade' | Green Sonoma Sage | Sonoma County | ||
| Lovely green-foliage form of the easy and aromatic spreader for dry conditions and full sun. Beautiful blue flowers in spring and early summer. |
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| (0) | 10" tree band | $ 12.00 | ||
| Salvia spathacea. | Hummingbird Sage | |||
 This aromatic perennial grows wild along the coast from Orange County to San Francisco, where it thrives on exposed north-facing slopes and in the dry duff under oaks. Creeps from a rhizome, sends up arrow-shaped leaves with the most delicious fragrance of any sage and robust pink blossoms that attract hummingbirds. See the star appearance of Salvia spathacea in the Locals Only story on Bernal Hill. |
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| (2) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| (1) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| (23) | 3" rose pot | $ 7.00 | ||
| Sambucus nigra caerulea | Blue Elderberry | |||
 A many-branched shrub or small tree from 10-30' tall and 8-20' wide, the blue elderberry gives delicious edible fruit and makes a choice selection for the native habitat garden. Common along stream banks and in open areas of forest. |
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| (0) | 15 gal | $ 82.00 | ||
| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (1) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| Sambucus racemosa | Red Elderberry | |||
 Very fast growing wetland shrub to 20 ft. Can be cut to the ground annually to keep neat appearance. Great very close to a water feature where it can dip its roots into the water. Large umbels of white flowers followed by stunning red berries which are poisonous to people but loved by birds. |
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| (1) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| (2) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| Scirpus spp. | Tule | |||
 Large Bullrush to six feet tall, of the tule fogs & marshes of the Central Valley and any CA pond or wet container. |
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| (2) | 9" tree band | $ 9.00 | ||
| Sedum spathulifolium 'Cape Blanco' | Stonecrop | |||
 This variety has a silvery blue leaf. |
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| (0) | 2" rose pot | $ 2.00 | ||
| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Sedum spathulifolium.. | Stonecrop | San Bruno Mountain | ||
 A lovely creeping succulent, easy to grow in full sun and drought, native to the Bay Area. The bright yellow blooms in summer attract the rare and endangered San Bruno Elfin and numerous other butterflies. |
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| (0) | 3" rose pot | $ 5.00 | ||
| Selaginella bigelovii | Spike Moss | San Benito Co. | ||
 Tough coarse moss grows in open seasonally damp rocky spots with sharp drainage. |
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| (0) | 3" rose pot | $ 8.00 | ||
| Sequoia sempervirens | Coast Redwood | |||
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| (0) | 5 gal | $ 35.00 | ||
| (4) | 7 gal | $ 65.00 | ||
| status: Simpson | ||||
| Sequoiadendron giganteum | Sierra Bigtree | |||
 These Redwoods make enormous tree trunks in the Sierra foothills. Not as tall as Coast Redwoods but more massive. |
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| (1) | 5" tree band | $ 6.00 | ||
| (3) | 1 gal | $ 16.00 | ||
| Sidalcea calycosa ssp. rhizomata | Point Reyes Checkerbloom | |||
 An uncommon plant from freshwater marshes at Point Reyes (and into Sonoma and Mendocino counties), this easy and beautiful groundcover for wet areas is listed as an endangered species by the CNPS. It spreads quickly when planted in the ground, and (with flowing fresh water) gives a bounty of pink flowers throughout the summer. In a pot, it makes attractive trailing stems with reddish leaves but no flowers. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (0) | 3" rose pot | $ 5.00 | ||
| status: div 12-2-12 | ||||
| Sidalcea malviflora | Checkerbloom | |||
 Hearty low spreading perennial wildflower for the coastal prairie. Luxuriant in bloom. Larval host for several butterflies; Skippers and Ladies.
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| (0) | 3" rose pot | $ 7.00 | ||
| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Silene verecunda ssp verecunda | San Francisco Campion | |||
 Rare carnation relative for sunny rock garden conditions. |
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| (2) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Sisyrinchium bellum 'Arroyo de la Cruz' | Blue-Eyed Grass | |||
 Hardy cultivar of the miniature iris relative, largely drought-tolerant with cheerful blue flowers throughout the spring and summer. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Sisyrinchium bellum 'Rocky Point' | Blue-Eyed Grass | |||
| Petite and attractive member of the iris family, largely drought-tolerant with cheerful blue flowers throughout the spring and summer. This variety is more compact and tidy than the straight species, thus prized by horticulture. |
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (1) | 5" tree band | $ 6.00 | ||
| Sisyrinchium californicum | Yellow-eyed Grass | |||
 Named "californicum" for the Golden State, this iris relative likes moist streambanks and only opens its flowers in full sun. Easy in those conditions; goes dormant in winter. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 8.00 | ||
| (1) | 2 gal | $ 20.00 | ||
| (5) | 1 gal | $ 8.00 | ||
| status: divided 8-26-12 | ||||
| (0) | 4" pot | $ 4.00 | ||
| (4) | 3 gal | $ 20.00 | ||
| Sod: Agrostis pallens | Bentgrass | |||
| A delicate spreading grass with attractive flowers, often found scrambling up shrubs but it makes a nice thick meadow grass too. Regular mowing makes a fine manicured turf. |
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| (40) | sq. ft. sod | $ 2.00 | ||
| status: sale overstock on site | ||||
| Solanum xantii | Blue Witch | Big Sur | ||
 Silvery leafed species with more spreading habit. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Solidago spathulata | Coast Goldenrod | Bay Area | ||
Low growing coastal species of Goldenrod makes a neat basal clump of leaves. Easy to grow, with yellow flowers in late summer. |
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| (5) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Sporobolus airoides | Alkali Sacaton | |||
 Grows in alkalai seeps and makes big fascinating feathery flower heads. |
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| (33) | 2" rose pot | $ 2.50 | ||
| Styrax officionalis | Snowbell Bush | |||
 Small delicate deciduous tree/shrub with fragrant snowdrop blossoms. Looks similar to Cercis/Redbud in leaf. |
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| (2) | 2 gal | $ 30.00 | ||
| status: potted up 4-27-13 | ||||
| (6) | 5 gal | $ 45.00 | ||
| status: potted up 4-27-13 | ||||
| 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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| (9) | 9" tree band | $ 9.00 | ||
| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (8) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| (0) | 3 gal | $ 24.00 | ||
| status: potted up 9-6-12 | ||||
| Symphoricarpos mollis | Creeping Snowberry | |||
 Local species, low growing ground cover. |
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| (10) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Symphoricarpos mollis var. acutus | Trailing Snowberry | |||
 This northern & Sierra species has a very spreading habit and a little different look with a pointy leaf (AKA Sharp-leaf Snowberry) and red stems in a flat laying fishbone pattern. This is a vigorous spreader with four-foot trailing shoots, give it room. |
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| (20) | 3 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Tall Tapered Square Fiberglass Pot | Grey | |||
 30-inch tall, 15-inch top, 11-inch bottom |
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| (1) | 15 gal | $ 158.00 | ||
| Tanacetum camphoratum | Dune Tansy | |||
 A silver ferny-leafed dune plant with yellow flowers, this former champion of the Franciscan flora spreads rapidly by rhizomes but is threatened in the wild by habitat destruction. It makes a strong statement of local ecological solidarity in the garden. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| (0) | 4" pot | $ 6.00 | ||
| status: divided 2-1-13 | ||||
| (24) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| status: divided 2-1-13 | ||||
| (34) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| status: potted up 4-17-13 | ||||
| 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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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| status: male | ||||
| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| status: var. polycarpum, female | ||||
| Toxicodendron diversilobum | Poison Oak | |||
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| (6) | 5" tree band | $ 6.00 | ||
| Trichostema lanatum | Wooly Blue Curls | |||
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| (0) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| (3) | 1 gal | $ 22.00 | ||
| 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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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Trillium chloropetalum | Giant Wake Robin | |||
 A remarkable lily for the woodland setting.note: all the Trilliums were divided and measured on December 12, 2012 - price is $50/inch (average of length and width of bulb. A 1-inch bulb should bloom nicely with a few stalks, a half inch bulb probably wqon't bloom for a years or two. They take at least 7 years from seed to bloom. The oldest mother plants are about 25 years old; I counted the rings. |
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| (3) | 5" tree band | $ 17.00 | ||
| (2) | 2 gal | $ 91.50 | ||
| status: 1.83 - pink | ||||
| (1) | 2 gal | $ 83.50 | ||
| status: 1.67 - pink | ||||
| (1) | 2 gal | $ 75.00 | ||
| status: 1.50 - pink | ||||
| (1) | 1 gal | $ 31.50 | ||
| status: .63 - pink | ||||
| (4) | 1 gal | $ 29.00 | ||
| status: .58 - pink | ||||
| (3) | 1/2 gal | $ 23.00 | ||
| status: .46 - DW1 | ||||
| (1) | 1 gal | $ 71.00 | ||
| status: 1.42 - DW2 | ||||
| (1) | 1 gal | $ 25.00 | ||
| status: .50 - DW2 | ||||
| (1) | 1 gal | $ 58.50 | ||
| status: 1.17 - DW2 | ||||
| (1) | 1 gal | $ 71.00 | ||
| status: 1.42 - DW3 | ||||
| (6) | 1 gal | $ 29.00 | ||
| status: .58 - DW3 | ||||
| (2) | 1/2 gal | $ 22.50 | ||
| status: .45 - DW3 | ||||
| (0) | 3" rose pot | $ 19.00 | ||
| status: .38 - DW3 | ||||
| Trillium ovataum | Western Wake Robin | Santa Cruz Mountains | ||
 From seed. |
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 30.00 | ||
| (1) | 3" rose pot | $ 7.00 | ||
| status: tiny 2 year old seedling | ||||
| 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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| (20) | 5" tree band | $ 8.00 | ||
| Triteleia peduncularis | Marsh Triteleia | |||
| White flowered wetland-loving bulb. |
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| (1) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Umbellularia californica | California Bay Laurel | |||
 Slow growing very large tree that can be kept pruned and neat. Grows well in containers. Fragrant leaves can be used in cooking but you need much less than European bay. |
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| (2) | 15 gal | $ 150.00 | ||
| (0) | 5 gal | $ 45.00 | ||
| Urtica dioica | Stinging Nettle | East Bay | ||
 Looks like a tall mint up to 6 foot high but stings can last for hours. Larval host for Red Admiral butterfly. |
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| (4) | 5" tree band | $ 6.00 | ||
| 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! You'll need two plants to cross-pollinate and set fruit and they fruit more in the sun. |
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| (15) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| (0) | 2 gal | $ 29.00 | ||
| Vaccinium ovatum 'Indian's Wanderer' | Evergreen Huckleberry | |||
| Low, thicketing selection; reddish stems, dark narrow leaves. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Verbena lilacina 'De la Mina' | Lilac Verbena | Cedros Island Baja | ||
 Evergreen perennial from sand dunes on an island off Baja to 2 feet with showy fragrant flowers that attract butterflies. Can bloom almost year round on the coast. Drought tolerant unlike our local wetland species. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Viola adunca | Western Dog Violet | |||
 A nice vigorous woodland violet with pretty blue flower. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 12.00 | ||
| Vitis californica | Wild Grape | |||
 This is a selection of the true wild form with good fruit for eating. Train it up a fence or into a tree, or let it scramble horizontally to make a good seasonal groundcover and excellent quail habitat. Deciduous. |
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| (1) | 5 gal | $ 40.00 | ||
| Vitis californica x vinifera | Wild Grape | Russian River | ||
| A fabulous hybrid selection of the fast-growing California wild grape, 'Russian River' holds it's red fall leaves longer than Roger's Red. The grapes are not edible but birds adore them and will flock to this plant. Train it up a fence or into a tree, or let it scramble horizontally to make a good seasonal groundcover and excellent quail habitat. Deciduous. Genetic tests have shown this is a cross between our native grape and the European wine grape cultivar 'Alicante Bouchet'. |
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| (1) | 2 gal | $ 29.00 | ||
| status: potted up 4-27-13 | ||||
| Wood Tree Stakes | ||||
 8-foot round stake for securing trees during establishment. |
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| (0) | $ 6.00 | |||
| 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. Drought tolerant when established but occurs naturally in seeps.
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 14.00 | ||
| Wyethia angustifolia | Mule's-ears | |||
 An abundant low-growing sunflower, Wyethia punctuates the red chert hills of San Francisco's Bayview Hill with cheerful yellow blooms. Grown from seed collected locally. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 18.00 | ||
| Xerophyllum tenax | Beargrass | |||
 Spectacular lily relative from mountainous areas, looks like a big elegant clump of grass till it blooms. |
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| (0) | 1 gal | $ 30.00 | ||
| Yucca brevifolia | Joshua Tree | |||
 Desert tree form yucca. |
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| (2) | 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 | $ 14.00 | ||
| (1) | 2 gal | $ 25.00 | ||
| status: potted up 9-8-12 | ||||
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