Native Plants and Their Uses

INTRODUCTION

ACER spp. (Acer macrophyllum & Acer negundo var. californicum) - Big Leaf Maple & Box Elder.

ALDER, WHITE - Alnus rhombifolia

ALUM ROOT - Heuchera maxima & H. micrantha

ANEMOPSIS CALIFORNICA - Yerba Mansa

ANNUALS AND SOME PERENNIALS

• COLUMBINE (Aquilegia exima & A. formosa)

• GOLDFIELDS (Baeria chrysostoma)

• OWL'S CLOVER (Castilleja exserta)

• CLARKIA spp. (Clarkia amoena, C. concinna, C. unguiculata & Clarkia spp.)

• CHINESE HOUSES (Collinsia heterophyllia)

• GILIA (Gilia capitata, G. tricolor, Gilia spp.)

• GOLD FIELDS (Lasthenia glabrata)

• TIDY TIPS (Layia glandulosa)

• LUPINES (Lupinus arboreus, L. bicolor, L. densiflorus, L. nanus, L. succulentis and Lupinus spp.)

• BLAZING STAR (Mentzelia lindleyi & Mentzelia spp.)

• MONKEY FLOWERS (Mimulus aurantiacus, M. cardinalis M. guttatus, M. pilosus )

• BABY BLUE EYES (Nemophila menziesii)

• PENSTEMONS (Penstemon heterophyllus prudyi)

• BEE FOOD (Phacelia campanularia, P. minor & P. tanacetifolia)

• CALIFORNIA BEE PLANT (Scrophularia californica)

• CALIFORNIA GOLDENRODS (Solidago californica)

• WIND POPPY (Stylomecon heterophylla)

ARMERIA MARITIMA - California Thrift or Sea Pink or Gilliflower.

ASH, OREGON & FLOWERING - Fraxinus latifolia & F. dipetal

BALSAM ROOT - Balsamorhiza macrolepis

BAYBERRY, CALIFORNIA, Pacific Bayberry, California Wax Myrtle, Pacific Wax Myrtle - Myrica californica

BERRIES

BARBERRY, CREEPING or OREGON GRAPE - Mahonia/Berberis repens

BLACKBERRIES & RASBERRIES - Rubus species.

CURRANTS & GOOSEBERRIES - Ribes species, Including: Ribes aureum gracillimum (Bugle Currant) Ribes/Grossularia californicum (Hillside or California Gooseberry); Ribes/Grossularia divaricata (Straggly Gooseberry or Straggle Bush) Ribes malvaceum (Chapparral or California Black Currant); Ribes/Grossularia menziesii (Bay or Canyon Gooseberry) Ribes sanguineum glutinosum (Winter or Pink Flowering Current) Ribes/Grossularia speciosum (Fuchsia Flowering Gooseberry) and Ribes viburnifolium (Evergreen Currant)

ELDERBERRIES, BLUE - Sambucus mexicana

GRAPES, CALIFORNIA - Vitis californica

HUCKLEBERRIES, EVERGREEN - Vaccinium ovatum

STRAWBERRIES, CALIFORNIA - Fragaria californica

BLADDER POD - Isomeris arboria

BLUE CURLS, WOOLY or Vinegar or Tar Weed - Trichostema lanatum

BLUE WITCH - Solanum Umbelliferum

BRICKELL BUSH - Brickellia californica

BUCKEYE, CALIFORNIA OR HORSE CHESTNUT - Aesculus californica.

BUCKTHORNS OR CASARA - Rhamnus spp.

BUCKWHEAT, WILD - Eriogonum spp.; E. arborescens, E. giganteum & E. grande rubescence

BULBS

• ALLIUM spp. (A. amplectens, A. dichlamydeum, A. haematochiton, A. hyalinum A. unifolium)

• BLOOMERIA CROSEA - Golden Stars

• BRODIAEA spp. (B. appendiculata, B. californica, B. coronaria, B. elegans, B. jolonensis, B. minor, B. lutea/Triteleia ixoides var. ixoides, B. pulchella/Dichelostemma capitatum - Blue Dicks, B. purdyi, B. stellaris & B. terrestris)

• CALOCHORTUS spp. (C. albus, C./Mariposa argillosus, C./Mariposa catalinae, C./Mariposa luteus, C. plummera, C. simulens, C./Mariposa splendens, C./Mariposa superbus, C. tolmiei, C. umbellatus, C. uniflora, C./Mariposa venustus & C. weedii)

• CAMASSIA spp. (C. leichtlinii & C. quamash)

• DICHEOSTEMMA spp. (D. capitatum/Brodiaea pulchella - Blue Dicks, D. congestum, D. ida-maia, D. multiflora & D. volubile)

• ERYTHRONIUM spp. (E. californicum - Fawn Lily & E. tuolumnense).

• FRITILLARIA spp. (F. affinis/lanceolata - Mission Bells, F. biflora, F. lilacea, F. pluriflora - Adobe Lily & F. recurva)

• IRIS (I. douglasiani, I. fernaldi & I. Longpetula)

• LILIUM (L. humboldtii & L. pardalinium)

• ODONTOSTOMUM HARTWEGII

• TRITELEIA spp. (T. bridgesii, T. hyacinthina, T. ixoides var. ixoides/Brodiaea lutea, T. laxa & T. peduncularis)

BUTTERCUP, CALIFORNIA - Ranunculus californicus

CALIFORNIA NUTMEG - Torreya californica

CALIFORNIA PEONY (Paeonia californicus)

CARPENTARIA CALIFORNICA - Tree Anemone

CEANOTHUS spp - Wild Lilacs

CEDAR, INCENSE - Libocedrus decurrens

CEDAR, WESTERN RED - Thuja plicata

CHEMISE BUSH or Greasewood - Adenostoma fasciculatum

CHOKECHERRIES, HOLLY LEAF - Prunus ilicifolia

COMAROSTAPHYLIS DIVERSIFOLIA - Summer Holly

COTTONWOODS/ POPULARS/ASPENS - Populus Fremontii

COYOTE BRUSH (Baccharis pilularis)

COYOTE MINT - Monardella villosa

CREOSOTE BUSH (Larrea divaricata & L. tridentata)

CYPRESS FAMILY - Cupressus ssp.

DOGWOODS, BROWN & REDTWIG - Cornus glabrata & C. stolonifera, also called C. californica

DUTCHMAN'S PIPE - Aristolochia californica (also called California Snakeroot or California Pipe Vine

EVENING PRIMROSE - Oenothera hookeri/elata & O. graciliflora and O. ovata - SUNCUPS or Golden Eggs

FLANNEL BUSH or CALIFORNIA SLIPPERY ELM - Fremonia/Fremontodendron californicum

FLAX, BLUE - Linum spp. (Linum Iewisii & L. perenne)

FRINGE CUPS - Tellima grandiflora

FUCHSIAS, CALIFORNIA & HUMMINGBIRD - Zauschneria californica & Z. cana, sometimes called Epilobium Cana

GINGER, WILD - Asarum caudatum

GRASSES

• BRIZA MEDIA - Quaking Grass
• CALAMAGROSTIS FOLIOSA - Leafy Reed Grass
• CAREX spp. (C. nudata, C. senta & C. tumulicola) - Sedges
• FESTUCA CALIFORNICA - California Fescue
• SISYRINCHUM spp. (S. bellum & S. californicum) - Blue-eyed & Yellow-eyed Grasses

HAPLOPAPPUS spp. - Halopappus arborescens, H. linearifolius & H. squarrosus) - Mock Heather

HAZELNUT, CALIFORNIA - Corylus californica

HOLODISCUS DISCOLOR - Sea Foam

HONEYSUCKLE - Lonicera interupta & L. involucrata (also called TWINBERRY)

HORKELIA spp. (Horkelia californica var. frondosa & H. bolanderi var. parryi - Rare) - Leafy Horkelia & Star Turf.

INDIAN WARRIOR - Pedicularis densiflora & P. dudley

KECKIELLA CORDIFOLIA spp. - California Snapdragon

LOTUS spp. (Lotus scoparius & Lotus strigosus) - California Broom/Deerweed & Strigose Trefoil.

LYONOTHAMUS FLORIBUNDUS - Fernleaf Ironwood

MADRONES - Arbutus menziesii & A. "MARINA"

MALACOTHAMNUS spp. (Malacothamnus davidsonii - Rare, M. fasciculatus, M. orbiculatus & M. palmeri)

MANZANITAS , MISSION - Xyloccocus bicolor

MANZANITAS - Arctostaphylos spp.

MONTIA & CLAYTONIA spp. (Montia parvifolia & Montia/Claytonia perfoliata) - Small-Leaved Montia & Miner's Lectuce.

MULE'S EARS (Wyethia angustifolia, W. glabra & W. helenioides).

NINEBARKS - Physocarpus capitatus

OAKS, NATIVE - Quercus spp.

OSMARONIA CERASIFORMIS - Oso Berry

PIGGY-BACK PLANT - Tolmeia menziesii

POPPIES ALL

• ESCHSCHOLTZIA SPP., PAPAVER SPP. & ARGEMONE SPP.
• BUSH POPPY or TREE POPPY - Dendromecon rigida
• COULTER'S MATILLIA POPPY - Romneya coulteri

REDBUDS, WESTERN - Cercis occidentalis

REDWOODS - Sequoia semervirens

ROSES, CALIFORNIA (Rosa californica)

SAGES, NATIVE - Salvia spp.

SAGE, PITCHER - Lepechinia calycina & L. fragrans

SAGEBRUSH, CALIFORNIA - Artemesia californica

SALAL - Gaultheria shallon

SERVICE BERRY - Amelanchier pallida

SIDALCEA spp. (Sidalcea hickmanii - Rare & S. malvaeflora) - Checkerbloom/ Wild Hollyhock.

SILENE spp. (Silene californica & S. scouleri var. grandis - Rare) Indian Pink

SILK TASSEL - GARRYA spp.

SNOWBERRY - Symphoricarpos albus laevigatus

SOAP PLANT, CALIFORNIA or Amole Lily - Chlorogalum pomeridianum

SPICE BUSH, Balm of Heaven, California Laurel, Pepper- wood, California Pepper, Oregon Myrtle - Umbellularia californica

SPICE BUSH, WESTERN - Calycanthus/Butneria occidentalis

STREAM ORCHIDS - Epipctis gigantea

STYRAX OFFICINALIS - Snowdrop Bush

SUMACS (Rhus spp.)

• RHUS INTEGRIFOLIA - Lemonade Berry
• RHUS OVATA - Sugar Bush
• RHUS TRILOBATA - Squaw Bush or Basketweed
• RHUS DIVERSILOBA - POISON OAK

TOYONS/CALIFORNIA HOLLY/CHRISTMAS BERRIES - Heteromeles arbutifolia

VERBENA LASIOSTACHYS - Lavender Verbena

VIOLA spp. (Viola adjunca & V. pendunculata) - Western Dog Violet & Johnny-Jump-Up

WILLOW HERB - Epilobium spp; E. minutum & E. paniculatum

WILLOWS - Salix species, particularly, Arroyo Willow (S. lasiolepsis) and Red Willow (S. laevigata)

YARROW, WHITE - Achillia millefolium var.californica

YERBA BUENA (Satureja Douglasii)

YERBA SANTA or Holy Herb, Bear Plant or California Mountain Balm - Eriodictyon californica

YEW, WESTERN - Taxus brevifolia

YUCCA spp. (Yucca baccata & Y. whipplei) - Banana Yucca & Spanish Bayonet/Our Lord's Candle