Our Plants (List)

Humboldt County fuchsia is found in Califrornia’s coastal mountains from Mendocino County north. Like its more common relative, Epilobium canum, it is prized by gardeners for its bright red, tubular flowers which cover the plant densely in the late summer and fall. This selection grows in a low, spreading patch…

The stream orchid is one of the roughly forty taxa of the orchid family found in California. Most of California’s orchids are as beautiful as they are difficult to cultivate. The coral roots of the genus Corallorhiza, for instance, appear in woodland settings with small intricate flowers with maroon markings….

The stream orchid is an uncommon find in many locations in California and the West, where it thrives in sun to shade in moist settings. It spreads via rhizome to form a patch of upright leaves somewhat similar to a calla lily in appearance. The flowers are varied in color…

Golden fleece brightens its chaparral habitat with light, apple green leaves and bright yellow flowers. Found in the coastal ranges down to about Ventura County and the lower foothills of the Sierra Nevada, golden fleece has become rare with the suppression of wildfires. The form is open and upright, perhaps…

The cliff goldenbush is found in exposed, rocky areas in interior mountains from Placer County south into the Southwest and Mexico. It grows as a rounded shrub of apple-green to about three feet or so. Although most goldenbush species have narrow, needle-like leaves, those of the cliff goldenbush are rounded….

Take a drive in the Diablo Range in June and you will discover the roadside decorated with rounded green shrubs covered with bright, one inch daisy flowers. This is the narrowleaf goldenbush, a native of dry mountainous regions throughout much of California into the Southwest and Mexico. In the San…