Our Plants (List)

This little perennial is native to eastern Sierra Nevada and Great Basin in California. A typical growing site is rocky, dry and sunny. The winters are quite cold and relatively dry compared to Mediterranean California. Plants from this type of climate are something of an experiment when grown at lower…

Yerba santa is a common shrub in many, usually mountainous, settings from San Luis Obispo County north. It grows in a vase shape to an impressive height with an open structure. The leaves are large, dark green and somewhat wrinkled. The flowers are lavender and attract a variety of pollinators….

Yerba santa is a common shrub in many, usually mountainous, settings from San Luis Obispo County north. It grows in a vase shape to an impressive height with an open structure. The leaves are large, dark green and somewhat wrinkled. The flowers are lavender and attract a variety of pollinators….

Santa Cruz Island buckwheat is another of those Channel Island endemics that thrives in many parts of California. It grows as an open shrub in sun or light shade. The leaves are narrow, olive green and grow in upright bunches. While Santa Cruz Island buckwheat may grow to a height…

This is another of California’s exceptional endemic buckwheat. It grows naturally in coastal strand and coastal sage scrub from Santa Barbara County to San Diego County. It grows in a rounded, upright, neat form to about 3 feet or so. The leaves are silvery gray. The pink-tinted white flowers are…

This buckwheat is native to the interior coastal mountains of Northern California. It forms a low, expanding mat of felty leaves with the arrowhead shape for which this buckwheat is named. The leaves are dark green on the top and silvery white beneath. The flowers are held in umbels above…