Our Plants (List)

The yellow bush snapdragon is native to the mountains of southern California, Mexico and the Southwest. It grows in an upright rounded form to about six feet with small, lance-shaped leaves on reddish gray branches. The flowers of mid-spring show its close relationship to the penstemon. The abundant lemon-yellow flowers…

The gaping keckiella is found in many plant communities but is most prominent on dry sunny hillsides. In Santa Clara County it is fairly common in the Diablo Range, especially in Henry Coe State Park. It grows as an open, upright shrub to about three feet in height. The flowers…

Heartleaf keckiella is a mounding shrub from the coast and coastal mountains of central and southern California into Baja California. It is often encountered growing among and into other plants with its long, vine-like branches. If planted away from other plants it will grow in a rounded or mounding form….

Redwood keckiella grows in a variety of habitats in coastal mountains from San Luis Obispo County to the Oregon border. It is unusual for growing in a wide range of plant communities. It is found in various forest settings, but also in exposed rocky outcroppings. In Santa Clara County one…

This hardy grass is found in many plant communities throughout California and North America. It grows as an upright bunch of apple green blades to about a foot in height. In the spring the flowers rise above the foliage in wheat-like clusters. Like any native grass, junegrass will go dormant…

This beautiful little vine is so common it is easy to miss along trailsides in the SF Bay Area, much of coastal California and beyond. It winds its way in and around other foliage with compound leaves of oval leaflets, establishing a backdrop for other plants. In spring the snapdragon-like…

The ‘Black Heart’ tree mallow is a hybrid of Lavatera assurgentiflora and Lavatera venosa, a Mexican species. It forms a mounding shrub to about 6 feet high and 8 feet wide. The leaves are a medium green – about the color of a healthy lawn – and similar to a…

‘Purisima’ is a hybrid of two Lavatera species: L. assurgentiflora of the Channel Islands and L. venosa of little San Benito Island off the Pacific Coast of Baja. The form is open and rounded, usually wider than tall. The large leaves can be 8 inches in diameter or more and…

As the common name indicates, Lavatera assurgentiflora, is native to several of the Channel Islands of California. Like many Channel Island natives, island mallow does quite well in coastal settings in central and southern California and northern Mexico. It has even naturalized in several locations. Island mallow naturally grows rapidly…