Our Plants (List)

Western sycamore grows in a variety of habitats from about Red Bluff in Northern California into northern Baja. Common to all sites is the presence of water, which the tree needs in abundance. Western sycamore grows as a single or multi-trunk tree with an open rounded form. Unlike its close…

Cream cups are native to much of the western half of the state, then into Mexico and the Southwest. It mounds up to about a foot then displays its cream white flowers, often with some yellow details, in abundance. Full sun and well-draining soil. A Santa Clara County native.

The sweetscent is named for its aromatic foliage. This upright, single-stemmed perennial is topped with an umbel of pink flowers quite attractive to pollinators, such as the southern emerald butterfly and everlasting bud moth. Sweetscent is common in freshwater wetlands throughout the US, and will spread quite readily by means…

This amazingly adaptable grass grows in nearly every county in California, in a wide range of plant communities. Pine bluegrass is one of the few plants in the state that one is as likely to encounter on a trip to the beach as on a trip to Lake Tahoe. A…

Royal Jacob’s ladder is a rare plant in the San Francisco Bay Area, becoming more common in Oregon and Washington. It grows in a variety of shady, moist habitats in coastal mountains. It grows in a dense spreading patch of compound leaves which drape like the fronds of a fern….

Several species of the genus Polemonium grace California with their frond-like, pinnately compound leaves and generous pastel blooms. With the exception of royal Jacob’s ladder, Polemonium carneum, they grow at high elevations, well above the snow line and often in rocky alpine settings. Sky pilot thrives in such inhospitable environments…

This fern grows in shady settings in California’s coastal mountains from Oregon to Baja. It is one of several plants which thrive in the portion of the Sierra foothills cooled in the summer by the marine air that rushes daily through the Golden Gate. With the cool winter months, apple-green…

This fern grows in shady settings in California’s coastal mountains from Oregon to Baja. It is one of several plants which thrive in the portion of the Sierra foothills cooled in the summer by the marine air that rushes daily through the Golden Gate. With the cool winter months, apple-green…