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California-Northern Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Northern California. Visit our Suppliers Directory to locate businesses that sell native plants or seeds or provide professional landscape or consulting services in this state. Visit the Organizations Directory to locate native plant societies, conservation groups, governmental agencies, botanical gardens, arboreta, and other plant-related organizations in this state.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Eriogonum arborescens | Santa Cruz Island Buckwheat Santa Cruz Island Wild Buckwheat | |
| Eriogonum giganteum | St. Catherine's Lace | |
| Erigeron glaucus | Seaside Fleabane Seaside Daisy | |
| Eriogonum grande var. rubescens | San Miguel Island Buckwheat Redflower Pacific Island Wild Buckwheat Redflower Buckwheat Large Redflower Buckwheat | |
| Ericameria nauseosa var. nauseosa | Rubber Rabbitbrush Rabbitbrush | |
| Eriogonum umbellatum | Sulphur-flower Buckwheat Sulphur-flower Wild Buckwheat Sulphur Buckwheat Sulphur-flower | |
| Eschscholzia caespitosa | Tufted Poppy Tufted-poppy | |
| Eschscholzia californica | California Poppy California Gold Poppy | |
| Festuca californica | California Fescue | |
| Festuca idahoensis | Idaho Fescue Bunchgrass Fescue Blue Bunchgrass | |
| Festuca occidentalis | Western Fescue | |
| Fritillaria affinis | Checker Lily Chocolate Lily | |
| Fremontodendron californicum | California Flannelbush Northern Flannelbush Northern Fremontia California Slippery Elm | |
| Frangula californica ssp. californica | California Buckthorn Coffeeberry | |
| Fragaria vesca | Woodland Strawberry California Strawberry Wood Strawberry | |
| Garrya elliptica | Wavyleaf Silktassel Wavy-leaf Silktassel Silk-tassel Bush Coastal Silktassel | |
| Gaultheria shallon | Salal | |
| Gilia capitata | Bluehead Gilia Blue-head Gily-flower Globe Gilia Blue Gilia | |
| Gilia tricolor | Bird's-eye Gilia Bird's-eyes | |
| Heteromeles arbutifolia | Toyon California Christmasberry Christmasberry California Holly Hollywood | |
| Helenium bigelovii | Bigelow's Sneezeweed | |
| Heuchera maxima | Island Alumroot Jill Of The Rocks | |
| Heuchera micrantha | Crevice Alumroot Common Alumroot | |
| Heuchera pilosissima | Seaside Alumroot Shaggy Alumroot Hairy Alumroot | |
| Hesperolinon sharsmithiae | Sharsmith's Western Flax Sharsmith's Dwarf Flax | |
| Hesperoyucca whipplei | Our Lord's Candle Chaparral Yucca Foothill Yucca Quixote Yucca | |
| Holodiscus discolor | Ocean Spray Hillside Ocean-spray Cream Bush Mountain Spray | |
| Ipomopsis aggregata | Scarlet Gilia Scarlet Standing-cypress Skyrocket Skunkflower | |
| Iris douglasiana | Douglas Iris Mountain Iris Western Iris | |
| Iris innominata | Del Norte County Iris | |
| Iris missouriensis | Rocky Mountain Iris Western Blue Flag | |
| Iris tenuissima | Longtube Iris | |
| Juglans californica | Southern California Walnut California Black Walnut | |
| Juniperus californica | California Juniper Desert White Cedar | |
| Juniperus communis | Common Juniper | |
| Juniperus occidentalis | Western Juniper | |
| Keckiella cordifolia | Heartleaf Keckiella Heart-leaf Bush-beardtongue Climbing Penstemon Heartleaf Penstemon | |
| Koeleria macrantha | Prairie Junegrass Junegrass Prairie Koeler's Grass | |
| Lavatera assurgentiflora | Island Mallow Mission-mallow Tree Mallow | |
| Lasthenia glabrata | Yellowray Goldfields Yellow-ray Goldfields California Sunshine | |
| Layia platyglossa | Coastal Tidytips | |
| Leptosiphon androsaceus | False Babystars | |
| Lepechinia calycina | Woodbalm California Pitcher Plant Pitcher Sage | |
| Lewisia cotyledon | Siskiyou Lewisia Siskiyou Bitter-root Broadleaf Lewisia | |
| Leucothoe davisiae | Sierra Laurel Sierran Doghobble Western Leucothoe | |
| Lepechinia fragrans | Island Pitchersage El Tigre Pitcher Sage Fragrant Pitcher Sage | |
| Ledum glandulosum | Western Labrador Tea Trapper's Tea | |
| Leptosiphon grandiflorus | Largeflower Linanthus Large-flower Desert-trumpets Mountain Phlox | |
| Leymus triticoides | Beardless Wildrye Beardless Lyme Grass Creeping Wildrye | |
| Linnaea borealis | Twinflower American Twinflower | |
| Limnanthes douglasii | Douglas' Meadowfoam Douglas Meadowfoam | |
| Lilium humboldtii | Humboldt Lily | |
| Linum lewisii | Wild Blue Flax Prairie Flax Lewis Flax Lewis's Flax | |
| Linum lewisii var. lewisii | Prairie Flax Blue Flax | |
| Lilium pardalinum | Leopard Lily Tiger Lily Panther Lily | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
| Lonicera involucrata | Twinberry Honeysuckle Black Twinberry Honeysuckle Black Twinberry Bearberry Honeysuckle Four-line Honeysuckle | |
| Lotus scoparius | Common Deerweed Deerweed | |
| Lupinus albifrons | Silver Lupine White-leaf Bush Lupine Evergreen Lupine | |
| Lupinus arboreus | Yellow Bush Lupine Bush Lupine Tree Lupine | |
| Lupinus bicolor | Miniature Lupine Miniature Annual Lupine Pygmy-leaved Lupine | |
| Lupinus densiflorus | Whitewhorl Lupine | |
| Lupinus densiflorus var. aureus | Whitewhorl Lupine Golden Lupine | |
| Lupinus grayi | Sierra Lupine | |
| Lupinus nanus | Ocean-blue Lupine Sky Lupine | |
| Lupinus polyphyllus | Bigleaf Lupine Blue-pod Lupine Meadow Lupine Bog Lupine | |
| Lupinus succulentus | Hollowleaf Annual Lupine Hollow-leaf Annual Lupine Arroyo Lupine Succulent Lupine | |
| Lupinus vallicola | Open Lupine | |
| Mahonia aquifolium | Holly-leaved Barberry Holly-leaf Oregon-grape | |
| Maianthemum dilatatum | False Lily Of The Valley May Lily Canada Mayflower | |
| Madia elegans | Common Madia Elegant Madia | |
| Malacothamnus mendocinensis | Mendocino Bush Mallow Mendocino Bush-mallow | |
| Mahonia nervosa | Cascade Barberry Cascade Oregon-grape Dwarf Oregon-grape | |
| Mahonia nevinii | Nevin's Barberry | |
| Mahonia pinnata | Wavyleaf Barberry Shinyleaf Mahonia California Barberry | |
| Maianthemum racemosum | Feathery False Lily Of The Valley False Solomon's Seal Feathery False Solomon's Seal False Spikenard Solomon's Plume Smilacina | |
| Mahonia repens | Creeping Barberry Creeping Oregon-grape | |
| Melica imperfecta | Smallflower Melic Grass Coast Range Melic Grass Smallflower Melic Coast Range Melic Oniongrass | |
| Mentzelia laevicaulis | Smoothstem Blazingstar Giant Blazingstar Evening Star Stick Leaf | |
| Mentzelia lindleyi | Lindley's Blazingstar Evening Star | |
| Mimulus bicolor | Yellow-and-white Monkeyflower | |
| Mimulus cardinalis | Scarlet Monkeyflower Crimson Monkeyflower Scarlet Monkey-flower | |
| Mimulus guttatus | Yellow Monkeyflower Golden Monkeyflower Seep Monkeyflower Common Monkeyflower Seep Monkey-flower | |
| Mimulus kelloggii | Kellogg's Monkeyflower | |
| Mimulus lewisii | Purple Monkeyflower Great Purple Monkeyflower Lewis Monkeyflower Lewis's Monkeyflower | |
| Mimulus primuloides | Primrose Monkeyflower Yellow Creeping Monkeyflower Creeping Yellow Monkeyflower Yellow Creeping Monkey-flower | |
| Morella californica | Pacific Wax Myrtle California Wax Myrtle Pacific Bayberry California Bayberry | |
| Monardella odoratissima | Mountain Monardella Alpine Mountainbalm Coyote Mint Mountain Pennyroyal | |
| Monardella villosa | Coyote Mint | |
| Muhlenbergia rigens | Deergrass Meadow Muhly Deer Muhly | |
| Nemophila maculata | Fivespot | |
| Nemophila menziesii | Baby Blue Eyes Menzies Baby Blue Eyes | |
| Notholithocarpus densiflorus | Tan Oak Tanoak Tan-oak Tanbark-oak | |
| Oenothera caespitosa | Tufted Evening Primrose Gumbo Evening Primrose Gumbo Lily Fragrant Evening Primrose Tufted Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera elata ssp. hookeri | Hooker's Evening-primrose Giant Evening-primrose | |
| Oxalis oregana | Redwood-sorrel Oregon Wood Sorrel Oregon Woodsorrel | |
| Penstemon centranthifolius | Scarlet Bugler | |
| Penstemon heterophyllus | Bunchleaf Penstemon Bunchleaf Beardtongue Foothill Penstemon Foothill Beardtongue | |
| Peritoma lutea | Yellow Bee-plant Yellow Spiderflower | |
| Peritoma platycarpa | Golden Bee-plant Golden Spiderflower | |
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