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California-Southern Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Southern 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 |
| 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 | |
| Nemophila maculata | Fivespot | |
| Nemophila menziesii | Baby Blue Eyes Menzies Baby Blue Eyes | |
| Notholithocarpus densiflorus | Tan Oak Tanoak Tan-oak Tanbark-oak | |
| Nolina parryi | Parry's Beargrass Bigelow Nolina Parry's Bear-grass | |
| Oenothera caespitosa | Tufted Evening Primrose Gumbo Evening Primrose Gumbo Lily Fragrant Evening Primrose Tufted Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera deltoides | Birdcage Evening-primrose Fragrant Primrose Desert Evening-primrose Birdcage Primrose Dune Evening Primrose Devil's-lantern | |
| Oenothera elata ssp. hookeri | Hooker's Evening-primrose Giant Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera pallida | Pale Evening-primrose | |
| Parkinsonia florida | Blue Paloverde | |
| Peritoma arborea | Bladderpod Spiderflower Bladderpod Bladderbush Burro-fat Spiderflower | |
| Peritoma arborea var. arborea | Bladderpod Spiderflower Bladderpod Bladderbush Burro-fat Spiderflower | |
| Peritoma arborea var. angustata | Narrowfruit Bladderpod Narrowfruit Bladderpod Spiderflower Narrowfruit Bladderbush Spiderflower | |
| Peritoma arborea var. globosa | Roundfruit Bladderpod Roundfruit Bladderpod Spiderflower Roundfruit Bladderbush Spiderflower | |
| Penstemon centranthifolius | Scarlet Bugler | |
| Penstemon clevelandii | Cleveland's Penstemon Cleveland's Beardtongue | |
| Penstemon eatonii | Firecracker Penstemon Firecracker Beardtongue Eaton's Penstemon Eaton's Beardtongue | |
| Penstemon heterophyllus | Bunchleaf Penstemon Bunchleaf Beardtongue Foothill Penstemon Foothill Beardtongue | |
| Peritoma jonesii | Jones Bee-plant Jones Spiderflower | |
| Peritoma lutea | Yellow Bee-plant Yellow Spiderflower | |
| Penstemon palmeri | Palmer's Penstemon Palmer's Beardtongue Scented Penstemon Scented Beardtongue | |
| Peritoma serrulata | Rocky Mountain Bee-plant Stinking-clover Bee Spiderflower Navajo Spinach Pink Cleome Toothed Spiderflower Skunkweed | |
| Penstemon spectabilis | Showy Penstemon Showy Beardtongue Royal Penstemon Royal Beardtongue | |
| Phacelia campanularia | Desert Bells Desert Canterbury Bells Desert Bluebells Bluebells | |
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