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 |
Layia platyglossa | Coastal Tidytips | |
Larrea tridentata | Creosote Bush Greasewood Hediondilla Governadora Guamis | |
Leucothoe davisiae | Sierra Laurel Sierran Doghobble Western Leucothoe | |
Leptosiphon grandiflorus | Largeflower Linanthus Large-flower Desert-trumpets Mountain Phlox | |
Leymus triticoides | Beardless Wildrye Beardless Lyme Grass Creeping Wildrye | |
Linanthus dianthiflorus | Fringed Linanthus Fringed Desert-trumpets Ground Linanthus Ground-pink | |
Lupinus arboreus | Yellow Bush Lupine Bush Lupine Tree 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 sparsiflorus | Mojave Lupine Sand Lupine | |
Lupinus succulentus | Hollowleaf Annual Lupine Hollow-leaf Annual Lupine Arroyo Lupine Succulent Lupine | |
Lupinus vallicola | Open Lupine | |
Malosma laurina | Laurel Sumac Laurel-leaf Sumac | |
Mahonia nervosa | Cascade Barberry Cascade Oregon-grape Dwarf Oregon-grape | |
Mahonia nevinii | Nevin's Barberry | |
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 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 | |
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 | |
Philadelphus lewisii | Lewis' Mock Orange Mock Orange California Mock Orange | |
Phacelia minor | Wild Canterbury Bells California Bells | |
Phacelia parryi | Parry's Phacelia | |
Pholistoma racemosum | Racemed Fiestaflower Racemed Fiesta-flower | |
Phacelia tanacetifolia | Lacy Phacelia Lacy Scorpion-weed | |
Pinus coulteri | Coulter Pine | |
Pinus jeffreyi | Jeffrey Pine | |
Pinus lambertiana | Sugar Pine | |
Pinus ponderosa | Ponderosa Pine Western Yellow Pine Pino Blanco | |
Pinus radiata | Monterey Pine | |
Platystemon californicus | Creamcups California Creamcups | |
Pleuraphis rigida | Big Galleta | |
Prosopis glandulosa var. glandulosa | Honey Mesquite | |
Prunus ilicifolia | Hollyleaf Cherry | |
Prosopis velutina | Velvet Mesquite | |
Pseudotsuga macrocarpa | Bigcone Douglas-fir Big-cone Douglas-fir Big-cone Spruce | |
Pseudotsuga menziesii | Douglas Fir Blue Douglas Fir | |
Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata | Bluebunch Wheatgrass Bluebunch-wheat Grass | |
Psilostrophe tagetina | Woolly Paperflower Paperflower | |
Purshia mexicana | Mexican Cliffrose Chinacates Chivatillo Romerillo Cimarrã³N Romero Romero Cedro | |
Purshia tridentata | Antelope Bitterbrush Bitterbrush Antelope Brush | |
Quercus agrifolia | California Live Oak Coast Live Oak Encino Verde | |
Quercus chrysolepis | Canyon Live Oak | |
Quercus douglasii | Blue Oak | |
Quercus dumosa | Coastal Sage Scrub Oak Nuttall's Scrub Oak | |
Quercus engelmannii | Engelmann Oak Engelmann's Oak | |
Quercus kelloggii | California Black Oak | |
Quercus lobata | Valley Oak | |
Quercus wislizeni | Interior Live Oak | |
Rhododendron macrophyllum | Pacific Rhododendron California Rhododendron California Rosebay Red Rhododendron | |
Rhododendron occidentale | Western Azalea | |
Rhus ovata | Sugar Sumac Sugarbush | |
Rhus trilobata | Skunkbush Skunkbush Sumac Fragrant Sumac Aromatic Sumac Scented Sumac Ill-scented Sumac Basketbush Squawbush | |
Ribes aureum | Golden Currant | |
Romneya coulteri | Coulter's Matilija Poppy Matilija Poppy Fried-egg Flower | |
Rudbeckia hirta | Black-eyed Susan Common Black-eyed Susan Brown-eyed Susan Blackeyed Susan | |
Salvia apiana | White Sage California White Sage | |
Salvia clevelandii | Fragrant Sage Blue Sage Cleveland Sage | |
Salvia columbariae | California Sage Chia Sage Golden Chia Desert Chia Chia | |
Salvia leucophylla | San Luis Purple Sage Purple Sage | |
Salvia mellifera | Black Sage California Black Sage | |
Sambucus nigra ssp. canadensis | Common Elderberry Black Elder Mexican Elderberry Common Elder Elderberry Tapiro Sauco | |
Salvia sonomensis | Creeping Sage | |
Senegalia greggii | Gregg Acacia Gregg's Acacia Gregg Catclaw Acacia Gregg's Catclaw Acacia Gregg Catclaw Gregg's Catclaw Texas Catclaw Acacia Texas Catclaw Long-flowered Catclaw Acacia Longflower Catclaw Acacia Long-flowered Catclaw Longflower Catclaw Catclaw Acacia Catclaw Devil's Claw Uña De Gato | |
Sequoia sempervirens | Coast Redwood California Redwood Redwood | |
Shepherdia argentea | Silver Buffaloberry Buffaloberry | |
Sisyrinchium bellum | Western Blue-eyed Grass California Blue-eyed-grass | |
Silene californica | Indian Pink Indian-pink | |
Sisyrinchium californicum | Golden Blue-eyed Grass | |
Simmondsia chinensis | Jojoba Goatnut Quinine Plant Coffeeberry | |
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