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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
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| 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 | |
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