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 |
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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