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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Penstemon pseudospectabilis | Desert Penstemon Desert Beardtongue Rosy Desert Penstemon Rosy Desert Beardtongue Canyon Penstemon Canyon Beardtongue Mohave Penstemon Mohave 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 bolanderi | Bolander's Phacelia Flowered Grape Leaf | |
Physocarpus capitatus | Pacific Ninebark | |
Philadelphus lewisii | Lewis' Mock Orange Mock Orange California Mock Orange | |
Phacelia tanacetifolia | Lacy Phacelia Lacy Scorpion-weed | |
Phacelia viscida | Tacky Phacelia Sticky Phacelia | |
Pinus contorta | Lodgepole Pine Beach Pine Pino De San Pedro Martir | |
Pinus jeffreyi | Jeffrey Pine | |
Pinus lambertiana | Sugar Pine | |
Pinus ponderosa | Ponderosa Pine Western Yellow Pine Pino Blanco | |
Pinus radiata | Monterey Pine | |
Picea sitchensis | Sitka Spruce | |
Platystemon californicus | Creamcups California Creamcups | |
Polypodium californicum | California Polypody | |
Potentilla gracilis | Slender Cinquefoil | |
Polystichum munitum | Western Swordfern Pineland Swordfern | |
Prosartes hookeri var. hookeri | Drops-of-gold Hooker's Fairybells | |
Prunus ilicifolia | Hollyleaf Cherry | |
Prunella vulgaris ssp. lanceolata | Lanceleaf Selfheal Self-heal | |
Pseudotsuga menziesii | Douglas Fir Blue Douglas Fir | |
Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata | Bluebunch Wheatgrass Bluebunch-wheat Grass | |
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 kelloggii | California Black Oak | |
Quercus lobata | Valley Oak | |
Quercus wislizeni | Interior Live Oak | |
Ranunculus californicus | California Buttercup | |
Rhamnus crocea | Redberry Buckthorn Holly-leaf Buckthorn Redberry | |
Rhododendron macrophyllum | Pacific Rhododendron California Rhododendron California Rosebay Red Rhododendron | |
Rhododendron occidentale | Western Azalea | |
Rhus trilobata | Skunkbush Skunkbush Sumac Fragrant Sumac Aromatic Sumac Scented Sumac Ill-scented Sumac Basketbush Squawbush | |
Ribes aureum | Golden Currant | |
Ribes indecorum | Whiteflower Currant | |
Ribes malvaceum | Chaparral Currant | |
Ribes menziesii | Canyon Gooseberry Chaparral Currant | |
Ribes sanguineum | Redflower Currant Blood Currant Pink-flowered Currant Red Flowering Currant | |
Ribes speciosum | Fuchsia Flowering Currant Fuchsia-flowered Gooseberry | |
Ribes viburnifolium | Evergreen Currant Catalina Currant Santa Catalina Currant Island Gooseberry | |
Rosa californica | California Wildrose California Rose | |
Romneya coulteri | Coulter's Matilija Poppy Matilija Poppy Fried-egg Flower | |
Rudbeckia californica | California Coneflower | |
Rudbeckia hirta | Black-eyed Susan Common Black-eyed Susan Brown-eyed Susan Blackeyed Susan | |
Salvia apiana | White Sage California White Sage | |
Salvia columbariae | California Sage Chia Sage Golden Chia Desert Chia Chia | |
Salvia leucophylla | San Luis Purple Sage Purple Sage | |
Sambucus nigra ssp. canadensis | Common Elderberry Black Elder Mexican Elderberry Common Elder Elderberry Tapiro Sauco | |
Salvia sonomensis | Creeping Sage | |
Salvia spathacea | Hummingbird Sage Pitcher Sage | |
Scrophularia californica | California Figwort | |
Sequoia sempervirens | Coast Redwood California Redwood Redwood | |
Sedum spathulifolium | Broadleaf Stonecrop Broad-leaf Stonecrop Common Stonecrop | |
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 | |
Solidago altissima | Tall Goldenrod Late Goldenrod Canadian Goldenrod Canada Goldenrod | |
Solidago californica | California Goldenrod Northern California Goldenrod | |
Solidago canadensis | Canada Goldenrod Canadian Goldenrod Tall Goldenrod Giant Goldenrod | |
Solanum clokeyi | Clokey's Nightshade | |
Solidago multiradiata | Rocky Mountain Goldenrod Northern Goldenrod Alpine Goldenrod | |
Sporobolus airoides | Alkali Sacaton Zacate Alcalino | |
Spiraea douglasii | Rose Spirea Western Spiraea Hardhack Spiraea | |
Spiraea splendens var. splendens | Rose Meadowsweet Subalpine Spiraea | |
Stylomecon heterophylla | Wind Poppy | |
Styrax redivivus | Drug Snowbell Chapparal Snowbell Snowdrop Bush | |
Symphoricarpos albus | Common Snowberry | |
Symphyotrichum chilense | Pacific Aster Common California Aster | |
Symphoricarpos mollis | Creeping Snowberry | |
Tellima grandiflora | Bigflower Tellima Fragrant Fringecup | |
Tiarella trifoliata var. unifoliata | Oneleaf Foamflower Western Foamflower Sugar Scoop | |
Tolmiea menziesii | Youth On Age Piggyback-plant Youth-on-age Thousand Mothers | |
Triteleia laxa | Ithuriel's Spear Wally Basket Grass Nut | |
Trichostema lanatum | Woolly Bluecurls Romero | |
Tsuga mertensiana | Mountain Hemlock | |
Umbellularia californica | California Laurel California Bay Oregon Myrtle Pepperwood | |
Vancouveria chrysantha | Golden Insideout Flower | |
Vancouveria hexandra | White Insideout Flower White Inside-out-flower Northern Inside-out Flower | |
Vaccinium ovatum | California Huckleberry Evergreen Blueberry Evergreen Huckleberry | |
Vaccinium parvifolium | Red Huckleberry Red Blueberry | |
Viola adunca | Hooked-spur Violet Western Blue Violet Western Dog Violet | |
Vitis californica | California Wild Grape California Grape Western Wild Grape | |
Viburnum ellipticum | Common Viburnum | |
Woodwardia fimbriata | Giant Chainfern Giant Chain Fern | |
Wyethia angustifolia | California Compassplant California-compassplant Narrowleaf Mule Ears | |
Zigadenus fremontii | Fremont's Deathcamas | |
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