PageRefuge's Plant List

 MOSTLY NATIVE HABITAT:

GRASSES

Elymus glaucus (Blue wildrye grass)

Festuca idahoensis (Blue fescue)

                F.rubra (Red fescue)

Muhlenbergia rigens (Deergrass)

Sisyrinchium californicum (yellow eyed grass)

S. bellum (Californian blue eyed grass)

Stipa pulchra  (Purple needlegrass)

ANNUALS

Clarkia amoena (Farewell to Spring, Godetia)

Claytonia perfoliata (Miner’s Lettuce)

Collinsia heterophylla (Purple Chinese Houses)

Gilia tricolor (Bird’s Eye Gilia)

Helianthus annuus macrocarpus (Hopi Black Dye Sunflower 

Hopi name: Tceqa' Qu' Si)

Phacelia tanacetifolia (Bee’s Friend or Lacy Phacelia)

*Taget erecta (Cempoalxochitl Marigold aka Day of the Dead)

*Tithonia rotundifolia (Torch Tithonia)

*Tropaeolum majus (Nasturtium)

PERENNIALS

Achillea millefolium (White yarrow)

Anaphalis margaritacea (Pearly everlasting)

Aquilegia formosa (Western columbine)

Asarum caudatum (Western wild ginger)

Asclepias speciosa (Showy milkweed) 

*Begonia hybrid ‘Summerwings Dark  Elegance’

*Berlandiera lyrata (Chocolate flower)

*Calylophus drum mondianus (Sundrops)

Echinacea purpurea (Purple coneflower) 

Epolibium canum  (California fuschsia ‘Calistoga’ & ‘Everett’s Choice’)  Erigeron giganteum (St. Catherine’s Lace buckwheat) 

E. glaucus (Seaside daisy ‘Cape Sebastian’)

E. grande rubescens (Red flowering buckwheat)

Heuchera maxima (Alum root)

Melissa officinalis (Lemon balm)

Mimulus aurantiacus (Sticky monkeyflower)

Monardella villosa (Coyote mint ‘Russian River’)

*Penstemon eatonii (‘Firecracker’ penstemon)

P. heterophyllus (Blue Bedder penstemon ‘Margarita BOP’)

*P. strictus (Rocky mountain penstemon)

Phacelia bolanderi (Bolander’s Phaceli)

Plantago subnuda (Coastal plantain) 

Salvia apiana (White sage)

                S. spathacea (Hummingbird sage)

S. clevelandii x (‘Pozo Blue’ Sage)

                S.clevelandii (‘Winnifred Gilman’ Sage)

Satureja(Clinopodium) douglasii

Scrophularia californica (California bee plant

  Viola odorata (Wild violets)

SHRUBS

Arctostaphylos bakeri (Manzanita ‘Louis Edmunds’)

A. uva-ursi (‘Point Reyes’ Bearberry)

Berberos aquifolium AKA Mahonia aquifolium (Oregon grape)

Baccharis pilularis - female upright form (Coyote Bush)  

Calycanthus occidentalis (Western spicebush)

Carpenteria californica (Bush anemone ‘Elizabeth’) 

Ceanothus (California Wild Lilac ‘Dark Star’)

Cornus sericea occidentalis (‘Tomales Bay’ Western twig dogwood)

Corylus cornuta californica (California hazelnut)

Heteromeles arbutifolia (California toyon)

Holodiscus discolor (Cream bush)

Lavatera assurgentiflora (Tree mallow from Channel Islands)

Lepechinia fragrans ‘El Tigre’ (Pitcher sage)

Lonicera involucrata (Twinberry honeysuckle)

Physocarpus capitatus (Western ninebark)

Prunus lyonii (Catalina Cherry)

Rhamnus californica (Coffeeberry)

        Ribes sanguineum var. glutinosum(1Pink flower currant+1‘Heart’sDelight’)            

                R.speciosum (Fushsia flower gooseberry)

                R.viburnifolium (Catalina currant/Catalina perfume)

Romneya coulteri (Matilija poppy)

Styrax redivius (Snowdrop bush)

Symphoricarpos albus (Common snowberry ‘Tilden Park’ +

1 dug up along road during Shasta’s & my morning walk)

TREES

*Acer ?? (Yellow leaf Japanese Maple)                    

Aesculus californica (California buckeye)

Cercis occidentalis (Western redbud)

*Chilopsis linearis (Desert willow)

Pinus monophylla (Pinyon pine)

Umbellularia californica (California bay)

VINES

Aristolochia californica (Dutchman’s pipevine) 

Clematis ligusticifolia (Western virgin’s bower) 

Lonicera hispidula (Honeysuckle, aka Hairy honeysuckle)

Vitis californica x European grape cross  ('Roger's Red' California grape)

FOR HUMANS:

*FRUIT TREES

Apple

Cox Orange Pippin

Pink Pearl

Spitzenberg (Thomas Jefferson’s favorite apple)

Apricot

Blenheim

Lemon

Improved Meyer

Plum

Santa Rosa

*BERRIES

Blackberry  

          Rubus (subgenus Rubus Watson) ‘Black Satin’ Thornless

Elderberry

          Nova 

          York

Raspberry

           Boyne (Rubus idaeus) Summer bearing raspberry

Strawberry 

         Albion

         Chandler

         Seascape

 Sequoia

*HERBS

Basil

Chives

Marjoram

Oregano

Rosemary

Salvia officinalis

‘Berggarten’ sage

Common sage

Tarragon

Thyme

MEDICINAL HERBS

*Borage

*Comfrey

*Echinacea

*Peppermint (chocolate)

Wide leaf plantain

White yarrow

OTHER FOOD PRODUCING PLANTS

Rhubarb 

* = nonnative