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A widespread native shrub that can be found throughout southern California from the coast to inland mountain ranges. Useful as a native hedge for screening or boundary marking. A dense evergreen shrub that can grow 6 to 7 feet tall and wide but can...

Lemonade Berry is a long-lived native evergreen shrub that is an important part of California chaparral and coastal sage scrub communities. As a food and habitat source for birds and small mammals, it is ideal for native landscape (that has plenty of...

Sugar Bush is a long-lived evergreen shrub native to dry slopes, canyons, and foothills in southern California. Preferable to Rhus integrifolia (Lemonade Berry) in hot inland landscapes and ecosystems. As a food and habitat source for birds and small...

A California native deciduous shrub with an upright, multi trunk habit. It’s primarily grown in residential gardens for its display of fragrant pink drooping flower clusters that bloom late winter into early spring. It also provides food and habitat for...

One of showiest native shrubs flowering in late winter and early spring. Long, arching (and spiny) branches, are covered with glossy, leathery green leaves and pendant, fuchsia like flowers. In bloom, it is elegant and breathtaking which more than...

Evergreen Currant is a California native Ribes species known for its usefulness as a shade ground cover under oaks and deciduous trees. A sprawling shrub that can reach 3 to 4 feet high and 4 to 6 feet wide is functionally kept under three feet in the...