California Natives

Native to dry, inland mountain ranges, Penstemon palmeri is useful for bringing color to desert gardens. Features glaucus blue foliage and blooms in spring with dramatic stalks of large-mouthed flowers. Flowers are pale pink to lavender with dark stripes...

Desert Penstemon is native to southwestern United States where it grows in inland deserts and plateaus. It forms a shrub up to 3 feet wide and tall with large, serrated, blue-green foliage, similar to Penstemon spectabilis. Blooms mid to late spring with...

Widespread in the southern California chaparral, scrub, and woodland communities, Showy Penstemon is an evergreen perennial notable for its large, sharply-toothed leaves and violet and electric blue flowers. Flowers naturally vary in color, taking on...

The Valley Oak, endemic to California, is a magnificent and keystone tree found in the state's interior valleys and foothills. It can reach colossal proportions over centuries. This deciduous plant is characterized by its velvety, deeply lobed leaves...

Quercus wislizenii, commonly known as the Interior Live Oak, is a notable Californian oak tree. It exhibits a versatile growth habit and can be either standard or multi-form. The leaves resemble those of Quercus agrifolia, featuring toothed margins...

Hillside Gooseberry is a native currant with a widespread distribution, growing all along the California coast from Mendocino to Orange County. Grows as an upright shrub with a slightly rambling habit that reaches 3 to 5 feet tall and wide. Features...