Plant Profile: Fuchsia Flower Gooseberry (Ribes speciosum)
Karen This spiny, summer deciduous shrub is native from central California to Baja California where it grows in the scrub and chaparral of the coastal mountain ranges. It is a member…
Poisonous Plants: Common Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum)
Also known as eagle fern, bracken is a herbaceous perennial and a member of the Dennstaedtiaceae family that includes 10 genera and 240 species of ferns. It is one of…
Plant Profile: White Flowering Currant (Ribes indecorum)
Also called white chaparral currant, this deciduous shrub is native to Baha California and coastal areas of California. It is a member of the currant family, Grossulariaceae, that consists of…
Plant Profile: Squaw Currant (Ribed cereum)
Also known as white-flowered currant, wax currant, and western red currant, this deciduous spreading or erect shrub is native from British Columbia to northern California east to Montana, Nebraska, Colorado,…
Plant Profile: Our Lord’s Candle (Hesperoyucca whipplei aka Yucca whipplei)
Also known as chaparral yucca, foothill yucca, Spanish bayonet, and Quixote yucca, this evergreen shrub is native to Southern California and Baja California where it grows in chaparral, coastal sage…
Plant Profile: Giant Wild Rye (Elymus condensatus aka Leymus condensatus)
This evergreen perennial grass is native to eastern Oregon, California, and northern Mexico, where it grows in coastal sage scrub, chaparral, southern oak woodland, foothill woodland, and Joshua tree woodlands.…
Plant Profile: Threenerve Goldenrod (Solidago veluntina)
Native to western US and the northern half of Mexico, this herbaceous perennial is a member of the aster family, Asteraceae, that also includes sunflower, dandelion, and lettuce. With a…
Plant Profile: California Coffee Berry (Frangula californica aka Rhamnus californica)
Native to California, southwestern Oregon, Arizona and Baja California, this large evergreen shrub grows in open woodland, brush canyon sides, and chaparral. It is a member of the buckthorn family,…
Plant Profile: Hollyleaf Redberry (Rhamnus ilicifolia)
This evergreen shrub is native to western North American where it grows in chaparral and wooded areas in Oregon, California, Baja California and Arizona. It is a member of the…
Plant Profile: Bunchleaf Penstemon (Penstemon heterophyllus)
Also known as foothills penstemon and foothills beardtongue, this evergreen herbaceous perennial is endemic to California where it grows in grassland, chaparral, and forests of all of the major coastal…