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Native Trees

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Chilopsis linearis  Common Name:  Desert Willow

Family: Bignoniaceae

Type: Tree 12-18' tall

Flowers: May to September

Flower Color: Pink

Likes: Full Sun

An awesome tree.  Deciduous desert tree.  Fast growing with additional water.   Flowers May to September with showy pink flowers.  Very hardy and adaptable.  Very nice addition to lower growing native plants.  Not dense like cultivated willows.  Prune to desired shape.  
Range: Inland Southern California into Mexico.

Quercus douglasii  Common Name: Blue Oak   Images

Tree, 30'h x 20'w   Flowers: Spring   Flower Color: Not distinct   Likes: Full Sun

Common to the Sierra foothills.  Decideous medium tree - can grow to 30-40ft.  Smaller than Valley Oak - Q. lobata.  Light gray foliage with lobed mid-sized leafs. Slow growing.  Full sun but can tolerate some shade.  Do not water regularly.

Quercus lobata  Common Name: Valley Oak   Images

Large Tree   100'h x 50'w   Full sun

A majestic tree found throughout the Central Valley.  Large lobed leaves.  Great habitat for many native birds, animals and pollinators.  Decidsous

Native Grasses

Winter / Fall
Achnatherum hymenoides Common Name:  Indian Rice Grass
(Orysopsis/Stipa Hymenoides)

Family: Poaceae

Type: Grass, 1'h x .5'w

Flowers: Spring

Flower Color: Indistinct

Likes: Full Sun

Widely distributed throughout the Western United States.  A perennial bunchgrass with flowering stems up to 1.5'.  Flowers in Spring.  Will reseed - but not a pest.  Nice delicate flower stalks that add texture. Very easy to grow.  Does not do well potted - looks poorly in 1 gallon plots - but quickly establishes. Grow alone as an accent or planted in groups.

Bouteloua gracilis Common Name:  Blue Gramma Grass   Images

Grass, 1'h x .5'w   Flowers: Spring   Flower Color: Indistinct   Likes: Full Sun

​Smaller bunchgrass with one sided seed spikes.  Common throughout the great plains - and in S. Calif.  Attractive small accent plant with intersting seed spikes.  

Festuca idahoensis Common Name:  Idaho Fescue   Images

Grass, 1'h x .5'w   Flowers: Spring   Flower Color: Indistinct   Likes: Full Sun

Widely distributed throughout the Western United States.  A perennial bunchgrass with flowering stems up to 2'.  Flowers in Spring.  Will reseed - but not a pest.  Nice blueish - green color.  Low growing, very hardy and adaptable.  Very easy to grow.  Great as an accent or planted in groups.

Muhlenbergia rigens  Common Name:  Deergrass

Family: Poaceae

Type: Grass, 3'h x 2'w

Flowers: Spring

Flower Color: Indistinct

Likes: Full Sun

Widely distributed throughout the Western United States.  A large perennial bunchgrass with flowering stems up to 3.5'.  Flowers in Spring.  Attractive as a large accent grass.  Largest of the grasses that we offer.  Very adaptable.  Deer do not seem to bother it, contrary to what the name implies.  Not attractive in small pots.

Very easy to grow. Great as an accent.  Could be grown in a row as a lower screen plant.

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