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Low-Water Use Plant List Low-Water Use Plant List This flyer is a short list of plants. For information on many more low-water use plants, see the flip side. Flowering Shrubs Alyogyne Huegelii Blue hibiscus Callistemon violaceus Purple bottlebrush Ceanothus Wild Lilac Ca Cercis occidentalis Redbud Ca Cistus Rock Rose Cotinus coggygria Smoke tree Echium candicans Pride of Madeira Eriogonum Wild buckwheat Ca Encelia farinosa Escallonia Evergreen shrub Ceanothus thyrsiflorus Brittlebrush Euryops pectinatusEvergreen shrub Wild Lilac Fremontodendrum Flannel bush Ca Grevillea lavandulacea Jade pearl Santolina chamaecyparissus Cotton Shrubs Lantana Lantana lavender Arctostaphylos Manzanita Ca Lavandula Lavender Teucrium chamaedrys Dwarf germander Artemesia californica Wormwood Ca Lupinus albifrons & excubitus Lupine Ca Atriplex Saltbrush Ca Punica granatum Pomegranate Perennials Dodonaea viscosa Hop seed bush Achillea millefolium Island pink yarrow Ca Romneya coulteri Matilija poppy Ca Elaeagnus augustifolia Russian olive Asclepias speciosa Showy milkweed Ca Rhaphiolepsis Indian hawthorne Encelia californica Coast sunflowerCa Bouteloua gracilis Blue Grama (grass) Ca Encelia farinosa Brittlebush Ca Ground covers Carex tumulicola Berkeley Sedge Mahonia pinnata California holly grape Ca Baccharis pilularis Coyote brush Ca Clarkia Clarkia Ca Nandina domestica heavenly bamboo Cerastuim tometosum Snow in summer Coreopsis grandifloraSunray Ribes viburnifolium Evergreen currant Ca Ceratostigma plumbaginoides Dwarf Epilobium canum California fuchsia Ca Rhamnus alaternus Italian buckthorn Ca plumbago Euphorbia (also a shrub) Rhamnus californica CoffeeberryCa Coprosma kirkii Creeping coprosma Gaillardia grandiflora Blanket flower Rubus parviflorusThimbleberry Ca Delosoerma cooperi Cooper’s ice plant Gaura lindheimeri Gaura Teucrium fruticans Bush germander Heuchera maxima Island alum root Ca Kniphofia uvaria Red-hot poker Xylosma congestum Evergreen shrub Oenothera Evening primrose, sundrops Ca Limonium perezii Sea lavender Ribes viburnifolum Evergreen currant Ca Lobelia laxifloraLobelia Grass / Grass-like Rosmarinus officinalis Rosemary Mimulus aurantiacus Monkey flowerCa Andropogon gerardii Big Bluestem Penstemon heterophyllus Foothill Ca Bouteloua gracilis Mosquito Grass Ca Rhodophiala bifida Argentine amaryllis Carex praegracilis Slender sedge Ca Romneya coulteria Matilija poppyCa Carex pansa Pacific dune sedgeCa Rudbeckia californica Coneflower Ca Deschampsia Hair Grass Ca Salvia spatnacea Hummingbird sage Ca Festuca rubra Molate fescue Ca Senecio Cineraria Dusty miller Festuca californica California fescue Ca Sternbergia lutea Yellow autumn crocus Leymus Wild Rye Ca Nasella pulchra Purple needlegrass Ca Vines Muhlenbergia rigens Deer Grass Ca Bougainvillea Bougainvillea Campsis radicans Trumpet vine Clarkia amoena ‘Aurora’ Ca = California Native Clarkia www.ebmud.com/watersmart We make it easy to conserve. Low-Water Use Plant List Vitis californica Mimulus Aurantiacus Cercis occidentalis Romneya coulteria Rogers Red Grape Sticky Monkey Flower Redbud Matilija Poppy Distictis buccinatoria Red trumpet vine Jacaranda mimosifolia Jacaranda Christmas tree Macfadyena unguis-cati Cat’s claw vine Juglans hindsii California black walnut Ca Olea europaea Olive Solanum jasminoides Potato vine Ca Koelreuteria paniculata Golden rain tree Pistacia chinensis Chinese pistache Tecomaria capensis Cape honeysuckle Lyonothamnus floribundus Catalina Quercus Oak Ca Vitis californica Roger’s red grape Ca ironwood Ca Rhus Sumac Ca Wisteria Wisteria Melaleuca Paperbark Hedges / Small Trees Metrosideros excelsus New Zealand Aquilegia exima Serpentine columbine Ca Order EBMUD’s region compiled by the photographer Arbutus mengiesii Madrone award-winning for Plants and Landscapes for Summer Eschscholzia californica Calif. poppy Ca Plants and Dry Climates, Saxon Holt. The Feijoa sellowiana Pineapple guava Landscapes for site is searchable by key word, Summer-Dry for example, “dry shade” or Garrya ellipticaCoast silktassel Ca Climates. To Heteromeles arbutifolia Toyon Ca purchase, go to “perennial” or “salvia.” Lagerstroemia indica Crape myrtle ebmud.com/ EBMUD supplies watersmart. Leptospermum laevigatum Austr. tea tree nurseries within its service Myrtus communis Myrtle EBMUD custom- area with plant tags and Nerium oleander Oleander ers receive a $20 posters for display in the discount on the hard-cover book when they order at ebmud.com. nursery environment Trees that help customers Brachychiton populneus Bottle tree Two on-line resources: identify plants that Casuarina stricta She-oak waterwonk.us - A statewide repository are low water-use. Celtis reticulata Hackberry Ca of water-efficient plants searchable by For a list of nurser- Cercis occidentalis Redbud Ca region using the Water Use Classifcation ies participating Chitalpa tashkentensis Chitalpa of Landscape Species (WUCOLS) in EBMUD’s Chorisia Floss silk tree database. “WaterSmart Plant” Cupressus Cypress Ca program, go to ebmud.com and search Eriobotrya japonica Loquat summer-dry.com - Photographs of plants that thrive in a summer-dry for “WaterSmart Gardener.” Ca = California Native All plant photos by Saxon Holt Printed 01/2017 www.ebmud.com/watersmart We make it easy to conserve..
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