CALIFORNIA NATIVES FOR CHAPARRAL HABITAT

Marin county’s shrub habitat, called chaparral, is very distinctive. This plant community is dominated by tough-leaved, evergreen shrubs well adapted to extremely dry conditions in gravelly or sandy soils that do not retain moisture and lack a layer of leaf litter. To conserve moisture, a number of them have very small leaves or lose their leaves during the heat of summer. If this sounds like the conditions on your property, chaparral plants like wild lilac, manzanita, toyon and Cleveland Sage will thrive there.

SMALL TREES AND LARGE SHRUBS Arctostaphylos, several spp. and cultivars Fremontodendron californicum / California Fremontia Atriplex lentiformis ssp. breweri / Quail Bush Garrya elliptica / Silk Tassle Bush Ceanothus cuneatus / Buckbrush Heteromeles arbutifolia / Toyon Cercis occidentalis / Western Redbud Prunus ilicifolia / Holly-leaf Cherry Cercocarpus betuloides / Mt. Mahogany Prunus ilicifolia ssp. lyonii / Catalina Cherry Chilopsis linearis / Desert Willow Rhus integrifolia / Lemonade Berry Frangula (Rhamnus) californica / Coffeeberry Rhus ovata / Sugar Bush

MEDIUM AND SMALL SHRUBS Adenostema fasciculatum / Chamise Ribes malvaceum / Chaparral Currant Artemisia californica / California Sagebrush Rhus trilobata / Basket Bush Baccharis pilularis and cultivars / Coyote Brush Salvia apiana / White Sage Berberis nevinii / Nevin’s Barberry Salvia brandegeei / Brandegee’s Sage Ceanothus, several spp. and cultivars Salvia clevelandii / Cleveland Sage Dendromecon harfordii / Island Bush Poppy Salvia clevelandii ‘Winifred Gilman’ Eriogonum fasciculatum / California Buckwheat Salvia x clevelandii ‘Pozo Blue’ Eriogonum giganteum / St. Catherine’s Lace Salvia leucophylla / Purple Sage Mimulus aurantiacus / Sticky Monkeyflower Salvia mellifera / Black Sage Lepechinia calycina / Pitcher Sage

PERENNIALS Asclepias fascicularis / Narrow-leaf Milkweed Monardella villosa / Coyote Mint Datura wrightii / Sacred Datura or Thornapple Penstemon heterophyllus / Foothill Penstemon Epilobium canum and cultivars / California Fuchsia Scutellaria californica / Skullcap Eriogonum nudum / Naked Buckwheat Solidago californica / Goldenrod Eriophyllum confertiflorum / Golden Yarrow Sphaeralcea ambigua / Apricot Mallow Eriophyllum lanatum / Woolly Sunflower

GRASSES Muhlenbergia rigens / Deer Grass Stipa (Nassella) pulchra / Purple Needlegrass

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