NATIVE OAK CHAPPARAL SPECIES PLANT LISTS

Scientific Name Common Name Plant Type Height Bloom Period Picture Achillea millefolium Common yarrow Forb, PF 8-6” Summer (butterflies, bees), DF, DR

Bromus carinatus Lemon’s Grass 7.5-32” Spring needlegrass

Amelanchier alnifolia Western Shrub, PF 5-20’ Mid Spring serviceberry (butterflies, bees), DT

Arbutus menziesii Pacific madrone Evergreen 15-100’ Spring Tree, PF (butterflies, moths, hummingbir ds), DT

Balsamorhiza sagittata Arrowleaf Forb, PF 8-36” Mid-Late balsamroot Spring

Bromus carinatus California Grass 1-5’ Spring brome

Bromus laevipes Chinook brome Grass 5’ Spring - Summer

Resource Factsheets: Plants 1 NATIVE OAK CHAPPARAL SPECIES Castilleja varieties Indian paintbrush Forb, PF 2’ Spring - Summer

Ceanothus cuneatus Buckbrush Shrub, PF 3-12’ Late spring

Ceanothus integerrimus Deerbrush Shrub, PF 3-13’ Spring-Summer (bees)

Cercocarpus Mountain Shrub 8-20’ Winter, Spring mahogany

Collomia grandiflora Grand collomia Forb, PF 18” Mid Spring – Mid Summer

Corylus cornuta California Shrub 3-50’ Spring-Fall hazelnut

Dichelostemma Blue dicks Forb, PF 6-27” Early Summer capitatum

Elymus glaucus Blue wildrye Grass 1-5’ Summer

Eschscholzia californica California poppy Forb, PF, 6-16” Spring-Summer DT

Resource Factsheets: Plants 2 NATIVE OAK CHAPPARAL SPECIES Festuca californica California fescue Grass, DT 1-4’ Spring, Winter

Festuca occidentalis Western fescue Grass, DT 3-4’ Spring

Garrya fremontii Bearbrush Shrub, PF, 9-13’ DT

Iris chrysophylla Yellowleaf iris Forb, PF 2-8” Late Spring (butterflies, hummingbir ds), DR

Madia elegans Common madia Forb, PF 3-36” Summer-Fall

Mahonia aquifolium Oregon grape Shrub, PF 1-4’ Spring (butterflies), DT, DR

Pinus ponderosa Ponderosa pine Evergreen 40-223’ Spring Tree, DT, DR

Plectritis macrocera Longhorn Forb, PF 2-30” Mid Spring plectritis

Resource Factsheets: Plants 3 NATIVE OAK CHAPPARAL SPECIES Pseudotsuga menziesii Douglas-fir Evergreen 40-246’ Spring Tree, DT, DR

Quercus chrysolepis Canyon live oak Tree/ Shrub, 30-90’ Spring, Winter DT, DR

Quercus garryana Oregon white Deciduous 20-90’ Spring oak Tree, DT, DR

Quercus kelloggii California black Tree/ Shrub, 20-120’ Spring, Winter oak DT, DR

Rhus trilobata Skunkbrush Shrub 1.5-8’ Spring sumac

Senecio integerrimus Lambstongue Forb, PF 8-30” Late Spring – ragwort early summer

References California Native Plant Society – Calscape North Mountain Park Nature Center – Plants of the Rogue Valley Key Oregon Flora Project (photo credit) PF = Pollinator-Friendly Oregon State University – “Oak and chapparal ecology and fuels DT = Drought-Tolerant management in southwest Oregon” DR = Deer-Resistant USDA Plant List (photo credit) Turner Photographics – Wildflowers (photo credit)

Jackson Soil & Water Conservation District 89 Alder Street, Central Point, OR 97502 Phone: 541-423-6159 Website: jswcd.org Resource Factsheets: Plants 4