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Native Landscape Planting Guide Starting a native plant garden doesn’t have to be complicated. This easy guide takes the San Luis Obispo Chapter guesswork out of which plants to use where. Simply choose one of the garden vignettes below and select from recommended native plants listed on the inside of your guide. San Luis Obispo and Northern Santa Barbara Counties Low Water Use Pollinator Friendly Locally Native PROJECT INSPIRATION Five Easy Project Ideas for your Garden

Homey Habitat Colorful Entry Featuring a bench and bird bath, you can take a Make a statement in your entryway! Be sure to seat in this habitat and enjoy all of the bustling choose plants with a variety of colors. activity in your yard! Features: large pot, decorative round stones. Features: bench, bird bath, boulders.

Wildlife Walkway Pollinator Park Living Wall Take a stroll through your landscape. Use Add excitement to the parkway strip along your Designing your space vertically can add life to permeable materials for your pathway, such as driveway by adding plants that butterﬂies and your yard. Use bold colors, and interesting stepping stones or decomposed granite. other pollinators love. shapes to make a ﬂat area stand out. Features: permeable walkway, large boulders. Features: stepping stones and contrasting colors. Features: rain chain, swale, trellis. CHOOSE YOUR PLANTS

San Luis Obispo and Northern California Native Plant List San Luis Obispo Chapter - Santa Barbara Counties

PLANT SPECIES TYPE LOCAL SUN WATER HEIGHT WIDTH COLOR WILDLIFE LOCALLY NATIVE SMALL TREES Dr Hurd Manzanita / Arctostaphylos hybrid 'Dr Hurd' E N / C, IN, IS 9-15' 9-12' Y/N Yes/No Ray Hartman' Ceanothus / Ceanothus 'Ray Hartman' E N / C, IN, IS 18' 18' C Coast Snow Flurry Ceanothus / Ceanothus thyrsiflorus 'Snow Flurry' E N / C, IS 10-20' 10-20' IN Inland North Redbud / Cercis occidentalis D N / C, IN, IS 10-20' 10-15' (north of Silk Tassel / Garrya elliptica E Y / C, IN, IS 12' 6-10' Cuesta Grade) Hollyleaf Cherry / Prunus ilicifolia ssp. ilicifolia E Y / C, IN, IS 10-20' 10-15' IS Inland South (south of LARGE SHRUBS Cuesta Grade) Howard McMinn Manzanita / Arctostaphyos densiflora 'Howard McMinn' E N / C, IN, IS 6-8' 5-6' TYPE Sentinel manzanita / Arctostaphylos densiflora 'Sentinel' E N / C, IN, IS 6-8' 4-10' Eastwood Manzanita / Arctostaphylos glandulosa D Y / IN 3-10' 3-10' E Evergreen Big Berry Manzanita / Arctostaphylos glauca E Y / IN 3-12' 3-6' D Deciduous / Pajaro Manzanita / Arctostaphylos pajaroensis E N / C, IS 3.3-15' 10' summer dormant Bush Anemone / Carpenteria californica E N / C, IN, IS 5-12' 4-5' SUN Nipomo Mesa Ceanothus / Ceanothus impressus var. nipomensis E Y / C, IS 3-10' 3-15' Toyon / Heteromeles arbutifolia E Y / C, IN, IS 8-15' 8-12' Full Sun Lemonade Berry / Rhus integrifolia E Y / C, IS 4-20' 4-20' Part Sun Pink Flowering Currant / Ribes sanguineum D N / C, IN, IS 6-13' 7' Shade MEDIUM SHRUBS WATER Concha Ceanothus / Ceanothus 'Concha' E N / C, IN, IS 3-6' 3-6' Very Low Blue Mountain Lilac / Ceanothus thyrsiflorus 'Skylark' E N / IN 3-6' 6-9' Low California Buckwheat / Eriogonum fasciculatum E Y / C, IS 2-6' 3' St Catherine's Lace / Eriogonum giganteum E N / C, IS 1.6-5' 4-10' Medium Santa Cruz Island Buckwheat / Eriogonum arborescens E N / C, IS 1.6-6' 3-5' Coffeeberry / Frangula californica 'Leatherleaf' E N / C, IN, IS / 5-6' 5-6' Chaparral Currant / Ribes malvaceum D Y / IN, IS 3-6' 3-6 Fuschia Flower Gooseberry / Ribes speciosa D Y / C, IN, IS 3-6' 3' White Sage / Salvia apiana E Y / IN, IS 2-6' 3-6' Pozo Blue Sage / Salvia clevelandii 'Pozo Blue' E N / IN, IS 3-5' 3-6' Purple Sage / Salvia leucophylla E Y / C, IN, IS 3-7' 4-7' Black Sage / Salvia mellifera E Y / C, IN, IS 3-6' 3-6' Common Snowberry / Symphoricarpos albus D Y / IN, IS 3-6' 6'

SMALL SHRUBS Plants on Seacliff Buckwheat / Eriogonum parvifolium E Y / C 1-3' 2-3' this list have Island Snapdragon / Gambelia (Galvezia) speciosa E N / C, IS 3-4' 5-7' been Silver Bush Lupine / Lupinus albifrons E Y / C, IN, IS 3-5' 5' carefully Bush Monkey Flower / Diplacus (Mimulus) aurantiacus E Y / C, IN, IS 4-5' 5' Sonoma Sage / Salvia sonomoensis E Y / IS 1.3' 3-12' selected by your local SMALL PERENNIALS San Luis Western Columbine / Aquilegia formosa D Y / C, IN, IS / 2-4' 1-2' Indian Milkweed / Asclepias eriocarpa D Y / IN, IS 1.3-3' 1' Obispo Narrow Leaf Milkweed / Asclepias fasicularis D Y / IN, IS / 1.7-3' 1' Chapter. Seaside Daisy / Erigeron glaucus E Y / C, IS 0.2-1' 2' Red Flowered Buckwheat / Eriogonum grande var. rubescens E N / C, IS 1-3' 3' cnpsslo.org Island Alum Root / Heuchera maxima E N / C, IS / 1-2' 2' Margarita BOP / Penstemon heterophyllus 'Margarita BOP' E N / IN, IS 1-2' 1.5-3' Blue Eyed Grass / Sisyrhinchium bellum D Y / C, IN, IS 1-2' 0.3'

SPREADING GROUNDCOVER Yarrow / Achillea millefolium D Y / C, IN, IS 1-3' 0.5-1.5' Little Sur Manzanita / Arctostaphylos edmunsii E N / C, IS 0.3-4' 3-12' Pigeon Point Coyote Brush / Baccharis pilularis 'Pigeon Point' E N / C, IN, IS / 2' 8' Centennial Ceanothus / Ceanothus 'Centennial' E N / C, IS 1' 4-8' Yerba Buena / Clinopodium douglasiana E Y / C, IN, IS 0.3-0.5' 3' California Fuchsia / Epilobium canum D Y / C, IN, IS / 0.25-1.5' 2-3' Hummingbird Sage / Salvia spathacea E Y / C, IN, IS 1-3' 3-'

GRASSES Clustered Field Sedge / Carex praegracilis E Y / C, IN, IS / 2-3.5' 3-5' California Fescue / Festuca californica E Y / C, IN, IS 1.3-4' 3' California Melic Grass / Melica californica D Y / C, IN, IS 1-3' 1' Deergrass / Muhlenbergia rigens E Y / C, IN, IS 4.5' 4'

SUCCULENTS Lanceleaf Liveforever / Dudleya lanceolata E Y / C, IN, IS 0.3' 0.75' Chalk Dudleya / Dudleya pulverulenta E Y / C, IN, IS 0.3-1' 1' Visit Bright Green Dudleya / Dudleya virens ssp. hassei E N / C, IS 0.3-0.75' 4.6' Calscape.org VINES to ﬁnd more Pipestem Clematis / Clematis lasiantha D Y / C, IN, IS 15' 1-2' plants native to California Honeysuckle / Lonicera hispidula D Y / C, IN, IS 4' 8' California Grape / Vitus californica D N / C, IN, IS / 3-9' 1.5-9' your area.