Our Plants (List)

Four Wing Salt Bush is quite widespread in western North America from Canada into Mexico. In California it grows in various plant communities from the Transverse Ranges south and east, including the immediate coast and the interior deserts. It also thrives in the narrow portions of eastern California included in…

This species inhabits a range of plant communities in California, notable for their variety. Among these are the Channel Islands, all of which support a population. The compact island form was selected from little Anacapa Island off the eastern shore of Santa Cruz Island. Like the species, it grows as…

Quail bush grows in a wide range of plant communities throughout California and beyond. This speaks to its impressive toughness. It is one of relatively few plants that range from our southeastern desert to the coast, Central Valley and San Francisco Bay Area. Quail bush grows as a rounded shrub…

Coyote bush is widespread in all of California’s coastal counties, the Channel Islands, Sacramento Valley and central Sierra foothills. It seems to prefer some coastal influence. Once it makes a foothold, it quickly grows into a vase-shaped shrub in the case of the consanguinea subspecies, or a fairly tidy mound…

These are clones of a male plant. That means no seeds, and no carpet of volunteers in the spring. Coyote bush is widespread in all of California’s coastal counties, the Channel Islands, Sacramento Valley and central Sierra foothills.  It seems to prefer some coastal influence.  Once it makes a foothold,…