Rain Garden/Swale Native Plant Sale
When: Friday 2/13 - 11:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Saturday
2/14 - 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Where: Biology Dept. Greenhouse (just south of NSM building)
What: CA native plants suitable for rain gardens, vegetated swales and ponds (see below for list)
Prices: $3.00 - $8.00 donations (good deal)
Proceeds support native plant propagation/ restoration
on campus
For directions to the greenhouse: http://nativeplantscsudh.blogspot.com/p/map.html
To download a pdf of the list of
plants for sale: http://www.slideshare.net/cvadheim/plant-list-for-sales-csudh
Plant List – CSUDH Spring
2015 Rain Garden Plant Sale
CSUDH-Project SOUND Propagation Lab
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Common
Name
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Scientific
Name
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Notes/More
information
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1 gallon large shrubs/trees
– Good for around a rain garden, swale or pond
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Coyote bush
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Baccharis pilularis
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Insect pollinator/butterfly habitat
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Mule fat
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Baccharis salicifolia
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Insect pollinator/butterfly habitat
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Saw-tooth goldenbush
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Hazardia squarrosa
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Butterfly bush; blooms in summer/fall
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Catalina cherry
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Prunus ilicifolia
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Nice tree/hedge plant; fruits
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Blue (Mexican) elderberry
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Sambucus nigra cerulea
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Pretty tree; fragrant flowers, edible fruits; good for shade
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1 gallon perennials/sub-shrubs – good
for around or upper edges of rain garden, swale or pond
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Marsh baccharis
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Baccharis douglasii
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Insect pollinator/butterfly habitat
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Coastal gumplant
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Grindelia hirsutula
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Insect pollinator/butterfly habitat
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Scarlet monkeyflower
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Mimulus cardinalis
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Succulent monkeyflower
with orange-red flowers
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Seep monkeyflower
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Mimulus guttatus
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Pretty little
annual/perennial for moist places
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Sweetscent
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Pluchea odorata
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Insect pollinator/butterfly habitat
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Willow dock
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Rumex salicifolius
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Pretty flowers; edible leaves
(cooked)
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1 gallon herbaceous groundcovers – around
or upper edges of rain garden, etc.
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Yarrow
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Achillea millefolia
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Attract beneficial insects; medicinal
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* Wild mint
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Mentha arevensis
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Good for cooking spice, tea
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Hummingbird sage
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Salvia spathacea
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Fragrant leaves for tea; gorgeous pink hummingbird flowers
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1 gallon grasses/sedges/rushes/cattails–
bottom and lower edges of rain garden, etc
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Common scouring rush
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Equisetum hyemale
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Elegant
and sculptural; contain
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*California fescue
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Festuca californica
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Elegant
bunchgrass from N. CA
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Leopold’s rush
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Juncus acutus leopoldii
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Nice
medium-size rush; evergreen with water
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* Lamp rush
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Juncus effusis
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California rush
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Juncus patens
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Versatile –
wet or fairly dry; part-shade fine
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Pointed Rush
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Juncus oxymeris
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Elegant
flowers in summer
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Basket Rush
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Juncus textilis
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Used extensively
for basket-making; tall, elegant
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*Torrey’s Rush
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Juncus torreyi
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Robust
& fast-growing
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Iris-leaf Rush
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Juncus xiphioides
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Leaves look
like a little iris
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Small Cattail
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Typha angustifolia
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Small pots:
perennials /biennials – upper edges or around rain garden, etc.
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Wavyleaf soap plant
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Chlorogalum
pomeridianum
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Bulb with little orchid-like flowers; roots for soap
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Scarlet monkeyflower
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Mimulus cardinalis
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Succulent monkeyflower
with orange-red flowers
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Seep monkeyflower
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Mimulus guttatus
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Pretty little
annual/perennial for moist places
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Hooker’s Primrose
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Oenothera elata hookeri
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Pretty yellow flowers pollinated by large moths
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Sweetscent
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Pluchea odorata
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Insect pollinator/butterfly habitat
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Rain garden mix
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Seep monkeyflower & native clover
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Ready-to-plant mix for edges of rain garden
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Small pots: groundcovers
- upper edges or around rain garden, etc.
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Yarrow
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Achillea millefolia
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Attract beneficial insects; medicinal
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* Wild mint
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Mentha arevensis
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Good for cooking spice, tea
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CA wood mint
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Stachys bullata
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Pretty link flowers for hummingbirds; medicinal
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Blue-eyed Grass
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Sisyrinchium bellum
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Seeds for birds
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*Pacific aster
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Symphyotrichum
chilense
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Pretty
purple & yellow flowers summer/fall
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Small pots:
grasses/sedges/rushes/cattails - bottom and lower edges
of rain garden, etc
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*Dune sedge
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Carex pansa
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Evergreen;
lawn substitute
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Clustered field sedge
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Carex praegracilis
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Evergreen;
bunching-type sedge; part—shade fine
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Iris-leaf Rush
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Juncus xiphioides
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Leaves look
like a little iris
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Creeping wildrye
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Leymus triticoides
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Good for mowed lawn or left un-mowed
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* CA native, but not native to South
Bay
