Spring Native Plant Sale
When: Friday 4/10 - noon to 4:00 p.m.
Saturday
4/11 - 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Where: Biology Dept. Greenhouse (just south of NSM building)
What: CA native plants suitable for home gardens, including 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
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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 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
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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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*Rabbitbush
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Ericameria nauseosa
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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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Southern island mallow
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Lavatera assurgentiflora
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Lovely hibiscus flowers; edible leaves
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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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Coast liveoak
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Quercus agrifolia
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Local native evergreen oak. Water-wise tree
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1 gallon perennials/sub-shrubs
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Marsh baccharis
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Baccharis douglasii
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Insect pollinator/butterfly habitat/yellow
flowers
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Robust gumplant
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Grindelia camporum
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Insect pollinator/butterfly habitat/yellow
flowers
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Coastal gumplant
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Grindelia hirsutula
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Insect pollinator/butterfly habitat
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Heartleaf climbing penstemon
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Keckiella cordifolia
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Red
flowers on shade-loving vine; hummingbird plant!!
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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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Sweetscent
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Pluchea odorata
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Insect pollinator/butterfly habitat
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Canaigre dock
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Rumex hymenosepalus
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Native dye plant; pretty pink flowers
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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
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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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*Pacific aster
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Symphyotrichum (Aster)chilense
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Pretty fall asters – purple & yellow
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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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Mexican rush
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Juncus mexicanus
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Good
for wet or dry
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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
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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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Annual sunflower
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Helianthus annuus
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Local
native sunflower; summer bloomer
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*Douglas iris
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Iris douglasiana
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Small
plants for you to grow to size – great deal!!
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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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Small pots: groundcovers
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Yarrow
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Achillea millefolia
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Attract beneficial insects; medicinal
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Lippia/Fogfruit
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Phyla nodiflora
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Herbaceous groundcover; pretty flowers; some
water
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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