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Sunday, November 8, 2015

Fall Native Plant Sale - 2015

 
 
 
 

Fall Native Plant Sale

 

When:     Friday 11/13  - noon - 4:30 p.m.

          Saturday 11/14 -   noon – 3:00 p.m.

 

Where: Biology Dept. Greenhouse                   (just south of NSM building)

 

What: CA native plants suitable for Western Los Angeles County, including water-wise trees, shrubs as well as plants for containers, rain gardens, vegetated swales and ponds (see below for list)

 

Prices: $1.00 - $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
 
 
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Plant List – November, 2015
CSUDH-Project SOUND Propagation Lab 
 

#

 

Common Name

Scientific Name

Notes/More information

 

1 gallon shrubs/trees and woody vines - $8.00 to 10.00

4

 

Marsh baccharis

Baccharis douglasii

Insect pollinator/butterfly habitat


 

4

 

Coyote bush

Baccharis pilularis

Insect pollinator/butterfly habitat


 

8

 

Mule fat

Baccharis salicifolia

Insect pollinator/butterfly habitat


 

4

 

Saw-tooth goldenbush

Hazardia squarrosa

Butterfly bush; blooms in summer/fall


 

5

 

Toyon

Heteromeles arbutifolia

Red berries in winter; evergreen shrub/tree


 

6

 

Catalina cherry

Prunus ilicifolia

Nice tree/hedge plant; fruits


 

5

 

Coast live oak

Quercus agrifolia

Insect pollinator/butterfly habitat


 

6

 

*Gambel oak

Quesrcus gambellii

Native to Four Corners states.  Winter deciduous.   Grows to 15=20 ft tall. 

 

2

 

Blue (Mexican) elderberry

Sambucus nigra cerulea

Pretty tree; fragrant flowers, edible fruits; good for shade


 

1 gallon perennials/sub-shrubs/vines - $8.00 to 10.00

7

 

*Shaw’s agave

Agave shawii

Dramatic native agave; medium size


 

5

 

Wavyleaf soap plant

Chlorogalum pomeridianum

Bulb with little orchid-like flowers; roots for soap


 

2

 

Ashyleaf buckwheat

Eriogonum cinereum

Good insect plant


 

8

 

* Rosy Buckwheat

Eriogonum grande var. rubescens

Insect pollinator/butterfly habitat

Lovely bright pink flowers


 

2

 

Narrowleaf bedstraw

Galium angustifolium

Pretty little perennial for part-shade; pollinators


 

2

 

Coastal gumplant

Grindelia hirsutula

Insect pollinator/butterfly habitat


 

4

 

Scarlet penstemon/

Heartleaf keckiella

Keckiella cordifolia

Lovely vine for shade.  Red, hummingbird flowers.


 

10

 

Sweetscent

Pluchea odorata

Insect pollinator/butterfly habitat


 

2

 

Canaigre dock

Rumex hymenosepalus

Roots make orange dye; rare


 

3

 

Willow dock

Rumex salicifolius

Pretty  flowers; edible leaves (cooked)


 

8

 

Wild Grape

Vitis girdiana

Edible grapes;  vine for arbors, pergolas, groundcover


 

7

 

* Banana yucca

Yucca bacata

Edible flowers, fruits; rare


 

1 gallon herbaceous groundcovers (also great container plants) - $8.00

1

 

Yarrow

Achillea millefolia

Attract beneficial insects; medicinal


 

4

 

Yerba mansa

Anemopsis californica

Showy summer flowers; great in pots; medicinal


 

3

 

Salty susan

Jaumea carnosa

Succulent groundcover with yellow sunflower flowers


 

2

 

* Wild mint

Mentha arevensis

Good for cooking spice, tea


 

5

 

Blue-eyed Grass

Sisyrinchium bellum

Seeds for birds


 

1

 

*Pacific aster

Symphyotrichum chilense

Pretty purple & yellow flowers summer/fall


 

1 gallon biennials - $8.00

 

10

 

Sneeze plant

Helenium puberulum

Interesting ‘sunflower’ flowers; good habitat plant


 

3

 

Hooker’s Primrose

Oenothera elata hookeri

Pretty yellow flowers pollinated by large moths


 

1 gallon grasses/sedges/rushes/cattails – good for ponds, containers, groundcover

2

 

Common scouring rush

Equisetum hyemale

Elegant and sculptural; contain


 

10

 

Pointed Rush

Juncus oxymeris

Elegant flowers in summer


 

10

 

Basket Rush

Juncus textilis

Used extensively for basket-making; tall, elegant


 

2

 

Iris-leaf Rush

Juncus xiphioides

Leaves look like a little iris


 

20

 

Creeping wildrye

Leymus triticoides

Good for mowed lawn or left un-mowed


 

8

 

Small Cattail

Typha angustifolia

Good for ponds, pools, moist containers

 

Small pots: perennials /biennials -

3

 

CA poppy

Eschscholzia californica ssp. californica

CA state flower – this is the coastal form (yellow&orange)


 

15

 

*Douglas’ iris

Iris douglasiana

Purple flowered wild iris.  Will multiply.


 

2

 

Scarlet monkeyflower

Mimulus cardinalis

Succulent monkeyflower with orange-red flowers


 

10

 

Hooker’s Primrose

Oenothera elata hookeri

Pretty yellow flowers pollinated by large moths


 

6

 

Sweetscent

Pluchea odorata

Insect pollinator/butterfly habitat


 

Small pots: groundcovers - $4.00

5

 

Yarrow

Achillea millefolia

Attract beneficial insects; medicinal


 

10

 

Common lippia/ fogfruit

Phyla nodiflora

Pretty purple flowers; good around pavers


 

10

 

*Pacific aster

Symphyotrichum chilense

Pretty purple & yellow flowers summer/fall


 

Small pots: grasses/sedges/rushes/cattails – Good for containers - $4.00

12

 

*Dune sedge

Carex pansa

Evergreen; lawn substitute


 

4

 

Clustered field sedge

Carex praegracilis

Evergreen; bunching-type  sedge; part—shade fine


 

12

 

*Showy rush

Carex spectabilis

Pretty medium-sized rush.  Good choice for containers.

 

8

 

Common spikerush

Eleocharis macrostachya

Thrives with winter flooding; dry summer/fall


 

2

 

Mexican rush

Juncus mexicanus

Bunching rush; good for wet/dry transitions


 

10

 

California rush

Juncus patens

Versatile – wet or fairly dry; part-shade fine


 

10

 

Iris-leaf Rush

Juncus xiphioides

Leaves look like a little iris


 

20

 

Creeping wildrye

Leymus triticoides

Good for mowed lawn or left un-mowed


 

8

 

Mixed wetland

plants

 

Combination of wetland plants for pond or container

 

Non-native plants

 

15

 

Non-native ‘Mother of Thousands’

Kalanchoe daigremontiana

Small pots – Clearance sale - $1.00

 

3

 

Non-native Aloe

 

Clearance sale - $3.00

 

4

 

Non-native Clivia – good for pots, shade

 

Large – Clearance sale - $12.00

 
 
* CA native, but not native to South Ba

 
 


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