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Sunday, March 13, 2016

Spring Plant Sale - Edible, medicinal & Useful Plants


Native Plant Sale

Edible, medicinal & useful plants

 
  
  When:   Friday 3/18  - 1:00-4:30 p.m.
                 Saturday 3/19 - 1:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
 
    Where: Biology Dept. Greenhouse
                  (behind NSM building) - http://nativeplantscsudh.blogspot.com/p/map.html  
    What: CA native plants suitable for home gardens (trees,
               shrubs, flowers - see list below) 
    Prices: $2.50 - $8.00 donation/plant (a deal!)
Proceeds support native plant propagation/restoration on campus
Cash/checks only
 

 
 
 
 
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Plant List –  CSUDH Native Plant Greenhouse – March 18-19, 2016
 

 


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Common Name

Scientific Name

Notes/More information

 

1 gallon shrubs/trees and woody vines - $7.00 - $8.00  (a few are $9.00)

6

 

Marsh baccharis

Baccharis douglasii

Medicinal: wounds/sores/boils

Habitat: butterflies, insects


 

6

 

Mule fat

Baccharis salicifolia

Medicinal:  eyewash; skin infections

Useful: green-yellow dyes

Habitat: many insects, butterflies, birds


 

20

 

CA bush sunflower

Encelia californica

Edible: seeds

Medicinal:  toothache; joint/muscle pains

Habitat: many insects, butterflies, birds


 


 

2

 

Saw-tooth goldenbush

Hazardia squarrosa

Medicinal:  calming; joint/muscle pain

Habitat: many insects, butterflies


 

6

 

Toyon

Heteromeles arbutifolia

Medicinal:  wounds/sores; muscle pain

Useful: all parts used for natural dyes

Habitat: fruit-eating birds


 


 

6

 

Heartleaf keckiella

Keckiella cordifolia 

Medicinal:  colds; wash for wounds/sores

Habitat: hummingbirds


 

3

 

S. Island mallow

Lavatera assurgentiflora

Edible: flowers & leave as cooked greens

Medicinal: bronchitis, rheumatism

Habitat: hummingbirds


 

6

 

Catalina cherry

Prunus ilicifolia

Edible: fruits

Medicinal:  colds/coughs (carefully)

Useful: all parts used for natural dyes

Habitat: many insects, birds


 

5

 

Coast live oak

Quercus agrifolia

Edible: acorns

Medicinal: antiseptic wash; also galls for diarrhea

Habitat: many insects, birds


 

5

 

**Gambel oak

Quercus gambelii

Edible: acorns

Medicinal: antiseptic wash; also galls for diarrhea

Habitat: many insects, birds

More: Native to Four Corners States.  10-15 ft. tall.  Winter deciduous ‘oak type’ leaves.

 

6

 

Lemonadeberry

Rhus integrifolia

Edible: fruits

Medicinal:  coughs & colds

Useful: dye and mordant

Habitat: pollinators, many birds


 


 

 5

 

Blue elderberry

Sambucus nigra cerulea

Edible: berries, flowers

Medicinal:  antiseptic wash; rheumatism; diuretic

Habitat: many birds


 


 

10

 

Wild grape

Vitis girdiana

Edible: fruits, leaves

Medicinal:  hair tonic

Useful: yellow dye from leaves

Habitat: fruit-eating birds


 

1 gallon perennials/sub-shrubs - $7.00

10

 

* Rosy Buckwheat

Eriogonum grande var. rubescens

Edible:  young leaves as cooked greens

Medicinal:  coughs/colds; aches & pains

Habitat: butterflies


 


 

2

 

Big gumplant

Grindelia camporum

Medicinal:  bronchitis, sore throat, skin rashes (see cautions)

Useful: green/yellow dyes

Habitat: butterflies, insect pollinators


 


 

6

 

Sweetscent

Pluchea odorata

Medicinal:  eye wash; cramp aid; diuretic

Useful: crushed leaves as insect repellent

Habitat: many insect pollinators


 


 

2

 

Canaigre dock

Rumex hymenosepalus

Edible: leaves as cooked greens; seeds

Medicinal: antiseptic/astringent wash, gargle

Useful: roots for orange/brown dyes

Habitat: butterflies


 

6

 

Willow dock

Rumex salicifolius

Edible: young leaves as cooked potherb

Medicinal:  antiseptic/astringent wash; stomach aches

Useful: Dye plant; roots used for baskets

Habitat: butterflies


 

6

 

Shrubby butterweed

Senecio flaccidus var. douglasii

Medicinal:  yes

Useful: yellow dyes

Habitat: pollinators, butterflies


 

1 gallon herbaceous groundcovers - $7.00

8

 

Yerba santa

Anemopsis californica

Edible: roots & seeds, cooked

Medicinal:  anti-inflammatory and antibiotic – many uses


 


 

1

 

Mugwort

Artemisia douglasiana

Edible: seasoning herb

Medicinal:  antiseptic wash; joint pains (very good); stomach/intestinal problems

Habitat: pollinators, butterflies


 

6

 

Salty susan

Jaumea carnosa

Edible: young foliage

Medicinal:  fevers

Habitat: pollinators, butterflies


 

1 gallon perennial bulbs and succulents - $7.00 - $8.00

2

 

*Shaw’s agave

Agave shawii

Edible: flowers, stalks

Medicinal: diuretic & for gas

Useful: fiber


 

6

 

Soap lily

Chlorogalum pomeridianum

Edible: young leaves, shoots – slow-cooked

Medicinal:  antiseptic wash

Useful: mild soap

Habitat: hummingbirds, moths, lg. bees


 

6

 

* Banana yucca

Yucca bacata

Edible: fruits, cooked

Useful: fiber

Habitat: insects & fruit-eating birds


 

1 gallon grasses/sedges/rushes/cattails - $7.00

8

 

Common spikerush

Eleocharis macrostachya

Useful: basketry

Habitat: birds


 


 

6

 

California rush

Juncus patens

Useful: basketry

Habitat: birds


 

10

 

Pointed Rush

Juncus oxymeris

Habitat: birds


 

8

 

Basket Rush

Juncus textilis

Edible: tubers, cooked

Useful: basketry

Habitat: birds


 

8

 

Small Cattail

Typha angustifolia

Edible: tubers. Flowers, pollen

Medicinal:  pollen used to stop bleeding

Useful: fiber, weaving

Habitat: insects, birds

 

Non-native shade plants - $8.00

 

4

 

**Clivia

Clivia miniata

Really good deal – these are mature plants in full flower.  Orange lily-like flowers.  Takes very shady conditions.

 

Small pots: trees, shrubs and sub-shrubs - $4.00

30

 

*Rabbitbush

Ericameria nauseosa

Medicinal:  antiseptic skin wash; colds

Useful: good yellow/green dye; insect repellant

Habitat: excellent for pollinators, butterflies, birds. One of the best shrubs for habitat.


 

25

 

Big gumplant

Grindelia camporum

See above (described under 1 gallon)

 

Small pots: perennials /biennials/annuals - $4.00

40

 

Telegraph plant

Heterotheca grandiflora

Medicinal:  antiseptic/antifungal wash; joint pains from injury, arthritis (very good)

Useful: green-yellow dye

Habitat: pollinators, butterflies, finches


 


 

10

 

* Douglas iris

Iris douglasii

Medicinal:  poultice for infected wounds

Useful: fiber, paper-making

Habitat: insects, hummingbirds


 

6

 

Red monkeyflower

Mimulus cardinalis

Edible: leaves, flowers raw or cooked

Medicinal:  soothing poultice for burns

Habitat: hummingbirds


 


 

20+

 

Common yellow monkeyflower

Mimulus guttatus

Edible: flowers, leaves (raw or cooked)

Medicinal:  astringent poultice

Habitat: Buckeye butterflies, hummingbirds


 

10+

 

Hooker’s Primrose

Oenothera elata hookeri

Edible: root (cooked); young shoots (raw or cooked)

Medicinal:  

Useful:

Habitat: moths, butterflies, hummingbirds, finches & other seed-eating birds


 

8

 

Sweetscent

Pluchea odorata

See above (described under 1 gallon)

 

25+

 

Blue-eyed Grass

Sisyrinchium bellum

Medicinal:  tea for stomach ache, fever

Habitat: seed-eating birds


 

Small pots: groundcovers - $3.00 - $4.00

20

 

Fog fruit/ Lippia

Phyla nodiflora

Edible: young leaves for tea

Medicinal:  antiseptic wash; fever, colds

Habitat: Buckeye, Hairstreak butterflies


 

6

 

CA goldenrod

Solidago californica

Edible: dry for tea; young leaves, cooked

Medicinal:  leaved dried or as tea for skin infections, wounds

Useful: lovely yellow dye; hair rinse

Habitat: insect pollinators, butterflies, birds


 

50

 

* Pacific aster

Symphyotrichum chilense

(Aster chilensis)

Habitat: many insect pollinators, butterflies


 

Small pots: grasses/sedges/rushes/cattails - $2.50

15

 

*Dune sedge

Carex pansa

Useful: grass substitute

Habitat: many birds eat the seeds


 

15

 

* Showy sedge

Carex spectabilis

Useful: grass substitute

Habitat: many birds eat the seeds

 

20

 

Creeping wildrye

Leymus triticoides

Edible: seeds

Useful: native sod grass; leaves for basketry

Habitat: many birds eat the seeds


 
 
* CA native, but not native to South Bay
** Not a CA native plant