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
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Scientific Name
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Notes/More information
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1 gallon shrubs/trees
and woody vines - $7.00 - $8.00 (a few
are $9.00)
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6
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Marsh baccharis
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Baccharis
douglasii
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Medicinal: wounds/sores/boils
Habitat: butterflies,
insects
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6
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Mule fat
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Baccharis
salicifolia
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Medicinal: eyewash; skin infections
Useful: green-yellow
dyes
Habitat: many insects,
butterflies, birds
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20
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CA bush
sunflower
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Encelia
californica
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Edible: seeds
Medicinal: toothache; joint/muscle pains
Habitat: many insects,
butterflies, birds
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2
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Saw-tooth
goldenbush
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Hazardia
squarrosa
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Medicinal: calming; joint/muscle pain
Habitat: many insects,
butterflies
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6
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Toyon
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Heteromeles
arbutifolia
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Medicinal: wounds/sores; muscle pain
Useful: all parts used
for natural dyes
Habitat: fruit-eating
birds
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6
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Heartleaf
keckiella
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Keckiella
cordifolia
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Medicinal: colds; wash for wounds/sores
Habitat: hummingbirds
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3
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S. Island mallow
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Lavatera
assurgentiflora
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Edible: flowers &
leave as cooked greens
Medicinal: bronchitis,
rheumatism
Habitat: hummingbirds
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6
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Catalina cherry
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Prunus
ilicifolia
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Edible: fruits
Medicinal: colds/coughs (carefully)
Useful: all parts used
for natural dyes
Habitat: many insects,
birds
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5
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Coast live oak
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Quercus
agrifolia
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Edible: acorns
Medicinal: antiseptic
wash; also galls for diarrhea
Habitat: many insects,
birds
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5
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**Gambel oak
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Quercus
gambelii
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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.
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6
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Lemonadeberry
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Rhus
integrifolia
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Edible: fruits
Medicinal: coughs & colds
Useful: dye and mordant
Habitat: pollinators,
many birds
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5
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Blue elderberry
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Sambucus
nigra cerulea
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Edible: berries, flowers
Medicinal: antiseptic wash; rheumatism; diuretic
Habitat: many birds
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10
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Wild grape
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Vitis
girdiana
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Edible: fruits, leaves
Medicinal: hair tonic
Useful: yellow dye from
leaves
Habitat: fruit-eating
birds
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1 gallon
perennials/sub-shrubs - $7.00
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10
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* Rosy Buckwheat
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Eriogonum
grande var. rubescens
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Edible: young leaves as cooked greens
Medicinal: coughs/colds; aches & pains
Habitat: butterflies
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2
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Big gumplant
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Grindelia
camporum
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Medicinal: bronchitis, sore throat, skin rashes (see
cautions)
Useful: green/yellow
dyes
Habitat: butterflies,
insect pollinators
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6
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Sweetscent
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Pluchea
odorata
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Medicinal: eye wash; cramp aid; diuretic
Useful: crushed leaves as insect repellent
Habitat: many insect
pollinators
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2
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Canaigre dock
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Rumex
hymenosepalus
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Edible: leaves as cooked
greens; seeds
Medicinal: antiseptic/astringent
wash, gargle
Useful: roots for
orange/brown dyes
Habitat: butterflies
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6
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Willow dock
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Rumex
salicifolius
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Edible: young leaves as
cooked potherb
Medicinal: antiseptic/astringent wash; stomach aches
Useful: Dye plant; roots
used for baskets
Habitat: butterflies
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6
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Shrubby
butterweed
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Senecio
flaccidus var. douglasii
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Medicinal: yes
Useful: yellow dyes
Habitat: pollinators,
butterflies
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1 gallon
herbaceous groundcovers - $7.00
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8
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Yerba santa
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Anemopsis
californica
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Edible: roots &
seeds, cooked
Medicinal: anti-inflammatory and antibiotic – many uses
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1
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Mugwort
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Artemisia
douglasiana
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Edible: seasoning herb
Medicinal: antiseptic wash; joint pains (very good); stomach/intestinal
problems
Habitat: pollinators,
butterflies
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6
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Salty susan
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Jaumea
carnosa
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Edible: young foliage
Medicinal: fevers
Habitat: pollinators,
butterflies
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1 gallon
perennial bulbs and succulents - $7.00 - $8.00
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2
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*Shaw’s agave
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Agave
shawii
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Edible: flowers, stalks
Medicinal: diuretic &
for gas
Useful: fiber
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6
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Soap lily
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Chlorogalum
pomeridianum
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Edible: young leaves,
shoots – slow-cooked
Medicinal: antiseptic wash
Useful: mild soap
Habitat: hummingbirds,
moths, lg. bees
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6
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* Banana yucca
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Yucca
bacata
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Edible: fruits, cooked
Useful: fiber
Habitat: insects &
fruit-eating birds
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1 gallon
grasses/sedges/rushes/cattails - $7.00
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8
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Common spikerush
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Eleocharis
macrostachya
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Useful: basketry
Habitat: birds
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6
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California rush
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Juncus
patens
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Useful: basketry
Habitat: birds
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10
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Pointed Rush
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Juncus
oxymeris
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Habitat: birds
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8
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Basket Rush
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Juncus
textilis
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Edible: tubers, cooked
Useful: basketry
Habitat: birds
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8
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Small Cattail
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Typha
angustifolia
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Edible: tubers. Flowers,
pollen
Medicinal: pollen used to stop bleeding
Useful: fiber, weaving
Habitat: insects, birds
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Non-native shade
plants - $8.00
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4
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**Clivia
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Clivia miniata
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Really
good deal – these are mature plants in full flower. Orange lily-like flowers. Takes very shady conditions.
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Small pots:
trees, shrubs and sub-shrubs - $4.00
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30
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*Rabbitbush
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Ericameria
nauseosa
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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.
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25
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Big gumplant
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Grindelia
camporum
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See above
(described under 1 gallon)
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Small pots:
perennials /biennials/annuals - $4.00
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40
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Telegraph plant
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Heterotheca
grandiflora
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Medicinal: antiseptic/antifungal wash; joint pains from
injury, arthritis (very good)
Useful: green-yellow dye
Habitat: pollinators,
butterflies, finches
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10
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* Douglas iris
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Iris
douglasii
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Medicinal: poultice for infected wounds
Useful: fiber,
paper-making
Habitat: insects,
hummingbirds
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6
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Red monkeyflower
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Mimulus
cardinalis
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Edible: leaves, flowers
raw or cooked
Medicinal: soothing poultice for burns
Habitat: hummingbirds
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20+
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Common yellow
monkeyflower
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Mimulus
guttatus
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Edible: flowers, leaves
(raw or cooked)
Medicinal: astringent poultice
Habitat: Buckeye
butterflies, hummingbirds
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10+
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Hooker’s
Primrose
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Oenothera
elata hookeri
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Edible: root (cooked);
young shoots (raw or cooked)
Medicinal:
Useful:
Habitat: moths,
butterflies, hummingbirds, finches & other seed-eating birds
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8
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Sweetscent
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Pluchea
odorata
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See above
(described under 1 gallon)
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25+
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Blue-eyed Grass
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Sisyrinchium
bellum
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Medicinal: tea for stomach ache, fever
Habitat: seed-eating
birds
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Small pots:
groundcovers - $3.00 - $4.00
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20
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Fog fruit/ Lippia
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Phyla
nodiflora
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Edible: young leaves for
tea
Medicinal: antiseptic wash; fever, colds
Habitat: Buckeye,
Hairstreak butterflies
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6
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CA goldenrod
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Solidago
californica
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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
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50
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* Pacific aster
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Symphyotrichum
chilense
(Aster
chilensis)
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Habitat: many insect
pollinators, butterflies
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Small pots:
grasses/sedges/rushes/cattails - $2.50
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15
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*Dune sedge
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Carex
pansa
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Useful: grass substitute
Habitat: many birds eat
the seeds
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15
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* Showy sedge
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Carex
spectabilis
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Useful: grass substitute
Habitat: many birds eat
the seeds
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20
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Creeping wildrye
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Leymus
triticoides
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Edible: seeds
Useful: native sod
grass; leaves for basketry
Habitat: many birds eat
the seeds
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* CA
native, but not native to South Bay
** Not
a CA native plant
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