California Native Plant Link Exchange Profile of  El Dorado County ALL COUNTY PROFILES SEARCH for Plants
 

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Desolation Valley   Charles Thoreau Townsend © 2002 California Academy of Sciences


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  Local Resources

Calflora Places to view California Native Plants:
  near   Georgetown
  near   Kyburz
  near   Placerville
  near   South Lake Tahoe

CNPS Chapter: El Dorado -- covering the Sierra Foothills area around Placerville.

CNPS Chapter: Tahoe

Traverse Creek, description of trails and habitats (Steve Tyron, floralore)

Sources of Native Plants
El Dorado County
Blue Oak Nursery  PROFILE 
Rescue 95672
Golden Gecko Garden Center  PROFILE 
Garden Valley 95633
Lotus Valley Nursery  PROFILE 
Lotus 95651 retail
Placer County
Bitterroot Restoration  PROFILE 
Lincoln 95648
Forest Seeds of California  PROFILE 
Placerville 95667 mail order
Fowler Nurseries  PROFILE 
Newcastle 95658
High Ranch Nursery Inc.  PROFILE 
Loomis, 95650 source identified
Mountain Valley Growers  PROFILE 
Squaw Valley 93675 mail order
Park Place Gardens  PROFILE 
Loomis 95650
Restoration Resources  PROFILE 
Rocklin 95765
Wapumne Native Plant Nursery  PROFILE 
Lincoln 95648
Alpine County
Amador County
Sacramento County
CNPS Sac Valley - American River Nursery  PROFILE 
Rancho Cordova periodic sales
Cornflower Farms  PROFILE 
Elk Grove 95759 wholesale, retail
Hartland Nursery  PROFILE 
Walnut Grove 95690
Village Nurseries  PROFILE 
Sacramento 95827
Windmill Nursery  PROFILE 
Carmichael 95608
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Wild Plants in  El Dorado County
Native Plants, by lifeform
Native Plants at the edge of their range
non-Native Plants
by Jepson Bioregion:
 
High Sierra Nevada
Sierra Nevada Foothills

  Map of El Dorado County

 

 

What Grows Here?

  by watershed

  by zipcode

  by open space

 

 

 

Native Trees that grow wild in El Dorado County:   Trees  •  Shrubs  •  Perennials  •  Annuals  •  Ferns
Abies concolor
Abies magnifica
Acer glabrum
Acer macrophyllum
Acer negundo
Acer negundo var. californicum
Adenostoma fasciculatum
Aesculus californica
Alnus incana
Alnus incana ssp. tenuifolia
 
Alnus rhombifolia
Arbutus menziesii
Arctostaphylos viscida
Betula occidentalis
Calocedrus decurrens
Ceanothus thyrsiflorus
Ceanothus velutinus
Cercis occidentalis
Cercocarpus betuloides
Cercocarpus ledifolius
Chrysolepis chrysophylla
Cornus glabrata
Cornus sessilis
Cupressus macnabiana
Euonymus occidentalis
Frangula purshiana
Fraxinus dipetala
 
Fraxinus jonesii
Fraxinus latifolia
Garrya elliptica
Hesperocyparis bakeri
Hesperocyparis macnabiana
Juglans californica
Juglans californica var. hindsii
Juglans hindsii
Juniperus occidentalis
Lithocarpus densiflorus
Lithocarpus densiflorus var. echinoides
Notholithocarpus densiflorus
Notholithocarpus densiflorus var. echinoides
Pinus attenuata
Pinus contorta
Pinus coulteri
Pinus jeffreyi
 
Pinus lambertiana
Pinus monticola
Pinus muricata
Pinus ponderosa
Pinus sabiniana
Platanus racemosa
Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa
Populus fremontii
Populus tremuloides
Populus trichocarpa
Prunus andersonii
Prunus emarginata
Prunus ilicifolia
Prunus virginiana
Prunus virginiana var. demissa
Pseudotsuga menziesii
Ptelea crenulata
 
Quercus berberidifolia
Quercus chrysolepis
Quercus douglasii
Quercus garryana
Quercus kelloggii
Quercus lobata
Quercus wislizeni
Rhamnus purshiana
Rhododendron occidentale
Salix exigua
Salix exigua var. hindsiana
Salix gooddingii
Salix laevigata
Salix lasiandra
Salix lasiolepis
Salix lucida
Salix lucida ssp. lasiandra
 
Salix melanopsis
Salix scouleriana
Sambucus mexicana
Sorbus sitchensis
Taxus brevifolia
Torreya californica
Tsuga mertensiana
Umbellularia californica