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Calflora Great Places to view California Native Plants:

Upper Newport Bay, Back Bay Trail

©Basar in Wikipedia Commons

Starr Ranch

©2017 Cynthia Powell

Crystal Cove State Park

©2005 Michael W Tuna

Caspers Wilderness Park

©2015 Laura Camp



CNPS Chapter: Orange County

Wildscaping for gardeners in Southern California: How to attract and nurture wildlife in your own yard.

Theodore Payne Foundation:
Native Plant Garden Tour

Tom Chester - Trail Guides for Southern California locations, organized by Jepson Bioregion

The California Chaparral Institute, Escondido

Sources of Native Plants
Orange County
Flowerdale Nursery  PROFILE 
Santa Ana 92705
Tree of Life Nursery  PROFILE 
San Juan Capistrano 92693 wholesale, contract
Los Angeles County
AVRCD Conservation Nursery  PROFILE 
Lancaster 93536
Boething Treeland Farms  PROFILE 
Woodland Hills 91367
Budget Plants  PROFILE 
Arcadia 91006 All our plants are locall...
El Nativo Growers  PROFILE 
Azusa 91702
Greenlee Nursery  PROFILE 
Pomona 91766
Grow Native Nursery at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden  PROFILE 
Claremont 91711 periodic sales
Hahamonga Nursery  PROFILE 
Pasadena 91109 ...providing low-cost nat...
Stover Seed Company  PROFILE 
Los Angeles 90021 seeds
Theodore Payne Foundation  PROFILE 
Sun Valley 91352
San Bernardino County
Mojave Desert Land Trust  PROFILE 
Joshua Tree 92252 plant sales 3 X a year
Oak Hills Nursery  PROFILE 
Herperia 92344
Riverside County
Acorn Cap Native Plant Nursery, The  PROFILE 
Wildomar 92595 Native Plant Nursery
Fremontia Horicultural  PROFILE 
Ontario 91761
Green Valley Nursery  PROFILE 
Indio 92203
Mockingbird Nurseries  PROFILE 
Riverside 92504
Upper Chase Nursery  PROFILE 
Riverside 92504 Wholesale
San Diego County
Anderson's Seed Co  PROFILE 
Escondido 92029 seeds
Briggs Nursery and Tree Company  PROFILE 
Vista 92081
Coastal Sage Gardening  PROFILE 
San Diego 92110
Evergreen Nursery  PROFILE 
San Diego 92110
Green Acres Nursery  PROFILE 
Vista 92084 wholesale
In Harmony Herbs and Spices  PROFILE 
San Diego 92167 seeds
Moosa Creek Nursery  PROFILE 
Valley Center 92082 wholesale
Recon Native Plants Inc.  PROFILE 
San Diego 92154 wholesale
Rincon Tribal Nursery  PROFILE 
Valley Center 92082
Sherman Nursery  PROFILE 
San Marcos 92069 Wholesale Nursery
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Wild Plants in  Orange County

Native Plants, by lifeform
Native Plants at the edge of their range
non-Native Plants
by Jepson Bioregion:
 
South Coast
Peninsular Ranges
  MAP of Orange County

 

What Grows Here?
-- a county level flora --

 

 

 

Native Perennials that grow wild in Orange County:   Trees  •  Shrubs  •  Perennials  •  Annuals  •  Ferns
Abronia maritima
Abutilon palmeri
Achillea millefolium
Achnatherum coronatum
Acmispon glaber
Acmispon heermannii
Ageratina occidentalis
Agoseris grandiflora
Agrostis exarata
Agrostis pallens
 
Alisma plantago-aquatica
Alisma triviale
Allium haematochiton
Allium marvinii
Allium praecox
Ambrosia chamissonis
Ambrosia psilostachya
Anaphalis margaritacea
Anemopsis californica
Antirrhinum multiflorum
 
Antirrhinum thompsonii
Apocynum cannabinum
Aquilegia formosa
Aralia californica
Argemone munita
Aristida purpurea
Artemisia douglasiana
Artemisia dracunculus
Artemisia ludoviciana
Arthrocnemum subterminale
 
Asclepias californica
Asclepias eriocarpa
Asclepias fascicularis
Aster radulinus
Astragalus pomonensis
Astragalus trichopodus
Atriplex leucophylla
Atriplex watsonii
Baccharis douglasii
Baccharis glutinosa
 
Baileya multiradiata
Bidens laevis
Bloomeria crocea
Bolboschoenus maritimus
Bolboschoenus maritimus ssp. paludosus
Bolboschoenus robustus
Bothriochloa barbinodis
Bouteloua gracilis
Brickellia californica
Bromus carinatus
 
Bromus laevipes
Bromus sitchensis var. carinatus
Calochortus albus
Calochortus catalinae
Calochortus splendens
Calochortus venustus
Calystegia macrostegia
Calystegia macrostegia ssp. cyclostegia
Calystegia soldanella
Camissonia cheiranthifolia
 
Camissoniopsis cheiranthifolia
Carex barbarae
Carex globosa
Carex pellita
Carex praegracilis
Carex senta
Carex spissa
Carex subfusca
Castilleja foliolosa
Chlorogalum pomeridianum
Cirsium occidentale
 
Clematis lasiantha
Clematis ligusticifolia
Clinopodium chandleri
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
Cressa truxillensis
Croton californicus
Cucurbita foetidissima
Cylindropuntia californica
Cyperus eragrostis
Datura inoxia
 
Datura wrightii
Delphinium cardinale
Dicentra chrysantha
Dichelostemma capitatum
Dipterostemon capitatus
Distichlis spicata
Dodecatheon clevelandii
Drymocallis glandulosa
Dudleya attenuata
Dudleya caespitosa
 
Dudleya cymosa
Dudleya edulis
Dudleya hassei
Dudleya lanceolata
Dudleya pulverulenta
Dudleya virens
Dudleya virens ssp. hassei
Ehrendorferia chrysantha
Eleocharis macrostachya
Eleocharis palustris
 
Elymus condensatus
Elymus glaucus
Elymus multisetus
Elymus triticoides
Epilobium canum
Epilobium canum ssp. angustifolium
Epilobium canum ssp. latifolium
Epipactis gigantea
Eriastrum densifolium
Erigeron divergens
 
Erigeron glaucus
Erigeron lobatus
Eriogonum elongatum
Eriogonum wrightii
Eriogonum wrightii var. subscaposum
Erysimum capitatum
Erythranthe cardinalis
Erythranthe guttata
Eschscholzia californica
Eschscholzia procera
 
Eurybia radulina
Euthamia occidentalis
Festuca californica
Festuca rubra
Frankenia salina
Fritillaria biflora
Galium angustifolium
Galvezia speciosa
Gnaphalium californicum
Gnaphalium canescens
Gnaphalium stramineum
 
Grindelia camporum
Grindelia camporum var. bracteosa
Grindelia hirsutula
Grindelia hirsutula var. davyi
Grindelia stricta
Gutierrezia californica
Helenium bigelovii
Helenium puberulum
Helianthus gracilentus
Heliotropium curassavicum
 
Hesperostipa comata
Heterotheca grandiflora
Heuchera maxima
Hoita macrostachya
Hoita orbicularis
Hordeum brachyantherum
Hordeum brachyantherum ssp. californicum
Horkelia cuneata
Hosackia crassifolia
Iris douglasiana
 
Iva hayesiana
Jaumea carnosa
Juncus acutus
Juncus balticus
Juncus effusus
Juncus mexicanus
Juncus patens
Juncus phaeocephalus
Juncus textilis
Juncus torreyi
 
Juncus xiphioides
Koeleria macrantha
Lathyrus vestitus
Lemna minor
Lessingia filaginifolia
Lessingia filaginifolia var. californica
Leymus condensatus
Leymus triticoides
Lilium humboldtii
Limonium californicum
 
Linum lewisii
Lobelia dunnii
Lobelia dunnii var. serrata
Lomatium dasycarpum
Lotus crassifolius
Lotus heermannii
Lotus scoparius
Lupinus bicolor
Lupinus formosus
Lupinus latifolius
 
Lupinus rivularis
Malacothrix saxatilis
Malvella leprosa
Marah macrocarpa
Marah macrocarpus
Melica imperfecta
Melica torreyana
Mimulus cardinalis
Mimulus guttatus
Mirabilis californica
Mirabilis laevis
 
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
Monardella linoides
Monardella linoides ssp. viminea
Monardella macrantha
Monardella viminea
Muhlenbergia rigens
Nassella cernua
Nassella lepida
Nassella pulchra
Nasturtium officinale
 
Nolina parryi
Oenanthe sarmentosa
Oenothera californica
Oenothera elata
Oenothera elata ssp. hirsutissima
Oenothera elata ssp. hookeri
Oenothera villosa ssp. strigosa
Penstemon centranthifolius
Penstemon grinnellii
Penstemon heterophyllus
 
Penstemon palmeri
Penstemon spectabilis
Perideridia gairdneri
Persicaria punctata
Phacelia bolanderi
Phacelia cinerea
Phacelia imbricata
Phacelia ramosissima
Phacelia ramosissima var. austrolitoralis
Phacelia ramosissima var. latifolia
 
Phyla nodiflora
Plantago maritima
Plantago subnuda
Pluchea odorata
Poa ampla
Poa fendleriana
Poa juncifolia
Poa nevadensis
Poa secunda
Polygonum punctatum
 
Potentilla anserina
Potentilla anserina ssp. pacifica
Potentilla glandulosa
Primula clevelandii
Prunella vulgaris
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata
Pseudognaphalium biolettii
Pseudognaphalium californicum
Pseudognaphalium microcephalum
Pseudognaphalium stramineum
 
Pycnanthemum californicum
Ranunculus californicus
Romneya coulteri
Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum
Rumex salicifolius
Sagittaria latifolia
Salicornia pacifica
Salicornia subterminalis
Salvia sonomensis
Salvia spathacea
Satureja chandleri
 
Schoenoplectus acutus
Schoenoplectus americanus
Schoenoplectus californicus
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani
Scirpus americanus
Scirpus californicus
Scirpus maritimus
Scirpus microcarpus
Scirpus robustus
Scrophularia californica
 
Scrophularia californica ssp. floribunda
Sidalcea malviflora
Silene laciniata
Silene laciniata ssp. californica
Sisyrinchium bellum
Solanum douglasii
Solanum xanti
Solidago californica
Solidago confinis
Solidago sparsiflora
 
Solidago velutina
Solidago velutina ssp. californica
Sparganium eurycarpum
Sphaeralcea ambigua
Sporobolus airoides
Stachys ajugoides
Stachys albens
Stachys bullata
Stachys rigida
Stanleya pinnata
 
Stipa cernua
Stipa comata
Stipa coronata
Stipa lepida
Stipa pulchra
Suaeda moquinii
Suaeda nigra
Thalictrum fendleri
Thalictrum fendleri var. polycarpum
Thalictrum polycarpum
 
Toxicoscordion fremontii
Trifolium wormskioldii
Triglochin maritima
Triteleia ixioides
Typha domingensis
Typha latifolia
Urtica dioica
Urtica dioica ssp. holosericea
Venegasia carpesioides
Verbena lasiostachys
 
Verbena lasiostachys var. scabrida
Vicia americana
Zigadenus fremontii