|
Botanical name
|
Common name
|
CA Native
|
Bird or Butterfly
|
water usage
|
Type
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| TREES |
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| Acer rubrum 'Red Sunset' |
Scarlet Maple
|
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
mod-reg water usage
|
tree
|
| Aesculus californica |
California Buckeye
|
CA native
|
Attracts Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
tree
|
| Arbutus 'Marina' |
Marina Strawberry Tree
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
tree
|
| Calocedrus decurrens |
Incense Cedar
|
CA native
|
|
drought tolerant
|
tree
|
| Chionanthus retusus |
Chinese Fringe Tree
|
|
female tree attracts birds |
mod-reg water usage
|
tree
|
| Cornus nuttallii |
Western Dogwood
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
low water usage
|
tree
|
| Crataegus laevigata 'Paul's Scarlet' |
English Hawthorne
|
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
moderate water usage
|
tree
|
| Crataegus phaenopyrum |
Washington Hawthorne
|
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
moderate water usage
|
tree
|
| Lagerstroemia hybrid |
Crape Myrtle
|
|
Attracts beneficial insects |
drought tolerant
|
tree
|
| Lagerstroemia indica 'Catawba' |
Crape Myrtle
|
|
Attracts beneficial insects |
drought tolerant
|
tree
|
| Olea europaea 'Swan Hill' |
Fruitless Olive
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
tree
|
| Platanus racemosa |
California Sycamore
|
CA native
|
Attracts Butterflies |
mod-reg water usage
|
tree
|
| Quercus agrifolia |
Coast Live Oak
|
CA native
|
Attracts Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
tree
|
| Quercus coccinea |
Scarlet Oak
|
|
Attracts Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
tree
|
| Quercus douglasii |
Blue Oak
|
CA native
|
Attracts Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
tree
|
| Quercus kelloggii |
California Black Oak
|
CA native
|
Attracts Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
tree
|
| Quercus lobata |
Valley Oak
|
CA native
|
Attracts Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
tree
|
| Quercus suber |
Cork Oak
|
|
Attracts Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
tree
|
| Quercus wislizenii |
Interior Live Oak
|
CA native
|
Attracts Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
tree
|
| Robinia idahoensis 'Purple Robe' |
Idaho Locust
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
tree
|
| SHRUBS & PERENNIALS |
|
|
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| Agapanthus orientalis |
Lily of the Nile
|
|
Attracts Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Agapanthus orientalis 'Peter Pan' |
Dwarf Lily of the Nile
|
|
Attracts Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Agave americana var. medio-picta 'Alba' |
White-Striped Century Plant
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Arctostaphylos 'Howard McMinn' |
Manzanita
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Artemisia
'Powis Castle" |
Silver Spreader
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Berberis thunbergii 'Rose Glow' |
Japanese Barberry
|
|
Attracts Birds |
mod-reg water usage
|
shrub
|
| Buddleja davidii |
Butterfly Bush
|
|
Attracts Butterflies |
mod-reg water usage
|
shrub
|
| Carpenteria
californica |
Bush Anemone
|
CA native
|
|
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Ceanothus 'Concha' |
Ceanothus
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Cercis occidentalis |
Western Redbud
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds |
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Chrysanthemum maximum |
Shasta Daisy
|
|
Attracts Butterflies |
regular water usage
|
perennial
|
| Cistus ladanifer |
Crimson-Spot Rockrose
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Cistus x purpureus |
Orchid Rockrose
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Cistus salviifolius |
Sageleaf Rockrose
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Cornus stolonifera |
Redtwig Dogwood
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds |
regular water usage
|
shrub
|
| Echinacea purpurea |
Purple Coneflower
|
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
mod-reg water usage
|
perennial
|
| Eleagnus pungens |
Silver Berry
|
|
Attracts Birds |
low water usage
|
shrub
|
| Eriogonum umbellatum 'Polyanthum' |
Sulfur Buckwheat
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Euryops pectinatus 'Munchkin' |
Euryops Daisy
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Feijoa sellowiana |
Pineapple Guava
|
|
Attracts Birds |
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Fremontodendron californicum |
Flannel Bush
|
CA native
|
|
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Gaura lindheimeri |
Gaura
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Grevillea 'Noellii' |
Grevillea
|
|
Attracts Birds |
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Hemerocallis hybrids |
Daylily
|
|
|
reg
|
perennial
|
| Kniphofia uvaria |
Red Hot Poker
|
|
Attracts Birds |
mod-reg water usage
|
perennial
|
| Lavandula angustifolia 'Munstead' |
Munstead Lavender
|
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Lavandula stoechas 'Otto Quast' |
Spanish Lavender
|
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Loropetalum chinense |
Razzleberri Fringe Flower
|
|
|
regular water usage
|
shrub
|
| Mahonia Pinnata 'Ken Hartman' |
California Holly Grape
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Mimulus aurantiacus |
Sticky Monkey Flower
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Mimulus 'Pumpkin' |
Orange Monkey Flower
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Nandina domestica |
Heavenly Bamboo
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Nandina domestica 'Gulf Stream' |
Gulf Stream Heavenly Bamboo
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Nandina domestica 'Fireball' |
Fireball Heavenly Bamboo
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Penstemon 'Garnet' |
Border Penstemon
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Phormium tenax |
New Zealand Flax
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Phormium tenax 'Dusky Chief' |
New Zealand Flax
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Phormium tenax 'Jack Spratt' |
New Zealand Flax
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Phormium tenax 'Maori Maiden' |
New Zealand Flax
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Pittosporum tobira 'Variegata' |
Variegated Mock Orange
|
|
|
low water usage
|
shrub
|
| Polystichum munitum |
California Sword Fern
|
CA native
|
|
regular water usage
|
perennial
|
| Raphiolepis indica 'Ballerina' |
Ballerina India Hawthorne
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Rhamnus californica 'Eve Case' |
Coffeeberry
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Rhamnus crocea |
Redberry
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds |
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Ribes aureum |
Golden Current
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Ribes
viburnifolium |
Evergreen Current
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Romneya coulteri |
Matillija Poppy
|
CA native
|
|
low water usage
|
shrub
|
| Rosmarinus officinalis 'Tuscan Blue' |
Rosemary
|
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| Rosa californica |
California Rose
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds |
low water usage
|
perennial
|
| Salvia apiana |
California White Sage
|
CA native
|
Attracts Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Salvia clevelandii 'Winifred Gilman' |
Sage
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Salvia elegans |
Pineapple Sage
|
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Salvia greggii |
Autumn Sage
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Salvia leucantha |
Mexican Bush Sage
|
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Salvia uliginosa |
Bog Sage
|
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
regular water usage
|
perennial
|
| Santolina chamaecyparissus |
Lavender Cotton
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Sedum 'Autumn Joy' |
Stone Crop
|
|
Attracts Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Teucrium fruticans |
Bush Germander
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Tagetes lemmonii |
Copper Canyon Daisy
|
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
mod-reg water usage
|
perennial
|
| Tulbaghia violacea |
Society Garlic
|
|
|
low water usage
|
perennial
|
| Viburnum tinus 'Spring Bouquet' |
Viburnum
|
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
regular water usage
|
shrub
|
| Woodwardia fimbriata |
Giant Chain Fern
|
CA native
|
|
regular water usage
|
perennial
|
| Xylosma
congestum |
Shiny Xylosma
|
|
|
moderate water usage
|
shrub
|
| Yucca filamentosa |
Adam's Needle
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
shrub
|
| GROUNDCOVERS,
PERENNIALS & GRASSES |
|
|
|
|
|
| Achillea millefolium |
Common Yarrow
|
CA native
|
Attracts Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Arctostaphylos 'Emerald Carpet' |
Emerald Carpet Manzanita
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
groundcover
|
| Baccharis pilarus 'Twin Peaks' |
Dwarf Coyote Brush
|
CA native
|
|
drought tolerant
|
groundcover
|
| Bouteloua gracilis |
Blue Grama Grass
|
CA native
|
|
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Ceanothus griseus horizontalis 'Yankee
Point' |
Carmel Creeper
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
groundcover
|
| Centrathus ruber |
Jupiter's Beard or Red Valerian
|
Attracts Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Cistus 'Sunset' |
Sunset Rockrose
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Coreopsis grandiflora |
Coreopsis
|
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam' |
Coreopsis
|
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Cotonaster 'Coral Beauty' |
Cotoneaster
|
|
Attracts Birds |
drought tolerant
|
groundcover
|
| Delosperma cooperi |
Ice Plant
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Dymondia margaretae |
Dymondia
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Echeveria
'Imbricata' |
Hen and Chicks
|
|
|
moderate water usage
|
perennial
|
| Erigeron karvinskianus |
Santa Barbara Daisy
|
|
Attracts Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Eschscholzia californica |
California Poppy
|
X
|
|
drought tolerant
|
|
| Festuca ovina 'Glauca' |
Blue Fescue
|
|
|
mod-reg water usage
|
perennial
|
| Gazania species |
Gazania
|
|
|
mod-reg water usage
|
perennial
|
| Helianthemum nummularium |
Sun Rose
|
|
|
mod water usage
|
perennial
|
| Helictotrichon sempervirens |
Blue Oat Grass
|
|
|
regular water usage
|
perennial
|
| Heuchera 'Santa Ana Cardinal' |
Coral Bells
|
CA native
|
|
mod-reg water usage
|
perennial
|
| Iris douglasiana |
Pacific Coast Iris
|
CA native
|
|
low water usage
|
perennial
|
| Iris |
Bearded Iris
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Juncus patens |
California Gray Rush
|
CA native
|
|
ample water usage
|
perennial
|
| Lessingia filaginifolia var. californica
'Silver Carpet' |
Silver Carpet California Aster
|
CA native
|
|
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Mahonia repens |
Creeping Mahonia
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
groundcover
|
| Miscanthus sinensis |
Japanese Silver Grass
|
|
|
mod-reg water usage
|
perennial
|
| Muhlenbergia capillaris |
Pink Muhly
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Muhlenbergia rigens |
Deer Grass
|
CA native
|
|
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Muscari armeniacum |
Grape Hyacinth
|
|
|
|
bulb
|
| Narcissus |
Daffodil
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
bulb
|
| Penstemon heterophylla 'Margarita BOP' |
Blue Bedder
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Pennisetum orientale |
Oriental Fountain Grass
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Rosmarinus officinalis 'Prostratus' |
Dwarf Rosemary
|
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
groundcover
|
| Sedum oreganum |
Green Stone Crop
|
|
Attracts Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Senecio mandraliscae |
Blue Finger Hardiness 350
|
|
|
low-mod water usage
|
groundcover
|
| Sisyrinchium bellum |
Blue Eyed Grass
|
CA native
|
|
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Stachy's byzantina |
Lambs Ear
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Stipa Gigantea |
Giant Feather Grass
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Thymus praecox arcticus |
Creeping Thyme
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Verbena x hybrida 'Homestead' |
Verbena
|
|
Attracts Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| Zauschneria
californica |
California Fuchsia
|
CA native
|
Attracts Birds & Butterflies |
drought tolerant
|
perennial
|
| TURF |
|
|
|
|
|
| Festuca
rubra commutata & Festuca
rubra 'Molate Blue' |
No-Mow Fescue Chewings
Fescue & Creeping Red Fescue
|
|
|
drought tolerant
|
grass
|
| 90% Mustang
Hybrid Tall Fescue & 10%
Kentucky Bluegrass |
Lawn Sod
|
|
|
mod-reg water usage
|
grass
|
