Purple California Native Flowers

Photo by jennifer leech.

Purple california native flowers. Purple nightshade is a 2 3 tall perennial with one inch wide purple flowers and dark green foliage. California native plants are plants that existed in california prior to the arrival of european explorers and colonists in the late 18th century. Phrymaceae lopseed family. Lupines are part of the legume family of plants that fix nitrogen into the soil.

Well known and loved evergreen chaparral native cleveland sage has extremely aromatic resinous leaves and flower spires that feature whorls of purple to lavender colored blooms in spring and summer. Grows well in both low and high fertility soils. Click photos for detailed information on each plant aralia californica. Plants of the coast redwood region kathleen lyons and mary beth cuneo lazaneo.

Western virgin s bower flower. Dwarf purple mimulus dwarf purple monkeyflower mimulus nanus native family. Kozloff and linda h. They are an important larval food for many butterflies and moths.

Purple nightshade likes part sun on loams and clay. It is native in areas that receive 10 20 of rainfall. Beautiful purple blossoms decorate the spring and summer season. Yerba buena nursery specializing in california native plants and ferns.

Small white morning glory whitestar pitted morningglory ipomoea lacunosa. It is fairly deer proof. California poppy it s really funny. The california milkweed is just one of the state s native milkweed species most of which host monarchs and other butterflies.

Let flower heads go to seed to support local birds. Convolvulaceae morning glory family. Hedge bindweed hedge false bindweed calystegia sepium native family. Western virgin s bower gone to seed.

California milkweeds have thick white hairy stems that can add an interesting element to any flower garden and they bloom in spring and summer with round clusters of tiny flowers that range in color from white to bright pink or lavender. The poppies don t care they like the garden. Sagen press pacific grove california. It can often be found under oak trees along the edge of the chaparral and likes leaf litter.

Plant a pound of seed and get one or two plants the quail show up and eat all the seeds and plant 3 plants and get hundreds of new plants the next year. They have reseeded in open mineral soils and areas mulched with coast live oak leaf mulch. The variation obispoense hoover is native on the nursery site.