California
Native
Yerba



Plant
Society
Buena
Chapter
Native Gardening
Native Plant Sales
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The Yerba Buena Native Plant Sale is an opportunity to find a great many native plant species that aren’t readily available at garden centers. Our focus and offerings, as always, will be native plants local to our chapter area: San Francisco and northern San Mateo County, including Montara and San Bruno Mountains. These are the species already adapted to our area’s climate, soils, and habitats--and are also important to our local fauna.
Many of the plants for sale will have been grown by chapter volunteers from seeds, cuttings, or divisions-- from garden plants or other sources from our chapter area. Great efforts are made to learn the provenance of the plants at our sale, as we understand the importance of maintaining a local gene pool.
Growing locally native plants in your garden is an important way to:
- Attract pollinators, including native bees, butterflies, moths, and birds--for your pleasure and their benefit
- Provide for endangered species (such as by growing host and nectar plants for the Green Hairstreak butterfly)
- Enhance corridors for native wildlife
- Use less water (thereby less energy pumping that water)
- Save money on utility bills
- Reduce the use of fertilizers and pesticides
- Have a beautiful, colorful, lively garden
- Inspire your neighbors to do the same!
To assist with your plant selections, you will find:
- A plant list of our 2011 offerings on our website prior to the sale
- Articles and links on “Gardening with Natives“–always on our website
- Plants grouped roughly according to their general plant community of origin
- Signage indicating the plant type, habit, size, soil preferences, and wildlife interest for each species
- Photos of the flower and/or form of each plant
- Volunteers with native gardening expertise roaming the room
- Books and other materials available for reference
Books and posters will also be available for purchase.
Fall is the ideal time for planting. The Annual Plant Sale is Yerba Buena Chapter’s primary source of funding; it enables us to put on our programs --and strive to fulfill our mission. Get great plants for your garden and help support CNPS!
Cash and checks (sorry, no credit cards) will be accepted for plant and book sales. (Membership applications accept credit info. Please join us!) For additional information, or to volunteer to help with the plant sale, contact Ellen Edelson (415-531-2140 or e.edelson@sbcglobal.net).
San Francisco Native Plants Available at the 2011 Sale
Click a name to see pictures at
CalPhotos.
| Scientific Name | Common Name | | Scientific Name | Common Name | | Achillea millefolium | coast yarrow | | Aesculus californica | California buckeye |
| Ambrosia chamissonis | silver beachweed, beach burlupine | | Anaphalis margaritacea | pearly everlasting |
| Angelica hendersonii | coast angelica | | Aquilegia formosa | red or western columbine |
| Arabis blepharophylla | coast rockcress | | Armeria maritima | sea thrift, sea pink |
| Artemisia californica | California sagebrush | | Artemisia douglasiana | mugwort |
| Artemisia pycnocephala | dune sagebrush | | Asclepias fascicularis | narrowleaf milkweed |
| Aster chilensis | California aster | | Athyrium filix-femina | lady fern |
| Baccharis pilularis | coyote bush | | Berberis pinnata | barberry, oregon grape |
| Calamagrostis nutkaensis | nutka reed grass | | Calystegia purpurata | coast morning glory |
| Camissonia cheiranthifolia | beach primrose | | Ceanothus thyrsiflorus | blueblossom |
| Chlorogalum pomeridianum | soap plant, common | | Clarkia rubicunda | farewell to spring, ruby chalice clarkia |
| Cornus sericea | American, creek, red-twig dogwood | | Corylus cornuta californica | California hazelnut |
| Danthonia californica | California oatgrass | | Deschampsia caespitosa | tufted hairgrass |
| Dudleya farinosa | bluff lettuce | | Elymus glaucus | blue wildrye |
| Epilobium canum | California fuchsia | | Ericameria ericoides | mock heather |
| Erigeron glaucus | seaside daisy | | Eriogonum latifolum | coast buckwheat |
| Eriophyllum stachaedifolium | lizard tail | | Erysimum franciscanum | Franciscan wallflower |
| Festuca californica | California fescue | | Festuca rubra | red fescue |
| Fragaria chiloensis | beach strawberry-ALHS | | Fragaria vesca | woodland strawberry |
| Garrya elliptica | coast silktassel | | Grindelia hirsutula var. maritima | San Francisco gumplant |
| Grindelia stricta | marsh gumplant, coastal gumplant | | Heracleum lanatum | cow parsnip |
| Heteromeles arbutifolia | toyon, Christmas berry | | Heuchera micrantha | alum root, coral bells |
| Holodiscus discolor | oceanspray, creambush | | Hordeum brachyantherum | meadow barley |
| Horkelia californica | California horkelia | | Iris douglasiana | Douglas iris |
| Iris longipetala | coast iris | | Juncus patens | wire grass |
| Lavatera assurgentiflora | malva rose, island mallow | | Lonicera hispidula | vine honeysuckle |
| Lonicera involucrata | twinberry honeysuckle | | Marah fabaceus | manroot, wild cucumber |
| Melica californica | onion grass | | Melica torreyana | Torrey's melic |
| Mimulus aurantiacus | sticky monkeyflower | | Mimulus guttatus | seep monkey flower |
| Mimulus cardinalis | scarlet monkeyflower | | Monardella villosa | coyote mint |
| Myrica californica | wax myrtle | | Nassella lepida | foothill stipa, small flowered stipa/needlegrass |
| Nassella pulchra | purple needlegrass | | Oemleria (Osmaronia) cerasiformis | oso berry |
| Pentagramma triangularis | goldback fern | | Phacelia californica | california or bluff (or purple?) phacelia |
| Polygonum paronychia | dune knotweed | | Polypodium californicum | California polypody |
| Polystichum munitum | sword fern | | Potentilla glandulosa | sticky cinquefoil |
| Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata | self heal | | Prunus ilicifolia ssp. ilicifolia | hollyleaf cherry |
| Quercus agrifolia | coast live oak | | Rhamnus californica | coffeeberry |
| Ribes malvaceum | chaparral currant | | Ribes sanguineum var.glutinosum | pink flowering currant |
| Rosa californica | California rose | | Rubus parviflorus | thimbleberry |
| Rubus spectabilis | salmonberry | | Rubus ursinus | California blackberry |
| Salix lucida | shining willow | | Salvia spathacea | hummingbird sage |
| Sambucus mexicana | blue elderberry | | Sambucus racemosa (S. callicarpa?) | red elderberry |
| Satureja douglasii | yerba buena | | Scrophularia californica | bee plant |
| Sedum spathulfolium | common stonecrop | | Sicalcea malvaeflora | checkerbloom |
| Sisynchrium bellum | blue-eyed grass | | Sisynchrium californicum | yellow-eyed grass |
| Smilacena racemosa | fat Soloman's seal | | Smilacena stellata | slim Soloman's seal |
| Symphoricarpos sp | snowberry | | Tanacetum camphoratum | dune tansy |
| Tellima grandiflora | fringe cups | | Triteleia laxa | Ithuriel's spear |
| Viola adunca | dog or blue violet | |
Hanc Recycling Center Native Plants
Hours: 9 am to 4 pm every day
Frederick Street near Arguello
just inside Golden Gate Park next to Kezar Stadium
Conact Greg Gaar 415-584-8985
The Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council (HANC) Recycling Center now has the only nursery in San Francisco that offers exclusively plants propagated from local seed sources such as Glen Canyon, Mt. Davidson, Laguna Honda Canyon, Bayview Hill and Twin Peaks. The nursery does not sell plants, but does ask for a donation when you take plants from the center.