RHAMNUS CALIFORNICA. Coffee berry. 5 ft. Rounded habit. Dark green leathery leaves. 
Berries green turning red and finally black. Coast ranges, to 4,000 ft. Central California. 
R. CROCEA. Redberry, 3 ft. tall. Low, densely spreading tangled habit. Small, glossy leaves. 
Bright red berries. Excellent for large rock-garden. Dry slopes of coast ranges, central 
and southern California. 
R. CROCEA var. ILICIFOLIA. 5 to 15 ft. A stout shrub or dwarf tree. Rounded shining 
leathery leaves, crimson berries. Coastal ranges to 4,000 ft. 
R. CROCEA var. INSULARIS. To 20 ft. Usually tree-like. Leaves larger than in R. crocea. 
Berries bright red. Santa Barbara Islands. 
RHUS INTEGRIFOLIA. Lemonade Berry. 6 ft. Bushy spreading habit. Large leathery leaves. 
Thick, clusters of pink-white flowers followed by flat scarlet berries in large numbers. 
Handsome the year round. Coastal southern California. 
R. LAURINA. 6 ft. Rounded habit. Dark green pleasantly aromatic foliage, dense clusters o 
small white flowers followed by whitish berries. Southern coastal valleys. 
R. OVATA. Sugar Bush. 6 ft. Very variable habit. Large shining leathery leaves. Pink-white 
flowers followed by sweet-coated scarlet berries. Chaparral belt of the foothills. Southern 
California. 
R. TRILOBATA. Squaw Bush. 3 ft. Spreading habit. Pale yellow flowers and red berries. 
Easy to grow. Canyons and slopes to 4,000 ft. d. 
RIBES AUREUM. Western Golden Currant. 5 ft. Neat erect habit. Spicy-scented yellow 
flowers. Berries red-orange or black. Moist places in foothills. d. 
R. LEPTANTHUM var. LASIANTHUM. Alpine Gooseberry. To 4 ft. Sturdy, intricately 
branched. Flowers lemon-yellow in short clusters. Fruit globular, translucent, scarlet. In 
sun or partial shade on dry slopes to 10,000 ft. Hardy. d. 
R. MALVACEUM. Chaparral Currant. 6 ft. Erect habit. Aromatic, flowers light pink in droop- 
ing racemes, in December. Berries black with white bloom. Dry slopes coast ranges. d. 
R. MONTIGENUM. Mountain Gooseberry. 2 ft. Loose, rounded or upright shrubs. Leaves 
small, covered with fine golden-brown hairs. Flowers reddish-brown to white. Berries 
globular, translucent, scarlet in short, pendant racemes. Dry, exposed slopes to 12,500 ft. 
Hardy. 
R. SANGUINEUM. Pink Winter Currant. 8 ft. Erect habit, aromatic. Flowers long racemes of 
deep pink. Berries black with blue bloom. Moist slopes of central California. Hardy. 
R. SANGUINEUM var. GLUTINOSUM. 8 ft. Similar to the above. Flowers pale pink, in 
short rather dense racemes. Berries blue-black with whitish bloom. Shady, moist canyons 
along the coast. Central and northern California. 
R. SPECIOSUM. Fuchsia Flowered Gooseberry. 6 ft. Dark glossy foliage. About Christmas 
time the brilliant crimson blossoms, very like small fuchsia flowers, hang like ear drops 
along the slender curving branches. Either sun or part shade. Central and southern 
California coast ranges. 
ROMNEYA COULTERI var. TRICHOCALYX. Matilija Poppy. To 6 ft. Many slender stems. 
Silver grey foliage and large white flowers. Thrives in almost any soil. Should be cut 
nearly to the ground every fall. Dry washes in southern California to 3,000 ft. 
ROSA CALIFORNICA. 5 ft. Erect, branched habit. Flowers from light to deep pink. Large 
numbers of bright scarlet globular or oval hips. Flowering from May to November. 
R. GYMNOCARPA. Redwood Rose. 4 ft. Slender growth. Intense rose-pink flowers., Moist, 
wooded slopes and along shaded stream banks. Central and northern California. 
SALIX. PETROPHILA var. CAESPITOSA. Alpine Willow. 4 inches. Creeping habit forming 
dense mats in high alpine turf. Foliage silver gray on reverse. Catkins to 3 inches long, 
held erect on stems which root as they lengthen. High peaks of the Sierra Nevada 
mountains to 11,000 ft. Hardy. 
SPIRAEA DENSIFLORA. 2 ft. Erect or rounded habit. Dense rounded heads of rose-colored 
flowers. Stream banks and granite crevices of Pacific coast mountains to 9,000 ft. 
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S. DOUGLASII. 4 ft. Erect habit. Leaves bright green above, wooly-white beneath. Flowers 
rose-colored in 5 inch terminal spikes. Along stream banks and in moist places. 
Northern California. Hardy.  d. 
TRICHOSTEMA LANATUM. Woolly Blue Curls. 4 ft. Blue flowers with protruding stamens 
of glistening mauve in spikes covered with dense, violet wool. Dry, sunny slopes to 
4,000 ft. Southern California. 
XYLOCOCCUS BICOLOR (arctostaphylos). Mission Manzanita 6 ft. Densely branching 
habit. Leaves dark-green, glossy. above, white beneath. Flowers white or pale pink. 
Chaparral slopes of southern California. 
PERENNIALS 
ABRONIA LATIFOLIA. Yellow Sand Verbena. Trailing. Leaves round, fleshy: Flowers 
clear yellow, fragrant, in close round heads. Sea shore and dunes. Central and northern 
California. 
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