California Native Seeds and Plants 7 
California Wild Flower Seeds 
GENERAL LIST 
“Species introduced into cultivation in California by Theodore Payne. 
SAND VERBENA 
Abronia umbellata. “Common Sand Verbena.” Perennial of 
trailing habit flowering in a few months from seed and can be 
treated as an annual. Flowers lilac rose, resembling a ver- 
bena, very fragrant. Does best in sandy soil. Packet, 15c; 
ounce, $1.50; 44 pound, $5.00. 
*Abronia villosa. ‘Desert Sand Verbena.” Perennial of 
trailing habit flowering in a few months from seed and can 
be treated as an annual. Flowers lilac pink, very fragrant. 
Found abundantly on the sands at Palm Springs and other 
places on the desert. Packet, 15c; 14 ounce, 60c; ounce, $2.00. 
Cultural Note for Abronia: Plant 3 or 4 seeds together at 
intervals of 4 feet apart each way, in sand or sandy soil, cov- 
ering the seeds about half an inch. Can also be started in small 
pots, 3 or 4 seeds to a pot, and plant out when large enough. 
SNAPDRAGON 
*Antirrhinum coulterianum. ‘‘White Snapdragon.” Annual, 
3 to 6 feet high. Small white flowers in spikes often 2 and 
sometimes 3 feet long. Packet, 25c. 
SCARLET COLUMBINE 
*Aquilegia truncata. ‘Scarlet Columbine.” Perennial, 2 to 3 
feet high. Stems slender and graceful with beautifully escal- 
loped light green leaves. Flowers deep scarlet tipped with 
yellow. One of the most winsome of native beauties. Likes a 
moist shady spot. Packet, 25c. 
PRICKLY POPPY 
*Argemone platyceras hispida. "Prickly Poppy.’ Annual, 
114 to 3 feet high. Flowers white with yellow centers, 3 to 4 
inches in diameter, very showy. Leaves and stems gray green 
and prickly. Packet, 15c; ounce, $1.00. 
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DESERT ASTER 
*Aster tortifolius. ‘Desert Aster.”” Shrubby perennial, 1 to 2 
feet high, branching from a woody base, flowers large, clear 
lavender, with deep yellow center. Packet, 25c. 
Yellow Daisy—Douglas Coreopsis (—Coreopsis douglasii). Very 
pretty in masses. See Page 8. 
Shooting Star (Dodecatheon clevelandii). One of the most 
interesting of the wild flowers. See page 8. 
SUNSHINE 
*Baeria gracilis. “Sunshine,” ‘’Gold Fields.” Annual 4 to 8 
inches high. Golden yellow star-shaped flowers very attractive 
in masses. Packet, 15c. 
DESERT SUN. RAY 
Baileya multiradiata. ‘‘Desert Sun Ray.’ Annual or peren- 
nial 1 to 115 feet high. Greyish green woolly stems and foliage. 
Flowers 115 inches in diameter, bright yellow, darker in the 
center and with beautifully ruffled edge. Packet, 25c. 
CARPENTERIA 
Carpenteria californica. ‘'Carpenteria.” A rare and beau- 
tiful shrub of erect habit, with many stems from the base 
growing to a height of 3 to 7'feet. Leaves rather narrow, 
smooth, dark green. Flowers in clusters usually 5 to 7, but 
occasionally 12 or more, large pure white, with yellow sta- 
mens and with a fragrance like the mock orange. Packét, 25c. 
INDIAN PAINT BRUSH 
*Castilleia californica. “Indian Paint Brush.” Perennial 115 
to 2 feet high. A rather slender growing plant with fragile, 
dark colored stems and narrow leaves. Flower bracts bright 
searlet. Packet, 25c. 
SPIDER PLANT 
Cleome lutea. “Yellow Spider Plant.” Annual of upright 
growth 2 to 4 feet high. Clusters of attractive golden yellow 
flowers. Packet, 25c. 
WILD BOUVARDIA 
*Collomia grandiflora. ‘‘Wild Bouvardia.”” Annual 1 to 3 feet 
high. An erect growing plant with rather narrow alternate 
leaves. Flowers funnel-form in terminal heads about 2 inches 
across, somewhat resembling a bouvardia, light salmon col- 
ored or buff; very showy and of easy culture. Found plenti- 
fully in Yosemite Valley. Packet, 25c. 
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