Natives for Shade

Coffeeberry 

Lucky you! You've got dry shade. Why not plant some of the wonderful shade-loving summer-dry non-riparian California natives?

These are the plants we see in the shady oak/bay canyons and slopes of the East Bay hills.

Honeysuckle

Ocean Spray, Holodiscus discolor

Blue witch at Sunol
Solanum umbelliferum incanum
partial shade/sun

And more:

• Monkeyflower
• Snowberry 
• Dutchman’s pipe 
• Elk clover
• Dogwood (wants wetter) 
• Wild rye 
• Heucheras 
• Wood strawberries
• Cream bush
• iris
• pitcher sage 
• barberry 
• ninebark 
• coyote mint 
• gooseberry 
• flowering current  
• yerba buena 
• scrophularia 
• fiesta flower 
• oso berry 
• elderberry.
• false blue indigo amorpha californica

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