Native Plant Guide - Paradise Recreation & Park District

Native Plant Guide

Explore the Terry Ashe Recreation Center's pollinator garden, supporting biodiversity. Scan QR codes for plant info.

Images of Alum Root and Bee Bliss Creeping Sage with descriptions, scientific names, and fun facts.

Images and info about Bleeding Heart and Blue Flax flowers, including descriptions, habitat, and fun facts.

Descriptions of Blue Eyed Grass and Bush Anemone, including scientific names, appearances, habitats, and fun facts.

Bush Lupine and California Aster info cards with images, descriptions, scientific names, habitats, and fun facts.

Image of California Fuchsia with details on its scientific name, habitat, and attraction for hummingbirds.

Climbing honeysuckle and common soap plant descriptions with images and fun facts.

Coral Bell and Creeping Sage plant descriptions with images; includes scientific names, habitat, and fun facts.

Dara's Choice Sage and Deer Grass descriptions, with scientific names, habitats, and fun facts.

Douglas's Iris: violet/blue flowers, coastal areas. Elegant Brodiaea: purple star-like flowers, grasslands. Both prefer well-drained soil.

Emerald Carpet Manzanita and Foothill Penstemon, with scientific names, descriptions, habitats, and fun facts.

GAPING PENSTEMON: Purple-blue flowers in dry areas. GIANT CHAIN FERN: Large fern in moist, shady areas.

Images and info of Hartwig's Iris and Hummingbird Fuchsia, detailing scientific names, descriptions, habitats, and fun facts.

Ithuriel’s Spear and Joyce Coulter Ceanothus with descriptions of scientific names, growth conditions, and fun facts.

Latifolium Fuchsia and Leopard Lily details, including scientific names, descriptions, habitats, and fun facts.

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Narrow-leaved milkweed and Oregon holly grape images with descriptions, scientific names, habitats, and fun facts.

Pacific Coast Iris and Pidgeon Pt. Coyote Bush with descriptions, scientific names, growth conditions, and fun facts.

Pinemat Manzanita and Pipe Vine descriptions with images, scientific names, habitats, and fun facts about wildlife support.

Two plant profiles with images: Point Sierra Ceanothus and Purple Sage, including descriptions, habitats, and fun facts.

Red Buckwheat and Red Columbine flowers with scientific names, descriptions, habitats, and fun facts.

Santa Barbara Sedge info: Clumping perennial, wetland habitat, partial shade, used for basket weaving. Scientific name: Carex barbarae.

Scarlet Monkey-Flower and Seaside Daisy info: scientific names, descriptions, habitats, and fun facts about attracting wildlife.

Images and descriptions of Showy Milkweed and Squaw Carpet, detailing their scientific names, habitat, and fun facts.

Images and descriptions of St. Catherine's Lace and Valley Violet Ceanothus with scientific names and growing conditions.

Western Azalea and Western Redbud: descriptions, habitats, and fun facts about each plant.

Wild Lilac (Ceanothus spp.) with blue flowers, improves soil health. Woolly Mule's Ears (Wyethia mollis) is sunflower-like, used medicinally.

Image of Yarrow with details: scientific name, description, habitat, and fun fact about its use in traditional medicine.

Images of Alum Root and Bee Bliss Creeping Sage with descriptions, scientific names, and fun facts.

Images and info about Bleeding Heart and Blue Flax flowers, including descriptions, habitat, and fun facts.

Descriptions of Blue Eyed Grass and Bush Anemone, including scientific names, appearances, habitats, and fun facts.

Bush Lupine and California Aster info cards with images, descriptions, scientific names, habitats, and fun facts.

Image of California Fuchsia with details on its scientific name, habitat, and attraction for hummingbirds.

Climbing honeysuckle and common soap plant descriptions with images and fun facts.

Coral Bell and Creeping Sage plant descriptions with images; includes scientific names, habitat, and fun facts.

Dara's Choice Sage and Deer Grass descriptions, with scientific names, habitats, and fun facts.

Douglas's Iris: violet/blue flowers, coastal areas. Elegant Brodiaea: purple star-like flowers, grasslands. Both prefer well-drained soil.

Emerald Carpet Manzanita and Foothill Penstemon, with scientific names, descriptions, habitats, and fun facts.

GAPING PENSTEMON: Purple-blue flowers in dry areas. GIANT CHAIN FERN: Large fern in moist, shady areas.

Images and info of Hartwig's Iris and Hummingbird Fuchsia, detailing scientific names, descriptions, habitats, and fun facts.

Ithuriel’s Spear and Joyce Coulter Ceanothus with descriptions of scientific names, growth conditions, and fun facts.

Latifolium Fuchsia and Leopard Lily details, including scientific names, descriptions, habitats, and fun facts.

May contain: herbal, herbs, plant, leaf, vegetation, advertisement, poster, bud, flower, sprout, and grass

Narrow-leaved milkweed and Oregon holly grape images with descriptions, scientific names, habitats, and fun facts.

Pacific Coast Iris and Pidgeon Pt. Coyote Bush with descriptions, scientific names, growth conditions, and fun facts.

Pinemat Manzanita and Pipe Vine descriptions with images, scientific names, habitats, and fun facts about wildlife support.

Two plant profiles with images: Point Sierra Ceanothus and Purple Sage, including descriptions, habitats, and fun facts.

Red Buckwheat and Red Columbine flowers with scientific names, descriptions, habitats, and fun facts.

Santa Barbara Sedge info: Clumping perennial, wetland habitat, partial shade, used for basket weaving. Scientific name: Carex barbarae.

Scarlet Monkey-Flower and Seaside Daisy info: scientific names, descriptions, habitats, and fun facts about attracting wildlife.

Images and descriptions of Showy Milkweed and Squaw Carpet, detailing their scientific names, habitat, and fun facts.

Images and descriptions of St. Catherine's Lace and Valley Violet Ceanothus with scientific names and growing conditions.

Western Azalea and Western Redbud: descriptions, habitats, and fun facts about each plant.

Wild Lilac (Ceanothus spp.) with blue flowers, improves soil health. Woolly Mule's Ears (Wyethia mollis) is sunflower-like, used medicinally.

Image of Yarrow with details: scientific name, description, habitat, and fun fact about its use in traditional medicine.

For more information on native plant species:

Calflora - Calflora - A nonprofit database providing information on wild California plants

Calscape - Calscape | California's Native Plant Gardening Destination

California Department of Fish and Wildfire - California Plants