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Plant Finder Tool

The AFSC plant recommendations draw from the Los Angeles County West San Gabriel Valley Area Plan Native Plant List for Altadena, supplemented by additional California native plants selected for their ecological value and suitability to local conditions.  Answer the following four questions about your site and click the “Find Plants” button to see your native plant recommendations.

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How far is the planting area from the structure?

What kind of location are you planting?

How much water is available?

How much sun does the area receive?

Plants That May Fit Your Site

California Polypody

California Fescue

California Hedgenettle

Fuchsiaflower Gooseberry

Red columbine

Common yarrow

Eastwood manzanita

Big berry manzanita

California sagebrush

Narrowleaf milkweed

Chaparral whitethorn

Hairy ceanothus

Mountain mahogany

California aster

Red bush monkeyflower

Bush sunflower

California fuchsia

Thickleaf yerba santa

Longstem buckwheat

California buckwheat

Golden yarrow

California poppy

Chaparral yucca

Climbing penstemon

Matilija Poppy

Chaparral mallow

Laurel sumac

Coast prickly pear

Foothill penstemon

Showy penstemon

Hollyleaf cherry

Coast live oak

Engelmann oak

Spiny redberry

Hollyleaf redberry

Lemonade berry

Golden currant

White flowering currant

Chaparral currant

California wildrose

Hummingbird sage

Blue elderberry

California goldenrod

Purple needlegrass

Woolly bluecurls

California laurel

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