This document lists California native plant species with a wide range of water tolerance. It groups the plants into trees/large shrubs, smaller shrubs, smallest shrubs/sub-shrubs, vines & climbers, woody/evergreen groundcovers, other groundcovers, perennials, and grasses/grass-like plants. Some of the plants listed are California natives but not locally native to the area, and some are cultivars of California native plants.

1. California Native Plants with Wide Water
Tolerance Ranges
Trees/large shrubs
Baccharis salicifolia
** Ceanothus ‘Ray Hartman’
* Cercis occidentalis
Salix exigua
Smaller shrubs
* Amorpha fruticosa
** Arctostaphylos densiflora 'Howard
McMinn‘
Cleome isomeris
* Frangula/Rhamnus californica
Hazardia squarrosa
Isocoma menziesii
Rhus trilobata
Ribes aureum var. gracillimum
Ribes californicum var. hesperium
Ribes malvaceum (& cultivars)
Smallest shrubs/sub-shrubs
Constancea (Eriophyllum) nevinii
Epilobium canum
Eriodictyon crassifolium
Eriogonum cinereum
Eriogonum fasciculatum
Euphorbia misera
Grindelia camporum var. bracteosa
* Verbena lilacina
Vines & climbers
Clematis ligusticifolia
Lonicera hispidula var. vacillans
Lonicera subspicata
** Vitis californica ‘Roger’s Red’
Vitis girdiana
Groundcovers (woody/evergreen)
*Arctostaphylos edmundsii (& cultivars)
*Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (& cv)
**Ceanothus gloriosus cultivars
**Ceanothus griseus horizontalis cv
*Ceanothus thyrsiflorus var. repens &
cultivars
* Iva hayesiana
Ribes viburnifolium
Other groundcovers
Artemisia douglasiana
Artemisia dracunculus
Epilobium canum (& cultivars)
* Fragaria chiloensis
* Heuchera maxima (& cultivars)
Stachys albens
* Symphyotrichum chilense (Aster
chilensis)
Perennials
Asclepias eriocarpa
Asclepias fascicularis
Diplacus aurantiacus
* Eriogonum grande var. rubescens
Grindelia hirsutula var. hirsutula
Horkelia cuneata ssp. cuneata
Potentilla glandulosa
Pseudognaphalium canescens
Solanum spp
Solidago spp
Sisyrinchium bellum
Grass/Grass-like
Agrostis exarata
Agrostis pallens
Distichlis spicata
* Festuca californica
* Festuca rubra (incl. cultivars)
Juncus patens
Leymus condensatus (& cv)
Leymus triticoides
cv = cultivar
* = CA native but not locally native
** = cultivar of a CA native plant