California
Native plants in East Los Angeles
449 plants are genuinely native to this area — not merely able to survive here. They are grouped below by what they do in a garden, from canopy trees down to groundcovers.
Best represented here: perennials (256), shrubs (137), grasses (60) · 200 of them need no watering beyond East Los Angeles’s own rainfall
Showing 52 plants · 397 more are native here but not in the catalog yet
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Trees2
Canopy and structure
Shrubs18
Backbone planting
Grasses3
Movement and texture
Perennials31
Seasonal colour
Ferns2
Shade and damp
Succulents2
Dry and architectural
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