California
Native plants in Ontario
448 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 (259), shrubs (126), grasses (68) · 118 of them need no watering beyond Ontario’s own rainfall
Showing 43 plants · 405 more are native here but not in the catalog yet
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Trees2
Canopy and structureShrubs14
Backbone plantingGrasses3
Movement and texturePerennials25
Seasonal colourFerns1
Shade and dampSucculents1
Dry and architecturalMore of California
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- Upland
- Santa Cruz
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- Temecula
- Lake Forest
- Glendale
- Mission Viejo
- Richmond
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