California
Native plants in San Marcos
480 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 (269), shrubs (140), grasses (71) · 178 of them need no watering beyond San Marcos’s own rainfall
Showing 48 plants · 432 more are native here but not in the catalog yet
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Trees3
Canopy and structure
Shrubs13
Backbone planting
Grasses3
Movement and texture
Perennials29
Seasonal colour
Ferns2
Shade and damp
Succulents2
Dry and architectural
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