Water-Efficient Landscape Plant List - Oregon State University ...

Achnatherum contractum (Oryzopsis
hymenoides) (contracted rice grass)
Andropogon gerardii (big bluestem)
Calamagrostis x acutiflora (feather reed grass)
Carex barbarae (Santa Barbara sedge)
Chasmanthium latifolium (northern sea oats)
Festuca amethystina (large blue fescue)
Festuca cinera (blue fescue)
Festuca idahoensis (Idaho fescue)
Helictotrichon sempervirens (blue oat grass)
Koeleria glauca (large blue hair grass)
Koeleria macrantha (prairie junegrass)
Leymus condensata
Leymus racemosus ‘Glaucus’ (wild blue rye)
Mulhenbergia ringens (muhly)
Panicum virgatum (switch grass)
Schizachyrium scoparium (little bluestem)
Sesleria (Moor grass)
Stipa (Celtica)gigantea (giant feather grass)
Perennials
Acanthus mollis (bear’s breech)
Achillea filipendulina (fernleaf yarrow)
Achillea millefolium (common yarrow)
Achillea tomentosa (wooly yarrow)
Agapanthus (African lily)
Agastache rugosa (Korean hummingbird mint)
Anacyclus pyrethrum ‘Depressus’ (Mt Atlas daisy)
Anaphalis margaratacea (pearly everlasting)
Antennaria microphylla (rosy pusytoes)
Aquilegia formosa (western columbine)
Armeria maritima (sea pink)
Aster amellus (Italian aster)
Aurina saxatilis (basket-of-gold)
Ballota pseudodictamnus (horehound)
Balsamorhiza sagittata (balsamroot)
Baptisia australis (false indigo)
Calamintha nepeta (lesser calamint)
Callirhoe involucrata (poppy mallow)
Calylophus hartwegii (sundrops)
Coreopsis grandiflora (tickseed)
Coreopsis verticillata (thread-leaf tickseed)
Cynoglossum grande (Western hound’s tongue)
Delosperma (ice plant)
Dianthus gratianopolitanus (cheddar pink)
Echinacea purpurea (purple coneflower)
Epilobium canum (Zauschneria californica)
(California fuschia)
Eremurus robustus (desert candle)
Erigeron (fleabane) look for native species such as
E. speciosus (showy fleabane)
Eriogonum heracleoides (creamy buckwheat)
Eriogonum umbellatum (sulphur buckwheat)
Eriophyllum lanatum (Oregon sunshine)
Eryngium (sea holly)
Erysimum (wallflower)
Euphorbia x martini (spurge)
Euphorbia polychroma (cushion spurge)
Gaillardia x grandiflora (blanketflower)
Gaillardia pulchella (blanketflower)
Gaura lindheimeri (gaura)
Gazania linearis (treasure flower)
Geranium endressii (Endress’s geranium)
Geranium macrorrhizum (cranesbill)
Geranium renardii
Geranium sanguineum (bloody cranesbill)
Helleborus (hellebore)
Hemerocallis sp. (daylily)
Hesperaloe parviflora (red yucca)
Hyssopus officinalis (hyssop)
Iberis sempervirens (candytuft)
Ipomopsis aggregate (scarlet gilia)
Iris (bearded iris)
Iris – Pacific Coast Hybrids
Iris douglassiana (Douglas iris)
Iris missouriensis
Iris tenax (Oregon iris)
Iris unguicularis (Algerian iris)
Leucanthumem x superbum (Shasta daisy)
Linum perenne (blue flax)
Malva alcea (mallow)
Melianthus major (honey bush)
Mertensia pulmonarioides (Virginia bluebells)
Nepeta x faassenii (catmint)
Oenothera macrocarpa (Ozark sundrops)
Oenothera (evening primrose) look for native
species such as O. elata (hookeri) or O. biennis
Oenothera speciosa (Mex. evening primrose)
Papaver orientale (Oriental poppy)
Penstemon barbatus (beardlip penstemon)
Penstemon davidsonii
Penstemon fruiticosus
Penstemon heterophyllus (foothill penstemon)
Penstemon humilis
Penstemon pinifolius (pineleaf penstemon)
Penstemon richardsonii
Penstemon rupicola (rock penstemon)
Penstemon speciosus
Penstemon serrulatus (coast penstemon)
Perovskia atriplicifolia (Russian sage)
Phlomis russeliana (sticky Jerusalem sage)
Phlox diffusa (spreading phlox)
Phlox subulata (moss phlox)
Ratibida columnifera (prairie coneflower)
Rhomneya couleteri (Matilija poppy)
Rudbeckia sp. (black-eyed Susan)
Salvia clevelandii (CA blue sage)
Salvia greggii (autumn sage)
Salvia leucophylla (purple sage)
Salvia officinalis (sage)
Satureja douglasii (yerba buena)
Silene california (Ca Indian pink)