Plants to seek and plants to avoid
Plants to seek:
These plants use minimal water and provide good habitat
Trees
Arroyo willow
Big-leaf maple
California bay
California buckeye
California walnut
Coast-live oak
Fremont’s cottonwood
Oregon ash
Red willow
Sandbar willow
Valley oak
White alder
Shrubs
California rose
Coyote brush
Snowberry
Spicebush
Small Plants and Groundcover
Blue wild rye
California figwort
Mexican rush
Rough sedge
Santa Barbara sedge
Seep-spring monkey flower
Plants to avoid:
These plants are highly invasive and provide poor habitat for wildlife
Acacia
Black locust
Blue gum eucalyptus
Cape ivy
Cherry plum
English ivy
Fennel
Giant reed
Himalayan blackberry Periwinkle
Poison hemlock
Scarlet wisteria
Scotch broom
Tamarisk
Tree of Heaven
Vetch