All Plants > Moisture-Loving (27)

This list of drought-tolerant plants has been seeded from Calscape data on high-moisture plants.

Common Name
Scientific Name
Sun Reqs. Height Humboldt Native
© Julie Ann Kierstead
Big leaf maple
Acer macrophyllum
30 - 115 ft
© Julie Ann Kierstead
Box elder
Acer negundo
35 - 66 ft
© Julie Ann Kierstead
Elk's clover
Aralia californica
6.6 - 10 ft
© Julie Ann Kierstead
Lady fern
Athyrium filix-femina
2 - 5 ft
© James Gonsman
Deer fern
Blechnum spicant
2 - 3.5 ft
© Steve Matson
Candy flower
Claytonia sibirica
2 ft
© Steve Matson
California oatgrass
Danthonia californica
2 - 3 ft
© Kathleen Catton
California pitcherplant
Darlingtonia californica
2 ft
© Julie Ann Kierstead
Indian rhubarb
Darmera peltata
2 - 6.6 ft
© Julie Ann Kierstead
Seep monkeyflower
Erythranthe guttata
2 - 5 ft
© Adam Chasey
Wing leaf monkeyflower
Erythranthe ptilota
1 - 1.5 ft
© Steve Matson
Salal
Gaultheria shallon
1 - 7 ft
© Steve Matson
Large leaved avens
Geum macrophyllum
0.7 - 2 ft
© Stan Shebs
Oregon gumweed
Grindelia stricta
3.3 - 5 ft
© Steve Matson
White bog hastingsia
Hastingsia alba
1.3 - 3 ft
© John Doyen
Bigelow's sneezeweed
Helenium bigelovii
4 ft
© Julie Ann Kierstead
Crevice alumroot
Heuchera micrantha
1 - 3.3 ft
© John Doyen
Western blue flag
Iris missouriensis
1 - 1.6 ft
Soft rush
Juncus effusus
5 - 7 ft
© Gerald and Buff Corsi © California Academy of Sciences
Coastal monkeyflower
Mimulus dentatus
0.8 - 1.5 ft
© Julie Ann Kierstead
Arctic sweet coltsfoot
Petasites frigidus
0.33 - 2 ft
© James Gonsman
Rock phacelia
Phacelia californica
0.5 - 1.5 ft
© Steve Matson
Sitka spruce
Picea sitchensis
40 - 230 ft
© Julie Ann Kierstead
Tall coastal plantain
Plantago subnuda
1.6 ft
© John Doyen
Yellow eyed grass
Sisyrinchium californicum
0.7 - 1 ft
© John Doyen
White brodiaea
Triteleia hyacinthina
1.3 - 2 ft
© Copyright © 2013 California Academy of Sciences
Western hemlock
Tsuga heterophylla
40 - 170 ft