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It’s not commonly found in the wild lately but can be grown at home. San Diego Fingertips is a native succulent that grows about one foot wide and tall with round leaves about as thick as a pencil. Coastal Prickly Pear can be grown in home gardens that have enough space to prevent the spines from becoming an issue. The fruits of most prickly pears-you might see people harvesting them in public spaces-are edible and sold in stores under the name “tuna” or “nopalito”. The paddles have tiny, barbed spines called glochids and sprout pretty red fruits. This cactus grows up to about 3′ tall and can be seen all over San Diego in rather large colonies. Coastal Prickly Pear ( Opuntia littoralis) It has very sharp spines and is found in the wild from Santa Barbara south to Mexico. Coastal Cholla ( Cylindropuntia prolifera)Ĭoastal Cholla is a tree-like cactus that can reach up to 10′ in height that grows green fruit in chains of up to five. It’s a suckering agave which means it spreads like a ground cover of 2-3′ tall rosettes that look great in mass plantings, containers and rock gardens. If you don’t mind the spikes, here is another succulent native to San Diego that is suitable for home gardens. Blooming spans from December through August. It’s a little hard to find but can be purchased for home gardens. The little hairy flowers are stunning with red scalloped leaves that have a yellow fringe. Look for it growing on rocky slopes and in sand. It shoots a 10-15′ spike within just a few weeks. Cliff Spurge ( Euphorbia misera )Ĭliff Spurge prefers a coastal climate and is seen between San Diego and Orange County as well as on the Channel Islands.
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Have clay soil? This plant thrives in it. You can see them along the I-15 between San Diego and Las Vegas. It’s a small, stemless shrub with a cluster of green leaf spikes about 1-3′ long and a flower stalk that reaches up to 10′ tall with multiple bell-shaped flowers at the end ranging from white to purple. Keep an eye out for Chaparral Yucca, also known as “Our Lord’s Candle”, the next time you’re out hiking around SoCal. Chaparral Yucca ( Hesperoyucca whipplei ) A variety of Dudleyas are sold in local nurseries. The leaves lack sharp edges and they’ll happily survive without much care. One to two foot spikes with red flowers on top emerge in the spring. The Chalk Dudleya (also pictured at the top of this post) produces 12 – 18″ clumping rosettes with chalky white leaves that grow extremely well in rock gardens, container gardens and even tiny cracks in walls for a little impromptu vertical garden. Those in search of local succulents to plant at home should consider Dudleyas. In fact, birds often nest in these plants likely as the spines provide protection from predators. Purple flowers appear in the spring and then transform into yellow fruits that are dense with calcium and an important source of nutrition for wild birds and mammals. The cacti looks like a cane or walking stick when the dries out and dies. Segments can break off and form new plants. parkeri)Ĭane Cholla grows with roughly foot-long tubular segments stemming off of a single trunk. Cane Cholla ( Cylindropuntia californica var. The color of the plant can be brown, reddish-purple, or green.Ĭare must be taken if you ever spot these pretty plants in the wild as they are quite rare. Triangular leaves protrude off of an upright stalk that may bloom a few star-shaped flowers with white petals, sometimes with streaks of red. Blochman’s Dudleya ( Dudleya blochmaniae)īlochman’s Dudleya typically grows along the coast. Some can be found in local nurseries while others should be admired in the wild. Succulents are very popular additions to water-wise gardens and hail from all around the globe but the thirteen listed here are native to San Diego.
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It’s best to select California natives that thrive in your part of the state because they will be best adapted to local growing conditions and preferred by local wildlife. Experts suggest drilling down a bit further. Therefore, a plant described as a California native may not always be the best solution for a San Diego garden. To give you an idea, different native plants might be adapted to cover our high end the thermometer at 130° F while others can tolerate -54° F. We have snow in the Sierras and dry heat of Death Valley as well as a multitude of microclimates in between. The world of plants native to California is rather large.