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Creek Friendly Plants
| Common Name | Scientific Name | Low Flow Channel Edge: submerged/very wet most of year | Lower
Floodplain: flooded when streamflow exceeds channel capacity | Upper Floodplain: flooded when streamflow exceeds channel capacity |
| Grasses, Sedges, Rushes | | | | |
| Baltic Rush | Juncus balticus | x | x | |
| Creeping wildrye | Leymus triticoides | x | x | x |
| Santa Barbara sedge | Carex barbarae | x | x | |
| Deer grass | Mublenbegia rigens | | x | x |
| Meadow barley | Hordeum brachyantherum | | x | x |
| Blue wildrye | Elymus glaucus | | | x |
| California barley | Hordeum californicum | | | x |
| California oniongrass | Melica californica | | | x |
| Purple needlegrass | Nassella pulchra | | | x |
| Salt grass | Distichlis spicata | | | x |
| Forbs | | | | |
| Mugwort | Artemisia douglasiana | | x | x |
| Shrubs | | | | |
| Mulefat | Baccaris viminea | | x | |
| Snowberry | Symphoricarpos rivularis | | x | |
| Blue blossom | Ceanothus thyrsiflorus | | | x |
| Buckbrush | Ceanothus cuneatus | | | x |
| California wild rose | Rosa californica | | | x |
| Coyote brush | Baccharis pilularis | | | x |
| Elderberry | Sambucus mexicana | | | x |
| Redbud | Cercis occidentalis | | | x |
| Toyon | Heteromeles arbutifolia | | | x |
| Trees | | | | |
| Black willow | Salix goodingii | | x | |
| Buttonwillow | Cephalanthus occidentalis | | x | |
| California sycamore | Platanus racemosa | | x | x |
| Fremont cottonwood | Populus fremontii | | x | x |
| Oregon ash | Fraxinus latifolia | | x | |
| Red willow | Salix laevigata | | x | |
| Valley oak | Quercus lobata | | x | x |
| Box elder | Acer negundo ‘Californicum’ | | | x |
| California black walnut | Juglans californica var. hindsii | | | x |
| California buckeye | Aesculus californica | | | x |
| Coast live oak | Quercus agrifolia | | | x |
| Interior live oak | Quercus wislizenii | | | x |
| Vines | | | | |
| California grape | Vitis californica | | x | x |
| Dutchman’s pipevine | Aristolochia californica | | x | x |
| Western clematis | Clematis ligusticifolia | | x | |