Plants

As seen at the Point Pinos Lighthouse: Jeanette McIndoo Pine Grove
native plants common to central coast sand dunes

  

Artemisia pycnocephala

sand sagewort, beach wormwood, sandhill sage, and coastal sagewort

  

Achillea millefolium

yarrow or common yarrow

  

Baccharis pilularis

coyote bush, chaparral broom, and bush baccharis

  

Corethrogyne filaginifolia

dune aster, common sandaster and California aster

  

Ericameria ericoides

California goldenbush, mock heather, and California heathgoldenrod

  

Erigeron glaucus

beach daisy, seaside fleabane, beach aster, or seaside daisy

  

Lupinus arboreus

the yellow bush lupine is an indigenous California species of flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae.

  

Eriogonum parvifolium

beach buckwheat, dune buckwheat, coast buckwheat, cliff buckwheat, or sea cliff buckwheat

  

Grindelia stricta

gum plant, Oregon gumplant, Oregon gumweed

  

Spergularia macrotheca

sticky sandspurry

possible plants a lighthouse keeper might have

  

Anisodontea

cape mallow

  

Euryops pectinatus

yellow daisy

  

Tulbaghia violacea

society garlic

  

Polygala fruticosa

sweet pea shrub, featherdusters, heart-leaved polygala, ithethe

  

Ceanothus griseus

Carmel creeper, Carmel ceanothus

Trees

  

Cupressus macrocarpa

(now classed as Hesperocyparis macrocarpa), commonly known as Monterey cypress, is a species of cypress native to the Central Coast of California. The native range of the species during modern times is confined to two small relict populations near Carmel, California, at Cypress Point in Pebble Beach and at Point Lobos. Historically during the peak of the last ice age, Monterey cypress would have likely comprised a much larger forest that extended to the continental shelf.

Succulents

  

Scattered in pots around the outside of the Lighthouse.

  

Aloe arborescens

Native to South Africa, but common along the Pacific Grove coastline. Used medicinally and in hand sanitizer to give it a gel consistencey.

Misc

  

Salvia rosmarinus

Commonly known as rosemary, is a woody, perennial herb with fragrant, evergreen, needle-like leaves and white, pink, purple, or blue flowers, native to the Mediterranean region.

  

Echinocystis

Native, but takes over everything in your garden. Fortunately, seasonal. Has been used by native Americans for a medicine.

  

Polypodium californicum

Common on moist rocky soils below 4000ft.

  

Iris douglasiana

It was first described by 19th century botanist David Douglas in Monterey, California.