King's Mousetail

Ivesia kingii

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Wildlife supported:

Rock Mousetail

Ivesia saxosa

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 2 - 12 in tall
Flower Color: Yellow, Red
Wildlife supported:

California Juniper

Juniperus californica

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Plant type: Tree
Size: 10 - 26 ft tall , 20 ft wide
Form: Rounded
Growth rate: Moderate, Slow
Dormancy: Evergreen
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water
Water

Low, Very Low

Irrigation
Summer irrigation

Max 1x / month once established

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast, Medium

Chuparosa

Justicia californica

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 2 - 4 ft tall , 4 ft wide
Form: Mounding
Growth rate: Moderate
Flower Color: Red, Orange, Yellow
Flowering season: Spring
Dormancy: Summer Deciduous
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Water
Water

Very Low, Low

Irrigation
Summer irrigation

Max 1x / month once established

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast

Tecate Gold Chuparosa

Justicia californica 'Tecate Gold'

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 4 - 6 ft tall , 4 - 6 ft wide
Form: Mounding
Growth rate: Moderate
Flower Color: Yellow
Flowering season: Spring
Dormancy: Summer Deciduous
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Water
Water

Low, Very Low

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast

California Caltrop

Kallstroemia californica

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 2 ft tall
Flower Color: Yellow, Orange
Wildlife supported:

Yellow Bush Penstemon

Keckiella antirrhinoides

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 2 - 7 ft tall , 2 - 4 ft wide
Form: Fountain, Rounded
Growth rate: Moderate
Flower Color: Yellow
Flowering season: Spring
Dormancy: Summer Deciduous
Wildlife supported:
Hummingbirds
Birds
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water
Water

Low

Irrigation
Summer irrigation

Max 2x / month once established

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast, Medium

Crown Of Thorns

Koeberlinia spinosa

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 8 - 16 ft tall
Flower Color: White, Green, Black
Dormancy: Winter Deciduous
Wildlife supported:
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

White Rhatany

Krameria bicolor

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 2 - 5 ft tall
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Pima Rhatany

Krameria erecta

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 1 - 3 ft tall
Form: Rounded
Growth rate: Slow
Flower Color: Pink, Purple, Yellow
Flowering season: Spring
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Winterfat

Krascheninnikovia lanata

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 1 - 3 ft tall
Form: Upright
Growth rate: Fast
Flower Color: Yellow, White, Red
Flowering season: Spring
Wildlife supported:
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Water
Water

Low, Very Low

Watering
Soil drainage

Slow, Medium

Lactuca tatarica ssp. pulchella

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Coulter's Horseweed

Laennecia coulteri

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Plant type: Annual herb
Wildlife supported:

Bristly Langloisia

Langloisia setosissima

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 2 - 8 in tall
Flower Color: White, Purple, Blue
Wildlife supported:

Lilac Sunbonnet

Langloisia setosissima ssp. punctata

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Plant type: Annual herb
Wildlife supported:

Lappula redowskii

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 2 - 14 in tall
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Creosote Bush

Larrea tridentata

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 3 - 12 ft tall , 6 - 12 ft wide
Growth rate: Moderate, Slow
Flower Color: Yellow
Flowering season: Spring
Dormancy: Evergreen
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Water
Water

Low, Very Low

Irrigation
Summer irrigation

Max 1x / month once established

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast

Royal Goldfields

Lasthenia coronaria

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 1 ft tall
Flower Color: Yellow
Flowering season: Spring
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Small-ray Goldfields

Lasthenia microglossa

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 10 in tall
Flower Color: Yellow
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Yellow Pepperweed

Lepidium flavum

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 1 ft tall
Flower Color: Yellow
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Desert Pepperweed

Lepidium fremontii

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 3 - 6 ft tall
Flower Color: White
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast

Shaggyfruit Pepperweed

Lepidium lasiocarpum

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Plant type: Annual herb
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Shaggyfruit Pepperweed

Lepidium lasiocarpum ssp. lasiocarpum

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Plant type: Annual herb
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Mountain Pepperweed

Lepidium montanum

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 10 - 16 in tall
Form: Mounding
Growth rate: Fast
Flower Color: Yellow, White, Cream
Flowering season: Spring
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Peppergrass

Lepidium nitidum

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 1 ft tall
Flower Color: White
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Nevada Broomsage

Lepidospartum latisquamum

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Plant type: Shrub
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Scale Broom

Lepidospartum squamatum

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 7 ft tall
Flower Color: Cream
Flowering season: Summer, Fall
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Water
Water

Low

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Bearded Sprangletop

Leptochloa fusca ssp. fascicularis

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Plant type: Grass
Size: 3 ft tall
Form: Upright
Growth rate: Fast
Flower Color: Green
Flowering season: Summer
Wildlife supported:

Mucronate Sprangeltop

Leptochloa panicea ssp. brachiata

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Plant type: Grass
Size: 2 ft tall
Flower Color: Brown
Wildlife supported:
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Mojave Linanthus

Leptosiphon breviculus

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 4 - 10 in tall
Flower Color: Pink, White, Purple, Blue
Wildlife supported:

Northern Linanthus

Leptosiphon septentrionalis

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 2 - 12 in tall
Flower Color: Yellow, White
Wildlife supported:

Bigelow's Coreopsis

Leptosyne bigelovii

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Plant type: Annual herb,Succulent
Size: 4 - 12 in tall
Flower Color: Yellow
Flowering season: Winter, Spring
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Water
Water

Extremely Low, Very Low

California Coreopsis

Leptosyne californica

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Plant type: Annual herb,Succulent
Size: 2 - 12 in tall
Flower Color: Yellow
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Leafy Stemmed Coreopsis

Leptosyne calliopsidea

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Plant type: Annual herb,Succulent
Size: 4 - 16 in tall
Flower Color: Yellow
Flowering season: Spring, Winter
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Water
Water

Very Low

Sand Lily

Leucocrinum montanum

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Plant type: Perennial herb,Geophyte
Size: 4 in tall
Flower Color: White
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Silver Lake Daisy

Leucosyris arida

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Wildlife supported:

Shrubby Alkali Aster

Leucosyris carnosa

Calscape.org

Plant type: Shrub
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
butterfly

Bitter Root

Lewisia rediviva

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb,Succulent
Size: 1 ft tall , 1 ft wide
Flower Color: Pink, White
Flowering season: Spring
Dormancy: Summer Deciduous
Wildlife supported:
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water
Water

Very Low

Irrigation
Summer irrigation

Never irrigate once established

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Bitter Root

Lewisia rediviva var. rediviva

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb
Flower Color: Pink
Wildlife supported:
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Partial Shade

Sand Linanthus

Linanthus arenicola

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 0.4 - 3 in tall
Flower Color: Cream
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Bigelow's Linanthus

Linanthus bigelovii

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 2 - 8 in tall
Flower Color: White
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Bellshape Gilia

Linanthus campanulatus

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 1 - 5 in tall
Flower Color: Cream
Wildlife supported:

Humble Gilia

Linanthus demissus

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 0.8 - 4 in tall
Flower Color: White, Yellow
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Eveningsnow

Linanthus dichotomus

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 2 - 8 in tall
Flower Color: White
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Evening Snow

Linanthus dichotomus ssp. dichotomus

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Flower Color: White
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Linanthus dichotomus ssp. meridianus

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Plant type: Annual herb
Flower Color: White
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Yellow Gilia

Linanthus filiformis

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 2 - 6 in tall
Flower Color: Yellow
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Jones' Linanthus

Linanthus jonesii

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 1 - 6 in tall
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Little San Bernardino Mountains Linanthus

Linanthus maculatus

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 1 in tall
Flower Color: White
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Sandblossoms

Linanthus parryae

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 1 - 4 in tall
Flower Color: Purple, Lavender
Flowering season: Spring
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Water
Water

Low

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast

Mountain Prickly Phlox

Linanthus pungens

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 1 - 3 ft tall
Flower Color: White
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Bulbous Woodland Star

Lithophragma glabrum

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 3 - 10 in tall
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Columbia Puccoon

Lithospermum ruderale

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 8 - 19 in tall
Form: Mounding
Growth rate: Moderate
Flower Color: White, Yellow
Flowering season: Spring
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Desert Calico

Loeseliastrum matthewsii

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Plant type: Annual herb
Flower Color: White, Purple, Lavender
Wildlife supported:
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast

Schott's Calico

Loeseliastrum schottii

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Wildlife supported:

Arizona Cottonrose

Logfia arizonica

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Wildlife supported:

Hierba Limpia

Logfia depressa

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Wildlife supported:

Wasatch Desertparsley

Lomatium bicolor

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 8 - 19 in tall
Flower Color: Yellow
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Lomatium bicolor var. leptocarpum

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Canby's Biscuitroot

Lomatium canbyi

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 10 in tall
Form: Upright
Growth rate: Moderate
Flower Color: White
Flowering season: Spring
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun