Plant Signs

Spotted Locoweed

Astragalus lentiginosus

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Plant type: Annual herb,Perennial herb

Size: 1 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Satiny Milkvetch

Astragalus magdalenae

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Shaggy Milkvetch

Astragalus malacus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 16 in tall

Flower Color: Green

Wildlife supported:

Mojave Milkvetch

Astragalus mohavensis

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Plant type: Annual herb,Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 14 in tall

Flower Color: Pink, Purple

Wildlife supported:

Newberry's Milkvetch

Astragalus newberryi

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: Pink, Purple

Wildlife supported:

Newberry's Milkvetch

Astragalus newberryi var. newberryi

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Smallflower Milkvetch

Astragalus nuttallianus

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 - 18 in tall

Flower Color: White, Purple

Wildlife supported:

Arcane Milkvetch

Astragalus obscurus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 6 in tall

Flower Color: White

Wildlife supported:

Egg Milkvetch

Astragalus oophorus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 12 in tall

Flower Color: Purple, Cream

Wildlife supported:

Thickpod Milkvetch

Astragalus pachypus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 31 in tall

Flower Color: Cream

Wildlife supported:

Palmer's Milkvetch

Astragalus palmeri

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 19 in tall

Wildlife supported:

Preuss Milkvetch

Astragalus preussii

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 16 in tall

Flower Color: Pink, White, Purple

Wildlife supported:

Ames' Milkvetch

Astragalus pulsiferae

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 0.4 - 1 in tall

Flower Color: White, Purple

Wildlife supported:

Pursh Loco Milkvetch

Astragalus purshii

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 7 in tall

Form: Mounding

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: White, Pink, Purple

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Bishop Milkvetch

Astragalus sepultipes

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 6 - 14 in tall

Wildlife supported:

Naked Milkvetch

Astragalus serenoi

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Balloonpod Milkvetch

Astragalus whitneyi

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 16 in tall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Soil drainage

Fast

Scaly Cloak-fern

Astrolepis cochisensis

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Plant type: Fern

Wildlife supported:

Tobacco Weed

Atrichoseris platyphylla

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Pink, White

Wildlife supported:

Silver Saltweed

Atriplex argentea

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 6 - 31 in tall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Shadscale

Atriplex canescens

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 1 - 10 ft tall , 3 - 7 ft wide

Form: Upright, Mounding

Growth rate: Fast, Slow

Flower Color: Yellow, Green

Flowering season: Summer, Spring

Dormancy: Summer Semi-deciduous, Evergreen

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low

Summer irrigation

Max 1x / month once established

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Heartscale

Atriplex cordulata

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 4 - 19 in tall

Flower Color: Red, Brown

Wildlife supported:

Mecca Orach

Atriplex elegans var. fasciculata

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 4 - 19 in tall

Wildlife supported:

Sickle Saltbush

Atriplex gardneri var. falcata

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 24 in tall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Desert Holly

Atriplex hymenelytra

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

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Full Sun

Cattle Saltbush

Atriplex polycarpa

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 4 - 7 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Slow

Flower Color: Yellow, Cream

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Wedgescale

Atriplex truncata

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Green

Wildlife supported:

Shortleaf Baccharis

Baccharis brachyphylla

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Cream, White

Wildlife supported:

Emory's Baccharis

Baccharis salicina

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 3 - 10 ft tall , 7 ft wide

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: Cream, White

Flowering season: Winter, Summer, Fall

Dormancy: Summer Semi-deciduous

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low, Moderate, High

Summer irrigation

Max 1x / week once established

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Broom Baccharis

Baccharis sarothroides

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 3 - 12 ft tall , 6 ft wide

Form: Upright, Rounded

Growth rate: Fast, Moderate

Flower Color: Yellow, Cream, White

Flowering season: Winter

Dormancy: Evergreen

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low, Very Low

Summer irrigation

Max 2x / month once established

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium

Desert Baccharis

Baccharis sergiloides

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 7 ft tall

Flower Color: Cream, White

Wildlife supported:

San Diego County Viguiera

Bahiopsis laciniata

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall , 3 - 4 ft wide

Form: Mounding

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Summer, Spring, Winter

Dormancy: Evergreen

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Very Low, Low

Summer irrigation

Max 1x / month once established

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Parish's Goldeneye

Bahiopsis parishii

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun

Death Valley Goldeneye

Bahiopsis reticulata

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Wild Marigold

Baileya multiradiata

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Plant type: Annual herb,Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall , 1 ft wide

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Spring, Summer

Dormancy: Summer Semi-deciduous, Winter Semi-deciduous

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low, Very Low

Summer irrigation

Max 1x / month once established

Soil drainage

Fast

Laxflower

Baileya pauciradiata

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 4 - 19 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Woolly Marigold

Baileya pleniradiata

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Plant type: Annual herb,Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Soil drainage

Fast

Hooker's Balsamroot

Balsamorhiza hookeri

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Spring

Dormancy: Winter Deciduous

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Arrow Leaved Balsam Root

Balsamorhiza sagittata

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 24 in tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Sweetbush

Bebbia juncea

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 5 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Spring, Summer

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low, Very Low

Soil drainage

Fast

Rough Sweetbush

Bebbia juncea var. aspera

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Plant type: Shrub

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

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Low, Very Low

Fremont Barberry

Berberis fremontii

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 10 - 16 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow, Purple, Red

Flowering season: Spring

Dormancy: Evergreen

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water

Very Low

Bernardia incana

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 8 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Bluepod Rockcress

Boechera glaucovalvula

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: Pink

Wildlife supported:

Perennial Rockcress

Boechera perennans

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Pink, Purple

Wildlife supported:

Silver Rockcress

Boechera puberula

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2007 Steve Matson

Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: Pink

Wildlife supported:

Beautiful Rock Cress

Boechera pulchra

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: Pink

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun

Sicklepod Rockcress

Boechera sparsiflora

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Pink, Purple

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Partial Shade

Woody Rockcress

Boechera suffrutescens

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: Pink, White, Cream

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Scarlet Spiderling

Boerhavia coccinea

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Red, Pink

Wildlife supported:

Coulter's Spiderling

Boerhavia coulteri

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Pink, White

Wildlife supported:

Creeping Sticky Stem

Boerhavia triquetra

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Pink, White

Wildlife supported:

Boerhavia triquetra var. intermedia

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Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported:

Largebract Spiderling

Boerhavia wrightii

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Pink

Wildlife supported:

Cane Bluestem

Bothriochloa barbinodis

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 2 - 4 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: Yellow, White, Red

Flowering season: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Needle Grama

Bouteloua aristidoides

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 1 ft tall

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Needle Grama

Bouteloua aristidoides var. aristidoides

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Six-weeks Grama

Bouteloua barbata

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Sixweeks Grama

Bouteloua barbata var. barbata

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Desert Starvine

Brandegea bigelovii

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: White

Wildlife supported: