Plant Signs

California Cord Grass

Sporobolus foliosus

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 5 ft tall

Flower Color: Green, Purple

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

Moderate, High

Alkali Cord Grass

Sporobolus hookerianus

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 3 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Summer

Dormancy: Winter Deciduous

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Soil drainage

Standing

Ajuga Hedge Nettle

Stachys ajugoides

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 12 in tall

Flower Color: Pink

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun

Water

Moderate

White Hedge Nettle

Stachys albens

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 4 ft tall , 2 - 6 ft wide

Form: Mounding, Spreading

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: White

Dormancy: Winter Deciduous

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water

High, Moderate

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Berg's Hedgenettle

Stachys bergii

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 2 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Coastal Hedgenettle

Stachys chamissonis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 3 - 8 ft tall

Flower Color: Pink

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Water

Moderate

Marsh Hedgenettle

Stachys palustris

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Purple, Red

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun

Short Spike Hedge Nettle

Stachys pycnantha

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Partial Shade

Water

Low

Rigid Hedge Nettle

Stachys rigida var. rigida

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun

Sonoma Hedgenettle

Stachys stricta

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 3 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Sitka Starwort

Stellaria borealis ssp. sitchana

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Northern Starwort

Stellaria calycantha

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: White, Green

Wildlife supported:

Crisp Starwort

Stellaria crispa

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: Green

Wildlife supported:

Longstalk Starwort

Stellaria longipes

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 11 in tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: White, Green

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Goldie's Starwort

Stellaria longipes ssp. longipes

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Umbellate Starwort

Stellaria umbellata

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: White, Green

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

Western Featherbells

Stenanthium occidentale

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Claspleaf Twistedstalk

Streptopus amplexifolius

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Plant type: Perennial herb,Geophyte

Size: 1 - 3 ft tall

Flower Color: White, Green

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Partial Shade

Streptopus amplexifolius var. americanus

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Plant type: Perennial herb,Geophyte

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Screwbean Mesquite

Strombocarpa pubescens

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Plant type: Tree

Size: 10 - 33 ft tall , 20 ft wide

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Spring, Winter

Dormancy: Winter Deciduous

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low

Summer irrigation

Max 1x / month once established

Soil drainage

Fast

Deer Fern

Struthiopteris spicant

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Plant type: Fern

Size: 2 - 4 ft tall , 2 ft wide

Form: Upright, Fountain

Growth rate: Moderate

Dormancy: Winter Deciduous

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Water

Low, Moderate

Summer irrigation

Max 1x / month once established

Soil drainage

Medium

Fineleaf Pondweed

Stuckenia filiformis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Pondweed

Stuckenia pectinata

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Soil drainage

Standing

Nevada Pondweed

Stuckenia striata

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Leafcover Saltweed

Stutzia covillei

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 4 - 16 in tall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Horned Seablite

Suaeda calceoliformis

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 3 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Bush Seepweed

Suaeda nigra

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 3 - 5 ft tall , 3 ft wide

Flower Color: Cream

Flowering season: Spring

Dormancy: Evergreen

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Moderate, High

Summer irrigation

Keep moist

Soil drainage

Fast

Seablite

Suaeda taxifolia

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 5 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow, Red

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low

Water Awlwort

Subularia aquatica

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: White

Wildlife supported:

Star Swertia

Swertia perennis

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 4 - 19 in tall

Wildlife supported:

Eaton's Aster

Symphyotrichum bracteolatum

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 3 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Dwarf Coast Aster

Symphyotrichum chilense 'Dwarf'

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 6 - 12 in tall , 3 - 6 ft wide

Form: spreading

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: Lavender, Yellow

Flowering season: Spring, Summer, Fall

Dormancy: Evergreen

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Partial Shade, Full Sun

Water

Very Low, Low

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Parry's Leafy Aster

Symphyotrichum foliaceum var. apricum

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun

Parry's Aster

Symphyotrichum foliaceum var. parryi

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Short-rayed Alkali Aster

Symphyotrichum frondosum

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 8 - 24 in tall

Flower Color: Pink, Lavender

Wildlife supported:

Western Lance Leaf Aster

Symphyotrichum lanceolatum var. hesperium

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Western Mountain Aster

Symphyotrichum spathulatum var. spathulatum

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2008 Steve Matson

Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Western Bog Aster

Symphyotrichum spathulatum var. yosemitanum

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2009 Keir Morse

Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Diffuseflower Evening Primrose

Taraxia subacaulis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Small Coastal Germander

Teucrium cubense

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: White, Blue

Wildlife supported:

Western Meadow Rue

Thalictrum occidentale

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 3 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Fewflower Meadow-rue

Thalictrum sparsiflorum

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Entireleaved Thelypody

Thelypodium integrifolium

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: White, Purple

Wildlife supported:

Entireleaved Thelypody

Thelypodium integrifolium ssp. affine

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Desert Cistanthe

Thingia ambigua

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 7 in tall

Flower Color: White, Black

Wildlife supported:

Western Red Cedar

Thuja plicata

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Plant type: Tree

Size: 40 - 230 ft tall

Form: Pyramidal, Upright Columnar

Growth rate: Fast, Moderate, Slow

Flowering season: Spring

Dormancy: Evergreen

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade, Deep Shade

Water

Moderate

Summer irrigation

Keep moist

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Sugar Scoop

Tiarella trifoliata

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 6 - 8 in tall

Flower Color: White

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Water

Moderate, High

Piggyback Plant

Tolmiea menziesii

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: Purple, Green, Cream, White, Brown

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Water

Moderate, High

Soil drainage

Medium

Cool Gold Piggy Back Plant

Tolmiea menziesii 'Cool Gold'

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 6 - 12 in tall , 6 - 12 in wide

Form: Clumping

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: Purple

Flowering season: Spring

Dormancy: Evergreen

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Water

Moderate, High

Soil drainage

Medium

Taff's Gold Piggy Back Plant

Tolmiea menziesii 'Taff's Gold'

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 6 - 12 in tall , 6 - 12 in wide

Form: Clumping

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: Purple

Flowering season: Spring

Dormancy: Evergreen

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Water

Moderate, High

Soil drainage

Fast

Spiked False Mannagrass

Torreyochloa erecta

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Weak Manna Grass

Torreyochloa pallida var. pauciflora

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Chaparral Zygadene

Toxicoscordion fremontii

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: White, Cream

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Very Low

Death Camas

Toxicoscordion venenosum

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

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Water

Moderate, High

Death Camas

Toxicoscordion venenosum var. venenosum

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Carolina Bugbane

Trautvetteria caroliniensis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 3 - 5 ft tall

Flower Color: White, Green

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Western Tofieldia

Triantha occidentalis ssp. occidentalis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Desert Horsepurslane

Trianthema portulacastrum

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Purple

Wildlife supported:

Yosemite Bulrush

Trichophorum clementis

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

San Jacinto Bluecurls

Trichostema austromontanum ssp. austromontanum

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Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported: