Plant Signs

Bach's Calicoflower

Downingia bacigalupii

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 1 ft tall

Flower Color: Blue, Purple, White, Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Hoover's Downingia

Downingia bella

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Blue, Purple, White, Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Doublehorn Calicoflower

Downingia bicornuta

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 10 in tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: Purple

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Doublehorn Calicoflower

Downingia bicornuta var. bicornuta

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Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported:

Doublehorn Calicoflower

Downingia bicornuta var. picta

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Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported:

Maroonspot Calicoflower

Downingia concolor

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Blue, Purple, White, Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Maroonspot Calicoflower

Downingia concolor var. concolor

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Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported:

Toothed Calicoflower

Downingia cuspidata

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Blue, Purple, White, Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Elegant Calicoflower

Downingia elegans

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Blue, Purple, White, Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Harlequin Calicoflower

Downingia insignis

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Blue, Purple, White, Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Sierra Calicoflower

Downingia montana

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Lavender

Wildlife supported:

Folded Calicoflower

Downingia ornatissima

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Blue, Purple, White, Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Folded Calicoflower

Downingia ornatissima var. ornatissima

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Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported:

Flatface Calicoflower

Downingia pulchella

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Blue, Purple, White, Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Downingia willamettensis

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Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported:

Slender Draba

Draba albertina

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Plant type: Annual herb,Perennial herb

Size: 1 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Round-leaved Sundew

Drosera rotundifolia

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Sticky Cinquefoil

Drymocallis glandulosa

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall , 1 ft wide

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: White, Yellow

Flowering season: Spring, Summer, Fall

Dormancy: Winter Deciduous

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade, Full Sun

Water

Low

Summer irrigation

Max 2x / month once established

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Sticky Cinquefoil

Drymocallis glandulosa var. glandulosa

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 24 in tall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

Low

Sticky Cinquefoil

Drymocallis glandulosa var. reflexa

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 6 - 31 in tall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

Low

Yosemite Woodbeauty

Drymocallis hansenii

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 3 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Austin's Woodbeauty

Drymocallis lactea var. austiniae

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Sierran Woodbeauty

Drymocallis lactea var. lactea

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Sticky Cinquefoil

Drymocallis pseudorupestris

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 10 in tall

Wildlife supported:

Drymocallis rhomboidea

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 18 in tall

Wildlife supported:

Spreading Woodfern

Dryopteris expansa

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Plant type: Fern

Size: 3 ft tall

Dormancy: Evergreen

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Variegated Dudleya

Dudleya variegata

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Plant type: Perennial herb,Succulent

Size: 4 - 8 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low, Very Low

Threeway Sedge

Dulichium arundinaceum

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 3 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Brown, Green

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Rough Barnyard Grass

Echinochloa muricata

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 2 - 5 ft tall

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Echinochloa muricata var. microstachya

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Upright Burhead

Echinodorus berteroi

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

False Daisy

Eclipta prostrata

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 3 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: White

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Shortseed Waterwort

Elatine brachysperma

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Plant type: Annual herb,Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

California Waterwort

Elatine californica

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Plant type: Annual herb,Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Chilean Waterwort

Elatine chilensis

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Plant type: Annual herb,Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Mosquito Waterwort

Elatine heterandra

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Plant type: Annual herb,Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Southwestern Waterwort

Elatine rubella

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Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported:

Spike Rush

Eleocharis acicularis

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 6 - 8 in tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: White

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water

High

Soil drainage

Standing

Needle Spike-rush

Eleocharis acicularis var. acicularis

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

High

Eleocharis acicularis var. occidentalis

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

High

Purple Spikerush

Eleocharis atropurpurea

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 4 in tall

Flower Color: Red

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

High

Beautiful Spikerush

Eleocharis bella

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

High

Bolander's Spikerush

Eleocharis bolanderi

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 4 - 12 in tall

Flower Color: Purple, Red

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

High

Eleocharis coloradoensis

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

High

Soil drainage

Standing

Engelmann's Spikerush

Eleocharis engelmannii

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

High

Yellow Spikerush

Eleocharis flavescens

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

High

Eleocharis flavescens var. flavescens

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

High

Canada Spikesedge

Eleocharis geniculata

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

High

Common Spikerush

Eleocharis macrostachya

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: Brown

Dormancy: Evergreen

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

High

Summer irrigation

Keep moist

Soil drainage

Slow, Standing

Sand Spikerush

Eleocharis montevidensis

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water

High

Soil drainage

Fast

Broad Spiked Spikerush

Eleocharis obtusa

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 2 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water

High

Soil drainage

Standing

Parish's Spikerush

Eleocharis parishii

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Purple, Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

High

Small Spikerush

Eleocharis parvula

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 4 - 14 in tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Green

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

High

Soil drainage

Standing

Fewflower Spikerush

Eleocharis quinqueflora

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 1 ft tall

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

High

Creeping Spikerush

Eleocharis radicans

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow, White

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

High

Soil drainage

Standing

Beaked Spikerush

Eleocharis rostellata

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 3 - 7 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Green

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

High

Elodea

Elodea canadensis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: White

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Nuttall's Waterweed

Elodea nuttallii

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Great Basin Wild Rye

Elymus cinereus

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 4 - 7 ft tall

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water

Low

Western Wheat Grass

Elymus smithii

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun