Most Beautiful Jewel Flower

Streptanthus glandulosus ssp. glandulosus

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 3 ft tall
Flower Color: Pink
Flowering season: Spring
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Hoffmann's Jewelflower

Streptanthus glandulosus ssp. hoffmanii

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Plant type: Annual herb
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

San Benito Jewelflower

Streptanthus insignis

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Plant type: Annual herb
Flower Color: Yellow, Purple
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Plumed Jewelflower

Streptanthus insignis ssp. insignis

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Plant type: Annual herb
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Morrison's Jewelflower

Streptanthus morrisonii

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 4 - 5 ft tall
Flower Color: Yellow, White, Green, Purple, Brown
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Milkwort Jewelflower

Streptanthus polygaloides

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 4 in tall
Flower Color: Yellow, White, Green, Purple, Brown
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

California Snowdrop

Styrax redivivus

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 3 - 13 ft tall
Flower Color: White
Flowering season: Spring
Wildlife supported:
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water
Water

Low, Moderate

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Horned Seablite

Suaeda calceoliformis

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 3 ft tall
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Common Snowberry

Symphoricarpos albus

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 3 - 6 ft tall , 6 ft wide
Form: Rounded, Fountain
Growth rate: Fast, Moderate
Flower Color: Pink, White
Flowering season: Summer, Spring
Dormancy: Winter Deciduous
Wildlife supported:
Bats
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Partial Shade, Deep Shade

Water
Water

Low

Irrigation
Summer irrigation

Max 3x / month once established

Watering
Soil drainage

Medium

Snowberry

Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 4 - 6 ft tall , 8 - 12 ft wide
Form: Mounding, Spreading
Growth rate: Moderate
Flower Color: Red, Pink, White
Flowering season: Summer, Spring
Dormancy: Winter Deciduous
Wildlife supported:
Bats
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Partial Shade, Deep Shade

Water
Water

Low

Irrigation
Summer irrigation

Keep moist

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

San Bruno Mountain Snowberry

Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus 'San Bruno Mountain'

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 1 - 2 ft tall , 2 - 6 ft wide
Form: Upright, spreading
Growth rate: Moderate
Flower Color: Pink
Flowering season: Spring, Summer
Dormancy: Winter Deciduous
Wildlife supported:
Bats
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Water
Water

Low

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Tilden Park Snowberry

Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus 'Tilden Park'

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 3 - 4 ft tall , 4 - 8 ft wide
Form: Upright, spreading
Growth rate: Moderate
Flower Color: Pink
Flowering season: Spring, Summer
Dormancy: Winter Deciduous
Wildlife supported:
Bats
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Water
Water

Low

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Variegata Canyon Snowberry

Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus 'Variegata'

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 3 - 6 ft tall , 3 - 6 ft wide
Form: Upright, spreading
Growth rate: Moderate
Flower Color: Pink
Flowering season: Spring, Summer
Dormancy: Winter Deciduous
Wildlife supported:
Bats
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Water
Water

Low

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Fragrant Snowberry

Symphoricarpos longiflorus

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Plant type: Shrub
Flower Color: Pink
Flowering season: Spring
Wildlife supported:
Birds
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water
Water

Low

Parish's Snowberry

Symphoricarpos rotundifolius var. parishii

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Plant type: Shrub
Flower Color: Pink, Cream
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Water
Water

Low

Long Leaved Aster

Symphyotrichum ascendens

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 8 - 24 in tall
Flower Color: White, Purple
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Partial Shade

Water
Water

Moderate

Eaton's Aster

Symphyotrichum bracteolatum

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 3 ft tall
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Partial Shade

Western Meadow Aster

Symphyotrichum campestre

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 2 ft tall
Flower Color: Purple
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

California Aster

Symphyotrichum chilense

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 1 - 3 ft tall , 3 ft wide
Growth rate: Fast
Flower Color: Yellow, Blue, Lavender
Flowering season: Summer
Dormancy: Winter Deciduous
Wildlife supported:
Bats
Birds
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water
Water

Very Low, Low

Irrigation
Summer irrigation

Max 1x / month once established, Max 2x / month once established

Watering
Soil drainage

Medium, Slow, Standing

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:
Bats
Birds
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Partial Shade, Full Sun

Water
Water

Very Low, Low

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Purple Haze Coast Aster

Symphyotrichum chilense 'Purple Haze'

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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
Flowering season: Summer, Spring, Fall
Dormancy: Evergreen
Wildlife supported:
Bats
Birds
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water
Water

Very Low, Low

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Western Lance Leaf Aster

Symphyotrichum lanceolatum var. hesperium

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Tauschia

Tauschia hartwegii

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 1 - 3 ft tall
Flower Color: Yellow
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Parish's Umbrellawort

Tauschia parishii

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 4 - 16 in tall
Flower Color: Yellow
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Cotton Catclaw

Tetradymia axillaris

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 5 ft tall , 5 ft wide
Flower Color: Yellow, Green
Flowering season: Spring
Dormancy: Summer Semi-deciduous
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water
Water

Low

Irrigation
Summer irrigation

Max 1x / month once established

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast

Longspine Horsebrush

Tetradymia axillaris var. axillaris

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Plant type: Shrub
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Spineless Horsebrush

Tetradymia canescens

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 3 - 4 ft tall
Form: Upright
Growth rate: Slow
Flower Color: Yellow, White
Flowering season: Summer
Dormancy: Winter Deciduous
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Tetraneuris acaulis var. arizonica

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Wildlife supported:
Landscape information:
Water
Water

Low

Hill Sun Cup

Tetrapteron graciliflorum

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 1 in tall
Flower Color: Yellow
Wildlife supported:

Palmer Evening Primrose

Tetrapteron palmeri

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 0.8 in tall
Flower Color: Yellow
Wildlife supported:

Torrey's Meadow Rue

Thalictrum fendleri var. polycarpum

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 2 - 4 ft tall , 2 ft wide
Form: Upright
Growth rate: Fast
Flower Color: Cream, Green, Yellow
Flowering season: Spring
Dormancy: Winter Deciduous
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Partial Shade

Water
Water

Moderate

Irrigation
Summer irrigation

Keep moist, Max 3x / month once established

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Turpentinebroom

Thamnosma montana

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 1 - 2 ft tall
Form: Upright
Growth rate: Slow
Flower Color: Purple
Flowering season: Spring
Dormancy: Winter Deciduous
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Crisped Thelypody

Thelypodium crispum

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Plant type: Annual herb,Perennial herb
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Entireleaved Thelypody

Thelypodium integrifolium

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Flower Color: White, Purple
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

California Goldenbanner

Thermopsis californica

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 1 - 3 ft tall
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Partial Shade

Slender Falselupine

Thermopsis gracilis

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 1 - 7 ft tall
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast

Common False Lupine

Thermopsis macrophylla

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 3 - 7 ft tall
Flower Color: Yellow
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Hairy Lacepod

Thysanocarpus curvipes

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 4 - 31 in tall
Flower Color: White, Purple
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast

Thysanocarpus curvipes ssp. amplectens

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Plant type: Annual herb
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Narrowleaf Fringe Pod

Thysanocarpus laciniatus

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 4 - 24 in tall
Flower Color: White, Purple
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Ribbed Fringepod

Thysanocarpus radians

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 1 - 2 ft tall
Flower Color: White, Purple
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Woolly Tidestromia

Tidestromia lanuginosa

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Plant type: Annual herb
Wildlife supported:

Lesser Baby Innocence

Tonella tenella

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

Pale False Mannagrass

Torreyochloa pallida

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Plant type: Grass
Flower Color: Brown
Wildlife supported:

Weak Manna Grass

Torreyochloa pallida var. pauciflora

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Plant type: Grass
Flower Color: Brown
Wildlife supported:

Tufted Townsend Daisy

Townsendia scapigera

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Wildlife supported:

Western Poison Oak

Toxicodendron diversilobum

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Plant type: Shrub,Vine
Size: 2 - 13 ft tall , 13 ft wide
Form: Mounding, Rounded, Upright Columnar, Weeping
Growth rate: Fast
Flower Color: White
Flowering season: Spring
Dormancy: Winter Deciduous
Wildlife supported:
Birds
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water
Water

Low

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Desert Deathcamas

Toxicoscordion brevibracteatum

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Wildlife supported:

Giant Death Camas

Toxicoscordion exaltatum

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 2 ft tall
Wildlife supported:
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Partial Shade

Death Camas

Toxicoscordion venenosum

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Wildlife supported:
Landscape information:
Water
Water

Moderate, High

Death Camas

Toxicoscordion venenosum var. venenosum

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Wildlife supported:

Three Hearts

Tricardia watsonii

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 2 - 16 in tall
Wildlife supported:

Vinegarweed

Trichostema lanceolatum

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 3 ft tall
Flower Color: Green, Purple, Blue
Wildlife supported:
Bats
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Turpentine Weed

Trichostema laxum

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 2 ft tall
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly

Slim Tridens

Tridens muticus

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Plant type: Grass
Size: 2 - 3 ft tall
Flower Color: Purple
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Indian Clover

Trifolium albopurpureum

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 6 in tall
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Fiveleaf Clover

Trifolium andersonii

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Pale Sack Clover

Trifolium depauperatum var. amplectens

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Plant type: Annual herb
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Sour Clover

Trifolium fucatum

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Plant type: Annual herb
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Water
Water

Low

Pinpoint Clover

Trifolium gracilentum

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Plant type: Annual herb
Flower Color: Purple, Pink
Flowering season: Spring
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Water
Water

Moderate, High