Plant Signs

Falsegold Groundsel

Packera pseudaurea

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

False-gold Groundsel

Packera pseudaurea var. pseudaurea

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Rocky Mountain Groundsel

Packera streptanthifolia

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 24 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Rocky Mountain Groundsel

Packera streptanthifolia var. streptanthifolia

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Buek's Groundsel

Packera subnuda

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 12 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Cleftleaf Groundsel

Packera subnuda var. subnuda

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Hoary Groundsel

Packera werneriifolia

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 6 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Western Paeony

Paeonia brownii

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 10 - 19 in tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Red, Purple

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water

Moderate

California Peony

Paeonia californica

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Purple, Red

Flowering season: Winter, Spring

Dormancy: Summer Deciduous

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade, Full Sun

Water

Moderate

Summer irrigation

Never irrigate once established

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Desert Palafox

Palafoxia arida

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 7 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Desert Palafox

Palafoxia arida var. arida

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Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported:

Giant Spanish-needle

Palafoxia arida var. gigantea

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Plant type: Annual herb,Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 2 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Western Panicgrass

Panicum acuminatum

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

Low

Pacific Panic Grass

Panicum acuminatum var. fasciculatum

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

Low

Panicum acuminatum var. lindheimeri

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

Low

Geysers Panicum

Panicum acuminatum var. thermale

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

Low

Witch Grass

Panicum capillare

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

Low

Mexican Panicgrass

Panicum hirticaule

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 4 - 31 in tall

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

Low

Roughstalk Witch Grass

Panicum hirticaule ssp. hirticaule

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

Low

Panicum oligosanthes

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

Low

Scribner's Panic Grass

Panicum oligosanthes var. scribnerianum

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

Low

Silky Panic Grass

Panicum urvilleanum

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

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Water

Low

Western Poppy

Papaver californicum

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 1 - 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Orange, Green

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Windpoppy

Papaver heterophyllum

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 1 - 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Orange, Red

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Water

Very Low

Summer irrigation

Max 2x / month once established

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Rillita Pellitory

Parietaria hespera

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Yellow, Red, Brown

Wildlife supported:

California Pellitory

Parietaria hespera var. californica

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Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported:

Rillita Pellitory

Parietaria hespera var. hespera

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Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported:

Pennsylvania Pellitory

Parietaria pensylvanica

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Red, Brown

Wildlife supported:

Blue Palo Verde

Parkinsonia florida

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Plant type: Tree

Size: 26 ft tall , 20 ft wide

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Spring

Dormancy: Summer Semi-deciduous

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Very Low, Low

Summer irrigation

Max 1x / month once established

Soil drainage

Fast

Yellow Palo Verde

Parkinsonia microphylla

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Plant type: Tree

Size: 8 - 16 ft tall , 12 ft wide

Growth rate: Moderate, Slow

Flower Color: Cream, Yellow, Green

Flowering season: Spring

Dormancy: Summer Semi-deciduous

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low, Very Low

Summer irrigation

Max 1x / month once established

Soil drainage

Fast

San Bernardino Grass Of Parnassus

Parnassia cirrata

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

San Bernardino Grass-of-parnassus

Parnassia cirrata var. cirrata

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Cascade Grass-of-parnassus

Parnassia cirrata var. intermedia

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Fringed Grass

Parnassia fimbriata

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 16 in tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: White

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

California Grass Of Parnassus

Parnassia palustris

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 6 - 26 in tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: White

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Deep Shade

Small-flowered Grass-of-parnassus

Parnassia parviflora

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Ahart's Nailwort

Paronychia ahartii

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: White

Wildlife supported:

Knotgrass

Paspalum distichum

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 11 - 24 in tall

Form: Spreading

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: Green

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun

Oregon Boxwood

Paxistima myrsinites

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Red

Dormancy: Evergreen

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Brewer's Mitrewort

Pectiantia breweri

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 ft tall

Flower Color: Green

Wildlife supported:

Coastal Miterwort

Pectiantia ovalis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 16 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow, Green

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Deep Shade

Water

Moderate, High

Five Stamened Miterwort

Pectiantia pentandra

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 24 in tall

Flower Color: Green

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Deep Shade

Manybristle Chinchweed

Pectis papposa

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Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported:

Chinch-weed

Pectis papposa var. papposa

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Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported:

Mixed-nut Pectocarya

Pectocarya heterocarpa

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 0.8 - 10 in tall

Flower Color: White, Green

Wildlife supported:

Sagebrush Combseed

Pectocarya linearis

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Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported:

Narrow-toothed Pectocarya

Pectocarya linearis ssp. ferocula

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Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported:

Northern Pectocarya

Pectocarya penicillata

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 0.8 - 10 in tall

Flower Color: White, Green

Wildlife supported:

Baja Pectocarya

Pectocarya peninsularis

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 0.8 - 10 in tall

Flower Color: White, Green

Wildlife supported:

Wide-toothed Pectocarya

Pectocarya platycarpa

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 - 10 in tall

Flower Color: Green

Wildlife supported:

Arched-nut Pectocarya

Pectocarya recurvata

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 1 - 8 in tall

Flower Color: Green

Wildlife supported:

Round-nut Pectocarya

Pectocarya setosa

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 0.8 - 9 in tall

Flower Color: Green

Wildlife supported:

Little Elephant's Head

Pedicularis attollens

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Bracted Lousewort

Pedicularis bracteosa

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Yellowish Lousewort

Pedicularis bracteosa var. flavida

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Great Basin Lousewort

Pedicularis centranthera

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 in tall

Wildlife supported:

Curved-beak Lousewort

Pedicularis contorta

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Scalloped-leaved Lousewort

Pedicularis crenulata

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Warrior's Plume

Pedicularis densiflora

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Red, Pink

Flowering season: Spring, Winter

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water

Very Low, Low

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Dudley's Lousewort

Pedicularis dudleyi

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 12 in tall

Wildlife supported: