Plant Signs

Cinquefoil False Sagebrush

Sphaeromeria potentilloides

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Alkali Tansy-sage

Sphaeromeria potentilloides var. nitrophila

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Cinquefoil Tansy

Sphaeromeria potentilloides var. potentilloides

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Prairie Wedge Grass

Sphenopholis obtusata

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 8 - 38 in tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Green, White

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Douglas's Spirea

Spiraea douglasii

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 5 - 7 ft tall , 3 - 4 ft wide

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Fast, Moderate

Flower Color: Purple, Pink

Flowering season: Summer

Dormancy: Evergreen, Winter Deciduous

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade, Full Sun

Water

Moderate

Summer irrigation

Keep moist

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Meadow Sweet

Spiraea splendens

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Pink, Purple, Yellow

Flowering season: Summer, Fall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Deep Shade

Water

Moderate

Soil drainage

Fast

Creamy Lady's Tresses

Spiranthes porrifolia

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Irish Lady's-tresses

Spiranthes romanzoffiana

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: White

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

Common Duckmeat

Spirodela polyrhiza

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Alkali Sacaton

Sporobolus airoides

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 3 - 4 ft tall , 2 ft wide

Form: Upright, Fountain

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Summer

Dormancy: Winter Deciduous

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Very Low, Low

Summer irrigation

Max 2x / month once established

Soil drainage

Medium

Spike Dropseed

Sporobolus contractus

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 3 - 7 ft tall

Flower Color: White

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Sand Dropseed

Sporobolus cryptandrus

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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, Partial Shade

Water

Low

Soil drainage

Fast

Mesa Dropseed

Sporobolus flexuosus

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 3 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

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

Big Sacaton

Sporobolus wrightii

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 6 - 16 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Very Low, Low

Ajuga Hedge Nettle

Stachys ajugoides

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 12 in tall

Flower Color: Pink

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

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:

Landscape information:

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:

California Hedgenettle

Stachys bullata

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 3 ft tall

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Lavender

Flowering season: Spring, Summer, Fall

Dormancy: Evergreen

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Water

Moderate, High

Summer irrigation

Max 1x / week once established

Soil drainage

Slow, Standing

Rocky Point Hedge Nettle

Stachys bullata 'Rocky Point'

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 3 ft tall , 3 - 6 ft wide

Form: spreading

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: Pink

Flowering season: Spring, Summer, Fall

Dormancy: Winter Deciduous

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Water

Moderate, High

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Coastal Hedgenettle

Stachys chamissonis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 3 - 8 ft tall

Flower Color: Pink

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Water

Moderate

Mexican Hedgenettle

Stachys mexicana

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 5 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Marsh Hedgenettle

Stachys palustris

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Purple, Red

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Prairie Woundwort

Stachys pilosa

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 3 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Short Spike Hedge Nettle

Stachys pycnantha

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Water

Low

Rough Hedgenettle

Stachys rigida

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Rough Hedgenettle

Stachys rigida var. quercetorum

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Form: Spreading

Growth rate: Fast, Moderate

Flower Color: Pink, White

Flowering season: Spring

Dormancy: Summer Deciduous

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Water

Low, Moderate, High

Rigid Hedge Nettle

Stachys rigida var. rigida

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Stebbins' Hedgenettle

Stachys stebbinsii

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 5 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Sonoma Hedgenettle

Stachys stricta

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 3 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Panamint Princesplume

Stanleya elata

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 5 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow, White

Wildlife supported:

Prince's Plume

Stanleya pinnata

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Plant type: Shrub,Perennial herb

Size: 5 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Spring, Summer, Fall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low

Desert Princesplume

Stanleya pinnata var. pinnata

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Plant type: Shrub,Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Green-flowered Prince's Plume

Stanleya viridiflora

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow, White

Wildlife supported:

Sierra Bladdernut

Staphylea bolanderi

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Plant type: Tree

Size: 20 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Santa Cruz Microseris

Stebbinsoseris decipiens

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Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported:

Grassland Silverpuffs

Stebbinsoseris heterocarpa

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Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported:

Boreal Starwort

Stellaria borealis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: White, Green

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

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: Green

Wildlife supported:

Beach Starwort

Stellaria littoralis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: White, Green

Wildlife supported:

Long-leaved Starwort

Stellaria longifolia

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Form: Mounding

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Green, White

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Longstalk Starwort

Stellaria longipes

Calscape.org

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

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Shining Chickweed

Stellaria nitens

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 10 in tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: White

Flowering season: Winter

Wildlife supported:

Umbellate Starwort

Stellaria umbellata

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: White, Green

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

Purple Stemodia

Stemodia durantifolia

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 19 in tall

Flower Color: Purple

Wildlife supported:

Western Featherbells

Stenanthium occidentale

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Stemless Mock Goldenweed

Stenotus acaulis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Woolly Mock Goldenweed

Stenotus lanuginosus

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: White, Green

Wildlife supported:

Woolly Stenotus

Stenotus lanuginosus var. lanuginosus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Chicory Leaved Stephanomeria

Stephanomeria cichoriacea

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 3 - 5 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

San Diego Wirelettuce

Stephanomeria diegensis

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb,Perennial herb

Size: 7 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Santa Barbara Wirelettuce

Stephanomeria elata

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 3 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Small Wirelettuce

Stephanomeria exigua

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported:

Whiteplume Wirelettuce

Stephanomeria exigua ssp. carotifera

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Whiteplume Wirelettuce

Stephanomeria exigua ssp. coronaria

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Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported:

Deane's Wirelettuce

Stephanomeria exigua ssp. deanei

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported: