Plant Signs

Sandysoil Suncup

Camissonia strigulosa

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow, Red

Wildlife supported:

California Sun Cup

Camissoniopsis bistorta

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow, Red

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Beach Primrose

Camissoniopsis cheiranthifolia

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 4 in tall , 6 - 36 in wide

Form: Mounding, Spreading

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: Red, Yellow

Flowering season: Summer, Spring, Winter

Dormancy: Evergreen

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Very Low, Low

Summer irrigation

Max 1x / month once established

Soil drainage

Fast

Beach Evening Primrose

Camissoniopsis cheiranthifolia ssp. cheiranthifolia

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Plant type: Annual herb,Perennial herb

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low, Very Low

Soil drainage

Fast

Beach Suncup

Camissoniopsis cheiranthifolia ssp. suffruticosa

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

Low, Very Low

Camissoniopsis confusa

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Hardham's Evening-primrose

Camissoniopsis hardhamiae

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Santa Cruz Island Suncup

Camissoniopsis hirtella

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Jurupa Hills Sun Cups

Camissoniopsis ignota

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Intermediate Suncup

Camissoniopsis intermedia

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Lewis' Evening-primrose

Camissoniopsis lewisii

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Small Flowered Evening Primrose

Camissoniopsis micrantha

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 1 - 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low

Soil drainage

Fast

Paleyellow Suncup

Camissoniopsis pallida

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Hall's Suncup

Camissoniopsis pallida ssp. hallii

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Pale Sun-cup

Camissoniopsis pallida ssp. pallida

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Camissoniopsis robusta

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Alpine Bittercress

Cardamine bellidifolia

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Brewer's Bittercress

Cardamine breweri

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: White

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Milk Maids

Cardamine californica

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 ft tall

Flower Color: White

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Heartleaf Bittercress

Cardamine cordifolia

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: White

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Nuttall's Toothwort

Cardamine nuttallii

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 in tall

Flower Color: Pink, White, Purple

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Little Western Bittercress

Cardamine oligosperma

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Plant type: Annual herb,Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: White

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Rock Toothwort

Cardamine pachystigma

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 12 in tall

Flower Color: Pink, Purple

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Pennsylvania Bittercress

Cardamine pensylvanica

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 28 in tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: White

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Abrupt-beaked Sedge

Carex abrupta

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 8 in tall

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Sturdy Sedge

Carex alma

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Red

Wildlife supported:

Big Leaf Sedge

Carex amplifolia

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Red

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Deep Shade

Wide Fruit Sedge

Carex angustata

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Water Sedge

Carex aquatilis

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 8 - 59 in tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Green

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Water

Moderate, High

Water Sedge

Carex aquatilis var. aquatilis

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Sitka Sedge

Carex aquatilis var. dives

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Bear Sedge

Carex arcta

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Purple, Red

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Soil drainage

Standing

Wheat Sedge

Carex atherodes

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 1 - 5 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Green, Purple, Red

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Slender Beak Sedge

Carex athrostachya

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Slow

Flower Color: Green, Brown

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Soil drainage

Standing

Golden Sedge

Carex aurea

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 8 - 16 in tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Slow

Flower Color: Green

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Valley Sedge

Carex barbarae

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall , 3 ft wide

Form: Fountain

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: Cream, Purple, Red

Flowering season: Summer

Dormancy: Evergreen

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Water

Low, Moderate, High

Summer irrigation

Max 1x / week once established

Soil drainage

Slow

Bolander's Sedge

Carex bolanderi

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Brainerd's Sedge

Carex brainerdii

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Short Stem Sedge

Carex brevicaulis

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 6 in tall

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Deep Shade

Soil drainage

Fast

Brewer's Sedge

Carex breweri

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Buxbaum's Sedge

Carex buxbaumii

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

California Sedge

Carex californica

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Silvery Sedge

Carex canescens

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 2 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Slow

Flower Color: Green

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Silvery Sedge

Carex canescens ssp. canescens

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Capitate Sedge

Carex capitata

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Bristly Sedge

Carex comosa

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 3 - 5 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Slow

Flower Color: Green

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Northwestern Sedge

Carex concinnoides

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 1 ft tall

Flower Color: Green

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Congdon's Sedge

Carex congdonii

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Cusick's Sedge

Carex cusickii

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 4 ft tall

Flower Color: Red

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Arching Sedge

Carex cyrtostachya

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Davy's Sedge

Carex davyi

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Carex deflexa

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Mountain Mat Sedge

Carex deflexa var. boottii

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Dudley's Sedge

Carex densa

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Moderate, High

Dewey Sedge

Carex deweyana

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2006 Keir Morse

Plant type: Grass

Size: 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Lesser Panicled Sedge

Carex diandra

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 3 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Slow

Flower Color: Green, White, Red, Brown

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Two-seeded Sedge

Carex disperma

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 2 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Green

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Douglas' Sedge

Carex douglasii

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 10 - 18 in tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Slow

Flower Color: Green

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Soil drainage

Fast

Spikeletrush Sedge

Carex duriuscula

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Bristle Fruit Sedge

Carex echinata

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Slow

Flower Color: Green

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Soil drainage

Standing