Plant Signs

Narrowleaf Oxytheca

Oxytheca dendroidea

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Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported:

Tree-like Puncturebract

Oxytheca dendroidea ssp. dendroidea

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Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported:

Roundleaf Puncturebract

Oxytheca perfoliata

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 - 8 in tall

Flower Color: White, Yellow, Green

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Soil drainage

Fast

Watson's Oxytheca

Oxytheca watsonii

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 - 10 in tall

Wildlife supported:

Boreal Locoweed

Oxytropis borealis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun

Boreal Locoweed

Oxytropis borealis var. australis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Viscid Locoweed

Oxytropis borealis var. viscida

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun

Blue Nodding Locoweed

Oxytropis deflexa

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Plant type: Perennial herb

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Blue Pendent-pod Oxytrope

Oxytropis deflexa var. sericea

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Plant type: Perennial herb

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Mountain Oxytrope

Oxytropis oreophila

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Rock-loving Oxytrope

Oxytropis oreophila var. oreophila

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Parry's Oxytrope

Oxytropis parryi

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Partial Shade

Groundsel

Packera breweri

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 4 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow

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Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

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:

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Water

Low

Witch Grass

Panicum capillare

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

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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:

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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:

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Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low, Very Low

Summer irrigation

Max 1x / month once established

Soil drainage

Fast

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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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

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:

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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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

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Elephant Heads

Pedicularis groenlandica

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 3 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Purple, Pink, White

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun

Soil drainage

Standing

Howell's Lousewort

Pedicularis howellii

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: White, Purple

Wildlife supported:

Leafy Lousewort

Pedicularis racemosa

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 3 ft tall

Flower Color: White, Purple, Red

Wildlife supported:

Bearded Lousewort

Pedicularis semibarbata

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 in tall

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Coffee Fern

Pellaea andromedifolia

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Plant type: Fern

Size: 10 in tall

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Water

Low, Very Low

Soil drainage

Fast

Coffee Fern

Pellaea andromedifolia var. pubescens

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Plant type: Fern

Wildlife supported:

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Water

Low, Very Low

Birdfoot Cliffbrake

Pellaea mucronata

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Plant type: Fern

Size: 4 in tall , 1 ft wide

Form: Fountain

Dormancy: Summer Deciduous

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Partial Shade

Water

Low, Very Low

Summer irrigation

Max 2x / month once established

Soil drainage

Fast

California Cliffbrake

Pellaea mucronata var. californica

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Plant type: Fern

Wildlife supported:

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Water

Low, Very Low

Bird's-foot Fern

Pellaea mucronata var. mucronata

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Plant type: Fern

Wildlife supported:

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Water

Low, Very Low

White-margined Beardtongue

Penstemon albomarginatus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 6 - 14 in tall

Flower Color: Pink, White, Purple

Wildlife supported:

Siskiyou Beardtongue

Penstemon anguineus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 36 in tall

Flower Color: Purple, Blue

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Partial Shade

Azure Penstemon

Penstemon azureus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 28 in tall

Flower Color: Green, Purple, Lavender, Blue

Flowering season: Spring, Summer

Wildlife supported:

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Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water

Low, Moderate, High

Soil drainage

Fast

Azure Penstemon

Penstemon azureus var. angustissimus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 28 in tall

Flower Color: Blue

Flowering season: Spring, Summer

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water

Moderate, High

Azure Penstemon

Penstemon azureus var. azureus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 28 in tall

Flower Color: Blue, Purple

Flowering season: Spring, Summer

Wildlife supported:

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Full Sun

Barneby's Beardtongue

Penstemon barnebyi

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 12 in tall

Flower Color: Cream, Yellow, Purple

Wildlife supported:

Pinto Beardtongue

Penstemon bicolor

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Cream, Yellow

Wildlife supported:

San Bernardino Beardtongue

Penstemon caesius

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 31 in tall

Flower Color: Purple

Wildlife supported:

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Full Sun, Partial Shade

Limestone Beardtongue

Penstemon calcareus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 3 - 10 in tall

Flower Color: Red, Pink, Purple

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

California Beardtongue

Penstemon californicus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 12 in tall

Flower Color: Purple, Blue

Wildlife supported:

Scarlet Bugler

Penstemon centranthifolius

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 4 ft tall , 1 ft wide

Flower Color: Red

Flowering season: Summer, Spring

Dormancy: Summer Deciduous

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water

Low

Summer irrigation

Max 2x / month once established

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow