California Melicgrass

Melica californica

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Plant type: Grass
Size: 1 - 4 ft tall , 1 ft wide
Form: Upright, Fountain
Growth rate: Fast, Moderate
Flower Color: Yellow, Green, Purple
Flowering season: Summer
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water
Water

Low, Very Low

Irrigation
Summer irrigation

Max 1x / week once established

Watering
Soil drainage

Medium

California Melicgrass

Melica californica var. californica

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Plant type: Grass
Flower Color: Brown
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Partial Shade

Water
Water

Low, Very Low

California Melicgrass

Melica californica var. nevadensis

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Plant type: Grass
Flower Color: Brown
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Water
Water

Low, Very Low

Heligrass

Melica frutescens

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Plant type: Grass
Size: 7 ft tall
Flower Color: Brown
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Little Melic

Melica fugax

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Plant type: Grass
Size: 2 ft tall
Flower Color: Brown
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Geyer's Oniongrass

Melica geyeri

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Plant type: Grass
Size: 7 ft tall
Flower Color: Green, Purple
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Harford's Melica

Melica harfordii

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Plant type: Grass
Size: 4 ft tall
Flower Color: Brown
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Small Flowered Melica

Melica imperfecta

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Plant type: Grass
Size: 3 - 4 ft tall , 1 ft wide
Form: Upright, Fountain
Growth rate: Moderate
Flower Color: Yellow, Brown
Flowering season: Spring, Winter
Dormancy: Summer Semi-deciduous, Evergreen
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water
Water

Moderate, Very Low

Irrigation
Summer irrigation

Max 1x / month once established

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast, Medium

Purple Oniongrass

Melica spectabilis

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Plant type: Grass
Size: 4 - 30 in tall
Form: Upright
Growth rate: Moderate
Flower Color: Purple, Green
Flowering season: Spring
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Rock Melic

Melica stricta

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Plant type: Grass
Size: 4 - 36 in tall
Flower Color: Green, Purple
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Alaska Onion Grass

Melica subulata

Calscape.org

Plant type: Grass
Size: 3 - 4 ft tall
Form: Upright
Growth rate: Moderate
Flower Color: Yellow
Flowering season: Spring
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Torrey's Melicgrass

Melica torreyana

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Plant type: Grass
Size: 1 - 3 ft tall , 1 ft wide
Form: Fountain
Flower Color: Cream, Green, Purple
Flowering season: Spring, Summer
Dormancy: Summer Semi-deciduous
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade, Deep Shade

Water
Water

Very Low

Irrigation
Summer irrigation

Max 2x / month once established

Watering
Soil drainage

Medium

Rough Menodora

Menodora scabra

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 1 ft tall
Form: Upright
Growth rate: Fast
Flower Color: Yellow
Flowering season: Summer
Wildlife supported:
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Desert Olive

Menodora scabra var. glabrescens

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

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Menodora scabra var. scabra

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Plant type: Shrub
Wildlife supported:

Spiny Menodora

Menodora spinescens

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 3 ft tall
Wildlife supported:

Menodora spinescens var. mohavensis

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Plant type: Shrub
Wildlife supported:

Menodora spinescens var. spinescens

Calscape.org

Plant type: Shrub
Wildlife supported:

Field Mint

Mentha arvensis

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 4 - 31 in tall
Form: Upright
Growth rate: Moderate
Flower Color: White, Pink, Purple
Flowering season: Spring
Wildlife supported:
Bats
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Water
Water

Low, Moderate

American Cornmint

Mentha canadensis

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 4 - 18 in tall
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Water
Water

Low, Moderate

Yellowcomet

Mentzelia affinis

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 2 in tall
Flower Color: Yellow, Orange
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly

Small Flowered Blazing Star

Mentzelia albicaulis

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 1 ft tall
Flower Color: Yellow
Flowering season: Spring, Summer
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast

United Blazingstar

Mentzelia congesta

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 1 ft tall
Flower Color: Yellow, White, Orange, Green
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly

Sierra Blazingstar

Mentzelia crocea

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb,Perennial herb
Size: 3 ft tall
Flower Color: Yellow, Orange
Wildlife supported:

Desert Blazingstar

Mentzelia desertorum

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Flower Color: Yellow
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Bushy Blazingstar

Mentzelia dispersa

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

Solitary Blazing Star

Mentzelia eremophila

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb,Perennial herb
Size: 1 ft tall
Flower Color: Yellow
Wildlife supported:

Blazing Star

Mentzelia gracilenta

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 2 ft tall
Flower Color: Yellow, Red
Wildlife supported:

Hairy Stickleaf

Mentzelia hirsutissima

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Flower Color: Cream, Yellow
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Sand Blazing Star

Mentzelia involucrata

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 3 - 14 in tall
Flower Color: Yellow, Cream, White
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly

Inyo Blazing Star

Mentzelia inyoensis

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Flower Color: Yellow
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Jones' Blazingstar

Mentzelia jonesii

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Flower Color: Yellow
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Blazing Star

Mentzelia laevicaulis var. laevicaulis

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 3 ft tall
Growth rate: Fast
Flower Color: Yellow
Flowering season: Summer, Fall
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Water
Water

Low

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast

Lindley's Blazing Star

Mentzelia lindleyi

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 1 - 2 ft tall , 1 ft wide
Growth rate: Fast
Flower Color: Yellow
Flowering season: Spring
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water
Water

Very Low

Irrigation
Summer irrigation

Max 2x / month once established

Watering
Soil drainage

Fast, Medium

Mentzelia longiloba var. longiloba

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Flower Color: Yellow
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly

San Luis Blazingstar

Mentzelia micrantha

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 4 - 31 in tall
Flower Color: Yellow
Flowering season: Spring
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water
Water

Low

Variegated Bract Blazingstar

Mentzelia montana

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 2 ft tall
Flower Color: Yellow, White, Green, Red
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Shining Blazingstar

Mentzelia nitens

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 1 ft tall
Flower Color: Yellow, Red
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly

Pacific Blazingstar

Mentzelia obscura

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Flower Color: Yellow
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Argus Blazingstar

Mentzelia oreophila

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 1 ft tall
Flower Color: Yellow
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

San Joaquin Blazingstar

Mentzelia pectinata

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 2 ft tall
Flower Color: Orange, Yellow, Red
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee

Polished Blazing Star

Mentzelia polita

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 12 in tall
Flower Color: Yellow, White
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Wing-seed Blazing Star

Mentzelia pterosperma

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Plant type: Annual herb
Flower Color: Yellow
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Darlington's Blazing Star

Mentzelia puberula

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb
Flower Color: Yellow
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Mentzelia ravenii

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb
Flower Color: Yellow
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Reflexed Blazingstar

Mentzelia reflexa

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 8 in tall
Flower Color: Yellow, White
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Torrey's Blazing Star

Mentzelia torreyi

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 4 - 6 in tall
Flower Color: Yellow
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly

Spiny-hair Blazing Star

Mentzelia tricuspis

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Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 11 in tall
Flower Color: Yellow, White, Cream
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Creamy Blazing Star

Mentzelia tridentata

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Flower Color: Yellow, White, Cream
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Veatch's Blazingstar

Mentzelia veatchiana

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb
Size: 2 ft tall
Flower Color: Yellow, Orange
Wildlife supported:
bumblebee
caterpillar
butterfly

Buckbean

Menyanthes trifoliata

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 10 - 14 in tall
Form: Upright
Growth rate: Moderate
Flower Color: White
Flowering season: Spring
Wildlife supported:
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Watering
Soil drainage

Standing

Mock Azalea

Menziesia ferruginea

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Plant type: Shrub
Size: 10 - 13 ft tall
Flower Color: Pink, Yellow, Orange, Green
Dormancy: Winter Deciduous
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Oregon Lungwort

Mertensia bella

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 8 - 19 in tall
Flower Color: Blue
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Tall Fringed Bluebells

Mertensia ciliata

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Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 2 - 3 ft tall
Form: Upright
Growth rate: Moderate
Flower Color: Blue
Flowering season: Spring
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Streamside Bluebell

Mertensia ciliata var. stomatechoides

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 1 - 5 ft tall
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly

Toiyabe Bluebells

Mertensia cusickii

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb
Size: 1 - 2 ft tall
Wildlife supported:
caterpillar
butterfly
Landscape information:
Sun
Sun

Full Sun

Long Flower Bluebells

Mertensia longiflora

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

Partial Shade

Sagebrush Bluebells

Mertensia oblongifolia

Calscape.org

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

Full Sun

Sagebrush Bluebells

Mertensia oblongifolia var. amoena

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

Full Sun

Sierra Bluebells

Mertensia oblongifolia var. nevadensis

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

Full Sun