Plant Signs

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:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water

Low, Very Low

Summer irrigation

Max 1x / week once established

Soil drainage

Medium

California Melicgrass

Melica californica var. californica

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Water

Low, Very Low

California Melicgrass

Melica californica var. nevadensis

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Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

Low, Very Low

Heligrass

Melica frutescens

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 7 ft tall

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

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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:

Geyer's Oniongrass

Melica geyeri

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 7 ft tall

Flower Color: Green, Purple

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

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:

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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:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water

Moderate, Very Low

Summer irrigation

Max 1x / month once established

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:

Rock Melic

Melica stricta

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 4 - 36 in tall

Flower Color: Green, Purple

Wildlife supported:

Alaska Onion Grass

Melica subulata

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 3 - 4 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

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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:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade, Deep Shade

Water

Very Low

Summer irrigation

Max 2x / month once established

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

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Desert Olive

Menodora scabra var. glabrescens

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

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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

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2015 Steve Matson

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:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low, Moderate

American Cornmint

Mentha canadensis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 18 in tall

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low, Moderate

Yellowcomet

Mentzelia affinis

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow, Orange

Wildlife supported:

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:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

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:

Sierra Blazingstar

Mentzelia crocea

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Plant type: Annual herb,Perennial herb

Size: 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow, Orange

Wildlife supported:

Desert Blazingstar

Mentzelia desertorum

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Bushy Blazingstar

Mentzelia dispersa

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Solitary Blazing Star

Mentzelia eremophila

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Plant type: Annual herb,Perennial herb

Size: 1 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Blazing Star

Mentzelia gracilenta

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow, Red

Wildlife supported:

Hairy Stickleaf

Mentzelia hirsutissima

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Cream, Yellow

Wildlife supported:

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:

Inyo Blazing Star

Mentzelia inyoensis

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Jones' Blazingstar

Mentzelia jonesii

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

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:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low

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:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water

Very Low

Summer irrigation

Max 2x / month once established

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium

Mentzelia longiloba var. longiloba

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

San Luis Blazingstar

Mentzelia micrantha

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 4 - 31 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

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:

Shining Blazingstar

Mentzelia nitens

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 1 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow, Red

Wildlife supported:

Pacific Blazingstar

Mentzelia obscura

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Argus Blazingstar

Mentzelia oreophila

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

San Joaquin Blazingstar

Mentzelia pectinata

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Orange, Yellow, Red

Wildlife supported:

Polished Blazing Star

Mentzelia polita

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 12 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow, White

Wildlife supported:

Wing-seed Blazing Star

Mentzelia pterosperma

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Darlington's Blazing Star

Mentzelia puberula

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Mentzelia ravenii

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Reflexed Blazingstar

Mentzelia reflexa

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 8 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow, White

Wildlife supported:

Torrey's Blazing Star

Mentzelia torreyi

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 6 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

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:

Creamy Blazing Star

Mentzelia tridentata

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Yellow, White, Cream

Wildlife supported:

Veatch's Blazingstar

Mentzelia veatchiana

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow, Orange

Wildlife supported:

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

Full Sun

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:

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Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Oregon Lungwort

Mertensia bella

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 19 in tall

Flower Color: Blue

Wildlife supported:

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:

Streamside Bluebell

Mertensia ciliata var. stomatechoides

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 5 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Toiyabe Bluebells

Mertensia cusickii

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 2 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Long Flower Bluebells

Mertensia longiflora

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Sagebrush Bluebells

Mertensia oblongifolia

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 ft tall

Flower Color: Blue

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Sagebrush Bluebells

Mertensia oblongifolia var. amoena

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Mertensia oblongifolia var. amoena

Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun

Sierra Bluebells

Mertensia oblongifolia var. nevadensis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun