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Wands of warm golden flowers light up the late-season garden and feed pollinators stocking up for winter.
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Plumes of warm golden-yellow flowers light up the fall garden and feed bees and butterflies stocking up for winter.
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The essential host plant for monarch caterpillars and a true dryland milkweed — woolly silver leaves and nodding clusters of dusty-rose blooms.
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California's state flower, and there's no easier way to bring spring to a dry slope.
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Simple, fragrant pink blooms followed by scarlet hips that feed birds through winter — and that classic wild-rose perfume.
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A jewel-like native succulent forming chalky rosettes that send up fiery orange-red flower stalks loved by hummingbirds.
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The defining shrub of California's chaparral — fine needle-like foliage and frothy cream flower clusters in early summer.
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Blooms when almost nothing else does — pendant rose-pink flower clusters from late fall through winter, feeding hummingbirds in the lean season.
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Soft pink hollyhock-like flowers line tall wands above velvety gray-green leaves — a graceful, fast-growing pioneer for slopes and recovering ground.
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A dramatic silver-spined rosette that, after years of patience, throws a towering stalk of creamy bells — then sets seed and passes the torch to its pups.
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A versatile, fine-textured sedge that makes a wonderful low-water lawn alternative — mow it or let it flow.
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Spiny, glossy evergreen foliage and brilliant golden flower clusters in spring give way to tart blue berries for the birds.

