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A magnificent large bunchgrass — a towering fountain of fine foliage topped by airy golden plumes that catch autumn light.
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Spicy-scented golden spring flowers, edible berries that ripen black-red, and brilliant fall color — and it's hardy to -25°F, growing across the mountain West.
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A Sierra and Klamath high-country shrub that shrugs off hard mountain winters — among the most cold-tolerant manzanitas there is.
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The most garden-adaptable manzanita there is — glossy green leaves, mahogany bark, and a froth of pink-white winter flowers that hum with early bees.
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A fragrant high-country mint with lavender-purple pom-pom flowers that swarm with native bees and butterflies all summer.
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The rare fragrant penstemon — big balloon-like pale-pink flowers that actually smell sweet, on dramatic tall spikes.
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The hardiest of the showy agaves — tight artichoke rosettes of blue-gray leaves that take cold to ~-5°F, far colder than most.
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A true Transverse and Peninsular Range native that grows wild on rocky chaparral slopes from 3,900 to 7,900 ft — right in our high country.
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Exquisite blue-and-white spurred flowers that nod above ferny foliage — a true alpine native hardy to -35°F, perfect for a shaded mountain garden bed.
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A supremely tough, cold-hardy sumac (to -25°F) for mountain and high-desert gardens — fragrant lobed leaves with fiery red-orange fall color and tart red 'lemon
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A spectacular spring show — bare branches erupt in magenta-pink pea flowers before the heart-shaped leaves unfurl, followed by red seedpods and gold-red fall co

