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One of the very best wildlife plants in California — host to over 200 butterfly and moth species and a lifeline for early bees.
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Sculptural mahogany-red bark and smoky blue-gray leaves make this one of our most striking large manzanitas.
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Not a grass at all but a petite iris, scattering star-shaped blue-violet flowers with sunny yellow centers across grassy tufts each spring.
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Clusters of starry blue-lavender flowers with golden centers bloom much of the year, buzz-pollinated by native bees.
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A rugged, cold-hardy wild lilac (to -10°F) that smothers itself in fragrant white spring blooms abuzz with native bees.
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Glowing orange-apricot trumpets cover this cheerful subshrub spring through summer, irresistible to hummingbirds and a key butterfly host.
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Soft silvery foliage erupts in a haze of lavender daisies just as summer fades — late-season nectar when pollinators need it most.
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Perhaps the single most important pollinator plant in our chaparral — flat-topped cream flowers age to a rich rust and feed countless native bees and butterflie
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A blaze of tubular scarlet flowers exactly when the garden needs color most — late summer into fall — and hummingbirds defend it fiercely.
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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.

