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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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Cheerful flat-topped clusters of golden-yellow blooms sit above soft, ferny gray-green foliage from spring well into summer.
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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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Slender bright-green stems form dense, upright colonies in wet soil — perfect for pond margins, rain gardens, and the moist low spots most natives won't tolerat
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Stiff, architectural blue-green stems give this rush a clean, modern look in rain gardens and along water features.
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Flat, iris-like blades and warm reddish-bronze seed heads set this rush apart from the rounded kinds.
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A magnificent fountain of fine green foliage topped by tall, golden seed plumes that catch low autumn light.
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A fast, nitrogen-fixing pioneer that colonizes raw and burned ground, feeding native bees and serving as a key butterfly host plant.
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Aromatic silver-backed foliage releases a clean, sage-like scent when brushed.
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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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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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A blaze of tubular scarlet flowers exactly when the garden needs color most — late summer into fall — and hummingbirds defend it fiercely.

