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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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A fast, dense gray-green shrub that makes a superb desert screen or windbreak and may attract more birds than anything else you plant.
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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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A charming, ultra-hardy native bunchgrass (good to -30°F) with whimsical horizontal 'eyebrow' seed heads in summer.
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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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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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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.

