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Glowing apricot-orange cups bloom much of the year on silvery desert foliage — a low-desert and high-desert native that thrives on heat, lean soil, and almost n
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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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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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California's state flower, and there's no easier way to bring spring to a dry slope.
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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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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.

