Plant Signs

Western Halfchaff Sedge

Lipocarpha occidentalis

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Broad-leaved Twayblade

Listera convallarioides

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: White

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Cardinal Flower

Lobelia cardinalis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 3 - 6 ft tall , 2 - 5 ft wide

Form: Upright, Spreading, Upright Columnar

Growth rate: Fast, Moderate

Flower Color: Red

Flowering season: Summer

Dormancy: Evergreen

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade, Full Sun

Water

Moderate, High

Summer irrigation

Keep moist

Soil drainage

Slow, Standing

Cardinal Flower

Lobelia cardinalis var. pseudosplendens

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 7 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Dunn's Lobelia

Lobelia dunnii

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Lavender

Flowering season: Summer, Fall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade, Deep Shade

Water

High

Soil drainage

Fast

Dunn's Lobelia

Lobelia dunnii var. serrata

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Lavender

Flowering season: Summer, Fall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade, Deep Shade

Water

High

Soil drainage

Fast

Caraway Leaved Lomatium

Lomatium caruifolium

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 6 - 18 in tall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Soil drainage

Slow

Alkali Desertparsley

Lomatium caruifolium var. caruifolium

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Soil drainage

Slow

Lomatium caruifolium var. denticulatum

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Lonicera cauriana

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Plant type: Shrub

Flower Color: Cream, Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Double Honeysuckle

Lonicera conjugialis

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 3 - 6 ft tall

Flower Color: Black, Purple

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Twinberry

Lonicera involucrata var. involucrata

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 10 ft tall

Flower Color: Red

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Water

Low, Moderate

Twinberry Honeysuckle

Lonicera involucrata var. ledebourii

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 10 ft tall

Flower Color: Red, Pink

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Water

Low, Moderate

Marsh Seedbox

Ludwigia palustris

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 20 in tall

Form: Spreading

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: Green

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Creeping Primrose-willow

Ludwigia repens

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 12 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Partridge Foot

Luetkea pectinata

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 0.4 - 6 in tall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Broadleaf Lupine

Lupinus latifolius

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 7 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: Blue, Purple

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade, Deep Shade

Water

Low

Soil drainage

Fast

Broadleaf Lupine

Lupinus latifolius var. dudleyi

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 8 ft tall

Flower Color: Blue, Lavender, Purple

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

Low

Broad Leaf Lupine

Lupinus latifolius var. latifolius

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 4 ft tall

Flower Color: Blue, Lavender, Purple

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water

Low

Broadleaf Lupine

Lupinus latifolius var. viridifolius

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 8 ft tall

Flower Color: Blue, Lavender, Purple

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

Low

Meadow Lupine

Lupinus polyphyllus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 60 in tall , 3 ft wide

Form: Upright

Flower Color: Blue, Lavender, Purple

Flowering season: Spring, Summer

Dormancy: Summer Deciduous

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

High, Moderate

Summer irrigation

Max 2x / month once established

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Burke's Lupine

Lupinus polyphyllus var. burkei

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 60 in tall

Flower Color: Blue, Lavender, Purple

Flowering season: Spring, Summer

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

High, Moderate

Meadow Lupine

Lupinus polyphyllus var. polyphyllus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 59 in tall

Flower Color: Blue, Lavender, Purple

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

High, Moderate

Riverbank Lupine

Lupinus rivularis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 5 ft tall

Flower Color: Blue, Lavender, Purple, Red

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Moderate

Soil drainage

Fast

Wood Rush

Luzula comosa

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 1 ft tall

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Water

Moderate, High

Common Woodrush

Luzula multiflora

Calscape.org

Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Sierra Woodrush

Luzula orestera

Calscape.org

Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Red, Brown

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Small Flowered Wood Rush

Luzula parviflora

Calscape.org

Plant type: Grass

Size: 2 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Green, Brown

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Spiked Woodrush

Luzula spicata

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 1 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Green, Brown

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Donner Woodrush

Luzula subcongesta

Calscape.org

Plant type: Grass

Flower Color: Brown

Wildlife supported:

Baja Desert Thorn

Lycium brevipes

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Plant type: Shrub

Size: 3 - 13 ft tall , 3 - 12 ft wide

Form: Mounding

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Lavender

Flowering season: Winter, Spring

Dormancy: Summer Semi-deciduous

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low, Very Low

Summer irrigation

Max 1x / month once established

Soil drainage

Fast

American Water Horehound

Lycopus americanus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 22 in tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: White

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Soil drainage

Standing

Rough Bugleweed

Lycopus asper

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: White

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

Arctic Starflower

Lysimachia europaea

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: White

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

High

Star Flower

Lysimachia latifolia

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Water

High

Sea Milkwort

Lysimachia maritima

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

High

Chaffweed

Lysimachia minima

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Water

High

Common Loosestrife

Lythrum californicum

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 24 in tall

Flower Color: Purple

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Soil drainage

Standing

False Lily Of The Vally

Maianthemum dilatatum

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 ft tall

Flower Color: White

Flowering season: Spring

Dormancy: Evergreen

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Water

High, Moderate

Summer irrigation

Max 1x / week once established

Soil drainage

Fast

Large False Solomon's Seal

Maianthemum racemosum

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Flower Color: White

Flowering season: Spring, Summer

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Water

Moderate

False Solomon Seal

Maianthemum stellatum

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall , 1 - 2 ft wide

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: White, Red

Flowering season: Spring

Dormancy: Summer Deciduous

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Deep Shade, Partial Shade

Water

Moderate

Summer irrigation

Max 1x / week once established

Soil drainage

Fast

Oregon Crab Apple

Malus fusca

Calscape.org

Plant type: Tree

Size: 15 - 40 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Slow

Flower Color: White

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water

Moderate

Alkali Mallow

Malvella leprosa

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 16 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow, White

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low

Pacific Waterclover

Marsilea oligospora

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Plant type: Fern

Wildlife supported:

Western Pineappleweed

Matricaria occidentalis

Calscape.org

Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Soil drainage

Standing

Field Mint

Mentha arvensis

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 31 in tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: White, Pink, Purple

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low, Moderate

American Cornmint

Mentha canadensis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 18 in tall

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low, Moderate

Buckbean

Menyanthes trifoliata

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 10 - 14 in tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: White

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Soil drainage

Standing

Tall Fringed Bluebells

Mertensia ciliata

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Blue

Flowering season: Spring

Wildlife supported:

Streamside Bluebell

Mertensia ciliata var. stomatechoides

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 5 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

Sierra Saxifrage

Micranthes aprica

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 5 in tall

Flower Color: White, Brown

Wildlife supported:

Russethair Saxifrage

Micranthes ferruginea

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 16 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow, White

Wildlife supported:

Micranthes marshallii

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 16 in tall

Wildlife supported:

Peak Saxifrage

Micranthes nidifica

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 19 in tall

Flower Color: White

Wildlife supported:

Streambank Saxifrage

Micranthes odontoloma

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 19 in tall

Flower Color: White

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Bog Saxifrage

Micranthes oregana

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 40 in tall

Flower Color: White

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Deep Shade

Soil drainage

Standing

Lewis' Monkeyflower

Mimulus lewisii

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 10 - 31 in tall

Flower Color: Pink, Purple, Red

Flowering season: Summer

Dormancy: Winter Deciduous

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

High

Summer irrigation

Max 1x / week once established

Soil drainage

Medium

Muskflower

Mimulus moschatus var. longiflorus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Partial Shade

Water

High

Primrose Monkeyflower

Mimulus primuloides

Calscape.org

Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 5 - 18 in tall

Form: Mounding

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Red, Yellow

Flowering season: Spring, Winter

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

High

Primrose Monkeyflower

Mimulus primuloides var. linearifolius

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 5 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Winter, Spring

Wildlife supported:

Landscape information:

Sun

Full Sun

Water

High