Plant Signs

Common Silverweed

Potentilla anserina ssp. anserina

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Wildlife supported:

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Water

High

Pacific Potentilla

Potentilla anserina ssp. pacifica

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Spring

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Full Sun

Water

High

Biennial Cinquefoil

Potentilla biennis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 28 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

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Sun

Partial Shade

Brewer's Cinquefoil

Potentilla breweri

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 16 in tall

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Bruce's Cinquefoil

Potentilla bruceae

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 6 - 19 in tall

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Drummond's Cinquefoil

Potentilla drummondii

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 6 - 24 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

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Fan-foil

Potentilla flabellifolia

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 12 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

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Varileaf Cinquefoil

Potentilla glaucophylla

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Dormancy: Winter Deciduous

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Full Sun

Blueleaf Cinquefoil

Potentilla glaucophylla var. glaucophylla

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 16 in tall

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Slender Cinquefoil

Potentilla gracilis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

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Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water

Moderate

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Potentilla gracilis var. elmeri

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 19 in tall

Wildlife supported:

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Moderate

Slender Cinquefoil

Potentilla gracilis var. fastigiata

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 19 in tall

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Moderate

Slender Cinquefoil

Potentilla gracilis var. flabelliformis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 3 ft tall

Wildlife supported:

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Moderate

Graceful Cinquefoil

Potentilla gracilis var. gracilis

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 3 ft tall

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Moderate

Feather Cinquefoil

Potentilla millefolia

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 8 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

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Brook

Potentilla rivalis

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Plant type: Annual herb,Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 19 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

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Bonneville Shooting Star

Primula conjugens

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Plant type: Perennial herb

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Partial Shade

Scented Shootingstar

Primula fragrans

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Plant type: Perennial herb

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Sun

Partial Shade

Sierra Shooting Star

Primula jeffreyi

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 ft tall

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Full Sun, Partial Shade

Dark Throated Shooting Star

Primula pauciflora

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 16 in tall

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Full Sun

Sierra Primrose

Primula suffrutescens

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 8 in tall

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Alpine Shootingstar

Primula tetrandra

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Plant type: Perennial herb

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Full Sun

Mesquite

Prosopis glandulosa var. torreyana

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2010 Steve Matson

Plant type: Tree

Size: 20 - 30 ft tall , 20 ft wide

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Spring, Summer

Dormancy: Winter Deciduous

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Full Sun

Water

Low

Summer irrigation

Max 1x / month once established

Soil drainage

Fast

Screwbean Mesquite

Prosopis pubescens

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Plant type: Tree

Size: 10 - 33 ft tall , 20 ft wide

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Spring, Winter

Dormancy: Winter Deciduous

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Full Sun

Water

Low

Summer irrigation

Max 1x / month once established

Soil drainage

Fast

Common Selfheal

Prunella vulgaris

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Prunella blooming in a nursery

Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 2 ft tall , 6 - 9 in wide

Form: Mounding, Spreading, Upright

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: Purple, Pink

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

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Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water

Moderate

Summer irrigation

Keep moist

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium

Lance Leaf Self Heal

Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 19 in tall

Flower Color: Purple

Flowering season: Summer

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Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water

Moderate

Chokecherry

Prunus virginiana

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Plant type: Tree,Shrub

Size: 15 - 25 ft tall , 10 - 20 ft wide

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: White

Flowering season: Spring

Dormancy: Winter Deciduous

Wildlife supported:

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Full Sun, Partial Shade, Deep Shade

Water

Moderate

Summer irrigation

Max 2x / month once established

Soil drainage

Medium

Western Chokecherry

Prunus virginiana var. demissa

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Plant type: Tree,Shrub

Size: 20 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Fast

Flower Color: White

Flowering season: Spring

Dormancy: Winter Deciduous

Wildlife supported:

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Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade, Deep Shade

Water

Moderate

Soil drainage

Fast, Medium

Annual Psathyrotes

Psathyrotes annua

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Plant type: Annual herb

Flower Color: Yellow

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Chilean Cudweed

Pseudognaphalium stramineum

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Cream, White

Flowering season: Spring, Summer, Fall

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Partial Shade

Short Woollyheads

Psilocarphus brevissimus

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 1 in tall

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Dwarf Woollyheads

Psilocarphus brevissimus var. brevissimus

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Plant type: Annual herb

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Oregon Woollyheads

Psilocarphus oregonus

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Plant type: Annual herb

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Slender Woolly-marbles

Psilocarphus tenellus

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Plant type: Annual herb

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Lemmon's Alkali Grass

Puccinellia lemmonii

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 1 ft tall

Flower Color: Brown

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Alaska Alkali Grass

Puccinellia nutkaensis

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 3 ft tall

Flower Color: Brown

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Nuttall's Alkali Grass

Puccinellia nuttalliana

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Plant type: Grass

Size: 10 in tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Slow

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Spring

Dormancy: Winter Deciduous

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Partial Shade

Lanceleaf Goldenweed

Pyrrocoma lanceolata

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Flower Color: Green, Red

Wildlife supported:

Pyrrocoma lanceolata var. lanceolata

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Plant type: Perennial herb

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Pyrrocoma lanceolata var. subviscosa

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Plant type: Perennial herb

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Clustered Goldenweed

Pyrrocoma racemosa

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 6 - 36 in tall

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Pyrrocoma racemosa var. paniculata

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Plant type: Perennial herb

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Pyrrocoma racemosa var. racemosa

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Plant type: Perennial herb

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Pyrrocoma racemosa var. sessiliflora

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Plant type: Perennial herb

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Plantain Goldenweed

Pyrrocoma uniflora

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 ft tall

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Single-headed Pyrrocoma

Pyrrocoma uniflora var. uniflora

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Plant type: Perennial herb

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Alisma Leaved Buttercup

Ranunculus alismifolius

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Spring

Dormancy: Winter Deciduous

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Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water

Moderate

Plantainleaf Buttercup

Ranunculus alismifolius var. alismellus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 8 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

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Moderate

Plantainleaf Buttercup

Ranunculus alismifolius var. alismifolius

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 28 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

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Moderate

Carter's Buttercup

Ranunculus bonariensis var. trisepalus

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Plant type: Annual herb

Size: 2 - 12 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

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Moderate

Sacramento Valley Buttercup

Ranunculus canus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 4 - 25 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

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Moderate

Desert Buttercup

Ranunculus cymbalaria

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 12 in tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Spring

Dormancy: Winter Deciduous

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Full Sun

Water

Moderate

Soil drainage

Standing

Eschscholtz's Buttercup

Ranunculus eschscholtzii

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 8 - 12 in tall

Form: Upright

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

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Moderate

Eschscholtz's Buttercup

Ranunculus eschscholtzii var. oxynotus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 10 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

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Moderate

Ranunculus eschscholtzii var. suksdorfii

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 10 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

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Moderate

Yellow Water Buttercup

Ranunculus flabellaris

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 ft tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

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Moderate

Buttercup

Ranunculus flammula

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 1 - 18 in tall

Form: Mounding

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Summer

Wildlife supported:

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Moderate

Smooth Buttercup

Ranunculus glaberrimus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 11 in tall

Form: Mounding

Growth rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Yellow

Flowering season: Spring

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Full Sun, Partial Shade

Water

Moderate

Elliptical Buttercup

Ranunculus glaberrimus var. ellipticus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 10 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

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Moderate

Sagebrush Buttercup

Ranunculus glaberrimus var. glaberrimus

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Plant type: Perennial herb

Size: 2 - 10 in tall

Flower Color: Yellow

Wildlife supported:

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Water

Moderate