Phacelia imbricata
Pine bee flower / Imbricate Phacelia

Annual herb whose leaves are coated with stiff, tiny hairs produces coiled flower buds resembling small caterpillars which blossom into many tiny, pale purple flowers in early spring. Bloom is prolific.

Advantages: Excellent pollinator plant in early spring and makes a good cover crop; deer resistant. Can be easily grown from seeds. Easy-to-grow from seed in late winter to attract pollinators in early spring. Bees love its pale purple flowers.
Bloom Period: Late winter to early spring / Spring
Height: 2’
Width: 3’
Light Requirements: Full sun
Water Requirements: Avg/low water; Drought tolerant
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Salidago velutina
California Goldenrod

Native perennial herb that grows in northern, southern and central California. It tends to grow in open grassy places, at elevations from 0-7500 feet. It produces masses of yellow flowers when many other plants are dormant. Birds and pollinating insects love this plant.

Advantages: perennial, evergreen, fast grower, pollinator friendly groundcover
Bloom Period: Summer/ Fall
Height: 1.5-5'
Width: 
Light Requirements: Full Sun, Part Shade, Full Shade
Water Requirements: Low, Max 3 x per month during the summer, once established
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Salvia ‘Bee’s Bliss’
Bee’s Bliss creeping sage / Bee’s Bliss sage

Salvia Bee's Bliss is an excellent ground cover and habitat plant with beautiful lavender flowers This is a dense low-growing sage with gray-green leaves and multiple, lavender flowers on long stems.

Advantages: Excellent ground cover or habitat plant. Drought tolerant, fast growing, evergreen and fragrant. Easy-to-gro Hummingbirds and bees are attracted to its flowers.
Bloom Period: Spring to summer
Height: 2’
Width: 6-8’
Light Requirements: Full Sun / Part Shade
Water Requirements: Drought Tolerant
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Salvia clevelandii 'Winnifred Gilman'
Winnifred Gilman Cleveland Sage

Small, hairy, grey-greenshrub. Has wrinkly leather-textured leaves with tiny ridged teeth along the edges and bears rouned flower clusters of tubular lavender to dark purple floweres with long stamens.

Advantages: Moderate to fast growing, pleasant fragrance, and attracts hummingbirds, insects and bees.
Bloom Period: Spring summer
Height: 3 to 4.5'
Width: 8'
Light Requirements: Full sun to part shade
Water Requirements: Very low
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Salvia leucophyllia x clevelandii ‘Pozo Blue’
Grey Musk Sage / ‘Pozo Blue’ Sage

Fragrant evergreen shrub; California Native

Advantages: Tolerates wide variety of soils, including heavy clay; Attracts pollinators; Deer resistant
Bloom Period: Early Summer / Fall
Height: 4’
Width: 4’
Light Requirements: Full Sun
Water Requirements: Low
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Sambucus mexicana
Blue Elderberry / Mexican Elderberry

Large, multi—branched, deciduous shrub / tree with large white flowers which mature to blue, edible berries in the fall.

Advantages: Tough, fast-growing, large shrub whose berries are one of the most important sources of food for birds in California.
Bloom Period: Spring
Height: 15’
Width: 30’
Light Requirements: Part shade to sun
Water Requirements: Drought tolerant
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Scrophularia californica
Bee Plant

Advantages: Excellent pollinator plant and host plant to the Common Buckeye butterfly.
Bloom Period: Summer
Height: 1’
Width: 2-4’
Light Requirements: Full sun
Water Requirements: Drought tolerant
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Stipa pulchra
Purple Neeedlegrass

Advantages: Evergreen, helps suppress invasive species, support native oaks, pollinator friendly
Bloom Period: Spring
Height: 3.3'
Width: 1.5'
Light Requirements: Sun/ Part Sun
Water Requirements: Low/Avg Water
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