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10 Plants for California Indigenous Bees

Daisy-like flowers with fiery red centers surrounded by bright yellow-tipped petals.
Blanket flower, Gaillardia × grandiflora
Evergreen shrub with glossy green leaves and clusters of fragrant, vivid blue flowers.
Ray Hartman’s California lilac, Ceanothus ‘Ray Hartman’
Gray-green foliage topped with spikes of small, lavender-blue flowers.
Catmint, Nepeta × fassenii
Tall, arching stems adorned with feathery clusters of bright yellow flowers.
Cascade Creek goldenrod, Solidago californica ‘Cascade Creek’
Compact shrub with silvery leaves and small, vivid blue flowers.
Germander sage, Salvia chamaedryoides
Bushy plant with silver-gray foliage and slender spikes of fragrant purple flowers.
Goodwin Creek lavender, Lavandula × ginginsii ‘Goodwin Creek Grey’
Delicate, fern-like foliage with silky, cup-shaped orange flowers.
California poppy, Eschscholzia californica
Deciduous shrub with heart-shaped leaves and clusters of bright pink-magenta flowers in spring.
Western redbud, Cercis occidentalis
Daisy-like lavender-blue flowers with yellow centers.
Frikart’s aster, Aster × frikartii ‘Mönch’
Woody stems with silver-gray foliage and spires of small, lavender-blue flowers.
Russian sage, Perovskia atriplicifolia ‘Little Spire’