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Plant Database

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Sawbeak Sedge
Carex stipata
Native
a rounded tuft of foothill sedge with thin leaves that are pretty straight.
Foothill Sedge
Carex tumulicola
Grass
Native
Yellow flower coming out of a cluster of spiky leaves
Woolly Distaff Thistle
Carthamus lanatus
Invasive
red paintbrush inflorescences rise above dusky rose sea blush
Giant Red Paintbrush
Castilleja miniata
Native
Buckbrush Ceanothus cuneatus stem with clusters of small white flowers and glossy oval leaves
Buckbrush
Ceanothus cuneatus
Native
A shrub that grows upright with most of the leaves coming out from the top part of the plant, lower half is a few straight stems, rather reddish. Clusters of small white flowers at branch tips
Redstem Ceanothus
Ceanothus sanguineus
Native
an attractive evergreen shrub; low growing with clusters of white flowers at tips.
Snowbrush
Ceanothus velutinus
Native
Pinkish flower subtended by bracts with long spines.
Purple Starthistle
Centaurea calcitrapa
Invasive
a mound of starburst leaves and purple tipped white flowers with long spines surrounded by dry, bare earth.
Iberian Starthistle
Centaurea iberica
Invasive
Meadow Knapweed Centaurea pratensis Purple flowers on long stems
Meadow Knapweed
Centaurea pratensis (aka Centaurea jacea x nigra, Centaurea debeauxii ssp. thuillieri)
Invasive
Two spiky flower heads, on spiky stems, with yellow flower
Yellow Starthistle
Centaurea solstitialis
Invasive
Slender stalks with flower buds opening up to whispy purple thin petalled flowers. Bracts have dark tips.
Spotted Knapweed
Centaurea stoebe
Invasive
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