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R. californica's open flowers and nectar attract insects and pollinators. Its lengthened spring to fall blooming period [4] offers food for local bees. R. californica's fruits also persist on thickets through the forage-scarce winter, [5] serving as food for bugs, birds, and hoofed mammals like deer and elk. [6] [7]
Scrophularia californica is a flowering plant in the figwort family which is known by the common names California figwort and California bee plant. It is native to the western United States , including many habitats in California , and in British Columbia .
California also has 1,023 species of non-native plants, some now problematic invasive species, such as yellow star-thistle, that were introduced during the Spanish colonization, the California Gold Rush, and subsequent immigrations and import trading of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
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Two insects induce galls on California coffeeberry: a moth, Sorhagenia nimbosa, induces swelling along the leaf midrib, and a midge of the genus Asphondylia induces flower-bud galls. [23] The flower is an attactor for native bees and supports pollenation in areas with a high quantity of coffeeberry.
Well, yes, and I don't just mean the native ceanothus shrubs, a.k.a. California lilacs, that start coloring (and perfuming) our wild hills and many native habitat gardens as early as March.
Chorizanthe howellii, a flowering plant in the buckwheat family found only near Fort Bragg; Cuscuta pacifica var. papillata, a parasitic plant found only in the salt marshes of Mendocino county
“This is really the peak season for observing hummingbirds,” one expert said.