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Plants are organized by flower color, then size (shortest to tallest). To find what you need for your garden site: search this list by flower color, size and planting type. Click on the common name for descriptions, pictures and more information about the plant.

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Common Name

Height

Plant Type

Months in Bloom

Features

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Verbena

Mostly up to four inches

Mostly mat-forming perennial

February-June

Butterfly nectar plant

English Daisy

Up to four inches

Perennial

Dudleya

Up to six inches

Perennial succulent

May-July

Cyclamen

Perennial growing from tuber

Primrose

Ranunculus

Twelve inches

Upright herbaceous perennial from tuber

Spring

Talinum

Twelve inch mat with taller flowering spikes

Succulent herbaceous perennial

Zinnia

Six to eighteen inches

Annual

Summer

Attracts butterflies

Blanket Flower

Two to four feet

Upright herbaceous perennial

June through frost

Coral Flower Alum Root

Up to two feet

April-August

Hummingbird favorite

Jupiter's Beard Red Valerian

Up to three feet

April-June

Hummingbird favorite Attracts butterflies Drought resistant

Checker Flower

Upright herbaceous annual

Descanso native Attracts butterflies

Photo not available

Stonecrop

Variable, depending on variety

Snapdragon

Eighteen inches

Attracts hummingbirds

Cosmos

Upright annual

Summer through fall

Reseeds freely

Scarlet bugler

Up to 3 feet

Descanso native Hummingbird favorite

Beard Tongue

Hummingbird favorite Attracts butterflies

Alstromeria

Spring through summer

Four O'Clock

Mounded herbaceous perennial

Midsummer through fall

Seeds and roots are poisonous if ingested Drought tolerant

California fuchsia

Herbaceous perennial

August-Frost

Drought resistant Descanso native Hummingbird favorite

Watsonia

Up to four feet

Upright perennial from bulb

Early summer

Oriental Poppy

Herbaceous perennial or annual

Gladiolus

Lily

Herbaceous perennial from bulb

July

Texas Red Yucca

Up to five feet

Hollyhock

Up to nine feet

Host plant for Painted Lady Butterfly

Sweet Pea

Climbs on fences, arbors

Annual climber