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Plants & Weeds
Local plants, weeds, adaptations, and the practical ecology of what grows underfoot.
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- California YarrowCalifornia/common yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is a spreading perennial with fernlike aromatic leaves and flat clusters of tiny flowers. It occurs naturally across California and is useful as a lowwater meadow or groundcover plant; its flowers attract bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects.
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- Festival™ Raspberry CordylineFestival™ Raspberry Cordyline is a compact, basalbranching cordyline grown mainly for its arching burgundy leaves edged in bright raspberry pink.
- Puncturevine / Goathead BurrsPuncturevine (Tribulus terrestris) is a lowgrowing annual weed whose fruit breaks into hard, viciously spined burrs goatheads. The burr is not an incidental annoyance: it is the plant's seeddispersal system, hitching rides on feet, paws, tires, and machinery.