Early Blue Violet

Viola adunca

Type: Perennial

Height: 6-10 in

Light: Part shade-shade

Bloom Color: Blue-purple/White

Water needs: low in shaded areas

Uses: Host plant for Oregon Silverspot  butterfly (endangered), also feeds Bees and wildlife

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Meadowfoam

Limnanthes douglasii

Type: Annual

Height: 6-10 in

Light required: Sun- part shade

Bloom Color: White with yellow centers

Water needs: low, likes marshy conditions

Uses: Bees, hover flies

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Blue_Eyed Grass Sisyrinchium albidum

Type: Perennial, grass-like

Height: 12-18 in

Light required: Full sun - part shade

Bloom Color: Blue, yellow center

Water needs: Low

Uses: Bees, hover flies, pollinators,

naturalizes

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Globe Gilia

Gilia capitata

Type: Annual

Height: 1.5 - 2 ft

Light required: Sun - part sun

Bloom Color: Blue

Water needs: low

Uses: Bees, butterflies

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Minature Lupine

Lupinus bicolor

Type: Perennial, mat-like growth

Height: 12-18 in

Light required: Sun

Bloom Color: bluish- purple/white

Water needs: moist, well-drained soil

Uses: salt tolerant, bees and pollinators

Checkermallow

Sidalcea campestris

Type: Perennial

Height: 2-3 ft

Light required: Sun - part shade

Bloom Color: Pink or white

Water needs: drought tolerant

Uses: Bees, pollinators

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Black-eyed Susan

Rudebeckia spp

Type: Perennial

Height: 2-3 ft

Light required: Sun

Bloom Color: Yellow, dark center

Water needs: drought tolerant

Uses: Bees, butterflies, pollinators

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Red Columbine        Aquilegia formosa

Type: Perennial

Height: 1.5 - 3 ft

Light required: Sun - part shade

Bloom Color: red and yellow

Water needs: low

Uses: Hummingbirds, pollinators

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Narrowleaf Milkweed

Asclepias fascicularis

Type: Perennial

Height: 2-3 ft

Light required: Sun

Bloom Color: Lavender, white

Water needs: low

Uses: Monarchs and other butterflies, pollinators

Yarrow                         Achillea millefolium

Type: Perennial

Height: 1-3 ft

Light required: Sun - part sun

Bloom Color: white, pink

Water needs: low, need good drainage

Uses: Native bees, pollinators, deer resistant

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Purple Coneflower*

Echinacea purpeae

Type: Perennial

Height: 2-3 ft

Light required: Sun- part sun

Bloom Color: Purple

Water needs: low, needs good drainage

Uses:Butterflies, bees, pollinators

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Lacy Fiddleneck*

Phacelia spp

Type: Hardy annual

Height: 18-30 in

Light required: Sun - part sun

Bloom Color: blue

Needs: drought tolerant

Uses: Very attractive to Bumblebees, attracts beneficails, butterflies, self-seeds

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*native to SW United States

Oregon Sunshine

Eriophyllum lanatum

Type: Perennial

Height: 1-2 ft

Light required: Sun - part shade

Bloom Color: Yellow, gray foliage

Water needs: drought tolerant

Uses: Butterflies, bees, pollinators

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Seashore Lupine

Lupinus littoralis

Type: Perennial

Height: 6-12 inches 

Light required: Sun - part shade

Bloom Color: blues, lavenders

Water needs: drought tolerant

Uses: Bumblebees, erosion control

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Blue Sage

Blue Salvia*

Type: Perennial

Height: 1-1.5 ft

Light required: Sun

Bloom Color: Blue

Water needs: medium

Uses: Bees, pollinators, deer resistant

*non-native

Douglas Aster

Aster subspicatus

Type: Annual,

also spreads by rhizomes

Height: 3 ft

Light required: Sun- part shade

Bloom Color: Lavender, yellow center

Water needs: drought tolerant

Uses:  Pollinators

Will spread by rhizomes

Pearly Everlasting

Anaphalis margaritacea

Type: Perennial

Height: 2- 3 ft

Light required: Sun- part sun

Bloom Color: white

Water needs: drought tolerant

Uses: Butterflies, host plant Painted Lady butterfly, pollinators, dried ornamnentals

Goldenrod

Solidago 

Type: Perennial

Height: 1-2 ft

Light required: Sun

Bloom Color: Yellow

Water needs: drought tolerant

Uses: Butterflies, bees

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