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Best Bee Plants for California

Below you will find a list of our favorite bee plants.  If you click on their name it will take you to the season in which they BEGIN to flower, though many will often flower into the following season.

Agastache spp.
Arctostaphylos spp.
Aster chilensis
Aster x frikartii 
Bidens ferulifolia
Caryopteris spp.
Ceanothus 'Dark Star' and 'Julia Phelps'
Ceanothus 'Ray Hartman'
Cercis occidentalis
Clinopodium nepeta
Collinsia heterophylla
Cosmos bipinnatus
Cosmos sulphureus
Coreopsis grandiflora
Echium candicans
Encelia californica
Erigeron glaucus
Gaillardia x grandiflora


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