As spring two-steps into summer in our gardens and wildlands, one native flag bearer is blooming. It has the homey and homely common name "flannelbush," for its furry leaves and stems. Its scientific ...

Backlit California flannelbush flowers brighten Bay Street as a cyclist pedals by. French writer Gérard de Nerval wrote, “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature." Flannelbush is a flowering shrub ...

Note: This is the second in a three-part series on native plants that have proven successful on the author’s property along the Lindo Channel in Chico. The previous article discussed large trees; the ...

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it is proposing formal designation of critical habitat for two imperiled plants in Riverside and San Diego counties as required by ...

- any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers ...

Note: This is the second in a three-part series on native plants that have proven successful on the author’s property along the Lindo Channel in Chico. The previous article discussed large trees; the ...