Wyethia mollis, Woolly Mule’s Ears spire

Wyethia mollis, Woolly Mule’s Ears spireWyethia mollis, Woolly Mules Ears Wyethia mollis, Woolly Mules Ears, is a perennial native to the Sierra from Fresno northward. It grows well in mountain forests, meadows, and sagebrush. It grows during the spring and summer from a taproot to 2ft tall and 3ft wide. In late spring to summer, bright yellow sunflower like flowers emerge, 35 inches across, adding color to its native meadows, forests, rocky slopes, and sagebrush landscapes. Woolly Mules

Camassia quamash

Planting in containers is a good way to begin to understand how to increase bulbs

Director of the University Botanical Garden

Kids love to find the mature bulbs and corms with the babies lightly adhering to their sides

and what’s more…

It is perennial and blooms for at least 3 and up to 7 months

Locally made in Bolinas

Wide-ranging and easy to grow

we have sown it in mid-spring and kept it in part-shade

especially in times of drought

Red fescue

Native grasses are also important to land restoration as they improve soil quality