Each month, we feature a plant of the San Gabriel Mountains. The Plant-of-the-Month page is taken from the interactive CD-ROM, Plants of the San Gabriel Mountains: Foothills and Canyons.

This tall, but easy to overlook plant has soft lavender to white flowers that are in bloom right now in coastal sage scrub and disturbed areas.

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Plant of the Month Archive

August, 2010 Parish's Goldenbush (Ericameria parishii)	July, 2010 Chamise (Adenostoma fasciculata)	June, 2010 Yellow-throated Phacelia (Phacelia brachyloba)
May, 2010 Fire Poppy (Papaver californicum)	April, 2010 Wild Canterbury Bells (Phacelia minor)	March, 2010 Stinging Lupine (Lupinus hirsutissimus)
February, 2010 Wild Cucumber (Marah macrocarpus)	January, 2010 Bigberry Manzanita (Arctostaphylos glauca)	December, 2009 Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia)
November, 2009 California Fuchsia (Epilobium canum)	October, 2009 Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia)	September, 2009 Greata's Aster (Aster greatae)
August, 2009 Giant Blazing Star (Mentzelia laevicaulis)	July, 2009 Scarlet Larkspur (Delphinium cardinale)	June, 2009 Sacred Datura (Datura wrightii)
May, 2009 Big-leaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum)	April, 2009 Deerweed (Lotus scoparius)	March, 2009 Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium bellum)
February, 2009 Chaparral Currant (Ribes malvaceum)	January, 2009 California Peony (Paeonia californica)

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