{"id":266,"date":"2018-10-29T20:38:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chapters.cnps.org\/oc\/?p=266"},"modified":"2018-10-29T20:38:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:38:02","slug":"examples-of-habitat-plants-and-what-they-attract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapters.cnps.org\/oc\/2018\/10\/29\/examples-of-habitat-plants-and-what-they-attract\/","title":{"rendered":"Examples of Habitat Plants and What They Attract"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><big>Gardeners\u2019 Corner | Questions and Answers with Local Experts\u00a0<\/big><\/h4>\n<div>By Dan Songster, 2010 May<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\nThis column offers chapter members a chance to briefly share information on many things related to gardening with natives. The question for this issue is: <strong><span class=\"highlight\">\u201cWhat native plant is your favorite for habitat, and which birds, bugs, and\/or butterflies does it attract?\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><b><br \/>\nChristiane Shannon<\/b>-Right away I am thinking of at least four plants in my garden, but since you ask for one, I choose the <span class=\"highlight\">California Sycamore, (<i>Platanus racemosa<\/i>)<\/span>. For many years, there has been lots of larvae of a kind of boring beetle in their bark. Regularly two species of woodpeckers come to feed two or three days in a row, then disappear. It is as if they sense that the moment is right for the feast&#8230; So many other birds species collect food or rest in them (we have four mature trees) that I could give you a long list of bird names. Once in a while I see a Western Tiger Swallowtail butterfly fluttering around these trees. This species uses Platanus as a larval food-plant. Female Carpenter Bees regularly drill tunnels in a dead branch and deposit their eggs. One spring recently, a pair of Nuttall&#8217;s Woodpecker raised two\u00a0broods of chicks.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b style=\"font-size: 20px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">Greg Rubin<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 20px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">-To me,<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"highlight\" style=\"font-size: 20px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">Toyon<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">is an &#8220;aviary on a stick&#8221; \u2014 I&#8217;ve seen Cedar Waxwings, Western Bluebirds, Scrub Jays, Thrashers, Chats, Mockingbirds, Grosbeaks, etc. feasting on mine.\u00a0For butterflies, I love<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"highlight\" style=\"font-size: 20px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">Cleveland sage<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">and<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"highlight\" style=\"font-size: 20px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">Monardella<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">. They are butterfly and hummingbird magnets. I&#8217;ve seen Monarchs, Painted Ladies, Sulfur, Admirals, Morning Cloaks, Fritillaries, and even Dogface on these.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><b><br \/>\nGene\u00a0<\/b><b>Ratcliffe<\/b>-All of the <span class=\"highlight\">Cleveland sage<\/span> selections are great\u2014they attract pollinators when in flower and seed eating birds later in the season. I also like <span class=\"highlight\">Solidago (Golden Rod)<\/span> and <span class=\"highlight\">Aster chilensis (California Aster)<\/span> because they bloom after the spring rush is over and provide landscape color and wildlife benefits in late summer and early fall.<\/div>\n<div><b><br \/>\nCelia\u00a0<\/b><b>Kutcher<\/b>-My &#8220;habitat&#8221; favorite is <span class=\"highlight\">Toyon<\/span>: it feeds a wide variety of nectar-eaters while flowering in early summer, &amp; a wide variety of berry-eaters while in fruit in late fall &amp; winter.<\/div>\n<div><b><br \/>\nBarbara\u00a0<\/b><b>Eisenstein<\/b>-My favorite butterfly attractor is <span class=\"highlight\">Dutchman&#8217;s pipe (<i>Aristolochia californica<\/i>)<\/span>\u00a0because it attracts the elegant pipevine swallowtail butterfly. Though the plant is not native this far south, it attracted the butterflies at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. A reader of my blog reported that the pipevine swallowtail found her Dutchman&#8217;s pipe in San Diego as well. (<i><a href=\"http:\/\/wildsuburbia.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/pipevine-swallowtail-at-rancho.html\">http:\/\/wildsuburbia.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/pipevine-swallowtail-at-rancho.html<\/a>)<\/i><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/>\nDan Songster<\/b>&#8211; I could opt for the <span class=\"highlight\">Coast Live Oak<\/span> with its huge attraction to so many insects and birds but will instead go with the often overlooked <span class=\"highlight\"><i>Isocoma\u00a0<\/i><i>menziesii<\/i>-Coastal Goldenbush<\/span>. A wonderful variety of native bees, flies, small butterflies, as well as beetles and spittlebugs use this plant to great advantage. This summer flowering native is a circus of life, and is great for children to view the fascinating insects at their eye level.<\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gardeners\u2019 Corner | Questions and Answers with Local Experts\u00a0 By Dan Songster, 2010 May This column offers chapter members a chance to briefly share information on many things related to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-native-gardening","tag-gardeners-corner"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Examples of Habitat Plants and What They Attract - Orange County Chapter - 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