Add brilliant color and form to your dry garden with this CA native that is lovely in both leaf and flower! Found growing in sunny meadows and at the edges of woodlands along the west coast from WA to NorCal, it forms low rosettes of narrow, lance-shaped, felty leaves as high as 16”. In Spring 2’ high flower stems emerge producing bunches of 3” golden-yellow upward-facing blooms. Bees, hummers and butterflies love them and small birds will show up for the seeds. Although it can tolerate regular water, the toughness and drought tolerant quality of this mule’s ear owes to its extensive taproot and caudex. It will go dormant in the late Fall but re-emerge with Spring rains. It thrives in sandy to loamy, well-drained soils and full sun. Plant it in a mixed perennial bed for lovely texture or use as a high ground cover.