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Important Honey Bee Plants in California
Eric Mussen, Extension Apiculturist
* = Major Source n = nectar p = pollen
Ground Plants
* Alfalfa - n
Arrowweed - p
Asparagus - p
* Black sage - n/p
* Bluecurls - n/p
Borage - p
* Buckwheats - n/p
Cantaloupe - n
Carpet grass (Lippia) - n
Cascara - n
Cedar (honeydew) - n
Chamise (greasewood) - p
Chickweed - p
Clarkia - p
Cleome - p
* Composites - n/p
Corn - p
* Cotton - n
Creeping sage - n/p
Dandelion - p
Fiddle neck - n/p
Filaree - n/p
Flax - p
Forest clover - n/p
Garden flowers - p
Golden fleece - n/p
Goldenrod - p
Shrubs
Bottle brush - n/p
California laurel - p
Coffeeberry - n
Creosote bush - p
Desert peach - p
Elderberry - p
Lavender - n/p
*Manzanita - n
*Mesquite - n/p
Palavered - p
Trees
Alder - p
Black locust - n
Box elder - p
Chinquapin - p
Cottonwood - p
*Deciduous fruit trees - p
Elm - p
*Eucalyptus
Grasses - p
Hypochoeris spp. - p
Jackass clover - n/p
Klamath weed - p
Locoweed (not poisonous) - n
Lupines - p
Milk thistle - p
*Mustard - n/p
*Penstemon - n
* Phacelia - n
* Poppies - p
* Red maids - p
* Sage - n
* Spikeweed - n/p
* Tarweed - n/p
* Turkey mullein - p
Vetch - p
Western hyssop - n
White clover - p
*White sage - p
White sweet clover - p
Wild alfalfa - n/p
*Wild lilac - n/p
Wild Radish - p
* Yellow star thistle - n/p
*Poison oak - n/p
*Purple sage - n/p
*Rabbit brush - n/p
Rosemary - p
* Sage brush - p
Sumac - n/p
Toyon - n/p
Wild lilac (Ceanothus) - n/p
Willow - n/p
Western redbud - p
*Madrone - n
*Oak - p
*Olive - p
* Orange - n
* Pine - p
* Redwood - p
* Walnut - p
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