Field Guide / Native Plant
Native Plant
Agarita
Mahonia trifoliolata
Agarita is the plant that keeps the bees fed in late winter, when nothing else has the decency to bloom — a spiny silver-blue evergreen that later hands the birds a crop of red berries. It will draw blood if you crowd it. Think of it as a fence that pays rent. 🐦
Water
Very low
Sun
Full · part
Blooms
Late winter
Wildlife
Bees · birds
Spiny, silver-blue, evergreen — handsome in the way of things that don't want to be touched. Yellow flowers in late winter, then red berries the birds adore and the jelly-makers go to war over. Ask anyone who's tried to harvest them around the thorns.
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