Plants like Sahara or black mustard, common in Southern California but not native to it, can strangle native flowers and pose fire danger. May 4, 2023 Southern California’s indigenous plants ...

Artist Erin Berkowitz harvests wild mustard flowers to make clothing dyes in Altadena, Calif., Thursday, June 8, 2023. With the bright yellow plant blanketing much of the state this spring, the ...

And some local hotels and restaurants are harvesting the flower to use across their seasonal menus. That includes the Bardessono Hotel & Spa, which offers a Mustard Masters package that comes with ...

It's easily confused with a native plant called fringecup, which Delepine said produces stalks with small greenish-yellow flowers instead of white ones. Garlic mustard eventually sheds its white ...

If the flower buds are at a tender stage of expanding when we get a hard frost, they can be damaged and fail to flower. The plants will be fine, you just have no flowers that spring.

Mustard was among the most prominent of wild flowering plants that seemingly popped up everywhere in California this spring. ... Max Kingery has been questioned about his fervor for killing flowers.