Spring Gold Seeds (Lomatium utriculatum)

Occurring from British Columbia to Baja, spring gold is one of the first meadow plants to flower every year – typically first showing off its radiant golden beauty from February to June – depending on the location and elevation. This handsome little member of the carrot family is a first-rate plant for attracting many types of interesting small native bees, including: the striped miner bee (Andrena angustitarsata), the caerulean mining bee (Andrena caerulea), the green-bellied miner bee (Andrena chlorogaster), Hippotes’s biner Bee (Andrena hippotes), the lupine miner bee (Andrena lupinorum), the rose miner bee (Andrena melanochroa), the small green miner bee (Andrena microchlora), the pale-faced miner bee (Andrena pallidifovea), piper’s miner bee (Andrena piperi), the willow miner bee (Andrena salicifloris), the subtle miner bee (Andrena subtilis), the prickly ceratina (Ceratina acantha), Kincaid’s mason bee (Osmia kincaidii), and numerous other little creatures with no common names: O