Deer-Resistant Picks

Remarkably colorful and drought-adapted, blanketflower is a dryland native perennial, occurring across the inland west from eastern British Columbi...

A beautiful, long-lived survivor plant for the toughest sites. This true onion (yes, you can eat it), has an amazing ability to grow in some of the...

A fascinating native member of the carrot family. Blooming at roughly the same time as camas, this unusual-looking plant creates a dazzling color c...

Named for the obvious similarity of the flowerhead to the head of a violin, this occasionally common annual plant is one of our few native wildflow...

Add brightness to cloudy spring days! Western buttercup virtually glows in otherwise drizzly grey spring landscapes, adding constellations of brigh...

A hardy, tough, showy plant for poorly drained sites. Although this is the most common native iris in western North America, it’s mostly a species ...

A shade-tolerant wildflower that is great for bumble bees. Small, highly-fragrant, cup-shaped green and red flowers arise on tall upright stems of ...

An excellent utilitarian grass for erosion control, wildlife, and agroforestry. With seedheads that can reach 4 to 5 feet in height, blue wild rye ...

Native from western Mexico to British Columbia, this is arguably a cornerstone of monarch butterfly breeding habitat across large sections of the I...

One of the best grass-substitutes for combining with wildflower plantings. While most sedges have specific associations with wetlands or wet enviro...

A fantastic garden cover crop and magnet for bees and syrphid flies. Lacy phacelia is largely a California species, but wild populations do occasio...

We’ve gotten so many requests over the years for an easy-to-grow seed mix that defies deer, that we finally had to dig in and create one. For a fu...

One of our best pollinator plants! At up to 7 feet in height with massive white umbels and large leaves over a foot in width, this is not your aver...

Sometimes called dyer’s coreopsis, or dyer’s tickseed for its longstanding use as a wild dye plant, creating a range of deep-reddish-brown to yello...

A beautiful garden plant that loves wet soils. The common name notwithstanding, sneezeweed doesn’t cause sneezing. Rather the big bulbous flower ce...

Plant in masses with this large-pack. Dream-like, low growing, and robin’s egg blue (with white centers), this abounding little annual adds a vibra...

A soft-textured, native ‘turf-type’ yarrow selection suitable almost nationwide for flowering wild lawns. Although very much a wild plant, and name...

Occurring from British Columbia to Baja, spring gold is one of the first meadow plants to flower every year – typically first showing off its radia...

Famed for ancient ethnobotanical traditions, beargrass is not a grass at all, but rather a member of the corn-lily family. It’s also an icon of wes...

A tough, but lush, clumpy grass that can support butterfly caterpillars, grazing mammals, and even function as a lawn grass. Like a number of other...

Humble toad rush is one of our favorite plants. At only 2 to 6-inches tall, this annual grass-like plant scarcely gets any attention. Yet for us it...

This is not a Northwestern Native, but rather is a plant of the central and southern plains and the desert southwest (roughly Nebraska to Californi...

Long late-season blooms, and food for butterflies. We don’t know much about starting pearly everlasting from seed, but this perennial member of the...

Our Most Deer-Resistant Plant! Occurring from British Columbia to California, this diminutive iris-relative grows ridiculously well in very wet, bo...