Pacific Northwest

Spectacularly showy little flowers atop unassuming foliage. Another showy annual for seasonally wet spots that dry out in the summer. Blue-eyed Mar...

Caterpillar host plant for more than 40 species of butterflies! The name of this sublime native grass, perfectly sums up its appearance. From shor...

One of the latest blooming wildflowers in the Northwest. Rising up to 3 or 4 feet in height with purple/blue/white flowers, this hardy plant adapts...

The Classic Flower of Late Summer Meadows Few perennials are as long-lived or widely adaptable as Canada goldenrod. From damp, sunny roadside ditch...

A delicate, long-lived, wildflower that you can divide for years to come! Not a grass at all, this small iris relative embodies the art and mystery...

A great plant for tough sandy and gravel sites! In wild settings this big, bushy plant typically occurs on gravel outwashes and sandbars. This adap...

An under-utilized remediation plant -- bring life back to bare, dry, compacted soils. The native clovers of the West Coast comprise a widely overlo...

An extraordinarily curious and reliable late season bee plant. It might be that people don’t wake up early enough to appreciate and familiarize the...

A great bee plant for wet and poorly drained soils. Native to Oregon and northern California, white meadowfoam is sometimes commercially cultivated...

Good for grassy meadows and partial shade. Oregon iris is sometimes called tough-leaved iris for the strong, fibrous, grass-like leaves that once m...

One of the more striking and interesting native wildflowers of the West, this tall, unusual looking plant has no ray flowers, but produces a large,...

With spade or diamond-shaped bright pink petals, and anthers bearing blue-grey pollen, this nice annual is striking to look at. Even better, it’s t...

One of Showiest Wildflowers for our Region and an Extraordinary Butterfly Host Plant. It’s seems too good to be true that plant as beautiful as ros...

A plant that can literally grow in puddles. Fragrant popcorn flower has a fascinating ecology as a vernal pool plant. In wild settings, the seeds s...

Our favorite bumble bee plant! Also know as shade phacelia for it’s tolerance of partially-shaded conditions, this unique plant naturally occurs th...

Formerly known as Cleome serrulata. Don’t be fooled by the mountain range in the name, Rocky Mountain Bee Plant occurs across most of the West, inc...

An excellent butterfly nectar plant. In Washington and British Columbia this handsome native mint occurs mostly east of the Cascades. Further south...

Sea thrift is a circumpolar species found along coastlines from the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Northern Europe. It is best adapted to harsh coa...

One of the most adaptable native grasses for meadow landscaping. This is one of the first grasses we recommend for people trying to incorporate nat...

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...

Balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sp.) and mule’s ears (Wyethia sp.) are the western state equivalents to the glorious Silphiums of Midwestern tallgrass pra...

 A hardy, long-lived butterfly host plant! This is a defining meadow plant that is surprisingly overlooked, or ignored in most habitat restoration ...

The optimal wildflower for seasonally wet sites, such as rain gardens or bioswales. This very showy annual naturally occurs in vernal pools and oth...