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Emerging in spring, the nodding white cups of this incomparable California wildflower are completely enigmatic. White fairy lantern is a woodland s...

Found in coastal dune settings across the northern Pacific (from the Russian far east to Oregon), big head sedge is an excitingly odd graminoid. Ye...

California’s state grass is a plant of handsome, decorative seedheads. This bunchy perennial evokes western prairies before the plow. Once common, ...

Also known as early cress, creasy greens are a traditional foraged spring vegetable in the eastern and southeastern U.S., a peppery cool-season wil...

The most vibrant population of Menzies’ larkspur we’ve ever encountered was in a low, sandy coastal back dune, a stone’s throw from a small acrid-s...

Bog saxifrage is a pleasingly odd kind of plant. One that we used to glance upon occasionally, with its almost succulent rosette leaves and floweri...

Among lupines, this is one of the great annual workhorse species of the west – notably from northern California, southward into Arizona. It’s a pla...

Not a grass, but rather a small iris-relative wearing a grassy disguise. California blue-eyed grass occupies a more limited southerly range than o...

Native to most of California, this electric-yellow flowered annual is adaptable to a broader range of the continent, growing with perfect joy from ...

Rising from wet soils along the edges of ponds, vernal pools, and slow streams, this most delicate plant threads the water’s surface with fine, gre...

Ornate and improbable…a wild lupine with flowers that can be purple, pink, cream, and yellow all at the same time… Endemic to disjunct, dry, slopin...

Defiant and otherworldly. Crimson and silver. This western thistle is a plant of some certain magnificence. And, it most certainly is not a weed. ...

“Some decades ago, back when I worked extensively across the U.S. for Xerces, I used to spend long, languid summer days driving around, checking in...

Sometimes called garden oseille. This semi-wild, perennial peasant vegetable of mostly French origin (although it occurs across the Mediterranean),...

A sprawling green and golden ground cover. That might be the best way to describe this shorter, clumping relative of taller, more upright gumweed s...

Subtle, and low-growing, Spanish clover isn’t a wildflower that gets a lot of attention, but this mounding annual legume is an under-acknowledged b...

If you tire of freakish, tasteless hybrid zucchini (the kind that other gardeners always try to give away), then this traditional southern Italian ...

Don’t let the common name deceive you, this isn’t a sticky plant in the sense that it is very wet or tacky, but rather it is a plant covered in fin...

Beach pea is a quite glorious sprawling perennial adapted to coastal sand and gravel substrates. It emerges clambering from driftwood strewn shores...

Functionally like a cross between a machete and an axe, the billhook is an ancient and marvelously useful tool for forestry, perennial agriculture,...

Nineleaf biscuitroot possesses a fantastically pleasing form. Structurally it’s comprised of super-attractive slender compound leaflets which look ...

Tall cinquefoil establishes itself in dry (sometimes craggy) soils from a sturdy anchoring taproot, wherefrom it emerges as a statuesque and magnif...

Yes, it looks like a dandelion, but, no, it isn’t a dandelion. Larger (up to almost 2-feet tall!), and quite ridiculously popular with many flower ...

Kamchatka lily is one of the more enigmatic wildflowers of the northern Pacific coast – a plant of foggy mornings, damp coastal grounds, bears, anc...