Deer-Resistant Picks

The only native host plant for monarch butterflies west of the Cascade Mountains! Showy milkweed’s thick fleshy stems and leaves make it a unique a...

We love this plant! Native to Oregon and California, but adaptable across the maritime Northwest, this gorgeous low growing annual is an incredible...

A cheerful drought-hardy plant for dry sites and hot summers! Oregon sunshine, also known as wooly sunflower, is unique for being native to both si...

A classic native wildflower for shady locations! Western columbine is a wonderfully adaptable little plant that is perfectly happy in mostly shaded...

Glorious and showy! Big leaf lupine is one of the tallest and most ornamental native lupine species in the west. This cheerful plant forms nice col...

The most humble, resilient and cheerful meadow wildflower. Like self heal and cinquefoil, yarrow is a defining meadow plant. Thriving in disturbed ...

Edible greens, traditional medicine, and wildlife value! Self-heal, or heal-all is a classic Northwestern meadow plant -- a cheerful blue-flowering...

A perfect native grass for inter-planting with wildflowers! Native west of the Cascades, Roemer’s fescue was once a dominant grass in prairies and ...

A low-growing annual for creating colorful swales. Bicolor lupine is a tiny plant, often staying less than 6-inches tall, and yet this little annua...

A long-lived plant – excellent for dry – low fertility soils. This wildflower is extremely widespread across the western U.S., but has patchy distr...

An early spring icon! This adaptable annual with powder-puff pink blossoms naturally occurs in damp grassy meadows with common camas and western bu...

This plant is one of the overlooked gems of the West. It’s a fiber plant (like its domesticated cousin) – useful for fabric, nets, cordage, baskets...

The best late season bee plant in the Pacific Northwest! Native from Alaska south to Oregon, this resinous sunflower relative provides an abundance...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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