Deer-Resistant Picks

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...

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

An extremely showy plant! Much like its relative arrowleaf balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata), Puget balsamroot forms clumps of thick, rough-textu...

A ridiculously long-blooming plant with a flowering period from late spring to fall.  Widespread across western North America -- from parts of the ...

An ancient and modern herbal remedy and wild food plant. Extremely long-lived and very early blooming – Fernleaf biscuit root sometimes flowers sho...

An iconic associate of vanishing meadows across the west. Despite the common name, California oatgrass is an extremely widespread meadow and savann...

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...

Slough sedge is a cornerstone species in many damp meadows and wetlands along the West Coast. It extends from California to southern Alaska, and i...

A rain garden plant for rare bees. Appearing like plant out of time, Navarretia is one of those few native wildflowers that still sometimes persist...

Possibly the largest and showiest of our native onions, as the name suggests, this is a species of damp spaces. All parts of this 3-foot-tall plant...

Miner’s lettuce is a succulent springtime annual reaching up to about 1-foot in height with interesting paired leaves that conjoin around the stem ...

A beautiful blue/green/grey low maintenance turf and ornamental grass. Native to the Pacific Coast (from British Columbia to Mexico), sand fescue i...

A mounding, tufted, native fine-leaved fescue for wild lawns, septic drain fields, parks, pet enclosures, and more. Western fescue is a widespread ...

One of the larger and more striking members of the Lomatium genus, Columbia biscuitroot (or Columbia desert parsley) is a native of the Columbia Ri...

This is a resilient and under-appreciated grass for damp spaces and wet meadows.   Spike bentgrass can hold ground against invasive reed canary gr...

A slender, fast-growing annual grass for quick soil cover. Almost true to its name, three week fescue can grow from seed to maturity very quickly!...

A tenacious, architecturally beautiful, and under-appreciated plant with numerous uses. Found almost nationwide, path rush takes is named for its ...

Edible and extremely drought tolerant Pre-Order Now for Fall 2024 Shipping (Shipping starts late October 2024). Naturally occurring from southern ...

In the dry season of late summer when few other wildflowers are still blooming, this high-quality pollen source can continue to feed bees over many...

An exceptionally showy grass-like rush, with striking copper-colored ‘pom-pom’ flowers and seedheads.   Daggerleaf rush is one of the plants that ...