Deer-Resistant Picks

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...

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

Also known as alpine coltsfoot, this large leafy plant (roughly reminiscent of rhubarb) is an inhabitant of moist, full sun to partially shaded gro...

Silky lupine shows up where the soil is thin, the sun relentless, and ancient stories are written upon the landscape. Its silver-soft leaves catch ...

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

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...

Distantly related to the European horehound (used in candy flavoring), American water horehound is a native mint with interestingly toothed leaves,...

An excellently bunchy, leafy, long-lived western forb of dry, low fertility soils.  Roundleaf alumroot lives life on cliffs, rocky outcrops, and ta...

The essence of coastal vegetation, American dunegrass (called sea lyme in old speak), is a circumpolar perennial grass, occurring both across the N...

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 ...

A prolific re-seeding annual, a small plant that turns hillsides ocean blue in spring, and a plant that can often persist among invasives…those are...

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...

Named for enormous underground tubers that can grow to the size of an adult human, this exceptional native cucumber relative is a perennial vine. ...

While we aren’t yet ready to call this a landrace variety, this chives population has does quite well for us in the maritime rain shadow region of ...

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...

Some people look across a grassy canopy, and see a sort of green blur or tangle of semi-uniformity. This isn’t necessarily an inaccurate impression...

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...

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

Western peony is a supremely interesting and attractive oddity of a wildflower. Consisting of slightly fleshy foliage (i.e. glaucous), big lobed le...

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...

California buckwheat pulses with life along dry hillsides. Native from Southern Oregon, throughout California, and expanses of the Southwest, this ...

Oregon geranium is a soft-leaved spring perennial, a woodland edge and oak savanna species that is luminous in filtered light. Pollinated by small ...

One of the earliest emerging western milkweeds, woolly pod is possibly uniquely important to the western monarch butterfly population – likely prov...

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