Deer-Resistant Picks

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

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

Soft, beautiful, bristly, bluish-silver, mostly unfazed by drought and hard times…Idaho fescue is maybe the most significant grass of western North...

Our native western (and Great Lakes region) hawthorn is a tree of exceptional uses!  While the small black fruit is edible (in haw jelly, etc.), ...

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...

Straightbeaked buttercup (sometimes called swamp buttercup) is a terrific spring hoverfly plant (although lots of small native bees visit it as wel...

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...

Sedges can be enigmatic and inscrutable for many of us. There's such an expansive diversity of species that it can be a bit confounding not only to...

A grass for woodland meadows… Alaska oniongrass is a beautiful electric green grass of upland forests. Within these spaces if forms verdant “fields...