Single Species Packets

Possibly the earliest blooming meadow wildflower in the west, grass widows shows up in early spring, when the weather is still blustery and cold. I...

A dazzling, tall, and brilliant blue spring wildflower! Taller in stature than its close relative the common camas, great camas rises to heights of...

This beautiful creamy-white-flowered plant is a Great Camas subspecies from southern Oregon. Flowering in mid-spring, great white camas is at home ...

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...

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...

We know a spot...a mowed, grassy parking lot, of thin, sandy, compacted soil. It’s a place where saltwater from the close-by beach saturates the ro...

This is sometimes one of the earlier emerging Western milkweeds, and certainly one of the especially visually striking species – with magenta/wine-...

Formerly occurring from Oregon to Alaska in tidal marshes and wet meadows near the coast, this magenta-bloomed plant has significantly declined acr...

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

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

With deep, inky blue-purple flowers, this is a wildflower of ridiculous beauty. Moreover, it’s a fascinating bumble bee pollinated plant with bloss...

A fantastic garden cover crop and magnet for bees and syrphid flies. Lacy phacelia is largely a California species, but wild populations do occasio...

This is one of the lesser common things in our inventory, an oddly plain, and yet uncanny plant -- something of a mystery --but one dripping with l...

Watch bumble bees gather florescent blue pollen from this striking-looking plant!  This is one of our favorite annual wildflowers for that tough co...

Dreamy and dazzling – Large-headed clover arises from diminutive 6-inch-tall foliage…from terrible, rocky, low-fertility soils, and dry weather… fr...

Short and lovely, maiden clover is a friend to bees. It’s also a host plant to seemingly innumerable species of butterflies and moths -- including ...

One of the most adaptable native grasses for meadow landscaping. This is one of the first grasses we recommend for people trying to incorporate nat...

“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...

One of the best butterfly host plants in the Northwest! This showy hollyhock-like plant is impressive looking enough to put any ornamental cultivat...

The most mysterious of prairie wildflowers Burdened with various unflattering alternative common names, this is among the most enchanting and myste...

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...

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 Pacific coast form of creeping red fescue for lush, soft, exuberant wild lawns – and for filling gaps between other plant species. Contrasting sl...

The Great Central Plain of California…was one smooth, continuous bed of honey-bloom, so marvelously rich that, in walking from one end of it to th...