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Plants For Shade - Northwest Meadowscapes

Plants For Shade

Open, sunny spaces are our specialty. Yet many of us also have shady areas that we would like to enhance with interesting flowering plants and useful ground covers. For pure, constant shaded conditions, we recommend ferns, mosses, and similar deep woodland understory plants. For all other areas with at least a little filtered light, many of the species here can successfully establish when matched with appropriate soil conditions and hardiness zones.

  • Western Columbine Seeds (Aquilegia formosa)

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

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  • Diamond Clarkia Seeds (Clarkia rhomboidea)

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    With spade or diamond-shaped bright pink petals, and anthers bearing blue-grey pollen, this nice annual is striking to look at. Even better, it’s t...

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  • Oregon Phacelia Seeds (Phacelia nemoralis)

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    Our favorite bumble bee plant! Also know as shade phacelia for it’s tolerance of partially-shaded conditions, this unique plant naturally occurs th...

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  • Fringecup Seeds (Tellima grandiflora)

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    A shade-tolerant wildflower that is great for bumble bees. Small, highly-fragrant, cup-shaped green and red flowers arise on tall upright stems of ...

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  • Native Red Fescue Seeds (Festuca rubra)

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    Native to most of North America, red fescue is a cool-season perennial, meaning it tends to go dormant in the heat of summer. While there are also ...

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  • Cow Parsnip Seeds (Heracleum maximum)

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    One of our best pollinator plants! At up to 7 feet in height with massive white umbels and large leaves over a foot in width, this is not your aver...

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  • Lanceleaf/Narrow-Leaf Figwort (Scrophularia lanceolata)

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    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...

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  • Pearly Everlasting Seeds (Anaphalis margaritacea)

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    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...

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  • Cooley's Hedge Nettle Seeds (Stachys cooleyae)

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    A Brilliantly Colorful Hummingbird Plant!  One of the first great discoveries when we acquired our farm was finding a huge population of this beaut...

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  • Giant White Fawn Lily Seeds (Erythronium oregonum)

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    This is one of the most deeply enigmatic wildflowers we’ve encountered, a mysterious forest dweller, blooming as a large, white, ghostly apparition...

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  • Baby Blue Eyes Seeds (Nemophila menziesii) – Large Pack

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    Plant in masses with this large-pack. Dream-like, low growing, and robin’s egg blue (with white centers), this abounding little annual adds a vibra...

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  • Molate Red Fescue Seeds (Festuca rubra var. ‘molate’)

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

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  • False Solomon Seal Seeds (Maianthemum racemosum)

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    An arching woodland perennial, for ground cover, pollinator value, and wildlife habitat. Widespread across most of temperate North America, false S...

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  • Pacific Snakeroot Seeds (Sanicula crassicaulis)

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    Also known as Pacific Sanicle, and Pacific Blacksnakeroot, this is a perennial member of the parsley/carrot-family and a denizen of seasonally damp...

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  • Western Fescue Seeds (Festuca occidentalis)

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

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  • California Oatgrass Seeds (Danthonia californica)

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

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