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Native meadow plants --adapted to thin glacial till soils, windswept rocky outcroppings, and shifting salt spray beaches -- are the optimal solution for tricky planting sites: highly altered urban soils, post industrial lands, roadside verges, and more. The species represented here have been engineered over ten thousand years for the toughest planting sites you can imagine.
  • Globe Gilia Seeds (Gilia capitata)

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    One of the easiest and most reliable showy annuals. We love globe gilia for its ease of establishment. When sown in the fall on well prepared soil ...

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  • Western Yarrow Seeds (Achillea millefolium)

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    The most humble, resilient and cheerful meadow wildflower. Like self heal and cinquefoil, yarrow is a defining meadow plant. Thriving in disturbed ...

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  • Roemer's Fescue Seeds (Festuca idahoensis ssp. romeri)

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    A perfect native grass for inter-planting with wildflowers! Native west of the Cascades, Roemer’s fescue was once a dominant grass in prairies and ...

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  • Bicolor Lupine Seeds (Lupinus bicolor)

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    A low-growing annual for creating colorful swales. Bicolor lupine is a tiny plant, often staying less than 6-inches tall, and yet this little annua...

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  • Wild Blue Flax Seeds (Linum lewisii)

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    This plant is one of the overlooked gems of the West. It’s a fiber plant (like its domesticated cousin) – useful for fabric, nets, cordage, baskets...

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  • Puget Gumweed Seeds (Grindelia integrifolia)

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    The best late season bee plant in the Pacific Northwest! Native from Alaska south to Oregon, this resinous sunflower relative provides an abundance...

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  • Riverbank Lupine Seeds (Lupinus rivularis)

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    A great plant for tough sandy and gravel sites! In wild settings this big, bushy plant typically occurs on gravel outwashes and sandbars. This adap...

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  • Foothill Clover Seeds (Trifolium cilolatum)

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    An under-utilized remediation plant -- bring life back to bare, dry, compacted soils. The native clovers of the West Coast comprise a widely overlo...

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  • Showy Tarweed Seeds (Madia elegans)

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    An extraordinarily curious and reliable late season bee plant. It might be that people don’t wake up early enough to appreciate and familiarize the...

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  • Sea Thrift Seeds (Armeria maritima)

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    Sea thrift is a circumpolar species found along coastlines from the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Northern Europe. It is best adapted to harsh coa...

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  • Rocky Mountain Bee Plant Seeds (Peritoma serrulata)

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    Formerly known as Cleome serrulata. Don’t be fooled by the mountain range in the name, Rocky Mountain Bee Plant occurs across most of the West, inc...

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  • Blanket Flower Seeds (Gaillardia aristata)

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    Remarkably colorful and drought-adapted, blanketflower is a dryland native perennial, occurring across the inland west from eastern British Columbi...

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  • Arrowleaf Balsamroot Seeds (Balsamorhiza sagittata)

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    Balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sp.) and mule’s ears (Wyethia sp.) are the western state equivalents to the glorious Silphiums of Midwestern tallgrass pra...

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  • Barestem Biscuitroot Seeds (Lomatium nudicaule)

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    A fascinating native member of the carrot family. Blooming at roughly the same time as camas, this unusual-looking plant creates a dazzling color c...

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  • Common Fiddleneck Seeds (Amsinckia menziesii)

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    Named for the obvious similarity of the flowerhead to the head of a violin, this occasionally common annual plant is one of our few native wildflow...

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  • Maiden Clover Seeds (Trifolium microcephalum)

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    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 ...

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  • Deer Defense Seed Mix

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    We’ve gotten so many requests over the years for an easy-to-grow seed mix that defies deer, that we finally had to dig in and create one. For a fu...

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  • Native Pollinator Meadow Seed Mix 2 (For the Inland West)

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    This is a mix for the expansive and splendid lands from the eastern slope of the Cascades to the western fringes of the Great Plains – from inland ...

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  • Threadleaf Phacelia Seeds (Phacelia linearis)

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    This tough annual wildflower is normally found east of the Cascades, however, ours originates from the small, separate populations occurring on cli...

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  • Plains Coreopsis Seeds (Coreopsis tinctoria)

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    Sometimes called dyer’s coreopsis, or dyer’s tickseed for its longstanding use as a wild dye plant, creating a range of deep-reddish-brown to yello...

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  • Prairie Junegrass Seeds (Koeleria macrantha)

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    A tough, but lush, clumpy grass that can support butterfly caterpillars, grazing mammals, and even function as a lawn grass. Like a number of other...

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  • Heartleaf Milkweed Seed (Asclepias cordifolia)

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

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  • Prairie Burnet Seeds (Sanguisorba annua)

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    An overlooked, and structurally interesting meadow plant, that is an excellent food source for wildlife. This annual member of the rose family is n...

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  • Broadleaf Milkweed Seeds (Asclepias latifolia)

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    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...

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