Harsh Locations

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

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.), ...

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...

Western vervain is a sublimely chaotic kind of plant.   It makes itself at home in gnarly conditions…in the dusty fringes of freight terminals and ...

This fuzzy little plant has been called “unassuming.”  We think that’s laughable.  First, it’s an annual that grows hyperfast, in colonies, on newl...