California

California buckwheat pulses with life along dry hillsides. Native from Southern Oregon, throughout California, and expanses of the Southwest, this ...

Our western answer to the more well known Pycnanthemum species of eastern prairies – a supreme pollinator magnet – deeply, lushly fragrant and soft...

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

A low-grow, low-water, low-maintenance, fire-wise, wildflower and native grass lawn that supports pollinators. Inspired by the super-bloom meadows ...

The Classic Flower of Late Summer Meadows Few perennials are as long-lived or widely adaptable as Canada goldenrod. From damp, sunny roadside ditch...

Canada milkvetch is a robust perennial legume that’s also a bumble bee magnet once it starts flowering. Grouped plantings in particular typically p...

A charming canary-yellow wildflower with exploding seed capsules. Occurring across much of Western North America, the canary violet grows up to a d...

One of the best grass-substitutes for combining with wildflower plantings. While most sedges have specific associations with wetlands or wet enviro...

Also known as chocolate lily or rice root, this is a sublime, but challenging to grow plant of Northwestern prairies, oak savannahs, and shore pine...

A sprawling green and golden ground cover. That might be the best way to describe this shorter, clumping relative of taller, more upright gumweed s...

Named for enormous underground tubers that can grow to the size of an adult human, this exceptional native cucumber relative is a perennial vine. ...

In the dry season of late summer when few other wildflowers are still blooming, this high-quality pollen source can continue to feed bees over many...

Defiant and otherworldly. Crimson and silver. This western thistle is a plant of some certain magnificence. And, it most certainly is not a weed. ...

This is a one of those rare gems of forest clearings and open meadows that was likely much more common in the past. Along with habitat loss, this p...

Native across much of the West, the stunning violet-blue flowers of camas historically lit up prairies, marshes, and oak savannas in the spring. Wh...

The most important historical native food plant in the Northwest Native across the Pacific Northwest and Northern California, the stunning violet...

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...

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...

Possibly one of the least common and least understood of our native Western clovers, creek clover is an annual, historically occurring from southwe...

As the common name makes clear, this is a rush-like plant that "creeps" or spreads by underground rhizomes. The scientific name is a bit more elega...

An exceptionally showy grass-like rush, with striking copper-colored ‘pom-pom’ flowers and seedheads. Daggerleaf rush is one of the plants that is...

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...

A milkweed relative, dogbane hemp is possibly the pre-eminent wild fiber plant of North America, producing tough fibrous stems that were rolled and...

One of the latest blooming wildflowers in the Northwest. Rising up to 3 or 4 feet in height with purple/blue/white flowers, this hardy plant adapts...