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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...

We love this plant! Native to Oregon and California, but adaptable across the maritime Northwest, this gorgeous low growing annual is an incredible...

The optimal wildflower for seasonally wet sites, such as rain gardens or bioswales. This very showy annual naturally occurs in vernal pools and oth...

This is our only regional member of the obscure Tofieldiaceae family, a group of lily-like plants. False asphodel made headlines in 2021 when it wa...

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

Our most dramatic summer annual for mass planting. For a spectacular mid-summer neon wildflower show, almost nothing compares to the stunning impac...

An ancient and modern herbal remedy and wild food plant. Extremely long-lived and very early blooming – Fernleaf biscuit root sometimes flowers sho...

Not to be confused with non-native mints such as spearmint, peppermint, pennyroyal, and others, this is our beautifully fragrant native wild mint, ...

There's much that could be said about humble yet glorious fireweed. The classic colonizer of wildfire scarred landscapes (hence the name), recently...

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

A plant that can literally grow in puddles. Fragrant popcorn flower has a fascinating ecology as a vernal pool plant. In wild settings, the seeds s...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Our Most Deer-Resistant Plant! Occurring from British Columbia to California, this diminutive iris-relative grows ridiculously well in very wet, bo...

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...

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-...

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...