California

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 ...

A ridiculously long-blooming plant with a flowering period from late spring to fall.  Widespread across western North America -- from parts of the ...

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

Yes, it looks like a dandelion, but, no, it isn’t a dandelion. Larger (up to almost 2-feet tall!), and quite ridiculously popular with many flower ...

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...

One of the most divine prairie species, and possibly the most important wild food plant in parts of the Northwest.  Taller than its sibling common ...

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...

Dreamy and dazzling – Large-headed clover arises from diminutive 6-inch-tall foliage…from terrible, rocky, low-fertility soils, and dry weather… fr...

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 ...

One of the most adaptable native grasses for meadow landscaping. This is one of the first grasses we recommend for people trying to incorporate nat...

The most mysterious of prairie wildflowers Burdened with various unflattering alternative common names, this is among the most enchanting and myste...

Miner’s lettuce is a succulent springtime annual reaching up to about 1-foot in height with interesting paired leaves that conjoin around the stem ...

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

A plant that might outlive all of us. Also known as California compass plant, this late-spring flowering perennial produces a thick expansive tapr...