California

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.), ...

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 vibrant annual California endemic is adaptable to most low elevation growing conditions along the West Coast – and is one of the most shade-to...

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 biscuitroot sometimes flowers shor...

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 ...

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...

Sedges can be enigmatic and inscrutable for many of us. There's such an expansive diversity of species that it can be a bit confounding not only to...

Ornate and improbable…a wild lupine with flowers that can be purple, pink, cream, and yellow all at the same time… Endemic to disjunct, dry, slopin...

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...