Interior West

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

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...

Also known as seep-spring monkey flower (and formerly classified as Mimulus guttatus), there is extensive research on this plant, in part because o...

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

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...

A beautiful garden plant that loves wet soils. The common name notwithstanding, sneezeweed doesn’t cause sneezing. Rather the big bulbous flower ce...

Famed for ancient ethnobotanical traditions, beargrass is not a grass at all, but rather a member of the corn-lily family. It’s also an icon of wes...

A tough, but lush, clumpy grass that can support butterfly caterpillars, grazing mammals, and even function as a lawn grass. Like a number of other...

Occurring from British Columbia to Baja, spring gold is one of the first meadow plants to flower every year – typically first showing off its radia...

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...

An extraordinary long-blooming honey plant, regularly producing nectar of more than 20% sugar concentrations (sometimes concentrations of more than...

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...

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

Broadleaf lupine is very important host plant for many butterfly caterpillars, including the Persius duskywing (Erynnis persius), Queen Alexandra’s...

Humble toad rush is one of our favorite plants. At only 2 to 6-inches tall, this annual grass-like plant scarcely gets any attention. Yet for us it...

This is not a Northwestern Native, but rather is a plant of the central and southern plains and the desert southwest (roughly Nebraska to Californi...

A great colonizer for disturbed sites, rain gardens, and seasonally flooded spots! Also known as denseflower willowherb, this annual relative of fi...

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

An outstanding wildlife plant for wild lawns and every kind of meadow. Despite the fact that this small perennial, climbing, twining wildflower occ...

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

Long late-season blooms, and food for butterflies. We don’t know much about starting pearly everlasting from seed, but this perennial member of the...

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...

Slough sedge is a cornerstone species in many damp meadows and wetlands along the West Coast. It extends from California to southern Alaska, and i...

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