Interior West

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

Largely a species east of the Rocky Mountains where it occurs from New England to Florida and west into the Great Plains, swamp milkweed does occur...

Found throughout much of the world, including arctic and tropical wetlands alike, softstem bulrush produces extensive root systems that expand into...

This most interesting perennial aquatic plant produces a rambunctious “spray” of numerous small three-petaled white flowers arising on a tall, exte...

Oregon checkermallow, belongs to the margins—the slightly damp edges – the prairie draws where a trace of water flows below the surrounding wild gr...

Silky lupine shows up where the soil is thin, the sun relentless, and ancient stories are written upon the landscape. Its silver-soft leaves catch ...

This plant is a quiet remnant of a landscape left behind. Tapping deep into the soil like an old memory, this native legume of the Inland West is a...

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...

Distantly related to the European horehound (used in candy flavoring), American water horehound is a native mint with interestingly toothed leaves,...

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

An excellently bunchy, leafy, long-lived western forb of dry, low fertility soils.  Roundleaf alumroot lives life on cliffs, rocky outcrops, and ta...

Subtle, and low-growing, Spanish clover isn’t a wildflower that gets a lot of attention, but this mounding annual legume is an under-acknowledged b...

Don’t let the common name deceive you, this isn’t a sticky plant in the sense that it is very wet or tacky, but rather it is a plant covered in fin...

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 ...

Nineleaf biscuitroot possesses a fantastically pleasing form. Structurally it’s comprised of super-attractive slender compound leaflets which look ...

Among lupines, this is one of the great annual workhorse species of the west – notably from northern California, southward into Arizona. It’s a pla...

While we aren’t yet ready to call this a landrace variety, this chives population has does quite well for us in the maritime rain shadow region of ...

A prolific re-seeding annual, a small plant that turns hillsides ocean blue in spring, and a plant that can often persist among invasives…those are...

Western peony is a supremely interesting and attractive oddity of a wildflower. Consisting of slightly fleshy foliage (i.e. glaucous), big lobed le...

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

Prairie smoke is a most curious and delightful wildflower. A member of the rose family…with deeply cut foliage reminiscent of relatives such as bur...

“Some decades ago, back when I worked extensively across the U.S. for Xerces, I used to spend long, languid summer days driving around, checking in...

Smooth blue aster is a beautiful slow growing native fall bloomer. Long-lived and cold hardy. It’s a plant with almost continent-wide distribution,...

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