Interior West

Short Awn Foxtail is a native grass of temporarily watery lands. It is not, as some might mistakenly believe, the non-native weedy meadow foxtail (...

Tall cinquefoil establishes itself in dry (sometimes craggy) soils from a sturdy anchoring taproot, wherefrom it emerges as a statuesque and magnif...

Emerging in spring, the nodding white cups of this incomparable California wildflower are completely enigmatic. White fairy lantern is a woodland s...

Bog saxifrage is a pleasingly odd kind of plant. One that we used to glance upon occasionally, with its almost succulent rosette leaves and floweri...

Straightbeaked buttercup (sometimes called swamp buttercup) is a terrific spring hoverfly plant (although lots of small native bees visit it as wel...

Rising from wet soils along the edges of ponds, vernal pools, and slow streams, this most delicate plant threads the water’s surface with fine, gre...

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.), ...

Tall, dramatic, producing a blast of unrestrained intense fragrance from large, numerous flowers (sometimes more than 20 per plant!), Washington li...

Our western answer to the more well known Pycnanthemum species of eastern prairies – a supreme pollinator magnet – deeply, lushly fragrant and soft...