Interior West

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

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

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

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

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

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.), ...

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 (...

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...

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...

Western vervain is a sublimely chaotic kind of plant.   It makes itself at home in gnarly conditions…in the dusty fringes of freight terminals and ...

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

Soft, beautiful, bristly, bluish-silver, mostly unfazed by drought and hard times…Idaho fescue is maybe the most significant grass of western North...

Sometimes referred to as false hellebore, corn lily is an odd, tall, lush, vividly green spectacle of plant, producing a dense panicle of creamy wh...

This plant does something kind of beautifully remarkable: Its big satiny white flowers (which open at night, then remain open into the morning) tur...