Pacific Northwest

Native across much of the West, the stunning violet-blue flowers of camas historically lit up prairies, marshes, and oak savannas in the spring. Wh...

One of the showiest native clovers – suitable for ornamental, food crop, or wildlife plantings! Among native West Coast clovers, this species is on...

A dazzling, tall, and brilliant blue spring wildflower! Taller in stature than its close relative the common camas, great camas rises to heights of...

An under-utilized remediation plant -- bringing life back to bare, dry, compacted soils. The native clovers of the West Coast comprise a widely ove...

The Classic Flower of Late Summer Meadows Few perennials are as long-lived or widely adaptable as Canada goldenrod. From damp, sunny roadside ditch...

Spectacularly showy little flowers atop unassuming foliage. Another showy annual for seasonally wet spots that dry out in the summer. Blue-eyed Mar...

A delicate, long-lived, wildflower that you can divide for years to come! Not a grass at all, this small iris relative embodies the art and mystery...

The best late season bee plant in the Pacific Northwest! Native from Alaska south to Oregon, this resinous sunflower relative provides an abundance...

One of the more striking and interesting native wildflowers of the West, this tall, unusual looking plant has no ray flowers, but produces a large,...

  Caterpillar host plant for more than 40 species of butterflies! The name of this sublime native grass, perfectly sums up its appearance. From sho...

A great plant for tough sandy and gravel sites! In wild settings this big, bushy plant typically occurs on gravel outwashes and sandbars. This adap...

A great bee plant for wet and poorly drained soils. Native to Oregon and northern California, white meadowfoam is sometimes commercially cultivated...

Formerly known as Cleome serrulata. Don’t be fooled by the mountain range in the name, Rocky Mountain Bee Plant occurs across most of the West, inc...

Short and lovely, maiden clover is a friend to bees. It’s also a host plant to seemingly innumerable species of butterflies and moths -- including ...

One of Showiest Wildflowers for our Region and an Extraordinary Butterfly Host Plant. It’s seems too good to be true that plant as beautiful as ros...

An extraordinarily curious and reliable late season bee plant. It might be that people don’t wake up early enough to appreciate and familiarize the...

One of the latest blooming wildflowers in the Northwest. Rising up to 3 or 4 feet in height with purple/blue/white flowers, this hardy plant adapts...

Good for grassy meadows and partial shade. Oregon iris is sometimes called tough-leaved iris for the strong, fibrous, grass-like leaves that once m...

With spade or diamond-shaped bright pink petals, and anthers bearing blue-grey pollen, this nice annual is striking to look at. Even better, it’s t...

Native from western Mexico to British Columbia, this is arguably a cornerstone of monarch butterfly breeding habitat across large sections of the I...

Balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sp.) and mule’s ears (Wyethia sp.) are the western state equivalents to the glorious Silphiums of Midwestern tallgrass pra...

A beautiful, long-lived survivor plant for the toughest sites. This true onion (yes, you can eat it), has an amazing ability to grow in some of the...

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...

Sometimes called dyer’s coreopsis, or dyer’s tickseed for its longstanding use as a wild dye plant, creating a range of deep-reddish-brown to yello...