Pacific Northwest

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

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

Remarkably colorful and drought-adapted, blanketflower is a dryland native perennial, occurring across the inland west from eastern British Columbi...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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,...

Plant in masses with this large-pack. Dream-like, low growing, and robin’s egg blue (with white centers), this abounding little annual adds a vibra...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A soft-textured, native ‘turf-type’ yarrow selection suitable almost nationwide for flowering wild lawns. Although very much a wild plant, and name...

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...

One of the most adaptable native grasses for meadow landscaping. This is one of the first grasses we recommend for people trying to incorporate nat...

Sea thrift is a circumpolar species found along coastlines from the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Northern Europe. It is best adapted to harsh coa...

An excellent butterfly nectar plant. In Washington and British Columbia this handsome native mint occurs mostly east of the Cascades. Further south...

Our favorite bumble bee plant! Also know as shade phacelia for it’s tolerance of partially-shaded conditions, this unique plant naturally occurs th...