Pacific Northwest

A beautiful garden plant that loves wet soils. The common name notwithstanding, sneezeweed doesn’t cause sneezing. Rather the big bulbous flower ce...

Like its relatives -- camas, brodiaea, and triteleia -- ookow produces an edible underground structure (a bulb-like corm in this case), and was onc...

Famed for ancient ethnobotanical traditions, beargrass is not a grass at all, but rather a member of the corn-lily family. It’s also an icon of wes...

A tough, but lush, clumpy grass that can support butterfly caterpillars, grazing mammals, and even function as a lawn grass. Like a number of other...

Possibly THE BEST native turf grass in North America – one that can be left in long and swaying, or closely mowed like a manicured lawn. Native fro...

Occurring from British Columbia to Baja, spring gold is one of the first meadow plants to flower every year – typically first showing off its radia...

This tough annual wildflower is normally found east of the Cascades, however, ours originates from the small, separate populations occurring on cli...

A Pacific coast form of creeping red fescue for lush, soft, exuberant wild lawns – and for filling gaps between other plant species. Contrasting sl...

Possibly the earliest blooming meadow wildflower in the west, grass widows shows up in early spring, when the weather is still blustery and cold. I...

An extraordinary long-blooming honey plant, regularly producing nectar of more than 20% sugar concentrations (sometimes concentrations of more than...

A gorgeous and striking little annual wildflower with pink to deep red flowers. Red maids, has an incredible natural range, occurring from British ...

Broadleaf lupine is very important host plant for many butterfly caterpillars, including the Persius duskywing (Erynnis persius), Queen Alexandra’s...

This is one of the lesser common things in our inventory, an oddly plain, and yet uncanny plant -- something of a mystery --but one dripping with l...

This is one of the most deeply enigmatic wildflowers we’ve encountered, a mysterious forest dweller, blooming as a large, white, ghostly apparition...

Humble toad rush is one of our favorite plants. At only 2 to 6-inches tall, this annual grass-like plant scarcely gets any attention. Yet for us it...

Our Most Deer-Resistant Plant! Occurring from British Columbia to California, this diminutive iris-relative grows ridiculously well in very wet, bo...

A great colonizer for disturbed sites, rain gardens, and seasonally flooded spots! Also known as denseflower willowherb, this annual relative of fi...

An extremely showy plant! Much like its relative arrowleaf balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata), Puget balsamroot forms clumps of thick, rough-textu...

An outstanding wildlife plant for wild lawns and every kind of meadow. Despite the fact that this small perennial, climbing, twining wildflower occ...

Canada milkvetch is a robust perennial legume that’s also a bumble bee magnet once it starts flowering. Grouped plantings in particular typically p...

This gorgeous white meadowfoam is a selected population from Oregon, characterized by big seeds, abundant milky-white flowers, and unique red stems...

An overlooked, and structurally interesting meadow plant, that is an excellent food source for wildlife. This annual member of the rose family is n...

We know a spot...a mowed, grassy parking lot, of thin, sandy, compacted soil. It’s a place where saltwater from the close-by beach saturates the ro...

A ridiculously long-blooming plant with a flowering period from late spring to fall.  Widespread across western North America -- from parts of the ...