Pacific Northwest

Oregon checkermallow, belongs to the margins—the slightly damp edges – the prairie draws where a trace of water flows below the surrounding wild gr...

Silky lupine shows up where the soil is thin, the sun relentless, and ancient stories are written upon the landscape. Its silver-soft leaves catch ...

This plant is a quiet remnant of a landscape left behind. Tapping deep into the soil like an old memory, this native legume of the Inland West is a...

Distantly related to the European horehound (used in candy flavoring), American water horehound is a native mint with interestingly toothed leaves,...

The essence of coastal vegetation, American dunegrass (called sea lyme in old speak), is a circumpolar perennial grass, occurring both across the N...

Defiant and otherworldly. Crimson and silver. This western thistle is a plant of some certain magnificence. And, it most certainly is not a weed. ...

Don’t let the common name deceive you, this isn’t a sticky plant in the sense that it is very wet or tacky, but rather it is a plant covered in fin...

An excellently bunchy, leafy, long-lived western forb of dry, low fertility soils.  Roundleaf alumroot lives life on cliffs, rocky outcrops, and ta...

Named for enormous underground tubers that can grow to the size of an adult human, this exceptional native cucumber relative is a perennial vine. ...

Subtle, and low-growing, Spanish clover isn’t a wildflower that gets a lot of attention, but this mounding annual legume is an under-acknowledged b...

Beach pea is a quite glorious sprawling perennial adapted to coastal sand and gravel substrates. It emerges clambering from driftwood strewn shores...

Yes, it looks like a dandelion, but, no, it isn’t a dandelion. Larger (up to almost 2-feet tall!), and quite ridiculously popular with many flower ...

Nineleaf biscuitroot possesses a fantastically pleasing form. Structurally it’s comprised of super-attractive slender compound leaflets which look ...

How can shallow, muddy, sometimes polluted ground give rise to something as beautiful as this? Woolgrass is a clumping wetland emergent species, a...

Western peony is a supremely interesting and attractive oddity of a wildflower. Consisting of slightly fleshy foliage (i.e. glaucous), big lobed le...

The most vibrant population of Menzies’ larkspur we’ve ever encountered was in a low, sandy coastal back dune, a stone’s throw from a small acrid-s...

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

Some people look across a grassy canopy, and see a sort of green blur or tangle of semi-uniformity. This isn’t necessarily an inaccurate impression...

A prolific re-seeding annual, a small plant that turns hillsides ocean blue in spring, and a plant that can often persist among invasives…those are...

Kamchatka lily is one of the more enigmatic wildflowers of the northern Pacific coast – a plant of foggy mornings, damp coastal grounds, bears, anc...

Not a grass, but rather a small iris-relative wearing a grassy disguise. California blue-eyed grass occupies a more limited southerly range than o...

While we aren’t yet ready to call this a landrace variety, this chives population has does quite well for us in the maritime rain shadow region of ...

The flower petals of this native West Coast lily are frequently (and justifiably) compared to the fuzzy ears of cat. They might also be compared to...

A sprawling green and golden ground cover. That might be the best way to describe this shorter, clumping relative of taller, more upright gumweed s...