Pacific Northwest

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...

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

The Great Central Plain of California…was one smooth, continuous bed of honey-bloom, so marvelously rich that, in walking from one end of it to th...

Oregon geranium is a soft-leaved spring perennial, a woodland edge and oak savanna species that is luminous in filtered light. Pollinated by small ...

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

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...

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

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...

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

Found in coastal dune settings across the northern Pacific (from the Russian far east to Oregon), big head sedge is an excitingly odd graminoid. Ye...

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 ...

Sedges can be enigmatic and inscrutable for many of us. There's such an expansive diversity of species that it can be a bit confounding not only to...

This fuzzy little plant has been called “unassuming.”  We think that’s laughable.  First, it’s an annual that grows hyperfast, in colonies, on newl...

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...