Wild Food Plants

The most important historical native food plant in the Northwest Native across the Pacific Northwest and Northern California, the stunning violet...

Available in packets for the first time! Native to from Northern California to Alaska, this low growing plant was formerly abundant along coastal b...

Edible greens, traditional medicine, and wildlife value! Self-heal, or heal-all is a classic Northwestern meadow plant -- a cheerful blue-flowering...

Pre-Order Now For Fall 2024 Shipping (Shipping starts late October 2024). Native across much of the West, the stunning violet-blue flowers of camas...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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 ...

Also known as chocolate lily or rice root, this is a sublime, but challenging to grow plant of Northwestern prairies, oak savannahs, and shore pine...

A fascinating native member of the carrot family. Blooming at roughly the same time as camas, this unusual-looking plant creates a dazzling color c...

Also known as duck potato or arrowroot, Wapato is an acclaimed wild food plant, producing versatile edible tubers that can be prepared like potatoe...

Members of this genus are some of the most well-known North American wild food plants. And common yampah is one of the most widespread, adaptable, ...

There's much that could be said about humble yet glorious fireweed. The classic colonizer of wildfire scarred landscapes (hence the name), recently...

This is a one of those rare gems of forest clearings and open meadows that was likely much more common in the past. Along with habitat loss, this p...

One of our best pollinator plants! At up to 7 feet in height with massive white umbels and large leaves over a foot in width, this is not your aver...

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

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

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...

An ancient and modern herbal remedy and wild food plant. Extremely long-lived and very early blooming – Fernleaf biscuit root sometimes flowers sho...

Possibly the largest and showiest of our native onions, as the name suggests, this is a species of damp spaces. All parts of this 3-foot-tall plant...

A Brief Seasonal Offering (25% Off Through January 31 - Discount Applied at Checkout): Garry oak (also sometimes described as Oregon white oak) nat...