Plants

  • Mimulus guttatus – Yellow Monkeyflower

    Description: A long-blooming monkeyflower (spring through fall) with brilliant yellow flowers and rounded, green leaves. Its height is variable (3…

  • Mimulus cardinalis – Red monkeyflower

    Description: a long-blooming (spring through fall) perennial with scarlet flowers and pale green, sticky leaves. It will grow 2 to…

  • Mimulus aurantiacus – Bush Monkeyflower

    Description: a woody monkeyflower with yellow to orange flowers (spring to fall). It grows 2 to 4 feet round, but…

  • Maianthemum dilatatum – False Lily of the Valley

    Description: an aggressive groundcover for moist shade. Short stems (2-4″) hold up glossy, heart-shaped leaves and racemes of tiny, white…

  • Lysichitum americanum – Skunk Cabbage

    Description: striking perennial with huge green leaves (2-3 ft, 1 foot wide) that push out from the ground. Its unusual…

  • Lupinus rivularis – Stream-Bank Lupine

    Description: herbaceous perennial (3-4 ft. round) with reddish stems and small, palmately compound leaves. Its racemes of purple flowers are…

  • Lupinus polyphyllus – Large-Leaved Lupine

    Description: a large (4 ft. round) perennial with tall spires of fragrant purple flowers and robust, palmate leaves. Good bee…

  • Lonicera hispidula – Hairy Honeysuckle

    Description: evergreen vine with small pink flowers enjoyed by hummingbirds. Foliage turns bronzy purple in winter. Hairy honeysuckle also works…

  • Lonicera ciliosa – Orange Honeysuckle

    Description: This deciduous vine has orange, trumpet-shaped flowers, 1-1 1/2 inches long, May to July. Trumpet Honeysuclke inhabits wooded slopes…

  • Linum perenne var. lewisii – Western blue flax

    Description: an incredible wildflower (1-2 ft.) with lacy foliage and bright blue, open flowers spring to summer. Lovely with Festuca…