Plants

  • Aruncus sylvester (dioica) – Goats beard

    Description: rhizomatous perennial (3-6 ft.) with large pinnately compound leaves and creamy plumes of flowers in later spring to summer.…

  • Aquilegia formosa – Western Columbine

    Description: The Northwest’s most common columbine is a hummingbird and butterfly favorite and a beauty! Aquilegia formosa can be found…

  • Antennarria sp. – Pussytoes

    Description: mat-forming perennial with compacts heads of greenish flowers with white bracts in summer. Good dried flower. Attractive rock garden…

  • Anaphalis margaritacea – Pearly Everlasting

    Description: 1-2 foot perennial that quickly spreads by underground roots. The wooly flowers are actually flower heads of tiny disc…

  • Allium cernuum – Nodding Onion

    Description: a wild onion (12″) common along coastal bluffs. It has nodding pink & white flowers in spring. Good choice…

  • Achillea millefolium – Common yarrow

    Description: perennial (1/2 – 2 ft.) with flat-topped inflorescences of white flowers and fern-like, aromatic green foliage. Good dried flower.…

  • Stream-Bank Lupine – Lupinus rivularis

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

  • Common Camas – Camassia quamash

    Description: Bulbous perennial (8-24″), smaller than Great Camas (Camassia leichtlinii), with grass-like leaves and brilliant pale blue to deep purple…

  • Achlys triphylla – Vanilla Leaf

    Description: perennial (1 ft.) with a single three-bladed leaf per stem. Dainty white flower spikes appear in spring. Vanilla leaf…