Plants

  • Rosa pisocarpa – Clustered Rose

    Description: deciduous shrub (to 6 ft.) with clusters of 2-10 flowers. Part sun/shade, moist sites best.

  • Elymus glaucus – Blue Wild Rye

    Description: cool season, perennial bunchgrass (2-3 ft.) with bluish leaves and slender flower spikes (summer). Blue wild rye spreads rapidly…

  • Rosa nootkana – Nootka Rose

    Description: A deciduous shrub (to 7 ft.) with large, solitary, pink flowers and purplish hips. Blooms May-July. Rose hips are…

  • Eleocharis palustris – Creeping Spikerush

    Description: perennial sedge with rounded stems (1-3 ft.) and creeping rhizomes. The seeds form late spring through summer, and provide…

  • Rosa gymnocarpa – Baldhip Rose

    Description: finely branched, deciduous shrub (to 6 ft.). The pink flowers are borne singly or in clusters up to four…

  • Ribes sanguineum – Red-Flowering Currant

    Description: This striking deciduous shrub, introduced to horticulture by David Douglas in 1826, has been a garden favorite ever since.…

  • Eleocharis ovata – Ovoid spike-rush

    Description: tufted annual (2-25″) for wet, muddy sites. Sun, regular water.

  • Ribes lacustre – Prickly currant, swamp currant

    Description: spiny, deciduous shrub (to 4 ft.). Prickly currant has small, lobed leaves, greenish flowers, and purplish berries. Part sun,…

  • Deschampsia caespitosa – Tufted Hairgrass

    Description: evergreen (with regular water) bunchgrass (1-2 ft.) for wet prairies and moist meadows. Delicate panicles of flowers appear in…

  • Ribes aureum – Golden Currant

    Description: An erect deciduous shrub (3-7 ft.). The yellow flowers are larger than the flowers of other currants, but the…