Salal may be the first wild shrub I ever learned to identify. It was pointed out and named to me…
This was the native plant of the trip to Long Beach Peninsula last weekend, a plant that not only had…
I don’t usually post a subspecies as a profile, but the genus Potentilla is in flux. Pacific silverweed was a…
This delicate little member of the willowherb/evening primrose family (Onagraceae) is called enchanter’s nightshade, small enchanter’s nightshade, and alpine enchanter’s…
It is somewhat ironic that the most common common name for this plant in the family Berberidaceae is northern inside-out flower,…
I don’t know where I got this idea, but I had been under the impression that Geum macrophyllum was an introduced species.…
In the last decade the combination of morphological and genetic evidence has indicated that several of our cinquefoils (family Rosaceae)…
When I first found and identified this species a decade ago I knew it as Trientalis latifolia, in the family…
There are several common names for this species, from the utterly prosaic cow poison, poison delphinium, and poison larkspur, to…
In our region the family Aristolochiaceae (birthworts) is only represented by the genus Asarum. Asarum caudatum (most common common names…