I love weeds! Possibly I’d feel different if I was a gardener, but since I’m not, and I live in…
This beautiful member of the rose family has many common names, including western hardhack, Douglas’ spiraea, steeplebush, and western, pink…
This member of the family Cornaceae (dogwoods) is an allotetraploid hybrid of Cornus canadensis and C. suecica. Being tetraploid it…
This beautiful member of the family Onagraceae (willowherbs and evening primrose) is known as fireweed in most of western North…
This handsome shrub in the family Rosaceae is common to abundant in the Douglas fir dominated forests of our region.…
This member of the family Polygonaceae goes by the common names of arrowleaf buckwheat, heartleaf buckwheat, and northern buckwheat, and…
I have heard people refer to this member of the family Asteraceae as wooly sunflowers, but that is more properly…
These wonderful plants in the family Campanulaceae (bellflowers), which are native throughout the northern Northern Hemisphere, have many common names…
Just 3 weeks ago when I was up on the Ridge with Craig and William Sondergaard this species was just…
Though I’ve thought that I had found these fairly distinctive and interesting members of the rose family before, I had…