Probably almost everyone reading this has had at least one painful encounter with stinging nettles, and has hopefully already learned…
I don’t often find Frangula purshiana (also known as cascara buckthorn, bearberry, cascara, cascara sagrada, chittam bark, coffee-tree) in isolated spots where…
This beautiful member of the rose family has many common names, including western hardhack, Douglas’ spiraea, steeplebush, and western, pink…
This handsome shrub in the family Rosaceae is common to abundant in the Douglas fir dominated forests of our region.…
Though I’ve thought that I had found these fairly distinctive and interesting members of the rose family before, I had…
When it is blooming, Aruncus dioicous is unmistakable. Nothing else has those panicles with thin racemes of tiny white flowers.…
I had never identified this pretty but easily overlooked member of the family Rosaceae, which goes by the common names…
I don’t usually post a subspecies as a profile, but the genus Potentilla is in flux. Pacific silverweed was a…
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)…