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)…
While I have always called this member of the family Rosaceae western serviceberry, there is a lengthy list of colloquial…
This native shrub is quite the useful member of the Rosaceae family, providing nearly year around food to various forest…
It is always a happy day when I find my first blooming Oemleria cerasiformis of the year, because I know…
Anyone living in the PNW is probably all too familiar with the mounded and sharply thorned canes of the Himalayan…