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…
One of the great joys of spring in the western Cascades is finding Avalanche Lilies, sometimes in large aggregations with…
Possibly it’s because orange is one of the colors that really ‘pops’ in a landscape for these color blind eyes;…
Though I’ve thought that I had found these fairly distinctive and interesting members of the rose family before, I had…
This distinctive member of the family Melaniaceae (corn lily) can be very common in subalpine settings, it’s tall, stalked flowering…
When it is blooming, Aruncus dioicous is unmistakable. Nothing else has those panicles with thin racemes of tiny white flowers.…
This subtly beautiful member of the family Liliaceae goes by various common names, including Cascade mariposa lily, mountain mariposa, subalpine…