This beautiful member of the family Onagraceae (willowherbs and evening primrose) is known as fireweed in most of western North…
There is a real lack of information available for this species of Crambid moth. This is the only one I’ve…
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…
Please allow me to start off with a bit of pedantry. Bumble bee is two words, because they are, in…
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;…