Orange honeysuckle
You can find orange honeysuckle (Lonicera ciliosa) climbing trees and clambering over the ground in the woods on both sides of the Cascades;…
Category: Featured Natives
Wildflower quiz!
I made time last week to venture up to Colockum Pass above Wenatchee. There is a rough road leading to this area at…
A key shrub for butterflies
If you want to attract butterflies to your landscape you’ll want to have as rich a diversity of native plants as possible, and…
Showy milkweed – common and extraordinary
Most residents of Eastern Washington are familiar with this plant, whether they know it or not. Often growing in rather bare areas or…
Columbia lewisia – cheerful and helpful!
Central Washington has some gorgeous species from the Portulacaceae, among them the Western spring beauties (Claytonia lanceolata) that begin the season, the striking…