This perennial buttercup is provides an excellent pop of color to a sunny prairie or partially shaded woodland garden. It is often one of the first forbs to pop up in early spring around the Willamette Valley. The leaves are often basal, deeply lobed, and visibly fuzzy. Flowers are yellow with 5 round petals. Great companion species to plant with alongside camas.

A showy perennial with profuse pink-to-purple flowers. Flowers have 5 separate petals and leaves are deeply dissected and visibly fuzzy. This is one of the very few native geranium species in Oregon!

Western Goldenrod has showy yellow flower sprays that bloom in late summer. The flowers are valuable to butterflies, bees, and other insects. It is a very fast growing rhizomatous plant that forms dense bright patches on open land. Often forms colonies. (Search google images for photos, none available to post here that aren’t copyrighted.)

It’s hard to photographically convey the delicate beauty of western meadow rue. You may see this leafy plant when walking the trails at Peavy Arboretum. Compound leaves with three-lobed leaflets. The male and female flowers are found on different plants. Flowering from early to mid-summer, the male flowers have dangling purple anthers and the female flowers are upright clusters. Meadow rue makes a…

Elegant, white three-petaled flowers that fade to reddish purple. Some color morphs are deep red to magenta. Plants take 4-7 years to bloom, but the showy flowers are worth the wait! Also known as "Wake Robin" due to its unofficial designation as the harbinger of spring. They usually do well in shaded to partly shaded, moist woodland gardens, or even just moist (but well drained) areas on the…

This trillium species features three large leaves with distinct mottled patern and three-petaled, sessile white flowers growing up from the center. It can be seen along the trails of McDonald Forest and other forested slopes from Oregon to California. Blooms March-May.

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Perennial herbaceous plant with yellow ray and disc flowers. The entire plant is sticky with resin that has a pleasant scent. The stem and leaves are visibly hairy and shiny. Important late-season pollen source. Flowers from June to November.

Yampah, best planted in clumps, blooms in the summer and is reminiscent of Queen Anne’s Lace, with umbels of small white flowers and delicate grass-like foliage. This perennial in the carrot family relies on insects for pollination. 

Flat-topped white flower on fern-like aromatic leaves. Great for dried flower arrangements.

Bilaterally symmetrical, showy, yellow, flowers with red spots. Blooms in late fall.