This month’s featured native: spring queen (Synthris reniformis; also Veronica regina-nivalis in some taxonomies) Amid the heavy duff of a Pacific northwest forest understory, the observant hiker might spy the inconspicuous flowers […]
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This month’s featured native: kinnickinnick (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) Kinnickinnick, also known as bearberry (more on that later), is a low-growing evergreen shrub in the heather family (Ericaceae). Generally growing no more than about
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You rise in thickets From dunes, under Sitka spruce Glossy, evergreen. Or you blanket duff, Sheltering Douglas squirrels, Drinking wet fir stumps. Leather leaves, staggered On zig-zagging, hirsute stems You
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Golden poppy, California sunlight, cup of gold; whatever name you use, California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) brushes any landscape with gorgeous color throughout the growing season. This easy-to-grow plant–which can be
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This month’s featured native: Common tarweed (Madia elegans) Late-blooming natives in the aster family don’t stop with last month’s featured plant! The local flora includes two native tarweed species; this
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