Plants For Mountain Meadow

Fireweed is a 2-3' perennial covered with 1" pink flowers. The name Fireweed originated as it's a pioneer plant, one that is one of the first plants emerging after a fire Excellent to enhance a woodl... Learn more.

Giant Helleborine or Stream Orchid, Epipactis gigantea,  is a perennial orchid that grows in wet or moist places. Stream Orchid will go dormant at the first sign of drought. Grows all over the West ... Learn more.

This Horsetail is wide ranging throughout the world with a very complicated species complex. (Equisetum hiemale, Hippochaete hiemale var. californica) Learn more.

This form came (with permission) from the Forest Service camp at Mono Lake. This is a California form of a plant that is very wide ranging that grows in middle elevations in Calif. and across the U.S.... Learn more.

The Mokelumne form of Western Fescue, Which I can't find any information on. To add to the confusion some are mislabeled Festuca occidentalis, Mokelmne. After spending hours looking I gave up. So the ... Learn more.

California Geranium is a perennial, pink flowers, June-July, damp meadows, high elevations, Sierra Nevada, a rock garden subject, has flourished here with reg. water, very hardy. We've seen them on th... Learn more.

Sticky Geranium is a six inch to one foot tall perennial with one inch pink flowers with reddish-purple lines on the petals and lovely dissected leaves. It flowers from June through August. Sticky Ger... Learn more.

This Geum grows in moutain meadows, along trails, springs and seeps at higher elevations in California. In Canada and the rest of the northern hemisphere Big Leaf Avens grows all the way down to sea ... Learn more.

Mountain helenium is a foot or so perennial herb with yellow daisy-like flowers 3 inches across native to wet meadows, high elevations, Sierra Nevada. It needs part-shade to sun, regular water. Owl... Learn more.

Meadow Barley grows from Baja California to Labrador, New Mexico to Alaska. A tufted perennial for an interest plant next to a pond or along a moist path. Looks lush with a little water. syn. H. no... Learn more.

Commonly grows in fields dominated by alien grasses and weeds (Bromus diandrus, Agrostis sp. Erodium sp. Hordeum jubatum, etc) grazed, no trees in evidence, north slope, soil clay/serpentine, many ... Learn more.

This Horkelia grows in our mountains from the Big Bear area across to Mt. Pinos and in the higher mountains up into Monterey County. A low green, aromatic perennial that is a magnet for native insects... Learn more.

Western Blue Flag is native from S. Dakota to southern California to B.C.. This Iris is a foot or so high perennial with 2-3 inch, pale lavender flowers. Western Blue Flag grows at higher elevations,... Learn more.

Baltic Rush grows in the Baltic Sea area, Canada from Labrador across and down into so. CA., also in S. A. It forms stiff clumps arising from runners and grows around water sources. If you have regula... Learn more.

A rather nondescript spike of green until it flowers. Flowers make a creamy delicate cloud on top of this delicate bunch of stuff that looked like grass. Native from Paso Robles down California in th... Learn more.

Western rush occurs in spots throughout the west. Never in covering hillsides, always in a nook or cranny that is seasonally wet in winter and dry in summer. This is a very nice looking plant that sho... Learn more.

A very big coarse Rush that has edges. I have seen these rushes in only two spots so far, both in the mountains, one in Sequoia at 7500 ft and one in Mt. Abel area at 5000 ft. (It does grow every wher... Learn more.

A creeping rush of meadows and creeks. It looks like a small Iris leaved thicket with stars on top. Give water, sun and water. It does not care as long as it has water. You can almost plant in under w... Learn more.

Lilium parryi, Lemon Lily, has large 3 inch wide and 4 inch long lemon yellow flowers that have a delightful fragrance. Lemon Lily is native from middle to high elevations in southern California and ... Learn more.

Sierra Tiger Lily or Alpine Lily grows up in the Sierras This little lily grows along streams and meadows in the Eastern Sierras at near the summits. Learn more.

Lilium wigginsii, Wiggins Lily,  plant that looks like a delicate Leopard Lily. This lily grows in bogs, creeks, lakes and seeps  up on both sides of the California Oregon Border under Douglas Fir, W... Learn more.

High elevation perennial that grows in wet seeps in and around snow fields. Large very showy blue flowers. They seem to be hardy to -10 in open areas with no snow. It froze out of here Dec. 1990. If y... Learn more.

(Machaeranthera asteroides var. lagunensis)A wonderful perennial from around Big Bear down through San Diego County and into Baja. A meadow/open forest/ chaparral species that grows well in an english... Learn more.

A hybrid of three California native Oregon grapes. It's always been confusing calling a Mahonia or Berberis Oregon Grape. It's not a grape and they are native from California up in to Idaho and Britis... Learn more.

A seep monkey flower from the forests of central and northern California. Click here for more about Monkeys in Learn more.