Moisture-loving, sun-seeking plants, this native does well at all attitudes of the West and can present with flowers in yellow, white and tinged green, and blooms all summer, according to Ridling. Veronica gentianoides ‘Little Blues’ (Gentian speedwell)Īconitum columbianum (Columbian monkshood), in the buttercup family, has stems ranging between 2 and 6 feet, bearing palmate leaves and purple flowers with a top petal that folds, like a hood. It doesn’t need to be watered so easy,” Giguere said. Symphyotrichum chilense (formerly Aster chilensis Pacific aster), a native, stays low (1–3 feet high by 1–5 feet wide), never flops and blooms late with iridescent violet flowers, providing late pollen. A mountain plant that thrives in the valley, it grows up to 3 feet high and is a good lupine alternative, by Ridling’s standards. Thermopsis gracilis (slender goldenbanner) has yellow spring and summer flowers with the distinct shape and form of its legume family, and tends to stay evergreen deep into winter.
It’s a long-seasoned native bloomer, from May through July, reaching up to 24 inches by 12–24 inches wide, fitting well in the front of the border, according to Ridling. It works as a cut flower, and insects and pollinators are drawn to it.
Virgata (rose checkermallow), with dainty, soft pink flowers, thrives in the dry conditions of Oregon summers once established, although they benefit from some moisture. Ali Beck, production manager at JRT Nurseries (Aldergrove, BC, Canada), describes it as evergreen in mild winters, and it reaches 12–23 inches high by 12–18 inches wide. Polemonium yezoense ‘Purple Rain’ (purple leaf Jacob’s ladder) produces deep purple blooms on strong stems above a mound of fern-like leaves, that emerge a bronzy maroon and turn a deeper green in summer and in shade. Geranium oreganum (Oregon geranium) is a native with a showy, 2-inch bloom that fits well behind other ones, creeping up and out, on 18–30-inch-high by 6–18-inch-wide plants, according to Ridling. The new foliage on the semi-evergreen fern emerges red, turns green in summer, and then copper red in fall, and then plants reproduce by underground stems. The plants are ephemeral, so the fine-textured leaves can be gone by summer, but not always.ĭryopteris erythrosora ‘Prolifica’ (autumn fern) matures to a large 2 foot high and wide, and is refined, according to Ben VanderWerf at JRT Nurseries (Aldergrove, BC, Canada), with glossy foliage and a delicately dissected leaf. It grows 1–2 feet in sun and shade, with light pink blooms May through July, and will grow under rhododendron. “It has a large flower for a Castilleja that is pretty showy.” It blooms May to September, reaching 8–32 inches high.ĭicentra formosa (Western bleeding heart) is easy, for people who want natives, but don’t like ferns, according to Donna Giguere of Giguere Landscape Design (Portland, Oregon). Rare and known only from a few locations in southwestern Missouri, it may not occur in our state anymore.Symphyotrichum chilense (formerly Aster chilensis Pacific aster)Ĭastilleja miniata (scarlet paintbrush) is different than other paintbrushes for its ability to thrive in wet-to-dry conditions and low-to-high elevations, according to Mike Ridling, co-owner at Sevenoaks Native Nursery LLC in Albany, Oregon. purpurea) has purple bracts instead of red and has clustered flowering stems. It's found only in our far northwestern counties. sessiliflora) lacks the "paint," with only green bracts surrounding the flowers its flowers protrude noticeably beyond the bracts. Similar species: There are two other species of Castilleja in Missouri, both Species of Conservation Concern. Stem leaves alternate, stalkless, narrow to linear to 3-lobed with the central lobe wider and longer than the other 2.
Basal leaves formed during first year, short, oblong, with rounded ends. The actual flowers are inconspicuous, tubular, greenish-yellow, and nestled in the axils of the brilliantly colored bracts, which can be red, orange, or yellow. Indian paintbrush has hairy, upright stems with flowers clustered at the top.
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