Riparian Areas

Plant Database
Grand Fir
Abies grandis
Vine Maple, Acer circinatum, Stem with green vine maple leaves
Vine Maple
Acer circinatum
Big Leaf Maple Crown
Bigleaf Maple
Acer macrophyllum
Western Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
Vanilla Leaf
Achlys triphylla
A full white alder tree in a neighborhood. Tree is probably 20-30' tall with a full yet narrow canopy.
White Alder
Alnus rhombifolia
serviceberry clusters of white flowers
Western Serviceberry
Amelanchier alnifolia
curled flower with white hairs and orange petals
Menzies’ Fiddleneck
Amsinckia menziesii var. intermedia
whole madrone tree
Pacific Madrone
Arbutus menziesii
a carpet of kinnikinnick in bloom
Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
a patch of mugwort with thin leaved green foliage along upright non-woody stems
Douglas’ Sagewort
Artemisia douglasiana
heart shaped ginger leaves
Wild Ginger
Asarum caudatum
The delicate, dusty pink starburst flowers of showy milkweed
Showy Milkweed
Asclepias speciosa
loosely arranged compound leaves of lady fern with deeply dissected leaflets
Lady Fern
Athyrium filix-femina
water birch leaf - serrate edge
Water Birch
Betula occidentalis
deer fern fronds viewed from above
Deer Fern
Blechnum spicant
Alaska yellow-cedar
Callitropsis nootkatensis
a spike of star shaped purple camas flowers
Great Camas
Camassia leichtlinii ssp suksdorfii
a field of camas mixed with grasses
Common Camas
Camassia quamash
a specimen showing leaf and inflorescence
Big-Leaf Sedge
Carex amplifolia
a single chamisso sedge with leaves a littl eunder half the height of the inflorescence stalks, which rise above and nod
Chamisso Sedge
Carex pachystachya
Buckbrush Ceanothus cuneatus stem with clusters of small white flowers and glossy oval leaves
Buckbrush
Ceanothus cuneatus
Port Orford Cedar
Chamaecyparis lawsoniana
a patch of fireweed with spires of purple flowers that taper to a point atop green spears of small lance shaped leaves
Fireweed
Chamerion angustifolium
Western Bunchberry
Cornus unalaschkensis
Beaked Hazelnut Corylus cornuta var californica Stem with large green serated edged leaves
Beaked Hazelnut
Corylus cornuta var. californica
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