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Shoot and sprouts
Barbed Goat Grass
Aegilops triuncialis
Grass
Invasive
a cluster of reddish brown samaras.
Tree of Heaven
Ailanthus altissima
Invasive
Garlic Mustard Alliaria petiolata Small plant with green heart shaped leaves
Garlic Mustard
Alliaria petiolata
Invasive
a cluster of pink flowers that droop
Nodding Allium
Allium cernuum
Native
Tall spire of smaller purple flowers with yellow and white stamen
Indigo Bush
Amorpha fruticosa
Invasive
The delicate, dusty pink starburst flowers of showy milkweed
Showy Milkweed
Asclepias speciosa
Native
close up leaf edges
False Brome
Brachypodium sylvaticum
Grass
Invasive
tapering spikes of purple flowers thrust out from lance shaped leaves
Butterfly Bush
Buddleja davidii
Invasive
Italian Thistle Carduus pycnocephalus Stalk with long spiky leaves and green spiky unopened flower pod
Italian Thistle
Carduus pycnocephalus
Invasive
Yellow flower coming out of a cluster of spiky leaves
Woolly Distaff Thistle
Carthamus lanatus
Invasive
an attractive evergreen shrub; low growing with clusters of white flowers at tips.
Snowbrush
Ceanothus velutinus
Native
a mound of starburst leaves and purple tipped white flowers with long spines surrounded by dry, bare earth.
Iberian Starthistle
Centaurea iberica
Invasive
Meadow Knapweed Centaurea pratensis Purple flowers on long stems
Meadow Knapweed
Centaurea pratensis (aka Centaurea jacea x nigra, Centaurea debeauxii ssp. thuillieri)
Invasive
Two spiky flower heads, on spiky stems, with yellow flower
Yellow Starthistle
Centaurea solstitialis
Invasive
Slender stalks with flower buds opening up to whispy purple thin petalled flowers. Bracts have dark tips.
Spotted Knapweed
Centaurea stoebe
Invasive
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
Native
Canada Thistle Cirsium arvense Flower pods with small purple tufts
Canada Thistle
Cirsium arvense
Invasive
Old Man's Beard Clematis vitalba Tree with white flowers
Old Man’s Beard
Clematis vitalba
Invasive
Poison Hemlock Conium maculatum Large stalk with several limbs with clusters of white flowers
Poison Hemlock
Conium maculatum
Invasive
Mound of green grass blades with spires of tall poofy seed stalks
Pampas or Jubata Grass
Cortaderia spp.
Grass
Invasive
Crataegus suksdorfii, a triploid form, Castlegar BC, Canada
Suksdorf’s Hawthorn
Crataegus x suksdorfii
Native
White furred legume family seed pods
Portuguese Broom
Cytisus striatus
Invasive
Oblong tapered leaf with serated edges
Cutleaf Teasel
Dipsacus laciniatus
Invasive
Small plant with alternate stems of purple showy flowers
Paterson’s Curse
Echium plantagineum
Invasive
pretty purple flowers with green foliage
Denseflower Spikeprimrose
Epilobium densiflorum
Native
Stemps with small white bell shaped flowers
Spanish Heath
Erica lusitanica
Invasive
up close photo of bright orange flowers
California Poppy
Eschscholzia californica
Native
Cluster of small green and yellow flowers
Leafy Spurge
Euphorbia esula
Invasive
Japanese Knotweed Fallopia japonica Large green bushy shrub with tall stalks of opposite heart shaped leaves
Knotweeds
Fallopia/Polygonum spp.
Invasive
Side view of typical carrot family flower umbels with yellow flowers.
Fennel
Foeniculum vulgare
Invasive
Roots and stems with oval opposite leaves
Goatsrue
Galega officinalis
Invasive
Tall green shrub with small green leaves
French Broom
Genista monspessulana
Invasive
Shiny Geranium
Geranium lucidum
Invasive
Stem with yellow flowers and poofy seed head
Meadow Hawkweed
Hieracium pratense or caespitosum or Pilosella caespitosa
Invasive
Close up of several yellow 5 petaled flowers
St. Johnswort
Hypericum perforatum
Invasive
Policeman’s Helmet Impatiens glandulifera Several purple and white flowers on small stems
Policeman’s Helmet
Impatiens glandulifera
Invasive
Yellow flowers and green and dried seed pods
Dyer’s Woad
Isatis tinctoria
Invasive
bunches of soft rush growing in standing water
Pacific Rush
Juncus effusus
Native
Small plant with long slender leaves and purple showy flowers
Perennial Peavine
Lathyrus latifolius
Invasive
Single flower with white petals and yellow center
Oxeye Daisy
Leucanthemum vulgare
Invasive
waxy lanceolate foliage and small white flower panicles
Privet
Ligustrum vulgare
Invasive
the ornamemtal orange tiger lily flower with reddish brown freckles
Columbia Lily
Lilium columbianum
Native
Group of long green stems covered in small yellow flowers
Dalmatian Toadflax
Linaria dalmatica ssp. dalmatica
Invasive
Evergreen Bugloss Pentaglottis sempervirens Small blue 5 pedalled flower on tear dropped shaped hairy leaves
Evergreen Bugloss
Pentaglottis sempervirens
Invasive
Large green shrub
Mile-a-Minute
Persicaria perfoliata
Invasive
Intersection of stem and long slender leaves
Common Reed
Phragmites australis ssp. australis
Grass
Invasive
Pokeweed Phytolacca americana Several small blue/purple berries on red stalk
Pokeweed
Phytolacca americana
Invasive
Small Plant with long slender smooth leaves and a stem with small yellow flower
Mouse-Ear Hawkweed
Pilosella officinarum
Invasive
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