Wetlands

Plant Database
A full white alder tree in a neighborhood. Tree is probably 20-30' tall with a full yet narrow canopy.
White Alder
Alnus rhombifolia
Cluster of small white and pink flowers
Flowering Rush
Butomus umbellatus
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 rounded tuft of foothill sedge with thin leaves that are pretty straight.
Foothill Sedge
Carex tumulicola
Tufted Hair Grass (Kalapuya) Deschampsia cespitosa Clump of grass with seed heads
Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
Oblong tapered leaf with serated edges
Cutleaf Teasel
Dipsacus laciniatus
a yellow flower with red dots in the center
Seep Monkeyflower
Erythranthe guttata
Lesser Celandine Ficaria verna Ground cover with geen heart shaped leaves and small yellow flowers
Lesser Celandine
Ficaria verna (formerly Ranunculus ficaria)
Side view of typical carrot family flower umbels with yellow flowers.
Fennel
Foeniculum vulgare
Oregon Ash Fraxinus latifolia Large ogblong smooth leaves
Oregon Ash
Fraxinus latifolia
Roots and stems with oval opposite leaves
Goatsrue
Galega officinalis
a patch of meadow barley with reddish brown inflorescences
Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
Policeman’s Helmet Impatiens glandulifera Several purple and white flowers on small stems
Policeman’s Helmet
Impatiens glandulifera
the grass leaves fall flat to the ground and outward from center.
Rice Cutgrass
Leersia oryzoides
the large palmate leaves and purple to white flowers of large leaf lupine
Bigleaf Lupine
Lupinus polyphyllus
Tall spiky plant with spiky leaves on spiky stem
Scotch Thistle
Onopordum acanthium
a characteristic carrot family umbel of small white flowers with an orange and black butterfly visitor
Oregon Yampah
Perideridea oregana
umbel of small white carrot family flowers
Gairdner’s Yampah
Perideridia gairdneri
Large green shrub
Mile-a-Minute
Persicaria perfoliata
Ribbongrass
Phalaris arundinacea var. picta
Intersection of stem and long slender leaves
Old World Common Reed
Phragmites australis ssp. australis
balls of small white fuzzy looking flowers
Pacific Ninebark
Physocarpus capitatus
a stand of tall thin closely packed trees
Quaking Aspen
Populus tremuloides
Shiny, heart shaped leaves of black cottonwood
Black Cottonwood
Populus trichocarpa
green leaves, opposite are lance shaped, purple flowers on top
Lance-Leaved Heal-All
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata
leaf that is pinnately compound with 5-7 toothed leaflets.
Swamp Rose
Rosa pisocarpa
Western Coneflower
Rudbeckia occidentalis
Linear to lance shaped grey green willow leaves
Pacific Willow
Salix lasiandra var. lasiandra
Sitka Willow
Salix sitchensis
Rose Checkermallow Sidalcea virgata Green stem with large showy purple flowers
Rose Checkermallow
Sidalcea asprella ssp. virgata
Blue Eyed Grass Sisyrinchium idahoense Single 5 petalled purple flower with yellow center
Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium idahoense
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