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Plant Database
Grand Fir
Abies grandis
Native
A triangular conifer form with branches swooping upwards
Noble Fir
Abies procera
Native
Vine Maple, Acer circinatum, Stem with green vine maple leaves
Vine Maple
Acer circinatum
Native
Rocky Mountain Maple
Acer glabrum
Native
Big Leaf Maple Crown
Bigleaf Maple
Acer macrophyllum
Native
Western Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
Native
Vanilla-Leaf
Achlys triphylla
Native
Pacific Hound’s Tongue
Adelinia grandis
Native
Western Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum aleuticum
Native
Spike Bentgrass
Agrostis exarata
Native
Garlic Mustard Alliaria petiolata Small plant with green heart shaped leaves
Garlic Mustard
Alliaria petiolata
Invasive
Tapertip Onion
Allium acuminatum
Native
a field of narrowleaf allium in bloom with pinkish flower clusters
Narrowleaf Allium
Allium amplectens
Native
a cluster of pink flowers that droop
Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
Native
A full white alder tree in a neighborhood. Tree is probably 20-30' tall with a full yet narrow canopy.
White Alder
Alnus rhombifolia
Native
a young branch of red alder green leaves are pinnately veined, obtuse to elliptic in shape
Red Alder
Alnus rubra
Native
Palmer Amaranth
Amaranthus palmeri
Invasive
serviceberry clusters of white flowers
Western Serviceberry
Amelanchier alnifolia
Native
whole madrone tree
Pacific Madrone
Arbutus menziesii
Native
Hairy Manzanita
Arctostaphylos columbiana
Native
a carpet of kinnikinnick in bloom
Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Native
a tight, semi-spherical cluster of small pink sea thrift flowers at the top of a stem
Sea Thrift
Armeria maritima
Native
a patch of mugwort with thin leaved green foliage along upright non-woody stems
Douglas’ Sagewort
Artemisia douglasiana
Native
whole plant showing plumes of inflorescences and mounded leaves
Sylvan Goatsbeard
Aruncus dioicus
Native
heart shaped ginger leaves
Wild Ginger
Asarum caudatum
Native
The delicate, dusty pink starburst flowers of showy milkweed
Showy Milkweed
Asclepias speciosa
Native
loosely arranged compound leaves of lady fern with deeply dissected leaflets
Lady Fern
Athyrium filix-femina
Native
Chaparral Broom
Baccharis pilularis
Native
holly like leaves and cluster of small yellow flowers
Tall Oregon Grape
Berberis aquifolium
Native
Cascade Oregon Grape Mahonia nervosa Stems with large green glossy opposite leaves
Cascade Oregon Grape
Berberis nervosa
Native
prickly holly-like leaflets and clusters of small petalled yellow flowers
Creeping Oregon Grape
Berberis repens
Native
water birch leaf - serrate edge
Water Birch
Betula occidentalis
Native
deer fern fronds viewed from above
Deer Fern
Blechnum spicant
Native
Crown Brodiaea
Brodiaea coronaria
Native
purple upright funnel shaped flower
Elegant Brodiaea
Brodiaea elegans
Native
close up of California brome inflorescence seed heads ranging from tan to red
California Brome
Bromus carinatus
Native
a patch of Columbia brome in a forest understory with spikelets stalked
Columbia Brome
Bromus vulgaris
Native
Cluster of small white and pink flowers
Flowering Rush
Butomus umbellatus
Invasive
Alaska yellow-cedar
Callitropsis nootkatensis
Native
a large conifer with a conical canopy, with dead needles on ground at base of tree.
Incense-Cedar
Calocedrus decurrens
Native
three fuzzy white pointy-tipped petals tinged with purple at center
Tolmie’s Mariposa Lily
Calochortus tolmiei
Native
a spike of star shaped purple camas flowers
Great Camas
Camassia leichtlinii ssp suksdorfii
Native
a field of camas mixed with grasses
Common Camas
Camassia quamash
Native
close up of a dense sedge sowing bunch like form and long linear leaves
Dense Sedge
Carex densa
Native
A thin-leaved clump of sedge with leavesarising from central base, extending upward, then drooping.
Slender-Foot Sedge
Carex leptopoda
Native
A field of slough sedge plants. Tough leaves that catch the light.
Slough Sedge
Carex obnupta
Native
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
Native
a rounded tuft of foothill sedge with thin leaves that are pretty straight.
Foothill Sedge
Carex tumulicola
Native

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