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Vine Maple, Acer circinatum, Stem with green vine maple leaves
Vine Maple
Acer circinatum
Native
Western Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
Native
Western Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum aleuticum
Native
Spike Bentgrass
Agrostis exarata
Native
a field of narrowleaf allium in bloom with pinkish flower clusters
Narrowleaf Allium
Allium amplectens
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
a patch of mugwort with thin leaved green foliage along upright non-woody stems
Douglas’ Sagewort
Artemisia douglasiana
Native
Mountain Boykinia
Boykinia major
Native
a spike of star shaped purple camas flowers
Great Camas
Camassia leichtlinii ssp suksdorfii
Native
red-osier dogwood shrub in a yard
Red-Osier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
Native
Douglas’ Hawthorn
Crataegus douglasii
Native
a thin stalked larskspur with dissected foliage and multiple blue flowers
Columbia Larkspur
Delphinium trollifollium
Native
Tufted Hair Grass (Kalapuya) Deschampsia cespitosa Clump of grass with seed heads
Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
Native
northern wood fern foliage
Northern Wood Fern
Dryopteris expansa
Native
pretty purple flowers with green foliage
Dense-Flower Spike-Primrose
Epilobium densiflorum
Native
an orangey red trumpet shaped flower with petals curving back
Scarlet Monkeyflower
Erythranthe cardinalis
Native
a yellow flower with red dots in the center
Seep Monkeyflower
Erythranthe guttata
Native
leaves of three and creamy white 5-petalled flowers with yellow centers
Coast Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
Native
five-petalled white flowers with yellow centers and dark green leaves, low growing.
Mountain Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
Native
leathery leaves and deep blue-black fruits that dangle from red stems
Salal
Gaultheria shallon
Native
purple flowers
King’s Gentian
Gentiana sceptrum
Native
a patch of meadow barley with reddish brown inflorescences
Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
Native
the grass leaves fall flat to the ground and outward from center.
Rice Cutgrass
Leersia oryzoides
Native
the large palmate leaves and purple to white flowers of large leaf lupine
Bigleaf Lupine
Lupinus polyphyllus
Native
purple and white characteristic pea family flowers
Riverbank Lupine
Lupinus rivularis
Native
heart shaped leaves clasp stem with short spike of whitish flowers at tip
False Lily-of-the-Valley
Maianthemum dilatatum
Native
Tubular purple flowers
Cascade Penstemon
Penstemon serrulatus
Native
umbel of small white carrot family flowers
Gairdner’s Yampah
Perideridia gairdneri
Native
balls of small white fuzzy looking flowers
Pacific Ninebark
Physocarpus capitatus
Native
Fragrant Popcornflower
Plagiobothrys figuratus
Native
Slender Cinquefoil
Potentilla gracilis
Native
Salmonberry Rubus spectabilis Bright purple 5 petalled flower
Salmonberry
Rubus spectabilis
Native
a thicket of hooker's willow
Hooker’s Willow
Salix hookeriana
Native
A shrubby multi-stemmed willow bush.
Scouler’s Willow
Salix scouleriana
Native
Sitka Willow
Salix sitchensis
Native
a cluster of many small blue fruits
Blue Elderberry
Sambucus mexicana ssp. cerulea
Native
Blue Elderberry Sambucus caerulea Medium Tree with long green opposite leaves
Red Elderberry
Sambucus racemosa
Native
A small 6-petalled yellow flower.
Golden-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium californicum
Native
Douglas Spirea Spiraea douglasii Single Spire of bunches of small purple flowers
Douglas Spirea
Spiraea douglasii
Native
Snowberry Symphoricarpos albus Oval smooth green leaves with pink flowers and red berries
Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
Native
three-lobed leaves add interest to the shady woodland garden.
Western Meadowrue
Thalictrum occidentale
Native
Piggyback Plant Tolmiea menziesii Large green leave with small green leave growing up from bottom center it.
Piggyback Plant
Tolmiea menziesii
Native
Elliptic leaves with longitudinal to arcuate venation, few woody stems, flowers in white clusters.
Oregon Viburnum
Viburnum ellipticum
Native
Violet, Yellow Wood/Pioneer Viola glabella Small yellow 5 petalled flower
Stream Violet
Viola glabella
Native

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