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Riparian forests

Plant Database
New growth of needles
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
an understory patch of vanilla leaf with robust triangular leaves and spikes of tiny white flowers emerging from the center.
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
whole columbine plant with red flowers rising above foliage
Red Columbine
Aquilegia formosa
a patch of mugwort with thin leaved green foliage along upright non-woody stems
Douglas’ Sagewort
Artemisia douglasiana
Tight clusters of small dusky rose flowers and thin green leaves
Narrowleaf Milkweed
Asclepias fascicularis
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
close up leaf edges
False Brome
Brachypodium sylvaticum
Crataegus suksdorfii, a triploid form, Castlegar BC, Canada
Suksdorf’s Hawthorn
Crataegus x suksdorfii
a thin stalked larskspur with dissected foliage and multiple blue flowers
Columbia Larkspur
Delphinium trollifollium
Three pink nodding flowers with mottled lance shaped basal leaves
Pink Fawn-Lily
Erythronium revolutum
a few small pinkish to cream "flowers" on underside of leaves
Western Wahoo
Euonymus occidentalis
Oregon Ash Fraxinus latifolia Large ogblong smooth leaves
Oregon Ash
Fraxinus latifolia
small five-petaled pink flower above fern like foliage
Herb Robert
Geranium robertianum
Sprays of dainty pinkish white, bell-shaped flowers along rosy stems above mounded rosettes of evergreen leaves.
Crevice Alumroot
Heuchera micrantha
an oceansprayshrub in bloom
Oceanspray
Holodiscus discolor
leaves and flower of waterleaf
Pacific waterleaf
Hydrophyllum tenuipes
waxy lanceolate foliage and small white flower panicles
Privet
Ligustrum vulgare
close up of mock orange flowers, white, 4-petalled
Mock Orange
Philadelphus lewisii
a shrub with peeling bark and white flower clusters
Pacific Ninebark
Physocarpus capitatus
Shiny, heart shaped leaves of black cottonwood
Black Cottonwood
Populus trichocarpa
Douglas-fir Pseudotsuga menziesii Huge single evergreen tree
Douglas-fir
Pseudotsuga menziesii
a pink five petaled rose flower with small toothed leaves
Baldhip Rose
Rosa gymnocarpa
Linear to lance shaped grey green willow leaves
Pacific Willow
Salix lucida var. lasiandra
a cluster of many small blue fruits
Blue Elderberry
Sambucus caerulea
Blue Elderberry Sambucus caerulea Medium Tree with long green opposite leaves
Red Elderberry
Sambucus racemosa
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