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Plant Database
a cluster of reddish brown samaras.
Tree of Heaven
Ailanthus altissima
Garlic Mustard Alliaria petiolata Small plant with green heart shaped leaves
Garlic Mustard
Alliaria petiolata
Tall spire of smaller purple flowers with yellow and white stamen
Indigo Bush
Amorpha fruticosa
The delicate, dusty pink starburst flowers of showy milkweed
Showy Milkweed
Asclepias speciosa
close up leaf edges
False Brome
Brachypodium sylvaticum
Italian Thistle Carduus pycnocephalus Stalk with long spiky leaves and green spiky unopened flower pod
Italian Thistle
Carduus pycnocephalus
an attractive evergreen shrub; low growing with clusters of white flowers at tips.
Snowbrush
Ceanothus velutinus
Meadow Knapweed Centaurea pratensis Purple flowers on long stems
Meadow Knapweed
Centaurea pratensis (aka Centaurea jacea x nigra, Centaurea debeauxii ssp. thuillieri)
Two spiky flower heads, on spiky stems, with yellow flower
Yellow Starthistle
Centaurea solstitialis
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
Crataegus suksdorfii, a triploid form, Castlegar BC, Canada
Suksdorf’s Hawthorn
Crataegus x suksdorfii
Oblong tapered leaf with serated edges
Cutleaf Teasel
Dipsacus laciniatus
up close photo of bright orange flowers
California Poppy
Eschscholzia californica
Japanese Knotweed Fallopia japonica Large green bushy shrub with tall stalks of opposite heart shaped leaves
Knotweeds
Fallopia/Polygonum spp.
Side view of typical carrot family flower umbels with yellow flowers.
Fennel
Foeniculum vulgare
Roots and stems with oval opposite leaves
Goatsrue
Galega officinalis
Tall green shrub with small green leaves
French Broom
Genista monspessulana
Stem with yellow flowers and poofy seed head
Meadow Hawkweed
Hieracium pratense or caespitosum or Pilosella caespitosa
Close up of several yellow 5 petaled flowers
St. Johnswort
Hypericum perforatum
Policeman’s Helmet Impatiens glandulifera Several purple and white flowers on small stems
Policeman’s Helmet
Impatiens glandulifera
Single flower with white petals and yellow center
Oxeye Daisy
Leucanthemum vulgare
the ornamemtal orange tiger lily flower with reddish brown freckles
Columbia Lily
Lilium columbianum
Group of long green stems covered in small yellow flowers
Dalmatian Toadflax
Linaria dalmatica ssp. dalmatica
Evergreen Bugloss Pentaglottis sempervirens Small blue 5 pedalled flower on tear dropped shaped hairy leaves
Evergreen Bugloss
Pentaglottis sempervirens
Large green shrub
Mile-a-Minute
Persicaria perfoliata
Intersection of stem and long slender leaves
Common Reed
Phragmites australis ssp. australis
Pokeweed Phytolacca americana Several small blue/purple berries on red stalk
Pokeweed
Phytolacca americana
Small Plant with long slender smooth leaves and a stem with small yellow flower
Mouse-Ear Hawkweed
Pilosella officinarum
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