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Whole yarrow plant with feathery leaves and flat white flower tops
Western Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
Native
an understory patch of vanilla leaf with robust triangular leaves and spikes of tiny white flowers emerging from the center.
Vanilla Leaf
Achlys triphylla
Native
a few bunches of thin-leaved, partially dead needlegrass mixed in with kinnikinnick and leaf litter.
Lemmon’s Needlegrass
Achnatherum lemmonii
Grass
Native
shows the delicate beauty of this fern that has green leaflets on long linear compound leaves out from central circular ring
Western Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum aleuticum
Native
a bee on a lavender flower, flowers are arranged in an umbel on short stalks that emerge from a central core.
Tapertip Allium
Allium acuminatum
Native
whole madrone tree
Pacific Madrone
Arbutus menziesii
Native
a carpet of kinnikinnick in bloom
Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Native
a patch of mugwort with thin leaved green foliage along upright non-woody stems
Douglas’ Sagewort
Artemisia douglasiana
Native
Tight clusters of small dusky rose flowers and thin green leaves
Narrowleaf Milkweed
Asclepias fascicularis
Native
The delicate, dusty pink starburst flowers of showy milkweed
Showy Milkweed
Asclepias speciosa
Native
field of oats
Common Oats
Avena sativa
Grass
Coyote Brush covered in small white flowers
Chaparral Broom
Baccharis pilularis
Native
close up of California brome inflorescence seed heads ranging from tan to red
California Brome
Bromus carinatus
Grass
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
Grass
Native
an attractive evergreen shrub; low growing with clusters of white flowers at tips.
Snowbrush
Ceanothus velutinus
Native
close up of an pale orange flower with blue pollen and green foliage
Large-Flowered Collomia
Collomia grandiflora
Native
Crataegus suksdorfii, a triploid form, Castlegar BC, Canada
Suksdorf’s Hawthorn
Crataegus x suksdorfii
Native
a cluster of purple flowers, each with 6 petals, atop a leafless stalk
Ookow
Dichelostemma congestum
Native
side view of flower spikes
Darkthroat Shooting Star
Dodecatheon pulchellum
Native
pretty purple flowers with green foliage
Denseflower Spikeprimrose
Epilobium densiflorum
Native
Showy Fleabane
Erigeron speciosus
Native
whole plant with flowers
Arrowleaf Buckwheat
Eriogonum compositum
Native
bluish green dissected foliage topped with yellow disk and ray flowers
Oregon Sunshine
Eriophyllum lanatum
Native
a few small pinkish to cream "flowers" on underside of leaves
Western Wahoo
Euonymus occidentalis
Native
a small blue green bunch grass in a rounded mound
California Fescue
Festuca californica var. californica
Grass
Native
Roemer’s Fescue Festuca roemeri Grass showing seeds
Roemer’s Fescue
Festuca roemeri
Grass
Native
sunflower family yellow flower with brown center
Blanket Flower
Gaillardia aristata
Native
Sprays of dainty pinkish white, bell-shaped flowers along rosy stems above mounded rosettes of evergreen leaves.
Crevice Alumroot
Heuchera micrantha
Native
an oceansprayshrub in bloom
Oceanspray
Holodiscus discolor
Native
White petaled iris flowers with yellow throats and reddish brown veins.
Yellowleaf Iris
Iris chrysophylla
Native
purple iris flowers with yellow and white center veins
Douglas Iris
Iris douglasiana
Native
Bunches of iris like leaves with clusters of small off-white to brown flowers
Dagger-leaf Rush
Juncus ensifolius
Grass
Native
close-up of whole plant
Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
Grass
Native
Close up of lamatioum inflorescence composed of many small, yellow flowers in a sphere
Fernleaf Biscuitroot
Lomatium dissectum
Native
a mat of small linear to lance shaped grayish green leaves at base with a tall stalk rising up with a sphere of small yellow flowers that branch out from center
Barestem Biscuitroot
Lomatium nudicaule
Native
pink honeysuckle flowers and fused opposite leaves
Hairy Honeysuckle
Lonicera hispidula
Native
bright yellow flower with a magenta center
Showy Tarweed
Madia elegans
Native
holly like leaves and cluster of small yellow flowers
Tall Oregon Grape
Mahonia aquifolium
Native
Cascade Oregon Grape Mahonia nervosa Stems with large green glossy opposite leaves
Cascade Oregon Grape
Mahonia nervosa
Native
prickly holly-like leaflets and clusters of small petalled yellow flowers
Dwarf Oregon Grape
Mahonia repens
Native
long thin leaves, almost willow like.
Pacific Wax Myrtle
Morella californica
Native
Tubular purple flowers
Cascade Penstemon
Penstemon serrulatus
Native
close up of mock orange flowers, white, 4-petalled
Mock Orange
Philadelphus lewisii
Native
person standing next to the trunk of white pine
Western White Pine
Pinus monticola
Native
a tall conifer
Willamette Valley Ponderosa Pine
Pinus ponderosa
Native
a medium height bunch grass with bluish green leaves
Pine Bluegrass
Poa secunda
Grass
Native
Oregon White Oak Quercus garryana Large, green glossy lobed leaves
Oregon White Oak
Quercus garryana
Native
Cascara Rhamnus purshiana Stem with large green oval opposite leaves and small red berries
Cascara
Rhamnus purshiana
Native
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