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Vine Maple, Acer circinatum, Stem with green vine maple leaves
Vine Maple
Acer circinatum
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
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
loosely arranged compound leaves of lady fern with deeply dissected leaflets
Lady Fern
Athyrium filix-femina
Native
water birch leaf - serrate edge
Water Birch
Betula occidentalis
Native
a specimen showing leaf and inflorescence
Big-Leaf Sedge
Carex amplifolia
Grass
Native
whole plant
Sawbeak Sedge
Carex stipata
Native
a rounded tuft of foothill sedge with thin leaves that are pretty straight.
Foothill Sedge
Carex tumulicola
Grass
Native
a thin stalked larskspur with dissected foliage and multiple blue flowers
Columbia Larkspur
Delphinium trollifollium
Native
drooping pink flowers
Pacific Bleeding Heart
Dicentra formosa
Native
bell shaped white flowers dangle beneath leaves; petals are more open than in Smith's Fairy Bells.
Hooker’s Fairybells
Disporum hookeri
Native
two white bell shaped flowers hang down from beneath final two leaves, petals tightly clasped.
Smith’s Fairybells
Disporum smithii
Native
side view of flower spikes
Darkthroat Shooting Star
Dodecatheon pulchellum
Native
northern wood fern foliage
Northern Wood Fern
Dryopteris expansa
Native
a few small pinkish to cream "flowers" on underside of leaves
Western Wahoo
Euonymus occidentalis
Native
checkered yellow and brown/purple flowers nod downwards from gracefully curving stems.
Chocolate Lily
Fritillaria affinis
Native
bell shaped nodding flowers with 6 spotted yellow-green and purple-brown petals on stems that have whorls of 6 lance shaped leaves
Spotted Fritillary
Fritillaria atropurpurea
Native
leathery leaves and deep blue-black fruits that dangle from red stems
Salal
Gaultheria shallon
Native
pinkish purple 5-petaled flowers
Oregon Geranium
Geranium oreganum
Native
a palmate leaf with toothed edge
Largeleaf Avens
Geum macrophyllum
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
leaves and flower of waterleaf
Pacific waterleaf
Hydrophyllum tenuipes
Native
the ornamemtal orange tiger lily flower with reddish brown freckles
Columbia Lily
Lilium columbianum
Native
pink honeysuckle flowers and fused opposite leaves
Hairy Honeysuckle
Lonicera hispidula
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
heart shaped leaves clasp stem with short spike of whitish flowers at tip
False Lily-of-the-Valley
Maianthemum dilatatum
Native
a tapering spike of small white star-like flowers
False Solomon’s Seal
Maianthemum racemosum
Native
alternate leaves climb stems towards feathery terminal inflorescence
Starry False Solomon’s Seal
Maianthemum stellatum
Native
a carpet of sorrel
Redwood Sorrel
Oxalis oregana
Native
close up of mock orange flowers, white, 4-petalled
Mock Orange
Philadelphus lewisii
Native
a shrub with peeling bark and white flower clusters
Pacific Ninebark
Physocarpus capitatus
Native
Sword Fern Polystichum munitum Several long fronds with many opposite green slender leaves
Sword Fern
Polystichum munitum
Native
five to six petalled yellow buttercup flowers
Western Buttercup
Ranunculus occidentalis
Native
Cascara Rhamnus purshiana Stem with large green oval opposite leaves and small red berries
Cascara
Rhamnus purshiana
Native
a ripe black raspberry and a red unripe raspberry. Opposite leaves are deeply veined and toothed.
Blackcap Raspberry
Rubus leucodermis
Native
Thimbleberry Rubus parviflorus Palmate Green leaves with bright red round berry
Thimbleberry
Rubus parviflorus
Native
a cluster of many small blue fruits
Blue Elderberry
Sambucus caerulea
Native
Blue Elderberry Sambucus caerulea Medium Tree with long green opposite leaves
Red Elderberry
Sambucus racemosa
Native
Snowberry Symphoricarpos albus Oval smooth green leaves with pink flowers and red berries
Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
Native
Fringecup Tellima grandiflora Tall stalk of small like bellshaped flowers
Fringecup
Tellima grandiflora
Native
three-lobed leaves add interest to the shady woodland garden.
Western Meadowrue
Thalictrum occidentale
Native
Western Red Cedar
Thuja plicata
Native
Three lobed triangular leaves with a spike of tiny flowers on a stalk rising above
Foamflower
Tiarella trifoliata
Native
Piggyback Plant Tolmiea menziesii Large green leave with small green leave growing up from bottom center it.
Piggyback Plant
Tolmiea menziesii
Native
three white triangularly arranged petals, three green triangularly arranged sepals, and three larger green leaves
Giant White Wake-Robin
Trillium albidum
Native
Large three petaled white flower with yellow center rises above three triangularly arranged leaves
Western Trillium
Trillium ovatum
Native
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