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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 carpet of kinnikinnick in bloom
Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Native
a tight, semi-spherical cluster of small pink sea thrift flowers at the top of a stem
Sea Thrift
Armeria maritima
Native
a patch of mugwort with thin leaved green foliage along upright non-woody stems
Douglas’ Sagewort
Artemisia douglasiana
Native
heart shaped ginger leaves
Wild Ginger
Asarum caudatum
Native
Tight clusters of small dusky rose flowers and thin green leaves
Narrowleaf Milkweed
Asclepias fascicularis
Native
field of oats
Common Oats
Avena sativa
Grass
prickly holly-like leaflets and clusters of small petalled yellow flowers
Dwarf Oregon Grape
Berberis repens
Native
a specimen showing leaf and inflorescence
Big-Leaf Sedge
Carex amplifolia
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
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 patch of ferns that taper and curve
California Wood Fern
Dryopteris arguta
Native
northern wood fern foliage
Northern Wood Fern
Dryopteris expansa
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
leaves of three and creamy white 5-petalled flowers with yellow centers
Coast Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
Native
a large patch of woodland strawberry
Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
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
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
leaves and flower of waterleaf
Pacific waterleaf
Hydrophyllum tenuipes
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
a carpet of sorrel
Redwood Sorrel
Oxalis oregana
Native
harvesting cereal rye in field
Cereal Rye
Secale cereale
Succulent short fat reddish purple leaves and a yellow flower
Spreading Stonecrop
Sedum divergens
Native
Succulent stems creep along ground and slightly upright with clusters of short succulent leaves, red to green.
Oregon Stonecrop
Sedum oreganum
Native
Stonecrop, Broadleaved Sedum spathulifolium Groundcover with clusters of small green leaves
Broadleaf Stonecrop
Sedum spathulifolium
Native
rosette like succulent foliage with red outer leaves
Purple Broadleaf Stonecrop
Sedum spathulifolium 'purpureum'
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
crimson clover flower close up with field of crimson clover in the background
Crimson Clover
Trifolium incarnatum
Red Clover flower and leaves
Red Clover
Trifolium pratense
Field of White clover
Dutch Clover
Trifolium repens
Winter wheat
Winter Wheat
Triticum aestivum - L.
Grass
Inside-Out Flower Vancouveria hexandra Large bushy green leaves with stalks of small white flowers
Inside-Out Flower
Vancouveria hexandra
Native
field of green fava beans planted as cover crop
Fava Bean
Vicia faba
Cowpeas
Cowpea
Vigna unguiculata
Asymmetrical five petalled purple flower
Early Blue Violet
Viola adunca
Native
Violet, Yellow Wood/Pioneer Viola glabella Small yellow 5 petalled flower
Stream Violet
Viola glabella
Native
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