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Adoxaceae Adoxaceae, commonly known as moschatel family, is a small family of flowering plants in the order Dipsacales, now consisting of five genera and about 150–200 species. They are characterised by opposite toothed leaves, small five- or, more rare ...

* '' Sambucus nigra'' ― blue elderberry * ''
Sambucus racemosa ''Sambucus racemosa'' is a species of elderberry known by the common names red elderberry and red-berried elder. Distribution and habitat It is native to Europe, northern temperate Asia, and North America across Canada and the United States. I ...
'' ― red elderberry * '' Viburnum edule'' ― high-bush cranberry * '' Viburnum ellipticum'' ― common viburnum * '' Viburnum opulus'' ― snowball viburnum


Asparagaceae Asparagaceae, known as the asparagus family, is a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots. The family name is based on the edible garden asparagus, '' Asparagus officinalis''. Those who live in the temperate ...

* '' Asparagus officinalis'' ― garden asparagus * '' Brodiaea coronaria'' ― bluedick brodiea * '' Camassia quamash'' ― common camas * ''Camassia leichtlinii'' ― large camas * '' Dichelostemma congestum'' ― ookow, northern saitas * '' Maianthemum dilatatum'' ― false lily-of-the-valley * '' Maianthemum racemosum'' ― feathery false lily-of-the-valley * '' Maianthemum stellatum'' ― starry false lily-of-the-valley * ''
Muscari armeniacum ''Muscari armeniacum'' is a species of flowering plant in the squill subfamily Scilloideae of the asparagus family Asparagaceae (formerly the lilies, Liliaceae). It is a bulbous perennial with basal, simple leaves and short flowering stems. It is ...
'' ― garden grape-hyacinth * '' Ornithogalum umbellatum'' ― sleepydick * '' Triteleia grandiflora'' ― blue umber lily * '' Triteleia hyacinthina'' ― white triteleia


Athyriaceae The Athyriaceae (ladyferns and allies) are a family of terrestrial ferns in the order Polypodiales. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), the family is placed in the suborder Aspleniineae, and includes two g ...

* '' Athyrium filix-femina'' — common lady fern


Berberidaceae The Berberidaceae are a family of 18 genera of flowering plants commonly called the barberry family. This family is in the order Ranunculales. The family contains about 700 known species, of which the majority are in ''Berberis''. The species ...

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Achlys californica Achlys ( grc, Ἀχλύς "mist"), in the Hesiodic ''Shield of Heracles'', is one of the figures depicted on Heracles' shield, perhaps representing the personification of sorrow. In Homer, ''achlys'' is the mist which fogs or blinds mortal ey ...
'' — vanillaleaf * ''
Achlys triphylla ''Achlys triphylla'', common names sweet after death, deer-foot or vanilla-leaf, is a plant species native to the mountains of the West Coast of North America. It has been reported from the Cascades and from the Coast Ranges in British Columbia ...
'' — vanillaleaf * ''
Berberis nervosa ''Mahonia nervosa'', commonly known as dwarf Oregon-grape, Cascade barberry, Cascade Oregon-grape, or dull Oregon-grape, is a flowering plant native to the northwest coast of North America from southern British Columbia south to central Cali ...
'' — dwarf Oregon-grape * '' Mahonia aquifolium'' — Oregon-grape * ''
Vancouveria hexandra ''Vancouveria hexandra'', the white inside-out flower, is a perennial herb in the barberry family Berberidaceae. It is found in southwestern British Columbia, western Washington and Oregon and northwestern California and is a common understor ...
'' — white inside-out flower


Betulaceae

* '' Alnus incana'' — mountain alder * '' Alnus rhombifolia'' — white alder * '' Alnus rubra'' — red alder * '' Alnus viridis'' — Siberian alder, Sitka alder, mountain alder * ''
Betula glandulosa ''Betula glandulosa'', the American dwarf birch, also known as resin birch or shrub birch, is a species of birch native to North America. Description American dwarf birch is a multi-stemmed shrub typically growing to tall, often forming dense ...
'' — swamp birch * ''
Betula occidentalis ''Betula occidentalis'', the water birch or red birch, is a species of birch native to western North America, in Canada from Yukon east to Northwestern Ontario and southwards, and in the United States from eastern Washington east to western Nor ...
'' — water birch, river birch * ''
Betula papyrifera ''Betula papyrifera'' (paper birch, also known as (American) white birch and canoe birch) is a short-lived species of birch native to northern North America. Paper birch is named for the tree's thin white bark, which often peels in paper li ...
'' — paper birch * '' Betula pumila'' — bog birch, dwarf birch * ''
Corylus cornuta ''Corylus cornuta'', the beaked hazelnut (or just ''beaked hazel''), is a deciduous shrubby hazel with two subspecies found throughout most of North America. Description The beaked hazelnut can reach tall with stems thick with smooth gray b ...
'' — California hazel, beaked hazel


Blechnaceae Blechnaceae is a family of ferns in the order Polypodiales, with a cosmopolitan distribution. Its status as a family and the number of genera included have both varied considerably. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 201 ...

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Blechnum spicant ''Struthiopteris spicant'', syn. ''Blechnum spicant'', is a species of fern in the family Blechnaceae, known by the common names hard-fern or deer fern. It is native to Europe, western Asia, northern Africa, and western North America. Like some ...
'' — deer fern


Boraginaceae Boraginaceae, the borage or forget-me-not family, includes about 2,000 species of shrubs, trees and herbs in 146, to 156 genera with a worldwide distribution. The APG IV system from 2016 classifies the Boraginaceae as single family of the ...

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Hydrophyllum tenuipes ''Hydrophyllum tenuipes'', the Pacific waterleaf, is an herbaceous perennial plant native to North America. It is found in western North America from British Columbia to northern California. Ecology The ''Hydrophyllum tenuipes'' plant spread ...
'' — Pacific waterleaf


Caprifoliaceae The Caprifoliaceae or honeysuckle family is a clade of dicotyledonous flowering plants consisting of about 860 species, in 33, to 42 genera, with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution. Centres of diversity are found in eastern North America and ...

* '' Symphoricarpos albus'' — snowberry, waxberry


Cannabaceae

* '' Celtis reticulata'' — western hackberry/netleaf hackberry


Cornaceae The Cornaceae are a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants in the order Cornales. The family contains approximately 85 species in two genera, '' Alangium'' and ''Cornus''. They are mostly trees and shrubs, which may be deciduous or evergreen, a ...

* '' Cornus nuttallii'' — Pacific dogwood * ''
Cornus sericea ''Cornus sericea'', the red osier or red-osier dogwood, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cornaceae, native to much of North America. It has sometimes been considered a synonym of the Asian species '' Cornus alba''. Other names inclu ...
'' — creek dogwood * ''
Cornus × unalaschkensis ''Cornus'' × ''unalaschkensis'' is a species of flowering plant in the Cornaceae, the dogwood family. Common names for the plant include Alaskan bunchberry, western cordilleran bunchberry, or simply western bunchberry. The species is native to ...
'' — western bunchberry


Cupressaceae Cupressaceae is a conifer family, the cypress family, with worldwide distribution. The family includes 27–30 genera (17 monotypic), which include the junipers and redwoods, with about 130–140 species in total. They are monoecious, subdioeci ...

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Cupressus nootkatensis ''Callitropsis nootkatensis'', formerly known as ''Cupressus nootkatensis'' ( syn. ''Xanthocyparis nootkatensis'') is a species of trees in the cypress family native to the coastal regions of northwestern North America. This species goes by many ...
'' — Nootka cypress * '' Juniperus communis'' — common juniper * ''
Juniperus maritima ''Juniperus maritima'' is a species of juniper known by the common name seaside juniper. It is native to the central Salish Sea region in southwestern British Columbia and northwestern Washington, where it is an endemic species and is abundant ...
'' — seaside juniper * '' Juniperus occidentalis'' — western juniper * '' Juniperus scopulorum'' — Rocky Mountain juniper * '' Thuja plicata'' — western redcedar


Cyperaceae The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the "true sedges" genus '' Carex'' ...

* '' Schoenoplectus acutus'' — tule


Dryopteridaceae

* '' Polystichum munitum'' — western sword fern


Ericaceae The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. The family is large, with c.4250 known species spread across 124 genera, making it th ...

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Arbutus menziesii ''Arbutus menziesii'' or Pacific madrone (commonly madrone or madrona in the United States and arbutus in Canada), is a species of broadleaf evergreen tree in the family Ericaceae, native to the western coastal areas of North America, from Br ...
'' — Pacific madrona * '' Arctostaphylos uva-ursi'' — kinnickinnick * '' Gaultheria shallon'' — salal * '' Rhododendron macrophyllum'' — Pacific rhododendron * ''
Vaccinium ovatum ''Vaccinium ovatum'' is a North American species of flowering shrub known by the common names evergreen huckleberry, winter huckleberry, cynamoka berry and California huckleberry. Distribution and ecology ''Vaccinium ovatum'' is a small to medium ...
'' — evergreen huckleberry * ''
Vaccinium parvifolium ''Vaccinium parvifolium'', the red huckleberry, is a species of '' Vaccinium'' native to western North America. Description It is a deciduous shrub growing to tall with bright green shoots with an angular cross-section. The leaves are ovate t ...
'' — red huckleberry


Fagaceae The Fagaceae are a family of flowering plants that includes beeches, chestnuts and oaks, and comprises eight genera with about 927 species. Fagaceae in temperate regions are mostly deciduous, whereas in the tropics, many species occur as ever ...

* '' Chrysolepis chrysophylla'' — golden chinquapin * '' Quercus garryana'' — Oregon white oak


Hydrangeaceae

* '' Philadelphus lewisii'' — Lewis's mock-orange


Liliaceae The lily family, Liliaceae, consists of about 15 genera and 610 species of flowering plants within the order Liliales. They are monocotyledonous, perennial, herbaceous, often bulbous geophytes. Plants in this family have evolved with a fair ...

* '' Clintonia uniflora'' ― bead lily, queen's cup * '' Erythronium grandiflorum'' ― yellow glacier lily * ''
Erythronium oregonum ''Erythronium oregonum'' is a North American species of flowering plant in the lily family which is known by the common name giant white fawnlily or Oregon fawn-lily. It is native to western North America, where it grows in the Pacific Coast Ra ...
'' ― white fawn lily * ''
Erythronium revolutum ''Erythronium revolutum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Liliaceae which is known by several common names, including mahogany fawn lily, coast fawn lily, and pink fawn lily. It is native to the west coast of North America. Descri ...
'' — pink fawn lily


Oleaceae Oleaceae, also known as the olive family, is a taxonomic family of flowering shrubs, trees, and a few lianas in the order Lamiales, It presently comprises 28 genera, one of which is recently extinct.Peter S. Green. 2004. "Oleaceae". pages 296-306 ...

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Fraxinus latifolia ''Fraxinus latifolia'', the Oregon ash, is a member of the ash genus ''Fraxinus'', native to western North America. Description ''Fraxinus latifolia'' is a medium-sized deciduous tree that can grow to heights of in height, with a trunk diamete ...
'' — Oregon ash


Orchidaceae Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowerin ...

* '' Goodyera oblongifolia'' — rattlesnake plantain


Paeoniaceae

* '' Paeonia brownii'' — native peony


Papaveraceae

* '' Dicentra formosa'' — Pacific bleeding heart


Pinaceae The Pinaceae, or pine family, are conifer trees or shrubs, including many of the well-known conifers of commercial importance such as cedars, firs, hemlocks, larches, pines and spruces. The family is included in the order Pinales, formerly kn ...

* '' Abies amabilis'' — Pacific silver fir * '' Abies grandis'' — grand fir * ''
Abies lasiocarpa ''Abies lasiocarpa'', the subalpine fir or Rocky Mountain fir, is a western North American fir tree. Description ''Abies lasiocarpa'' is a medium-sized evergreen conifer with a very narrow conic crown, growing to tall, exceptionally , with a t ...
'' — subalpine fir * '' Abies procera'' — noble fir * '' Larix lyallii'' — alpine larch * '' Larix occidentalis'' — western larch * ''
Picea engelmannii ''Picea engelmannii'', with the common names Engelmann spruce, white spruce, mountain spruce, and silver spruce, is a species of spruce native to western North America. It is mostly a high-altitude mountain tree but also appears in watered cany ...
'' — Engelmann spruce * '' Picea glauca'' — white spruce, western white spruce * '' Picea sitchensis'' — Sitka spruce * ''
Pinus albicaulis ''Pinus albicaulis'', known by the common names whitebark pine, white bark pine, white pine, pitch pine, scrub pine, and creeping pine, is a conifer tree native to the mountains of the western United States and Canada, specifically subalpine ...
'' — whitebark pine * '' Pinus contorta'' — lodgepole pine * ''
Pinus monticola Western white pine (''Pinus monticola''), also called silver pine and California mountain pine, is a species of pine in the family Pinaceae. It occurs in mountain ranges of northwestern North America. It is the state tree of Idaho. Description ...
'' — western white pine * ''
Pinus ponderosa ''Pinus ponderosa'', commonly known as the ponderosa pine, bull pine, blackjack pine, western yellow-pine, or filipinus pine is a very large pine tree species of variable habitat native to mountainous regions of western North America. It is the ...
'' — ponderosa pine * '' Pseudotsuga menziesii'' — Douglas fir * ''
Tsuga heterophylla ''Tsuga heterophylla'', the western hemlock or western hemlock-spruce, is a species of hemlock native to the west coast of North America, with its northwestern limit on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and its southeastern limit in northern Sonom ...
'' — western hemlock * '' Tsuga mertensiana'' — mountain hemlock


Plantaginaceae

* '' Penstemon acuminatus'' — sharpleaf penstemon * '' Penstemon barrettiae'' — Barrett's beardtongue * '' Penstemon cardwellii'' — T.J. Howell Cardwell's beardtongue * ''
Penstemon palmeri ''Penstemon palmeri'', known by the common name Palmer's penstemon, is a species of perennial flowering plant in the genus ''Penstemon'' that is notable for its showy, rounded flowers, and for being one of the few scented penstemons. The plant, i ...
'' — Palmer's penstemon * '' Penstemon rupicola'' — cliff beardtongue


Polypodiaceae Polypodiaceae is a family of ferns. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), the family includes around 65 genera and an estimated 1,650 species and is placed in the order Polypodiales, suborder Polypodiineae. A broade ...

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Polypodium glycyrrhiza ''Polypodium glycyrrhiza'', commonly known as licorice fern, many-footed fern, and sweet root, is a summer deciduous fern native to western North America, where it is found in shaded, damp locations. Spores are located in rounded sori on the ...
'' — licorice fern


Ranunculaceae Ranunculaceae (buttercup or crowfoot family; Latin "little frog", from "frog") is a family of over 2,000 known species of flowering plants in 43 genera, distributed worldwide. The largest genera are ''Ranunculus'' (600 species), ''Delphinium' ...

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Actaea rubra ''Actaea rubra'', the red baneberry or chinaberry, is a poisonous herbaceous flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to North America. Description It is a perennial herb that grows tall. The leaves are coarsely toothed with deeply ...
'' ― baneberry * '' Anemone deltoidea'' ― three-leaved anemone, Pacific white anemone, Columbian windflower * ''
Anemone multifida ''Anemone multifida'' is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family known by the common names cutleaf anemone, Pacific anemone and globe anemone. It is a perennial herb native to northern North America from Alaska to New York and as f ...
'' ― cut-leaf anemone * ''
Anemone occidentalis ''Anemone occidentalis'', the white pasqueflower or western pasqueflower, is a herbaceous species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. Other authorities place it in the genus ''Pulsatilla''. Individuals are tall, from caudi ...
'' ― western anemone, white pasqueflower * ''
Aquilegia formosa ''Aquilegia formosa'', the crimson columbine, western columbine, or (ambiguously) "red columbine", is a common wildflower native to western North America, from Alaska to Baja California, and eastward to Montana and Wyoming. Description ''Aquile ...
'' ― red columbine * '' Caltha biflora'' ― two-flowered marsh marigold * '' Caltha leptosepala'' ― white marsh marigold * '' Coptis asplenifolia'' ― fern-leaved goldthread * '' Delphinium menziesii'' ― Menzie's larkspur * '' Ranunculus eschscholtzii'' ― Eschscholtz's buttercup * ''
Ranunculus flammula ''Ranunculus flammula'', the lesser spearwort, greater creeping spearwort or banewort, is a species of perennial herbaceous plants in the genus ''Ranunculus'' (buttercup), growing in damp places throughout the Boreal Kingdom. It flowers June/July ...
'' ― lesser spearwort, creeping spearwort, banewort * '' Ranunculus occidentalis'' ― western buttercup * ''
Ranunculus uncinatus ''Ranunculus uncinatus'' is a species of Ranunculus, buttercup known by the common names woodland buttercup and little buttercup. It is native to western North America from Alaska to California to New Mexico, where it grows in wet, wooded habitat ...
'' ― little buttercup * ''
Thalictrum occidentale ''Thalictrum occidentale'' is a species of flowering plant in the Ranunculaceae, buttercup family known by the common name western meadow-rue. It is native to northwestern North America from Alaska and western Canada to northern California to Wyo ...
'' ― western meadowrue * '' Trautvetteria caroliniensis'' ― false bugbane * '' Trollius laxus'' ― globeflower


Rhamnaceae The Rhamnaceae are a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs, and some vines, commonly called the buckthorn family. Rhamnaceae is included in the order Rosales. The family contains about 55 genera and 950 species. The Rhamnaceae ...

* '' Rhamnus purshiana'' — cascara buckthorn


Rosaceae Rosaceae (), the rose family, is a medium-sized family of flowering plants that includes 4,828 known species in 91 genera. The name is derived from the type genus ''Rosa''. Among the most species-rich genera are '' Alchemilla'' (270), ''Sorb ...

* '' Amelanchier alnifolia'' ― saskatoon, Pacific serviceberry * ''
Aruncus dioicus ''Aruncus dioicus'', known as goat's beard, buck's-beard or bride's feathers, is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant in the family Rosaceae, found in Europe, Asia, and eastern and western North America. It is the type species of the genus ...
'' — goat's beard * ''
Geum calthifolium ''Geum'' , (Latinized Greek for "taste" referencing the roots of the plant) commonly called avens, is a genus of about 50 species of rhizomatous perennial herbaceous plants in the rose family and its subfamily Rosoideae, widespread across Euro ...
'' ― caltha-leaved avens * ''
Geum macrophyllum ''Geum macrophyllum'', commonly known as largeleaf avens or large-leaved avens is a flowering plant found from the Arctic south to the northern U.S. states, and in the Rocky Mountains and west to the Sierra Nevada in California and as far sout ...
'' ― large-leaved avens * '' Leutkea pectinata'' ― partridgefoot * ''
Oemleria cerasiformis ''Oemleria cerasiformis'', a shrub commonly known as osoberry or Indian plum, is the sole species in genus ''Oemleria''. Native to the Pacific coast and ranges of North America, from British Columbia, Canada to Santa Barbara County, California ...
'' — osoberry * ''
Physocarpus capitatus ''Physocarpus capitatus'', commonly called Pacific ninebark or tall ninebark, is a species of ''Physocarpus'' in the rose family native to western North America. Description ''Physocarpus capitatus'' is a dense deciduous shrub growing to t ...
'' — Pacific ninebark * ''
Potentilla anserina ''Argentina anserina'' (synonym ''Potentilla anserina'') is a perennial plant, perennial flowering plant in the rose family, Rosaceae. It is known by the common names silverweed, common silverweed or silver cinquefoil. It is native throughout the ...
'' ― silverweed * '' Potentilla flabellifolia'' ― fan-leaved cinquefoil * ''
Potentilla villosa ''Potentilla villosa'' is a species of flowering plant in the rose family, Rosaceae. Its common names include villous cinquefoil, northern cinquefoil,Rosa nutkana'' — Nootka rose * '' Rubus parviflorus'' — thimbleberry * '' Rubus spectabilis'' — salmonberry * ''
Rubus ursinus ''Rubus ursinus'' is a North American species of blackberry or dewberry, known by the common names California blackberry, California dewberry, Douglas berry, Pacific blackberry, Pacific dewberry and trailing blackberry. Description ''Rubus ursi ...
'' — trailing blackberry, California dewberry * ''
Sanguisorba canadensis ''Sanguisorba canadensis'', the white burnet or Canadian burnet, is a species of flowering plant in the Rose family Rosaceae, native to North America. This herbaceous perennial commonly grows in bogs, swamps, and roadsides from Labrador to Georgi ...
'' ― Sitka burnet * '' Sanguisorba officinales'' ― great burnet * ''
Sibbaldia procumbens ''Sibbaldia procumbens'' (or creeping sibbaldia) is a species of flowering plant of the genus ''Sibbaldia'' in the rose family. It has an Arctic–alpine distribution; it can be found throughout the Arctic, as well as the at higher elevations in ...
'' ― sibbaldia


Salicaceae

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Populus tremuloides ''Populus tremuloides'' is a deciduous tree native to cooler areas of North America, one of several species referred to by the common name aspen. It is commonly called quaking aspen, trembling aspen, American aspen, mountain or golden aspen, tr ...
'' — quaking aspen * '' Populus trichocarpa'' — black cottonwood * '' Salix amygdaloides'' — peach-leaf willow * '' Salix arctica'' — Arctic willow * ''
Salix barclayi ''Salix barclayi,'' or Barclay's willow, is a species of willow native to North America, found primarily in the Northwestern area of the United States and Canada. It grows near lakes and streams at elevation. It is a shrub, that can grow up to 2. ...
'' — Barclay's willow * ''
Salix bebbiana ''Salix bebbiana'' is a species of willow indigenous to Canada and the northern United States, from Alaska and Yukon south to California and Arizona and northeast to Newfoundland and New England. Common names include beaked willow, long-beaked ...
'' — gray willow, Bebb's willow, long-beak willow * '' Salix boothii'' — Booth's willow * '' Salix brachycarpa'' — small-fruit willow * '' Salix candida'' — sage willow * ''
Salix cascadensis ''Salix cascadensis'', the Cascade willow, is a species of flowering plant in the family Salicaceae The Salicaceae is the willow family of flowering plants. The traditional family (Salicaceae ''sensu stricto'') included the willows, poplar, ...
'' — Cascade willow * '' Salix columbiana'' — Columbia River willow * '' Salix commutata'' — under-green willow * '' Salix drummondiana'' — Drummond's willow * '' Salix eastwoodiae'' — Sierra willow * ''
Salix exigua ''Salix exigua'' (sandbar willow, narrowleaf willow, or coyote willow; syn. ''S. argophylla, S. hindsiana, S. interior, S. linearifolia, S. luteosericea, S. malacophylla, S. nevadensis,'' and '' S. parishiana'') is a species of willow native to m ...
'' — narrow-leaf willow, coyote willow * '' Salix farriae'' — Farr's willow * '' Salix fragilis'' — crack willow * '' Salix geyeriana'' — Geyer's willow * '' Salix glauca'' — gray willow * ''
Salix hookeriana ''Salix hookeriana'' is a species of willow known by the common names dune willow, coastal willow, and Hooker's willow. Description ''Salix hookeriana'' is a shrub or tree growing up to tall, sometimes forming bushy colonial thickets. The leav ...
'' — coastal willow * '' Salix lasiandra'' — Pacific willow * ''
Salix lasiolepis ''Salix lasiolepis'' (arroyo willow) is a species of willow native to western North America. Distribution The core range of the arroyo willow includes most of California, including the California Coast Ranges, Arizona, Klamath Mountains, Peni ...
'' — arroyo willow * ''
Salix maccalliana Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist so ...
'' — Maccalla's willow * '' Salix melanopsis'' — dusky willow * '' Salix monochroma'' — one-color willow * '' Salix nivalis'' — dwarf snow willow * ''
Salix pedicellaris ''Salix pedicellaris'', the bog willow, is a species of willow. It grows as a shrub. Conservation status in the United States It is listed as endangered in Connecticut by state authorities. It is also listed as endangered in New Jersey, Ohio, a ...
'' — bog willow * '' Salix petrophila'' — alpine willow * '' Salix planifolia'' — tea-leaved willow * '' Salix prolixa'' — Mackenzie's willow * '' Salix pseudomonticola'' — false mountain willow * ''
Salix scouleriana ''Salix scouleriana'' (Scouler's willow; syn. ''S. brachystachys'' Benth., ''S. capreoides'' Anderss., ''S. flavescens'' Nutt., ''S. nuttallii'' Sarg., ''S. stagnalis'' Nutt.) is a species of willow native to northwestern North America. Other nam ...
'' — Scouler's willow * '' Salix sessilifolia'' — sessile-leaf willow * '' Salix sitchensis'' — Sitka willow * '' Salix tweedyi'' — Tweedy's willow * '' Salix vestita'' — rock willow


Sapindaceae The Sapindaceae are a family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales known as the soapberry family. It contains 138 genera and 1858 accepted species. Examples include horse chestnut, maples, ackee and lychee. The Sapindaceae occur in temp ...

* '' Acer circinatum'' — vine maple * '' Acer glabrum'' — Douglas maple * ''
Acer macrophyllum ''Acer macrophyllum'', the bigleaf maple or Oregon maple, is a large deciduous tree in the genus '' Acer''. It is native to western North America, mostly near the Pacific coast, from southernmost Alaska to southern California. Some stands are a ...
'' — big-leaf maple


Saxifragaceae Saxifragaceae is a family of herbaceous perennial flowering plants, within the core eudicot order Saxifragales. The taxonomy of the family has been greatly revised and the scope much reduced in the era of molecular phylogenetic analysis. The fa ...

* '' Boykinia occidentalis'' ― coast boykinia, western boykinia * '' Chrysosplenium glechomifolium'' ― Pacific golden saxifrage * ''
Heuchera glabra ''Heuchera'' ( or ) is a genus of largely evergreen perennial plants in the family Saxifragaceae, all native to North America. Common names include alumroot and coral bells. Description ''Heuchera'' have palmately lobed leaves on long petiole ...
'' ― smooth alumroot * ''
Heuchera micrantha ''Heuchera micrantha'' is a species of flowering plant in the saxifrage family known by the common name crevice alumroot, or small-flowered alumroot. Distribution It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California, wher ...
'' ― small-flowered alumroot * '' Leptarrhena pyrolifolia'' ― leatherleaf saxifrage * '' Lithophragma parviflorum'' ― small-flowered woodland star * '' Micranthes ferruginea'' ― Alaska saxifrage * '' Micranthes occidentalis'' ― western saxifrage * ''
Micranthes tolmiei ''Micranthes tolmiei'' is a species of flowering plant known by the common name Tolmie's saxifrage, or Tolmie's alpine saxifrage. It is native to western North America from Alaska to Montana to California, where it grows in rocky mountain habita ...
'' ― Tolmie's saxifrage * ''
Mitella breweri ''Mitella breweri'' is a species of flowering plant in the saxifrage family known by the common names Brewer's mitrewort and Brewer's bishop's cap. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to central California (Sierra Nevad ...
'' ― brewer's mitrewort * ''
Mitella pentandra ''Mitella pentandra'', or ''Pectiantia pentandra'', is a species of flowering plant in the Saxifrage Family (Saxifragaceae), known by the common names fivestamen miterwort or five-point bishop's cap.Sierra Nevada Wildflowers, Karen Wiese, 2013, p ...
'' ― five-stamened mitrewort * ''
Saxifraga bronchialis ''Saxifraga'' is the largest genus in the family Saxifragaceae, containing about 465 species of holarctic perennial plants, known as saxifrages or rockfoils. The Latin word ''saxifraga'' means literally "stone-breaker", from Latin ' ("rock" ...
'' ― spotted saxifrage, prickly saxifrage * '' Saxifraga cespitosa'' ― tufted saxifrage * '' Saxifraga oppositifolia'' ― purple mountain saxifrage * ''
Tellima grandiflora ''Tellima grandiflora'', the bigflower tellima or fringecups, is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Saxifragaceae. It is the only species in the genus ''Tellima''. Description It has rounded stalked leaves mostly growing from t ...
'' ― fringecup * ''
Tiarella trifoliata ''Tiarella trifoliata'', the three-leaf foamflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Saxifragaceae. The specific name ''trifoliata'' means "having three leaflets", a characteristic of two of the three recognized varieties. Also known ...
'' ― foamflower * ''
Tolmiea menziesii ''Tolmiea menziesii'' () is a species of flowering plant in the family Saxifragaceae. It is known by the common names youth on age, pick-a-back-plant, piggyback plant, and thousand mothers. It is a perennial plant native to the West Coast of No ...
'' ― piggy-back plant, youth-on-age


Taxaceae Taxaceae (), commonly called the yew family, is a coniferous family which includes six extant and two extinct genera, and about 30 species of plants, or in older interpretations three genera and 7 to 12 species. Description They are many-bran ...

* '' Taxus brevifolia'' — Pacific yew


Tofieldiaceae Tofieldiaceae is a family of flowering plants in the monocot order Alismatales.Vernon H. Heywood, Richard K. Brummitt, Ole Seberg, and Alastair Culham. ''Flowering Plant Families of the World''. Firefly Books: Ontario, Canada. (2007). . The fam ...

* '' Triantha occidentalis'' — western false asphodel


Zosteraceae

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Zostera marina ''Zostera marina'' is a flowering vascular plant species as one of many kinds of seagrass, with this species known primarily by the English name of eelgrass with seawrack much less used, and refers to the plant after breaking loose from the subme ...
'' — marine eelgrass


See also

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List of fauna of Washington (state) This is a list of fauna observed in the U.S. state of Washington. Animals Birds *American robin (''Turdus migratorius'') *Chestnut-backed chickadee (''Poecile rufescens'') *Spotted towhee (''Pipilo maculatus'') *Steller's jay (''Cyanocitta stell ...


References


Burke Museum (WTU) Image Collection


External links


Washington Flora Checklist
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