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to the U.S. state of Oregon. * Adobe parsley *
Alaska blueberry ''Vaccinium ovalifolium'' (commonly known as Alaska blueberry, early blueberry, oval-leaf bilberry, oval-leaf blueberry, and oval-leaf huckleberry) is a plant in the heath family having three varieties, all of which grow in northerly regions, inc ...
* American wild carrot * Austin's popcornflower * Awned melic *
Azalea Azaleas are flowering shrubs in the genus ''Rhododendron'', particularly the former sections ''Tsutsusi'' (evergreen) and '' Pentanthera'' (deciduous). Azaleas bloom in the spring (April and May in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, and Octob ...
* Azure penstemon *
Baby blue eyes ''Nemophila menziesii'', known commonly as baby blue eyes or baby's-blue-eyes, is an annual herb, native to western North America. Distribution The plant is native to California, Baja California, and Oregon. It grows virtually throughout Califo ...
* Baldhip rose *
Beach strawberry ''Fragaria chiloensis'', the beach strawberry, Chilean strawberry, or coastal strawberry, is one of two species of wild strawberry that were hybridized to create the modern garden strawberry (''F. × ananassa''). It is native to the Pacific Oce ...
* Beach wormwood * Bearded lupine * Bensoniella * Bigleaf maple * Bigleaf sedge * Birdnest buckwheat * Birthroot, western trillium *
Bitter cherry ''Prunus emarginata'', the bitter cherry or Oregon cherry, is a species of ''Prunus'' native to western North America, from British Columbia south to Baja California, and east as far as western Wyoming and New Mexico. It is often found in recentl ...
* Bleeding heart * Blow-wives * Blue elderberry *
Bog Labrador tea ''Rhododendron groenlandicum'' (bog Labrador tea, muskeg tea, swamp tea, or in northern Canada, Hudson's Bay tea; formerly ''Ledum groenlandicum'' or ''Ledum latifolium'') is a flowering shrub with white flowers and evergreen leaves that is used ...
* Bolander's lily * Bridges' cliffbreak * Brook wakerobin * Brown dogwood *
Buckbrush Buckbrush is the common name for several species of North American shrubs that deer feed on, including but probably not limited to: *''Cephalanthus occidentalis'' *'' Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides'', maidenbrush (south-central U.S.) * Some western N ...
* Bugle hedgenettle * Bunchberry * California broomrape *
California buttercup ''Ranunculus californicus'', commonly known as the California buttercup, is a flowering plant of the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. It is a native of California, where it is common in many habitats, including chaparral and woodlands. Its dist ...
* California canarygrass *
California goldfields ''Lasthenia californica'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name California goldfields. It is native to western North America. Description ''L. californica'' is an annual herb approaching a maximum he ...
* California milkwort * California phacelia * California stoneseed * California wild rose * Camas * Canary violet * Canyon gooseberry * Cascara * Castle Lake bedstraw * Charming centaury * Chinese caps * Citrus fawn lily * Coastal cryptantha * Coastal sand-verbena * Coastal sneezeweed *
Coastal woodfern ''Dryopteris arguta'', with the common name coastal woodfern, is a species of wood fern. It is native to the west coast and western interior mountain ranges of North America, from British Columbia, throughout California, and into Arizona. It gr ...
* Cobra lily * Cobwebby thistle * Cook's lomatium * Common agrimony *
Common star lily ''Toxicoscordion fremontii'', known as the common star lily or Frémont's deathcamas (after John C. Frémont) or star zigadene, is an attractive wildflower found on grassy or woody slopes, or rocky outcrops, in many lower-lying regions of Calif ...
* Copperbush * Creamcups * Cream stonecrop *
Crimson columbine ''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 ''Aquileg ...
* Crown brodiaea * Cusick's giant hyssop * Cusick's stickweed * Daggerpod * Davy mannagrass *
Deer fern ''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 ...
* Del Norte pea * Desert Indian paintbrush * Douglas-fir * Douglas iris * Douglas' silverpuffs * Douglas' stitchwort * Douglas' violet * Downy pincushionplant * Dusky onion *
Dutchman's breeches ''Dicentra cucullaria'', Dutchman's britches, or Dutchman's breeches, is a perennial herbaceous plant, native to rich woods of eastern North America, with a disjunct population in the Columbia Basin. The common name Dutchman's breeches deriv ...
* Dwarf ceanothus * Dwarf Oregon-grape * Eelgrass * Elegant brodiaea * Engelmann spruce * English sundew * Evergreen huckleberry * False lily-of-the-valley *
False Solomon seal ''Maianthemum racemosum'', the treacleberry, feathery false lily of the valley, false Solomon's seal, Solomon's plume or false spikenard, is a species of flowering plant native to North America. It is a common, widespread plant with numerous comm ...
* Firecracker flower * Forest clover * Frigid shooting star * Fringecup * Gambel's dwarf milkvetch * Giant blazingstar *
Giant chain fern ''Woodwardia fimbriata'', known by the common name giant chain fern, is a fern species in the family Blechnaceae, in the eupolypods II clade of the order Polypodiales, in the class Polypodiopsida. It is native to western North America from Britis ...
* Giant purple wakerobin * Glandular yellow phacelia * Goldeneggs * Goldenfleece * Golden inside-out flower * Gorman's buttercup * Grand fir * Gray chickensage * Gray's biscuitroot * Gray's catchfly * Grants Pass willowherb * Grasswidows * Greene's popcornflower * Ground rose * Grouseberry * Hardhack, Douglas' spirea * Hasse's vetch * Henderson's angelica * Hollyleaf pincushionplant * Horsetail, scouring rush horsetail * Howell's saxifrage *
Huckleberry oak ''Quercus vacciniifolia'' (sometimes spelled ''Q. vaccinifolia''), the huckleberry oak, is a member of the ''Protobalanus'' section of genus ''Quercus''. It has evergreen foliage, short styles, very bitter acorns that mature in 18 months, and ...
* Hupa gooseberry * Idaho trillium, round leaf trillium * Incense-cedar mistletoe * Indian celery *
Indian pipe ''Monotropa uniflora'', also known as ghost plant, ghost pipe, or Indian pipe, is an herbaceous perennial plant native to temperate regions of Asia, North America, and northern South America, but with large gaps between areas. The plant is somet ...
* Indian warrior * Jaumea * Jaynes Canyon buckwheat *
Juniper Junipers are coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus ''Juniperus'' () of the cypress family Cupressaceae. Depending on the taxonomy, between 50 and 67 species of junipers are widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere, from the Arcti ...
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Juniper mistletoe ''Phoradendron juniperinum'' is a species of flowering plant in the sandalwood family known by the common name juniper mistletoe. It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in various types of woodland hab ...
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Kalmiopsis ''Kalmiopsis'' is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. Species It contains two species, which are endemic to Oregon in the United States.Kellogg's monkeyflower * Kellogg's umbrellawort * Kincaid's lupine * Kinnikinnick *
Klamath fawn lily ''Erythronium klamathense'' is a rare species of flowering plant in the lily family known by the common name Klamath fawn lily. It is native to northern California ( Shasta and Siskiyou Counties) and southern Oregon (Jackson, Josephine, Klam ...
* Klamath sedge *
Lady fern ''Athyrium'' (lady-fern) is a genus of about 180 species of terrestrial ferns, with a cosmopolitan distribution. It is placed in the family Athyriaceae, in the order Polypodiales. Its genus name is from Greek '' a-'' ('without') and Latinized ...
* Leafy fleabane * Leiberg's clover *
Lewis' mock-orange ''Philadelphus lewisii,'' the Lewis' mock-orange, mock-orange, Gordon's mockorange, wild mockorange, Indian arrowwood, or syringa, is a deciduous shrub native to western North America, and is the state flower of Idaho. It was first collected for ...
* Licorice fern * Little false Solomon seal * MacFarlane's four-o'clock * Madrone * Maidenhair fern * Malheur wirelettuce * Manzanita * Mapleleaf checkerbloom * Marigold pincushionplant *
Marsh violet ''Viola palustris'' (marsh violet, or alpine marsh violet) is a perennial forb of the genus ''Viola''. It inhabits moist meadows, marshes, and stream banks in northern parts of North America and Eurasia. The species epithet ''palustris'' is Lat ...
* Mendocino gentian *
Miner's lettuce ''Claytonia perfoliata'' ( syn. ''Montia perfoliata''), also known as miner's lettuce, Indian lettuce, winter purslane, or ''palsingat'' (Cahuilla), is a flowering plant in the family Montiaceae. It is an edible, fleshy, herbaceous, annual plan ...
* Mojave pincushion * Mountain pride * Naked mariposa lily * Nakedsteam phacelia * Narrowpetal wakerobin * Nevada bluegrass * Nevada lupine * Nootka reedgrass *
Nootka rose ''Rosa nutkana'', the Nootka rose, bristly rose, or wild rose is a perennial shrub in the rose family (Rosaceae).North Umpqua kalmiopsis * Notchleaf clover * Ocean spray * Orange honeysuckle * Oregon false goldenaster * Oregon iris *
Oregon-grape ''Mahonia aquifolium'', the Oregon grape or holly-leaved barberry, is a species of flowering plant in the family Berberidaceae, native to western North America. It is an evergreen shrub growing tall and wide, with pinnate leaves consisting of sp ...
* Oregon manroot * Oregon mock-orange * Oregon myrtle * Oregon oxalis * Oregon western rosinweed *
Oregon white oak ''Quercus garryana'' is an oak tree species of the Pacific Northwest, with a range stretching from southern California to southwestern British Columbia. It is commonly known as the Oregon white oak or Oregon oak or, in Canada, the Garry oak. It ...
* Osoberry, Indian plum * Pacific coralroot * Pacific ninebark *
Pacific rhododendron ''Rhododendron macrophyllum'', the Pacific rhododendron, California rosebay, California rhododendron, coast rhododendron or big leaf rhododendron, is a large-leaved species of ''Rhododendron'' native to the Pacific Coast of North America. It is th ...
* Paper birch * Parish's nightshade *
Piggyback plant ''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 Nort ...
* Pinemat manzanita * Pink honeysuckle * Pink spineflower * Pinto violet * Playa phacelia *
Poison oak Poison oak refers to two plant species in the genus ''Toxicodendron,'' both of which can cause skin irritation: *''Toxicodendron diversilobum'' or Western poison oak, found in western North America *''Toxicodendron pubescens ''Toxicodendron pub ...
* Lemon balm * Ponderosa pine *
Port Orford cedar ''Chamaecyparis lawsoniana'', known as Port Orford cedar or Lawson cypress, is a species of conifer in the genus '' Chamaecyparis'', family Cupressaceae. It is native to Oregon and northwestern California, and grows from sea level up to in th ...
* Prettyface * Prostrate buckwheat * Pygmy rose * Radishroot woodsorrel * Rayless ragwort * Red alder * Red clintonia *
Red flowering currant ''Ribes sanguineum'', the flowering currant, redflower currant, red-flowering currant, or red currant is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Grossulariaceae, native to the western United States and Canada. Description It is ...
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Red huckleberry ''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 to o ...
* Redwood pea * Roseflower stonecrop * Red osier dogwood * Ribbed fringepod *
Round-leaved sundew ''Drosera rotundifolia'', the round-leaved sundew, roundleaf sundew, or common sundew, is a carnivorous species of flowering plant that grows in bogs, marshes and fens. One of the most widespread sundew species, it has a circumboreal distribution ...
* Royal rein orchid * Rusty popcornflower * Sagebrush * Salal * Salmonberry * Salmon polemonium * Sanborn's onion * San Diego raspberry * Serpentine arnica *
Serviceberry ''Amelanchier'' ( ), also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry (or just sarvis), juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum, wild-plum or chuckley pear,A Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador Vascular Plants/ref> is a g ...
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Shadscale ''Atriplex confertifolia'', the shadscale or spiny saltbush, is a species of evergreen shrub in the family Amaranthaceae, which is native to the western United States and northern Mexico. Description The height of ''Atriplex confertifolia'' vari ...
* Shaggy hawkweed * Shasta knotweed * Sheldon's sedge * Shieldleaf * Shore pine * Shorthair reedgrass * Short-podded thelypody * Sierra gooseberry * Sierra willow * Silky horkelia *
Silver lupine ''Lupinus albifrons'', silver lupine, white-leaf bush lupine, or evergreen lupine, is a species of lupine (lupin). It is native plant, native to California and Oregon, where it grows along the coast and in dry and open meadows, prairies and fores ...
* Silver sagebrush * Siskiyou bluecurls * Siskiyou false hellebore * Siskiyou fleabane * Siskiyou fritillary * Siskiyou lewisia * Siskiyou mariposa lily *
Snowberry ''Symphoricarpos'', commonly known as the snowberry, waxberry, or ghostberry, is a small genus of about 15 species of deciduous shrubs in the honeysuckle family, Caprifoliaceae. With the exception of the Chinese coralberry, '' S. sinensis'', whi ...
* Snow plant * Splithair Indian paintbrush * Spring draba * Spurry buckwheat * Stemless dwarf cudweed * Sticky currant * Sticky monkeyflower * Stingining phacelia * Swamp rose *
Sword fern Sword fern is a common name for several ferns and may refer to: *''Nephrolepis'', a tropical genus of ferns, especially: **''Nephrolepis exaltata'', commonly cultivated as a houseplant, including the Boston fern *''Polystichum'', a cosmopolitan gen ...
* Thimbleberry * Torrey's blue-eyed Mary * Trailing blackberry * Trailing gooseberry * Tricolor monkeyflower *
Tuni Tuni is a city in Kakinada district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a second biggest city in kakinada district. It is a major commercial marketing center for more than 100 surrounding villages in the district. Tuni is a border p ...
* Twinberry honeysuckle * Twinleaf onion * Umpqua mariposa lily * Valley tassels * Veatch's blazingstar *
Vine maple ''Acer circinatum'', the vine maple, is a species of maple native to western North America. Description It most commonly grows as a large shrub growing to around tall, but it will occasionally form a small to medium-sized tree, exceptionall ...
* Washington lily *
Waterleaf In botany, waterleaf can mean: * Any plant of the genus ''Hydrophyllum'' * Any plant which is a member of the waterleaf family, Hydrophylloideae * ''Talinum fruticosum'', a leaf vegetable of the family Talinaceae In architecture, waterleaf means: ...
* Water pennywort * Western fringed catchfly * Western goblin * Western hemlock * Western lily *
Western juniper ''Juniperus occidentalis'', known as the western juniper, is a shrub or tree native to the Western United States, growing in mountains at altitudes of and rarely down to . It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List because it is a widesp ...
* Western red cedar * Western water hemlock * Western white pine dwarf mistletoe * Western yellow woodsorrel * Whitestem gooseberry * Wild crab apple * Wild ginger * Willamette daisy * Woolly meadowfoam * Woollypod milkvetch * Yellow lady's slipper


See also

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Lists of Oregon-related topics These are lists of Oregon-related topics, attempting to list every list related to the state of Oregon Oregon () is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northe ...
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List of Oregon birds This list of Oregon birds lists wild bird species found in the U.S. state of Oregon and accepted by the Oregon Bird Records Committee (OBRC). As of August 2022, there are 547 species on the list. Of them, 164 are on the review list (see below). ...


General reference

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Native and Naturalized Plants of Oregon


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Native Plants of the Northwest
Flora of Oregon, 01 Lists of flora of Oregon, Flora of the West Coast of the United States, .