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Flora Of Washington (state)
This is a partial list of flora that are Indigenous (ecology), native to the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. Plants sorted by family Adoxaceae * ''Sambucus nigra'' ― blue elderberry * ''Sambucus racemosa'' ― red elderberry * ''Viburnum edule'' ― high-bush cranberry * ''Viburnum ellipticum'' ― common viburnum * ''Viburnum opulus'' ― snowball viburnum Asparagaceae * ''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'' ― garden grape-hyacinth * ''Ornithogalum umbellatum'' ― sleepydick * ''Triteleia grandiflora'' ― blue umber lily * ''Triteleia hyacinthina'' ― whit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora
Flora (: floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous (ecology), indigenous) native plant, native plants. The corresponding term for animals is ''fauna'', and for fungi, it is ''funga''. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora as in the terms ''gut flora'' or ''skin flora'' for purposes of specificity. Etymology The word "flora" comes from the Latin name of Flora (mythology), Flora, the goddess of plants, flowers, and fertility in Roman mythology. The technical term "flora" is then derived from a metonymy of this goddess at the end of the sixteenth century. It was first used in poetry to denote the natural vegetation of an area, but soon also assumed the meaning of a work cataloguing such vegetation. Moreover, "Flora" was used to refer to the flowers of an artificial garden in the seventeenth century. The distinction between vegetation (the general appearance of a community) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maianthemum Stellatum
''Maianthemum stellatum'' (star-flowered, starry, or little false Solomon's seal, or simply false Solomon's seal; star-flowered lily-of-the-valley or starry false lily of the valley; syn. ''Smilacina stellata'') is a species of flowering plant, native across North America. It has been found in northern Mexico, every Canadian province and territory except Nunavut, and every US state except Hawaii and the states of the Southeast. It has little white buds in the spring, followed by delicate starry flowers, then green-and-black striped berries, and finally deep red berries in the fall. Description ''Maianthemum stellatum'' is a herbaceous perennial plant It grows from extensively branching rhizomes, often forming dense patches. Plants are 2-6 dm tall with 8-11 leaves. Leaves Leaves can be variable but are usually clasping and often blue-green and folded along the mid-rib. Flowering clusters Flowers are set in an un-branched cluster (raceme) at the tip of the flowering stem. Raceme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vancouveria Hexandra
''Vancouveria hexandra'', known as white inside-out flower or duckfoot, 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 understory herb in moist, shady Douglas fir forests. This plant grows high with compound leaves in triplets and is usually found in dense patches. It gets its name from the small delicate white flowers with petal-like sepals that are swept back abruptly as if in the process of turning inside out. The genus honors George Vancouver, the 18th-century explorer of the Pacific Northwest The Pacific Northwest (PNW; ) is a geographic region in Western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east. Though no official boundary exists, the most common .... References External links * * Jepson eFlora (TJM2) treatment of ''Vancouveria hexandra'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahonia Aquifolium
''Berberis aquifolium'', the Oregon grape or holly-leaved barberry, is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Berberidaceae. It is an evergreen shrub growing up to tall and wide, with pinnate leaves consisting of spiny leaflets, and dense clusters of yellow flowers in early spring, followed by dark bluish-black berries. The berries are a part of the traditional diet of some indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest and the species serves as the state flower of Oregon. Description ''Berberis aquifolium'' grows to tall by wide. The stems and twigs have a thickened, corky appearance. The leaves are pinnate and up to long, comprising spiny leaflets. The leathery leaves resemble those of holly. The yellow flowers are borne in dense clusters long in late spring. Each of the six stamens terminates in two spreading branches. The six yellow petals are enclosed by six yellow sepals. At the base of the flower are three greenish-yellow bracts, less than half as l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berberis Nervosa
''Berberis nervosa'', commonly known as dwarf Oregon-grape, Cascade barberry, Cascade Oregon-grape, or dull Oregon-grape, is a North American flowering plant. Description It is an evergreen shrub with short vertical stems, mostly less than , while the leaves reach higher, rarely up to tall on exceptional sites. The plant can reproduce via seeds or by vegetative means, sprouting from rhizomes which extend laterally through the soil. The leaves are compound and oppositely arranged, with 9–21 leaflets. Each leaflet is up to long, strongly toothed, reminiscent of holly, and somewhat shiny, but less so than tall Oregon-grape. The leaflets do not have a single central vein as in that species, but several veins arranged fan-like, branched from the leaflet base, hence the epithet ''nervosa''. The flowers bloom from early to late spring and are similar to those of other Oregon-grapes, forming small yellow flowers in erect clusters up to in length. The fruits are dark-blue, gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, Washington, Oregon and northern California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ..., at elevations of up to 1500 m (5000 feet). ''Achlys triphylla'' is an herb up to 40 cm (16 inches) tall. It has trifoliate leaves and small white flowers. Medicinal uses Multiple Pacific Northwest tribes use the leaves in an infusion drink for tuberculosis. One Lummi informant said the whole plant was mashed and soaked in water, which was drunk as an emetic."Ethnobotany of Western Washington" by Erna Gunther. page 31 References Exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achlys Californica
Achlys ( "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 eyes (often in death). Her Roman counterpart Caligo was said to have been the mother of Chaos. In Nonnus's ''Dionysiaca'', she seems to be a witch. Sources Homer In Homer, the word achlys (ἀχλύς, 'mist'), is frequently used to describe a mist that is "shed" upon a mortal's eyes, often while dying. For example in the ''Iliad'', the hero Sarpedon while grieviously wounded: :his spirit failed him, and down over his eyes a mist ��χλύςwas shed. Howbeit he revived, and the breath of the North Wind as it blew upon him made him to live again after in grievous wise he had breathed forth his spirit. While in the ''Odyssey'', Eurymachus, one of the suitors of Penelope, hit in the chest by an arrow from Odysseus: :let the sword fall from his hand to the groun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berberidaceae
The Berberidaceae are a family (biology), family of 18 genera of flowering plants commonly called the barberry family. This family is in the order (biology), order Ranunculales. The family contains about 700 known species, of which the majority are in the genus ''Berberis''. The species include trees, shrubs and perennial plant, perennial herbaceous plants. Taxonomy The APG IV system of 2016 recognises the family and places it in the order Ranunculales in the clade eudicots. In some older treatments of the family, Berberidaceae only included four genera (''Berberis, Epimedium, Mahonia, Vancouveria''), with the other genera treated in separate families, Leonticaceae (''Bongardia, Caulophyllum, Gymnospermium, Leontice''), Nandinaceae (''Nandina''), and Podophyllaceae (''Achlys, Diphylleia, Dysosma, Jeffersonia, Podophyllum, Ranzania, Sinopodophyllum''). ''Mahonia'' is very closely related to ''Berberis'', and included in it by many botanists. However, recent DNA-based Phylogeneti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athyrium Filix-femina
''Athyrium filix-femina'', the lady fern or common lady-fern, is a large, feathery species of fern native to temperate Asia, Europe, North Africa, Canada and the US. It is often abundant (one of the more common ferns) in damp, shady woodland environments and is often grown for decoration. Its common names "lady fern" and "female fern" refer to how its reproductive structures ( sori) are concealed in an inconspicuous – deemed "female" – manner on the frond. Alternatively, it is said to be feminine because of its elegant and graceful appearance. Description ''Athyrium filix-femina'' is now commonly split into three species, typical ''A. filix-femina'', '' A. angustum'' (narrow lady fern) and '' A. asplenioides'' (southern lady fern). ''Athyrium filix-femina'' is cespitose (the fronds arising from a central point as a clump rather than along a rhizome). The deciduous fronds are light yellow-green, long and broad. Overall frond shape tends to be elliptical, with the bottom p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 genera. Alternatively, it may be treated as the subfamily Athyrioideae of a very broadly defined family Aspleniaceae. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution. Description Species of the Athyriaceae are terrestrial or lithophyte, lithophytic, less commonly aquatic. They grow from various kinds of rhizome: short or long, creeping or erect, branched or not. The distribution and evolution of Phenotypic trait, characters in the family is complex, and the genera have few constant features by which they can be identified. The sporangia have stalks two or three cells wide in the middle, and contain brown Spore#Anatomy, monolete spores. Taxonomy Earlier classifications The family was first created by Arthur Hugh Garfit Alston, Arthur H.G. Alst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triteleia Hyacinthina
''Triteleia hyacinthina'' is a species of flowering plant known by the common names white brodiaea, white tripletlily, hyacinth brodiaea, and fool's onion. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Idaho to central California. Its habitat includes grassland and vernally moist areas such as meadows and vernal pools. It is a perennial herb growing from a corm. It produces two or three basal leaves up to long by wide. The inflorescence arises on an erect stem up to tall and bears an umbel-like cluster of many flowers. Each flower is a funnel-shaped bloom borne on a pedicel up to long. The flower is white, often tinged purple along the tubular throat, with six green-veined tepals. There are six stamen The stamen (: stamina or stamens) is a part consisting of the male reproductive organs of a flower. Collectively, the stamens form the androecium., p. 10 Morphology and terminology A stamen typically consists of a stalk called the filament ...s with wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
