Saskatoon Berry
Amelanckier alnifolia
Shrub to over 5m high. Leaves. Deciduous and
round to oval. Flowers are showy, white and in
leafy clusters Shorelines, meadows, thickets
and forest open areas.

 

White Marsh Marigold
Caltha leptosepala
A perennial flower growing to 40 cm. The leaves
are mostly basal and as wide as they are long.
They are round to kidney shaped’ The flowers are
showy white, normally two to a stem. High elevations
in bogs, fens, wet forests.

 

American Searocket
Cakile edentula
Annual seashore herb. Sprawling to50cm.
Leaves, fleshy, broad stalks Flowers, white to
purplish-tinged. Several in short clusters.
Sandy beaches.

 

Seaside Rein Orchid
Platanthera greenei
A perennial from fibrous roots with erect stems
to 80 cm tall. Leaves are in basal pairs and soon wither
as it flowers late spring to summer. Flowers.
White sweet smelling with a long spur to 2 cm.
Low elevations in grassy areas and rocky slopes.

 

Bleeding Heart
Dicentra formosa
Perennial.  Flower stems are leafless to a height of 15-50cm.Leaves are basal and numerous, long stalked,
fern like and well divided. Flowers, pinkish-purple,
5 to 15 in clusters at the top of the stem.Moist forests
and ravines.

 

Sulpher Cinquefoil
Potentilla recta
Erect perennial plant to 80cm tall.Leaves are mostly
on the stem, palmately divided into 5 to 7 leaflets.
Flowers are yellow and showy in flat topped clusters.
Mostly at low elevations in disturbed sites.

 

Common Burdock
Arctium minus
Biennial. Stems are leafy to 1.5m tall.
Large leaves to 30cm. Long, 25cm wide.
Flower heads, pink to purple, disc flowers only,
thistle like. Roadsides, pastures, disturbed sites
in low elevations.

 

Goats Beard
Aruncus sylvester
A perennial plant from creeping rhizomes to
2m tall. Several stems. Large leaves that become
smaller higher up the plant. Three times compound.
The white flowers are very tiny. Male and female
flowers on separate plants. Grows in roadsides
and edges of forests and streams.

 

Woodland Star
Lithophragma parviflorum
Perennial. Stems 10-40cm tall Hairy, usually purplish
towards the top with three leaves.   Flowers white to pink,
petals 5-10mm, usually deeply lobed at the tip.  
Dry open grassy slopes, coastal bluffs.

 

Indian Paintbrush
Castilleja miniata
Perennial.   Stems few, usually erect 20-80cm tall.
Leaves are narrow and sharp pointed.
The flowers, inconspicuous, greenish and hidden
by red to scarlet, sharp toothed bracts.
Open woods, meadows, thickets and roadsides.

 

Pearly Everlasting
Anaphalis margaritaea
Perennial.   Stems usually unbranched 20-100cm tall.
Leaves, alternate,   narrow lance shaped..Greenish above,
white woolly beneath. Flower heads are small, white
and densely packed clusters. Roadsides and clearings.

 

Leather Leaf Saxifrage
Leptarrhena pyrolifolia
Perennial with unbranched stems 20 to 40cm tall.
Leaves are purplish red in the fall. Mostly basal
and hairless, margins round toothed. White flowers,
purplish-red fruits. Can be found on stream banks
and in mossy areas.

 

Scarlet Pimpernel
Anagallis arvensis
Introduced annual. Leaves are egg shaped and
pointed and opposite.Flowers, salmon color on
curving stalks. It’s a weedy species.
Found in clearings and waste areas.

 

Olympic Mountain Aster
Aster paucicapitatus
Perennial plant to 60cm tall. Leaves are small,
4cm long and glandular hairy.
Flowers are white ray flowers
Meadows and rocky slopes to high elevations

 

Yellow Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium californicum
Perennial showy plant that grows up to 40cm high.
Leaves are mostly basal in clumps of narrow grass
like leaves.Flowers are yellow with brownish veins
and in terminal clusters. Wet or moist edges of ponds
and boggy areas.

 

European Bittersweet
Solanum dulcamara
Perennial. The stems are vine like 1-3m long,
climbing or sprawling on vegetation close by.
The leaves are alternate, egg shaped.
The flowers are bluish purple and yellow.
Roadsides, moist clearings.

 

Few Flowered Shooting Star
Dodecatheon pulchellum
Perennial plant with leafless stems. Leaves are
oblong to lance shaped to 20cm long.
Flowers. Magenta color with 5 petals swept
backward with a yellow collar. Moist meadows
and streambanks and sea level to high elevations.

 

Hookers Onion
Allium acuminatum
Perennial plant about 30cm high. Basal leaves dying
off before the flower appears. Flowers are rose pink and
the tepals turn backwards at the tip.
Found in open rocky sites.

 

Small Flower Blue Eyed Mary
Collinsia parviflora
Annual.  Leafy stem usually erect or ascending,
sometimes sprawling. Leaves 1-4cm long, bract
like in the inflorescence. Flowers blue with some white,
2 lobed. Mossy outcroppings, gravelly flats.

 

Yellow Rattle
Rhinanthus minor
Annual. Stems leafy and erect, few branched
10 to 80cm tall. Stalkless leaves lance shaped
2-7cm long. Flowers, yellow 9-14mm, 2 lipped
with upper lip hooded, lower lip is 3 lobed.
Meadows, grassy sites, beaches.

 

Spotted Coralroot
Corallorhiza
Perennial parasite plant in humus and decaying
matter. Leaves are reduced to sheathing scales.
Flower. Pink to red with white lip with magenta
spots. Rich humus in dry forests, often in shade

 

Striped Coralroot
Corallorhiza striata
Perennial plant with purplish stalks. Leaves are
thin, semi transparent. Flowers are a yellowish pink
with reddish stripes, drooping in loose clusters.
Moist forest floors in shade, ravines and streambanks.

 

 

Yellow Sand Verbena
Abronia latifolia
Perennial plant with the stems trailing along the
sand to 1m long. The leaves are thick and fleshy on
long stalks. The flowers are a bright yellow with
several in a ball shape head. Its habitat is sandy
beaches and dunes.

 

Tufted Vetch
Vicia cracca
Perennial trailing or climbing. Stems to 2m long.
Leaves compound with terminal branched tendrils.
Leaflets 16 –24. Flowers, blue to reddish purple, pea like,
20-50 flowers. Thickets and open forests.

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