This is a partial list of
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 f ...
that are
native
Native may refer to:
People
* '' Jus sanguinis'', nationality by blood
* '' Jus soli'', nationality by location of birth
* Indigenous peoples, peoples with a set of specific rights based on their historical ties to a particular territory
** Nat ...
to the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its so ...
of
Washington
Washington most commonly refers to:
* George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States
* Washington (state), a state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
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Plants sorted by family
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 rar ...
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Sambucus nigra
''Sambucus nigra'' is a species complex of flowering plants in the family Viburnaceae native to most of Europe. Common names include elder, elderberry, black elder, European elder, European elderberry, and European black elderberry. It grows in ...
'' ― blue elderberry
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Sambucus racemosa
''Sambucus racemosa'' is a species of elder known by the common names red-berried elder and red elderberry. It is native across much of the Northern Hemisphere.
Description
''Sambucus racemosa'' is medium-sized shrub growing (rarely ) tall. Th ...
'' ― red elderberry
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Viburnum edule'' ― high-bush cranberry
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Viburnum ellipticum'' ― common viburnum
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Viburnum opulus
''Viburnum opulus'', commonly known as the guelder-rose, or guelder rose (), is an Old World species of flowering plant in the family Adoxaceae.
Description
''Viburnum opulus'' is a deciduous shrub growing to tall. The leaves are opposite, th ...
'' ― 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''. This family includes both ...
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Asparagus officinalis
Asparagus (''Asparagus officinalis'') is a perennial flowering plant species in the genus ''Asparagus (genus), Asparagus'' native to Eurasia. Widely cultivated as a vegetable crop, its young shoots are used as a spring vegetable.
Description ...
'' ― garden asparagus
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Brodiaea coronaria'' ― bluedick brodiea
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Camassia quamash
''Camassia quamash'', commonly known as camas, kwetlal, small camas, common camas, common camash or quamash, is a perennial herb. It is native to western North America in large areas of southern Canada and the northwestern United States.
Descri ...
'' ― common camas
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Camassia leichtlinii'' ― large camas
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Dichelostemma congestum'' ― ookow, northern saitas
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Maianthemum dilatatum'' ― false lily-of-the-valley
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Maianthemum racemosum'' ― feathery false lily-of-the-valley
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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, ...
'' ― starry false lily-of-the-valley
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Muscari armeniacum'' ― garden grape-hyacinth
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Ornithogalum umbellatum
''Ornithogalum umbellatum'', the garden star-of-Bethlehem, grass lily, nap-at-noon, or eleven-o'clock lady, is a perennial bulbous flowering plant in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae). ''O. umbellatum'' is a relatively short plant, occurring ...
'' ― sleepydick
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Triteleia grandiflora'' ― blue umber lily
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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 Californi ...
'' ― 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 gene ...
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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 envi ...
'' — common lady fern
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 ...
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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 ...
'' — vanillaleaf
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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
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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 , w ...
'' — dwarf Oregon-grape
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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 leafle ...
'' — Oregon-grape
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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 com ...
'' — white inside-out flower
Betulaceae
Betulaceae, the birch family, includes six genera of deciduous nut-bearing trees and shrubs, including the birches, alders, hazels, hornbeams, hazel-hornbeam, and hop-hornbeams, numbering a total of 167 species. They are mostly natives of ...
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Alnus incana
''Alnus incana'', the grey alder, tag alder or speckled alder, is a species of multi-stemmed, shrubby tree in the birch family, with a wide range across the cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Tolerant of wetter soils, it can slowly spread w ...
'' — mountain alder
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Alnus rhombifolia
''Alnus rhombifolia'', the white alder, is an alder tree native to western North America, from British Columbia and Washington east to western Montana, southeast to the Sierra Nevada, and south through the Peninsular Ranges and Colorado Desert oa ...
'' — white alder
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Alnus rubra
''Alnus rubra'', the red alder,
is a deciduous broadleaf tree native to western North America (Alaska, Yukon, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho and Montana).
Description
''Alnus rubra'' is the largest species of alder in ...
'' — red alder
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Alnus viridis
''Alnus alnobetula'' is a common tree widespread across much of Europe, Asia, and North America. Many sources refer to it as ''Alnus viridis'', the green alder, but botanically this is considered an illegitimate name synonymous with ''Alnus alno ...
'' — Siberian alder, Sitka alder, mountain alder
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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
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Betula occidentalis'' — water birch, river birch
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Betula papyrifera
A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus ''Betula'' (), in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams. It is closely related to the beech- oak family Fagaceae. The genus ''Betula'' contain ...
'' — paper birch
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Betula pumila'' — bog birch, dwarf birch
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Corylus cornuta'' — 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 2016 (PP ...
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Blechnum spicant
''Struthiopteris spicant'', Synonym (taxonomy), syn. ''Blechnum spicant'', is a species of fern in the family (biology), family Blechnaceae, known by the common names hard-fern or deer fern. It is native plant, native to Europe, western Asia, no ...
'' — deer fern
Boraginaceae
Boraginaceae, the Borago, borage or forget-me-not family, includes about 2,000 species of shrubs, trees, and herbs in 146 to 154 genus, genera with a worldwide distribution.
The APG IV system from 2016 classifies the Boraginaceae as single famil ...
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Hydrophyllum tenuipes'' — 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 easte ...
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Symphoricarpos albus
''Symphoricarpos albus'' is a species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family known by the common name common snowberry. Native to North America, it is browsed by some animals and planted for ornamental and ecological purposes, but is pois ...
'' — snowberry, waxberry
Cannabaceae
Cannabaceae is a small family of flowering plants, known as the hemp family. As now circumscribed, the family includes about 170 species grouped in about 11 genera, including '' Cannabis'' (hemp), '' Humulus'' (hops) and '' Celtis'' (hackberri ...
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Celtis reticulata
''Celtis reticulata'', with common names including netleaf hackberry, western hackberry, Douglas hackberry,DeBolt, Ann M. (2002"''Celtis reticulata'' Torr. netleaf hackberry"United States Forest Service netleaf sugar hackberry, palo blanco, and ...
'' — 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, ...
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Cornus nuttallii
''Cornus nuttallii'', the Pacific dogwood, western dogwood, or mountain dogwood, is a species of dogwood native to western North America. The tree's name used by Hul'q'umi'num'-speaking nations is ''Kwi’txulhp''.
Description
It is a smal ...
'' — Pacific dogwood
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Cornus sericea'' — creek dogwood
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Cornus × unalaschkensis'' — western bunchberry
Cupressaceae
Cupressaceae or the cypress family is a family of conifers. The family includes 27–30 genera (17 monotypic), which include the junipers and redwoods, with about 130–140 species in total. They are monoecious, subdioecious or (rarely) dioecio ...
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Cupressus nootkatensis
''Callitropsis nootkatensis'', formerly known as ''Cupressus nootkatensis'' ( syn. ''Xanthocyparis nootkatensis, Chamaecyparis nootkatensis''), is a species of tree in the cypress family native to the coastal regions of northwestern North Americ ...
'' — Nootka cypress
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Juniperus communis
''Juniperus communis'', the common juniper, is a species of small tree or shrub in the cypress family Cupressaceae. An evergreen conifer, it has the largest geographical range of any woody plant, with a circumpolar distribution throughout the coo ...
'' — common juniper
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Juniperus maritima'' — seaside juniper
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Juniperus occidentalis'' — western juniper
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Juniperus scopulorum
''Juniperus scopulorum'', the Rocky Mountain juniper, is a species of juniper native to western North America, from southwest Canada to the Great Plains of the United States and small areas of northern Mexico. They are the most widespread of all ...
'' — Rocky Mountain juniper
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Thuja plicata
''Thuja plicata'' is a large evergreen coniferous tree in the family Cupressaceae, native to the Pacific Northwest of North America. Its common name is western redcedar in the U.S. or western red cedar in the UK, and it is also called pacific re ...
'' — western redcedar
Cyperaceae
The Cyperaceae () are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as wikt:sedge, sedges. The family (biology), family is large; botanists have species description, described some 5,500 known species in about 90 ...
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Schoenoplectus acutus
''Schoenoplectus acutus'' ( syn. ''Scirpus acutus, Schoenoplectus lacustris, Scirpus lacustris'' subsp. ''acutus''), called tule , common tule, hardstem tule, tule rush, hardstem bulrush, or viscid bulrush, is a giant species of sedge in the p ...
'' — tule
Dryopteridaceae
The Dryopteridaceae are a Family (biology), family of leptosporangiate ferns in the Order (biology), order Polypodiales. They are known Common name, colloquially as the wood ferns. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG&n ...
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Polystichum munitum'' — western sword fern
Ericaceae
The Ericaceae () are a Family (biology), 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 about 4,250 known species spread acros ...
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Arbutus menziesii'' — Pacific madrona
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Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
''Arctostaphylos uva-ursi'' is a plant species of the genus ''Arctostaphylos'' widely distributed across circumboreal regions of the subarctic Northern Hemisphere. Kinnikinnick (from the Unami language for "smoking mixture") is a common name in ...
'' — kinnickinnick
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Gaultheria shallon
''Gaultheria shallon'' is an evergreen shrub in the heather family (biology), family (Ericaceae), native to western North America. Common names include salal (), shallon, or (mainly in Britain) gaultheria.
Description
''Gaultheria shallon'' ...
'' — salal
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Rhododendron macrophyllum'' — Pacific rhododendron
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Vaccinium ovatum
''Vaccinium'' is a common and widespread genus of shrubs or dwarf shrubs in the heath family (Ericaceae). The fruits of many species are eaten by humans and some are of commercial importance, including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry (w ...
'' — evergreen huckleberry
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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 to o ...
'' — red huckleberry
Fagaceae
The Fagaceae (; ) are a family of flowering plants that includes beeches, chestnuts and oaks, and comprises eight genera with around 1,000 or more species. Fagaceae in temperate regions are mostly deciduous, whereas in the tropics, many species ...
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Chrysolepis chrysophylla
''Chrysolepis chrysophylla'' is a species of flowering shrub or tree in the Fagaceae, beech family known by the common names golden chinquapin, giant chinquapin, and western chinquapin. It is native to the Pacific coast of the United States.McMur ...
'' — golden chinquapin
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Quercus garryana
''Quercus garryana'' is an oak tree species named for Nicholas Garry, deputy governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. It is commonly known as the Garry oak, Oregon white oak or Oregon oak.
The species is found in the Pacific Northwest, with a rang ...
'' — Oregon white oak
Hydrangeaceae
Hydrangeaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Cornales, with a wide distribution in Asia and North America, and locally in southeastern Europe.
Description
The genera are characterised by leaves in opposite pairs (rarely whorled or ...
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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 fai ...
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Clintonia uniflora'' ― bead lily, queen's cup
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Erythronium grandiflorum'' ― yellow glacier lily
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Erythronium oregonum'' ― white fawn lily
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Erythronium revolutum'' — pink fawn lily
Oleaceae
Oleaceae, also known as the olive family or sometimes the lilac 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. Gree ...
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Fraxinus latifolia'' — Oregon ash
Orchidaceae
Orchids are plants that belong to the family (biology), family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Orchids are cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan plants that ...
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Goodyera oblongifolia'' — rattlesnake plantain
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Cephalanthera austiniae'' — phantom orchid
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Calypso bulbosa
''Calypso'' is a genus of orchids containing one species, ''Calypso bulbosa'', known as the calypso orchid, fairy slipper or Venus's slipper. It is a Perennial plant, perennial member of the Orchidaceae, orchid family found in undisturbed northe ...
'' — fairy-slipper
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Corallorhiza maculata'' — spotted coralroot
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Corallorhiza mertensiana'' — pacific coralroot
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Corallorhiza striata'' — striped coralroot
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Platanthera stricta'' — slender bog orchid
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Platanthera dilatata'' — white bog orchid
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Spiranthes romanzoffiana'' — hooded ladies tresses
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Neottia cordata
''Neottia cordata'', the lesser twayblade or heartleaf twayblade, is an orchid of upland bogs and mires that rarely exceeds in height. It was formerly placed in the genus ''Listera'', but Molecular phylogenetics, molecular phylogenetic studies ...
'' — heartleaf twayblade
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Neottia banksiana'' — northwestern twayblade
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Cypripedium montanum'' — mountain ladies slipper
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Platanthera elegans'' — elegant rein orchid
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Platanthera unalascensis'' — alaska rein orchid
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Platanthera elongata'' — denseflower rein orchid
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Platanthera transversa'' — flat spurred piperia
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Platanthera ephemerantha'' — whiteflower rein orchid
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Platanthera orbiculata
''Platanthera orbiculata'', the round leaved orchid or lesser roundleaved orchid, is a species of orchid native to forested areas of North America. It is widespread across most of Canada and parts of the United States (Alaska, New England, Appala ...
'' — round leaved bog orchid
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Epipactis gigantea'' — stream orchid
Paeoniaceae
The peony or paeony () is any flowering plant in the genus ''Paeonia'', the only genus in the family Paeoniaceae. Peonies are native to Asia, Europe, and Western North America. Scientists differ on the number of species that can be distinguishe ...
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Paeonia brownii'' — native peony
Papaveraceae
The Papaveraceae, informally known as the poppy family, are an economically important family (biology), family of about 42 genera and approximately 775 known species of flowering plants in the order Ranunculales. The family is cosmopolitan dis ...
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Dicentra formosa
''Dicentra formosa'' (western, wild or Pacific bleeding-heart) is a species of flowering plant in the poppy family, Papaveraceae (subfamily: Fumarioideae). With its fern-like foliage and inflorescence of drooping pink, purple, yellow or cream "he ...
'' — 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 Cedrus, cedars, firs, Tsuga, hemlocks, Pinyon_pine, piñons,
larches, pines and spruces. The family is incl ...
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Abies amabilis
''Abies amabilis'', commonly known as the Pacific silver fir, is a fir native to the Pacific Northwest of North America, occurring in the Pacific Coast Ranges and the Cascade Range. It is also commonly referred to in English as the white fir, red ...
'' — Pacific silver fir
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Abies grandis
''Abies grandis'' (grand fir, giant fir, lowland white fir, great silver fir, western white fir, Vancouver fir, or Oregon fir) is a fir native to northwestern North America, occurring at altitudes of sea level to . It is a major constituent of t ...
'' — grand fir
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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
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Abies procera
''Abies procera'', the noble fir, also called red fir, is a species of fir native to the Cascade Range and Pacific Coast Ranges of the northwestern Pacific Coast of the United States. It occurs at altitudes of .
Description
''A. procera'' is a ...
'' — noble fir
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Larix lyallii'' — alpine larch
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Larix occidentalis
The western larch (''Larix occidentalis'') is a species of larch native to the mountains of western North America (Pacific Northwest, Inland Northwest); in Canada in southeastern British Columbia and southwestern Alberta, and in the United Stat ...
'' — western larch
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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 highly prized for producing distinctive tone wood for acoustic guitars ...
'' — Engelmann spruce
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Picea glauca
''Picea glauca'', the white spruce, is a species of spruce native to the northern temperate and boreal forests in Canada and United States, North America.
''Picea glauca'' is native from central Alaska all through the east, across western and s ...
'' — white spruce, western white spruce
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Picea sitchensis
''Picea sitchensis'', the Sitka spruce, is a large, coniferous, evergreen tree growing to just over tall, with a trunk diameter at breast height that can exceed 5 m (16 ft). It is by far the largest species of spruce and the fifth-l ...
'' — Sitka spruce
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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
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Pinus contorta
''Pinus contorta'', with the common names lodgepole pine and shore pine, and also known as twisted pine, and contorta pine, is a common tree in western North America. It is common near the ocean shore and in dry montane forests to the subalpine ...
'' — lodgepole pine
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Pinus monticola'' — western white pine
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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 th ...
'' — ponderosa pine
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Pseudotsuga menziesii
The Douglas fir (''Pseudotsuga menziesii'') is an evergreen conifer species in the pine family, Pinaceae. It is the tallest tree in the Pinaceae family. It is native plant, native to western North America and is also known as Douglas-fir, Dougl ...
'' — Douglas fir
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Tsuga heterophylla
''Tsuga heterophylla'', the western hemlock or western hemlock-spruce, is a species of Tsuga, hemlock native to the northwest coast of North America, with its northwestern limit on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and its southeastern limit in nort ...
'' — western hemlock
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Tsuga mertensiana
''Tsuga mertensiana'', known as mountain hemlock, is a species of hemlock native to the west coast of North America, found between Southcentral Alaska and south-central California.
Description
''Tsuga mertensiana'' is a large evergreen conifer ...
'' — mountain hemlock
Plantaginaceae
Plantaginaceae, the plantain family or veronica family, is a large, diverse family (biology), family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales that includes common flowers such as Antirrhinum, snapdragon and Digitalis, foxglove. It is unrelated ...
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Penstemon acuminatus'' — sharpleaf penstemon
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Penstemon barrettiae'' — Barrett's beardtongue
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Penstemon cardwellii'' — T.J. Howell Cardwell's beardtongue
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Penstemon palmeri'' — Palmer's penstemon
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Penstemon rupicola'' — cliff beardtongue
Polypodiaceae
Polypodiaceae is a Family (biology), family of ferns. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), the family includes around 65 genus, genera and an estimated 1,650 species and is placed in the order Polypodiales, suborder ...
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Polypodium glycyrrhiza'' — licorice fern
Ranunculaceae
Ranunculaceae (, buttercup or crowfoot family; Latin "little frog", from "frog") is a family (biology), family of over 2,000 known species of flowering plants in 43 genera, distributed worldwide.
The largest genera are ''Ranunculus'' (600 spec ...
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Actaea rubra
''Actaea rubra'', the red baneberry or chinaberry, is a poisonous herbaceous flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native plant, native to North America.
Description
It is a perennial herb that grows tall.
The leaves are coarsely toothe ...
'' ― baneberry
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Anemone deltoidea'' ― three-leaved anemone, Pacific white anemone, Columbian windflower
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Anemone multifida'' ― cut-leaf anemone
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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
''Aquileg ...
'' ― red columbine
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Caltha biflora'' ― two-flowered marsh marigold
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Caltha leptosepala'' ― white marsh marigold
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Coptis asplenifolia'' ― fern-leaved goldthread
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Delphinium menziesii'' ― Menzie's larkspur
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Pulsatilla occidentalis'', syn. ''Anemone occidentalis'' ― western anemone, white pasqueflower
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Ranunculus eschscholtzii
''Ranunculus eschscholtzii'' is a species of buttercup flower known by the common name Eschscholtz's buttercup.
The species name honors Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, an Imperial Russian botanist and entomologist active on the West Coast in t ...
'' ― Eschscholtz's buttercup
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Ranunculus flammula'' ― lesser spearwort, creeping spearwort, banewort
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Ranunculus occidentalis'' ― western buttercup
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Ranunculus uncinatus'' ― little buttercup
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Thalictrum occidentale'' ― western meadowrue
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Trautvetteria caroliniensis
''Trautvetteria caroliniensis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae native to North America. It is known by the common names Carolina bugbane, false bugbane, and tassel-rue. The genus is named for the botanist Ernst Rudol ...
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Trollius laxus'' ― globeflower
Rhamnaceae
The Rhamnaceae are a large Family (biology), 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 specie ...
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Rhamnus purshiana
''Frangula purshiana'' (cascara, cascara buckthorn, cascara sagrada, bearberry, and in the Chinook Jargon, chittem stick and chitticum stick; syn. ''Rhamnus purshiana'') is a species of plant in the family Rhamnaceae. It is native to western Nor ...
'' — cascara buckthorn
Rosaceae
Rosaceae (), the rose family, is a family of flowering plants that includes 4,828 known species in 91 genera.
The name is derived from the type genus '' Rosa''. The family includes herbs, shrubs, and trees. Most species are deciduous, but som ...
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Amelanchier alnifolia
''Amelanchier alnifolia'', the saskatoon berry, Pacific serviceberry, western serviceberry, western shadbush, or western juneberry, is a shrub native to North America. It is a member of the rose family, and bears an edible berry-like fruit.
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Aruncus dioicus'' — goat's beard
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Geum calthifolium'' ― caltha-leaved avens
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Geum macrophyllum'' ― large-leaved avens
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Leutkea pectinata'' ― partridgefoot
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Oemleria cerasiformis'' — osoberry
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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 tal ...
'' — Pacific ninebark
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Potentilla anserina'' ― silverweed
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Potentilla flabellifolia'' ― fan-leaved cinquefoil
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Potentilla villosa'' ― villous cinquefoil
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Rosa nutkana
''Rosa nutkana'', the Nootka rose, bristly rose, or wild rose is a perennial shrub in the rose family (Rosaceae).[Rubus parviflorus
''Rubus parviflorus'', the fruit of which is commonly called the thimbleberry or redcap, is a species of ''Rubus'' with large trichome, hairy leaves and no Thorns, spines, and prickles, thorns.
The species is native to northern temperate region ...]
'' — thimbleberry
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Rubus spectabilis'' — salmonberry
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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
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Sanguisorba canadensis'' ― Sitka burnet
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Sanguisorba officinalis'' ― great burnet
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Sibbaldia procumbens'' ― sibbaldia
Salicaceae
The Salicaceae are the willow family of flowering plants. The traditional family (Salicaceae ''sensu stricto'') includes the willows, poplars. Genetic studies summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) have greatly expanded the circumsc ...
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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, '' — quaking aspen
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Populus trichocarpa
''Populus trichocarpa'', the black cottonwood, western balsam-poplar or California poplar, is a deciduous broadleaf tree species native to western North America. It is used for timber, and is notable as a model organism in plant biology. The tr ...
'' — black cottonwood
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Salix amygdaloides
''Salix amygdaloides'', the almond leaf willow or peach leaf willow, is a species of willow native to central North America east of the Cascade Range. It can be found in southern Canada and the United States—from western British Columbia to Que ...
'' — peach-leaf willow
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Salix arctica
''Salix arctica'', the Arctic willow, is a tiny creeping willow (family Salicaceae). It is adapted to survive in Arctic conditions, specifically tundras.
Description
''S. arctica'' is typically a low shrub growing to only in height, rarely to ...
'' — Arctic willow
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Salix barclayi'' — Barclay's willow
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Salix bebbiana'' — gray willow, Bebb's willow, long-beak willow
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Salix boothii'' — Booth's willow
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Salix brachycarpa'' — small-fruit willow
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Salix candida'' — sage willow
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Salix cascadensis'' — Cascade willow
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Salix columbiana'' — Columbia River willow
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Salix commutata'' — under-green willow
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Salix drummondiana'' — Drummond's willow
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Salix eastwoodiae'' — Sierra willow
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Salix exigua'' — narrow-leaf willow, coyote willow
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Salix farriae'' — Farr's willow
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Salix fragilis'' — crack willow
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Salix geyeriana'' — Geyer's willow
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Salix glauca
''Salix glauca'' is a species of flowering plant in the willow family known by the common names gray willow, grayleaf willow, white willow, and glaucous willow. It is native to North America, where it occurs throughout much of Alaska, northern ...
'' — gray willow
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Salix hookeriana'' — coastal willow
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Salix lasiandra'' — Pacific willow
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Salix lasiolepis'' — arroyo willow
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Salix maccalliana'' — Maccalla's willow
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Salix melanopsis'' — dusky willow
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Salix monochroma'' — one-color willow
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Salix nivalis'' — dwarf snow willow
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Salix pedicellaris'' — bog willow
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Salix petrophila'' — alpine willow
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Salix planifolia'' — tea-leaved willow
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Salix prolixa'' — Mackenzie's willow
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Salix pseudomonticola'' — false mountain willow
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Salix scouleriana'' — Scouler's willow
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Salix sessilifolia'' — sessile-leaf willow
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Salix sitchensis'' — Sitka willow
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Salix tweedyi'' — Tweedy's willow
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Salix vestita'' — rock willow
Sapindaceae
The Sapindaceae are a family (biology), family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales known as the soapberry family. It contains 138 genera and 1,858 accepted species. Examples include Aesculus, horse chestnut, maples, ackee and lychee.
The ...
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Acer circinatum'' — vine maple
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Acer glabrum
Acer often refers to:
* Acer (plant), ''Acer'' (plant), the genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as maples
* Acer Inc., a computer company in Taiwan
Acer may also refer to:
People
* David Acer (born 1970), Canadian stand-up comedian and mag ...
'' — Douglas maple
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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. In addition to uses by animals, it is of some culinary and woodworking interest.
Description
Big ...
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Saxifragaceae
Saxifragaceae is a family of Herbaceous plant, herbaceous Perennial plant, perennial flowering plants, within the core eudicot Order (biology), order Saxifragales. The Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy of the family has been greatly revised and the ...
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Boykinia occidentalis'' ― coast boykinia, western boykinia
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Chrysosplenium glechomifolium'' ― Pacific golden saxifrage
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Heuchera glabra'' ― smooth alumroot
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Heuchera micrantha'' ― small-flowered alumroot
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Leptarrhena pyrolifolia'' ― leatherleaf saxifrage
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Lithophragma parviflorum'' ― small-flowered woodland star
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Micranthes ferruginea
''Micranthes ferruginea'' is a species of flowering plant known by the common names russethair saxifrage and rusty saxifrage. It is native to western North America from Alaska and northwestern Canada to northern California to Wyoming, where it ca ...
'' ― Alaska saxifrage
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Micranthes occidentalis'' ― western saxifrage
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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 habitat ...
'' ― Tolmie's saxifrage
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Mitella breweri'' ― brewer's mitrewort
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Mitella pentandra'' ― five-stamened mitrewort
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Saxifraga bronchialis'' ― spotted saxifrage, prickly saxifrage
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Saxifraga cespitosa
''Saxifraga cespitosa'', the tufted alpine saxifrage or tufted saxifrage, is a species of flowering plant common to many arctic heights. It appears further south in mountainous areas of the Alps, Norway, Scotland, Wales, Iceland, Siberia, wester ...
'' ― tufted saxifrage
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Saxifraga oppositifolia
''Saxifraga oppositifolia'', the purple saxifrage or purple mountain saxifrage, is a species of plant that is very common in the high Arctic and also some high mountainous areas further south, including northern Great Britain, Britain, the Alps ...
'' ― purple mountain saxifrage
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Tellima grandiflora'' ― fringecup
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Tiarella trifoliata'' ― foamflower
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Tolmiea menziesii'' ― piggy-back plant, youth-on-age
Taxaceae
Taxaceae (), commonly called the yew family, is a coniferous family (biology), family which includes six Extant taxon, extant and two extinct genera, and about 30 species of plants, or in older interpretations three genera and 7 to 12 species.
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Taxus brevifolia
''Taxus brevifolia'', the Pacific yew or western yew, is a species of tree in the yew family Taxaceae native to the Pacific Northwest of North America. It is a small evergreen conifer, thriving in moisture and otherwise tending to take the form o ...
'' — 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 famil ...
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Triantha occidentalis'' — western false asphodel
Zosteraceae
Zosteraceae (one of the four seagrasses families, Kubitzki ed. 1998) is a family of marine perennial flowering plants found in temperate and subtropical coastal waters, with the highest diversity located around Korea and Japan. Most seagrasses ...
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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'')
*Bald eagle (''Haliaeetus leucocephalus'')
*Chestnut-backed chickadee (''Poecile rufescens'')
* Dark-eyed junco (''Junco hy ...
References
Burke Museum (WTU) Image Collection
External links
Washington Flora ChecklistChecklist from the Flora of the Pacific Northwest 2nd edition
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Washington
Washington most commonly refers to:
* George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States
* Washington (state), a state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
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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 f ...
Washington
Washington most commonly refers to:
* George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States
* Washington (state), a state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A ...