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Plants found in the vicinity of the Railroad Bridge Park
and the Dungeness River Natural History CenterA Preliminary List provided by trip leader Diane Doss for an April 1998 Field Trip of the Washington Native Plant Society, Olympic Peninsula Chapter.
PART 1: NATIVE VASCULAR PLANTS
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Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Comments |
| Douglas fir | Pseudotsuga menziesii | Cigar-shaped buds |
Grand fir |
Abies Grandis |
Shiny dark flat needles |
Western hemlock |
Tsuga heterophylla |
Shade-tolerant, drooping tip |
Western redcedar |
Thuja plicata |
Bark peels in strips |
Pacific yew |
Taxus brevifolia |
Uncommon, slow-growing |
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Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Comments |
Red alder |
Alnus rubra |
Early-succession, N-fixing |
Bitter cherry |
Prunus emarginata |
Occasional |
Black cottonwood |
Populus trichocarpa |
Fragments sprout in riverbed |
Bigleaf maple |
Acer macrophyllum |
Sun & shade |
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Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Comments |
Pacific blackberry |
Rubus ursinus |
Small native blackberry |
Blackcap |
Rubus leucodermis |
Black raspberry |
Oregon boxwood |
Pachistima myrsinites |
Slow growing groundcover |
Red-flowering currant |
Ribes sanguineum |
Long-blooming beauty |
Red-osier dogwood |
Cornus stolonifera |
Red stems |
Blue elderberry |
Sambucus cerulea |
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Red elderberry |
Sambucus racemosa |
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Coast black gooseberry |
Ribes divaricatum |
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Hazelnut |
Corulus cornuta |
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Orange honeysuckle |
Lonicera ciliosa |
Our native vine; hummingbirds |
Douglas maple |
Acer glabrum |
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Mockorange |
Philadelphus lewisii |
Uncommon; one in N parking lot |
Ocean spray |
Holodiscus discolor |
Great little-bird food |
Dull Oregongrape |
Berberis nervosa |
Common, short, 9-19 leaflets |
Shining Oregongrape |
Berberis aquifolium |
Tall, 5-9 leaflets |
Osoberry (Indian plum) |
Oemleria cerasiformis |
Earliest blooming shrub |
Baldhip rose |
Rosa gymnocarpa |
Tiny roses, small spines |
Nootka rose |
Rosa nutkana |
Thorny |
Gaultheria shallon |
Outstanding groundcover |
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Salmonberry |
Rubus spectabilis |
First ripe berry |
Snowberry |
Symphoricarpos albus |
White berries all winter |
Thimbleberry |
Rubus parviflorus |
White papery rose-flowers |
Scouler's willow |
Salix scouleri |
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Sitka willow |
Salix sitchensis |
Underleaves are silky |
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Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Comments |
Bracken fern |
Pteridium aquilinum |
Open |
Lady fern |
Athyrium filix-femina |
Wet areas |
Spreading wood-fern |
Dryopteris austriaca |
Dry, shady |
Sword fern |
Polystichum munitum |
Our most common fern |
Common horsetail |
Equisetum arvense |
Open |
Giant horsetail |
Equisetum telmateia |
Moist, shady; large |
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Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Comments |
Baneberry |
Actaea rubra |
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Bedstraw |
Galium sp. |
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Fragrant bedstraw |
Galium triflorum |
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Bleeding-heart |
Dicentra formosa |
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Large-flowered collomia |
Collomia grandiflora |
Riverbed |
Coltsfoot |
Petasites frigidus |
Moist |
Fireweed |
Epilobium augustifolium |
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Goatsbeard |
Aruncus sylvester |
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Goldenrod |
Solidago canadensis |
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Cooley's hedgenettle |
Stachys cooleyae |
"stinky" mint |
Miner's lettuce |
Montia perfoliata |
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Mitrewort |
Mitella sp. |
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Common monkeyflower |
Mimulus guttatus |
Moist |
Musky monkeyflower (?) |
Mimulus moschatus (?) |
Moist |
Pearly everlasting |
Anaphalis margaritacea |
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Stinging nettle |
Urtica dioica |
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Phacelia |
Phacelia sp. |
"washdown" from mountains |
Piggy-back plant |
Tolmiea menziesii |
"Youth-on-age"; houseplant |
Dewey's sedge |
Carex deweyana |
Forest |
Self-heal |
Prunella vulgaris |
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False solomon's-seal |
Smilacina racemosa |
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Starry solomon's-seal |
Smilacina stellata |
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Western springbeauty |
Montia sibirica |
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Western starflower |
Trientalis latifolia |
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Strawberry |
Fragaria sp. |
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Wooly sunflower |
Eriophyllum lanatum |
Dry, open |
Trail-plant |
Adenocaulon bicolor |
White leaf undersides |
Trillium |
Trillium ovatum |
Picking leaves may kill plant |
Nodding trisetum |
Trisetum cernuum |
A grass of the forest |
Twinflower |
Linnaea borealis |
E'green groundcover; honeysuckle family |
Vanilla leaf |
Achlys triphylla |
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Slender-stem waterleaf |
Hydrophyllum tenuipes |
Moist |
Willowherb |
Epilobium sp. |
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Watson's willowherb |
Epilobium watsonii |
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Small-flowered woodrlush |
Luzula parviflora |
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Yarrow |
Achillea millefolium |
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PART 2: NON-NATIVE SPECIES
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Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Comments |
Evergreen blackberry |
Rubus laciniatus |
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Himalaya blackberry |
Rubus discolor |
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Butterfly bush |
Buddleja davidii |
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Scot's broom |
Cytisus scoparius |
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Tree lupine |
Lupinus arboreus |
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Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Comments |
Alfalfa |
Medicago sativa |
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Catchfly |
Silene alba or vulgaris |
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Comfrey |
Symphytum sp. |
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Creeping buttercup |
Ranunculus repens |
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Dandelion |
Taraxacum officinale |
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Hairy cat's-ear |
Hypochaeris radicata |
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Dutch clover |
Trifolium repens |
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Least hop-clover |
Trifolium dubium |
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Creeping charlie |
Glecoma hederacea |
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Oxeye daisy |
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum |
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Curly dock |
Rumex crispus |
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Forget-me-not |
Myosotis spp. |
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Foxglove |
Digitalis purpurea |
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Herb Robert |
Geranium robsertianum |
Shade-tolerant; serious threat to forest communities |
Giant knotweed |
Polygonum sachalinense |
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Japanese knotweed |
Polygonum cuspidatum |
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Wall lettuce |
Lactuca muralis |
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Nipplewort |
Lapsana communis |
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Orchardgrass |
Dactylis glomerata |
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Common plantain |
Plantago major |
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English plantain |
Plantago lanceolata |
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Queen Anne's lace |
Daucus carota |
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Sowthistle |
Sonchus ar |
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White sweetclover |
Meliotus alba |
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Bull thistle |
Cirsium |
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Canada thistle |
Cirsium arvense var. horridum |
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Velvet grass |
Holcus lanatus |
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End-Notes:
1. Scientific Names are from Hitchcock & Cronquist, 1973 - see reference below.
2. Many of the plants on the native plants list above are delightful in the landscape - see Kruckeberg reference below.Editors' Note: Notations of edible plants that were included on the WNPS field trip list have been omitted from this web-site list. Persons not expert at plant identification should be cautious regarding edible plant materials as some, for example some attractive red berries, are reportedly highly toxic.
References:
Hitchcock & Cronquist. 1973. Flora of the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington Press, Seattle.
Kruckeberg, A. R., 1982. Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington Press, Seattle.
Mathews, Daniel, 1988. Cascade-Olympic Natural History. Raven Editions/Portland Audubon Society, Portland.
Pojar, J. & A. MacKinnon. 1994. Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast. British Columbia Ministry of Forests & Lone Pine Publishing, Vancouver, B. C.For additional plants exhibits see also Pat Holden's 1991 Plant Survey and Steve Koehler's "Trees of the Dungeness".
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