Western Washington Native Plants

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Pickleweed

Salicornia depressa

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Fathen

Atriplex petula

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Soft Rush

juncus effusus

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Velvet Grass

Holcus lanatus

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Sawbeak Sedge

Carex stipata

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Seashore Salt grass

Distichlis spicata

-lower tidal

-leaves on same plane

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Creeping Spike Rush

Eleocharis palustris

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Mannagrass

Glyceria spp.

-open loose flowers

-sticky leaves

-found in regularly wet areas

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Foxtail grass

Alopecurus spp.

-tight long flower structures (look like fox tail)

-not always in wetland areas

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Veronica

Veronica americana

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Stinging Nettle

Urtica dioica

-has stinging hairs

-flowers look different

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Cooley's Hedge Nettle

Stachys cooleyae

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Duckweed

Lemna minor

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Seaside Arrow grass

Triglochin maritima

-tidal area

-leaves all come out of one spot at the bottom of the plant

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White Clover

Trifolium repens

-not hairy

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Red Clover

Trifolium partense

-hairy

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Wax Currant

Ribes divaricatum

-has large separated thorns

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Swamp Currant

Ribes lacustre

-lots of clustered thorns

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Stink Currant

Ribes bracteosum

-no thorns, bigger leaves than red flowering

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Cascara

Rhamnus purshiana

-similar to alder tree, but leaf does not have serrated edges

-alternate

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Trailing Blackberry

Rubus ursinus

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Lady Fern

Athyrium filix-femina

-leaf starts small, large, then small at the end

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Bitter Cherry

Prunus emarginata

-leaves oval shaped

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Skunk Cabbage

Lysichitum americanum

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Deer Fern

Blechnum spicant

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Yellow Pond Lilly

Nuphar polysepalum

-stiff stalks and large leaves

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White Water Lilly

Nymphaea odorata

-small round leaves and soft stem

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Water Parsley

Oenanthe sarmentosa

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Brass Buttons

Cotula coronopifolia

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Pacific Silverweed

Argentina egedii

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Willow Herb

Epilobium watsonii

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Bracken Fern

Pteridium aquilinum

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Catchweed

Galium aparine

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Dock

Rumex spp.

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Puget Sound Gum Weed

Grindelia integrifolia

-inter-tidal area

-dandelion look a like

-woody persistent = shrub like

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Nightshade

Solanum dulcamara

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Yellow Flag Iris

Iris pseudacorus

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Giant Fescue

Festuca arundinacea

-no liguels

-leaves not as wide as RCG

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Small Fruited Bulrush

Scirpus microcarpus

-flowers dark not hairy

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Woolly Sedge

Scirpus cyperinus

-flowers hairy, thinner than SFBR

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Slough Sedge

Carex Obunpta

-flowers come off of stem

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Lyngby's Sedge

Carex lyngbyei

-flowers come off of brach on stem