Big-Leaf Maple

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• Acer macrophyllum
• FACU

Red Alder

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• Alnus rubra
• FAC
• Leaves: double toothed on each small lobe

Paper Birch

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• FAC
• Betula papyrifera
• Single stem leaves

Oregon Ash

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• Fraxinus latifolia
• FACW
• Single Stem

Pacific/Western Crabapple (Tree or Shrub)

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• Pyrus fusca=Malus fusca
• FACW

Sitka Spruce

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• Picea sitchensis
• FAC

Shore/Coast Pine (Lodgepole pine in Mts.)

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• Pinus contorta
• FAC
• Male and Female parts
• Needles messy

Black Cottonwood

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• Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa=P. trichocarpa
• FAC
• Leaves: alternate, deciduous, leaf stalks round
• Full of resin

Quaking aspen

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• Populus tremuloides
• FAC+, FACU
• smaller than black cottonwood
• Flat leaf stalks

Bitter Cherry

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• Prunus emarginata
• Shrub/Tree
• FACU
• Perennial

Douglas Fir

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• Pseudotsuga menziesii
• FACU
• Tree
• Perennial

Cascara

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• Rhamnus purshiana = Frangula purshiana
• Pursh's Buckthorn
• FAC-
• Perennial
• Shrub/Tree

Pacific Willow

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• Salix lucida ssp. lasiandra
• FACW+
• Perennial
• Shrub/Tree

Western Red Cedar

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• Thuja plicata
• FAC
• Perennial
• Tree

Vine Maple

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• Acer circinatum
• FAC-
• Perennial
• Shrub, Tree or Vine

Dwarf/Dull/Long-Leaved Oregon Grape

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• Berberis nervosa = Mahonia nervosa
• NL (not listed, assumed to be upland plants)
• Perennial
• Shrub, subshrub

Red osier/Red-stem dogwood

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• Cornus sericea ssp. sericea = C. stolonifera
• FACW
• C. alba
• Perennial
• Shrub/Tree

Beaked Hazelnut

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• Corylus cornuta
• FACU
• Perennial
• Shrub/Tree

Douglas/Black Hawthorn

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• Crataegus douglasii
• FAC
• Perennial
• Tree/Shrub

Cultivated Hawthorn

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• Crataegus sp.
• FACU+
• OBL
• Tree or shrub
• Perennial

Salal

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• Gaultheria shallon
• FACU* = identifies a tentative assignment based on either limited info or conflicting reviews
• Perennial
• Shrub

Bog Labrador Tea

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• Ledum groenlandicum = Rhododendron groenlandicum
• OBL, LEGR
• Perennial
• Shrub

Black Twinberry

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• Lonicera involucrata
• FAC+*

Indian Plum

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• Oemleria cerasiformis
• FACU
• Perennial
• Shrub/Tree

Pacific Ninebark

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• Physocarpus capitatus
• FACW-
• Perennial
• Shrub

Wax Currant

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Swamp Gooseberry

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• Ribes lacustre
• FAC+
• Prickly Currant
• Black Berries
• Red Maroon Flowers, droop
• Has 4 or more flowers
• Maple leaf leaves

Red Flowering Currant

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• Ribes sanguineum
• NL, Upland
• Perennial 
• 5 lobed leaves
• Pale Pink-Deep Red Flowers
• Blue Black Berries

Baldhip/wood rose

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• Rosa gymnocarpa
• FACU
• Perennial
• Soft straight prickles
• toothed leaflets
• Pale Pink rose

Nootka Rose

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• Rosa nutkana
• FAC
• Toothed leaves
• Prickles at base of leaf
• Pink Large flowers, single at branch tips

Cluster/Pea Fruit Rose

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• Rosa pisocarpa
• FAC
• Prickles near leaves
• Clustered flowers
• Sharp point leaves

Evergreen/cutleaf blackberry

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• Rubus laciniatus
• FACU
• Perennial
• Vine
• White flower

Himalayan Blackberry

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• Rubus armeniacus = R. discolor (= R. procerus)
• FACU
• Perennial

Salmonberry

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• Rubus spectabilis
• FAC+
• Perennial
• scrub/shrub, vine
• Pink flowers
• Orange berries, sometimes red
• Edible berries, first to ripen

Trailing/Pacific Blackberry

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• Rubus ursinus
• FACU
• Perennial
• Shrub, trailing
• deciduous
• Alternate, 3 leaflets, toothed

Hooker's Willow

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• Salix hookeriana
• FACW-
• Perennial
• Alternate, oval shaped leaves, hairy egg shaped leaves
• silver catkins, grey twigs

Scouler's Willow 

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• Salix scouleriana
• Pussy willow
• FAC
• Twigs densely velvetly 
• Leaves alternate, deciduous 
• can have rust colored or a few hairs beneath leaves

Sitka Willow

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• Salix sitchensis
• Jesus leaves
• FACW
• tree or shrub
• Perennial
• brittle at base
• alternate, deciduous, broad leaves, satiny luster underside

Red Elderberry 

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• Sambucus racemosa
• FACU
• Perennial
• Shrub
• White flowers
• Red Berries
• Opposite, toothed leaves

European Mountain Ash

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• Sorbus aucuparia
• NL, introduced, non-native
• tree/shrub
• Perennial
• Red berries
• Leaves: Compound, Opposite, toothed

Douglas' spiraea; hardhack

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• Spiraea douglasii
• FACW
• Perennial
• Steeplebush
• shrub
• Alternate, Deciduous, oblong, toothed above middle Leaves

Snowberry

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• Symphoricarpos albus
• FACU
• Perennial
• Shrub
• Opposite, deciduous leaves (shape varies)
• thin-brittle stem

Red Huckleberry

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• Vaccinium parvifolium
• FACU
• Perennial 
• Shrub
• branches bright green
• alternate, mostly deciduous, not toothed
• bright red berries

Lady Fern

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• Athyrium filix-femina
• FAC
• Perennial
• Herb
• clustered, erect and spreading to 2 m tall
• Leaves: lance-shaped, tapering at both ends

Nodding Beggarticks

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• Bidens cernua
• FACW+, now OBL
• Annual Herb
• Leaves: Opposite, stalkless
• flowers yellow (6-8), spreading or drooping

Deer Fern

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• Blechnum spicant
• FAC+, FAC
• Evergreen, tufted at end of stout rhizome
• Perennial
• Looks similar to sword fern, but its leaflets are attached to leaf axis all along their base

Canada Thistle

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• Cirsium arvense
• FACU+, FAC
• Perennial
• creeping rhizomes (roots), without spiny wings?
• Pink-purple flowers
• green stems w/o spiny wings, almost spineless heads

Bull Thistle

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• Cirsium vulgare
• FACU
• Biennial
• larger heads than Canada thistle, 
• Spiny winged stemps
• fleshy taproot

Poison Hemlock

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• Conium maculatum
• FAC+, FAC
• Robust Biennial Herb
• Purple blotched stem
• Leaves: fern like
• White flowers
• Poisonous

Brass Buttons

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• Cotula coronopifolia
• FACW+, OBL
• Mud disk (name)
• Aromatic, succulent
• leaves: alternate, narrow oblong 
• Beaches, mudflats

Mountain/Spreading wood-fern

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• Dryopteris austriaca, also Dryopteris expansa
• FACW
• Perennial
• Clustered, erect and spreading
• Leaves: Broad, triangular to egg shaped to broadly oblong

Fireweed

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• Epilobium angustifolium
• CHAN FACU
• Other name: Rosebay willowherb
• Perennial, from rhizome like roots
• Leaves: alternate, distinkly veined below
• Flowers: rose to purple, large

Watson's willow-weed/willowherb

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• Epilobium watsonii, E. ciliatum ssp. watsonii
• FACW-, FACW EPCI
• Perennial, short or no rhizomes
• Leaves: Opposite
• Flowers: white, pink or rose-purple

Field/Common Horsetail

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• Equisetum arvense
• FAC
• Perennial
• persistent
• Stems of 2 types

Scouring Horsetail

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• Equisetum hyemale
• FACW
• Perennial
• Stems: all alike, unbranched, stout, evergreen, bluish-green
• 1.5 mm tall, 3-10 mm thick, 14-50 ridges
• Cones: hard-pointed, persistent

Giant Horsetail

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• Equisetum telmatiea
• FACW
• Stems: 2 types, branched and unbranched
• cones: blunt-tipped
• Wet conditions

Catchweed Bedstraw

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• Galium aparine
• FACU
• Cleavers
• taprooted annual, sprawling
• Leaves:Whorls of 6-8, linear to oblong, veined
• Flowers: whitish or greenish, 3-5 in small, stalked clusters

Bedstraw

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• Galium spp.
• UPL to FACW+
• Perennial
• sprawling
• Leaves: Whorls of 5-6 elliptic lance shaped, 1 veined, vanila scented
• Flowers: Greenish-white, usually 3 flowers per stalk
• Can be upright, white flowers, species dependent

Large-Leaf Avens

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• Geum macrophyllum
• FACW-, FAC
• Hairy Perennial, 1m tall
• Leaves: bigger leaves on the bottom, smaller leaves further up stalk
• Flowers: Bright-yellow, petals 6mm long

Puget Sound Gumweed

• Grindelia integrifolia
• FACW                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Herb from taproot, Perennial
• Leaves: toothed or entire, resin dotted, stem leaves alternate
• Flowers: Ray flowers yellow, sticky glandular

Yellow Flag/Iris

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• Iris pseudacorus
• OBL
• Perennial Herb
• non-native, introduced
• Leaves: long and narrow leaves

Duckweed

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• Lemna minor
• OBL
• Perennial Herb
• Flowers: green

Birdsfoot Trefoil

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• Lotus corniculatus
• FAC
• Perennial Herb
• Flowers: Yellow, 5 leaflets
• Leaves: without stalks
• Introduced?

Water Purslane

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• Ludwigia palustris
• OBL
• Perennial Herb
• Leaves: Opposite
• Flowers: green, 4 petals
• native, W side of Cascades, along Columbia River

Skunk Cabbage; Swamp Lantern

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• Lysichitum americanum, Lysichiton americanus
• OBL
• Perennial Herb
• Robust, hairless
• Skunky odour
• Leaves: Large basal rosette, lance-shaped, huge
• Flowers: Greenish-Yellow, spike is thick and fleshy

Lyngby's Sedge

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• Carex lyngbyei
• OBL
• Perennial
• Grass

Slough Sedge

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• Carex obnupta
• OBL
• Perennial
• Flowers: Yellow, not obvious
• Grass

Pacific Silverweed

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• OBL
• Potentilla anserina spp. pacifica
• Intertidal
• Yellow Flower
• Leaves: Dark green on top, silver underneath

Tufted Hair Grass

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• FACW
• Deschampsia caespitosa
• Clumps together
• Lacy flowers
• Shiny

Seashore saltgrass

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Seacoast/Saltmarsh bulrush

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• OBL
• Scirpus maritimus = Shoenoplectus maritimus
• 3 sided stem (Prism shape)
• Prefers brackish water

Common Brass Buttons

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• Cotula coronopifolia
• OBL
• Yellow, button shaped flower

Spear Saltbush, Fat-hen, orache

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• Atriplex patula
• FACW
• Intertidal
• Leaves: shaped like an arrow
• Low to ground

Pickleweed

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• Salicornia virginica
• OBL
• intertidal, salt to taste

Dock

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• Rumex spp.
• FAC to OBL
• Curly leaves

• Eleocharis palustris
• rush, thin, with tuft on end, clumped or single.

American Dunegrass

• Elymus mollis
• Big flowers 10-30 cm long
• Found at Duammish site

Tall Fescue

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• Festuca arundinacea
• Tall grass, flowers in a triangle shape (xmas tree shape on top of stem

Mannagrass

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• Glyceria spp.
• Slender tall grass in wetlands

Common velvet grass

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• Holcus lanatus
• velvet texture

Toad Rush

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• Juncus bufonius
• Clumping/messy grass, each stem has a flower near the top, common in disturbed areas and parking lots

Soft rush

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• Juncus effusus
• my buddy

Reed canary grass

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• Phalaris arundinacea
• liguile

Seacoast/Salmarsh bulrush

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• Scirpus maritimus
• big bushy flower in crook of two braching stems
• Intertidal

Small-Fruited bulrush

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• Scirpus microcarpus
• Small clusters of flowers at the tip of each stem, firework explosion

Softstem/American Bulrush

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• Shoenoplectus tabernaemontani
• Stem easily crushed

Common Cattail

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• Typha latifolia