Bonehead's Plant List: Native

A note from Bonehead
I am located in north Snohomish County, Washington, Zone 8b, a temperate rain foresty region. I rarely get snow, extreme cold, or extreme heat. Global warming, however, is changing the last one and we now get summer temps that are uncomfortably hot for me (anything over 30 C). I use this feature as a mini-database of my plants - both those within my tended beds/yard and those in my wild areas. The dates for plant events (budding, flowering, etc.) are ranges, not necessarily inclusive on both ends.

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Image Plant Status Notes Events

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Shrubby Cinquefoil (Dasiphora fruticosa)
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Shrub
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Azalea island.

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Pacific Bleeding Heart (Dicentra formosa)
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Perennial
Native
Goes dormant mid-summer. I pull it all when it gets ratty and it comes back and/or reseeds. Also spreads to other areas non-aggressively.

Emerges mid Mar
Blooms late Mar - mid May
Goes dormant early Jul, pull or cut back

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California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
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2010 sidewalk border. Re-seeding annual. Try to add this to hillside.

Blooms late May - early Jul
Shear to 6"
Reblooms X - late Sep

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Chilean Strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis)
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Native
Medicinal
Edible
2016 kitchen bed, intermingled with sweet flag on the sunny side. Hopefully this will fill in quickly. Christianson's.

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Alpine Strawberry (Fragaria vesca)
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2014 foot of huckleberry at firepit. The Plant Farm

Young tree, spring growth

Oregon Ash (Fraxinus latifolia)
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Tree
Native
2008 big island. Sky Nursery

Growing in the state park along with nettles

Cleavers (Galium aparine)
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Native
Edible
Here and there in the flower beds. Easy to pull and the chickens like it. Dry for use as diuretic for the dog.

Fall color

Maidenhair Tree (Ginkgo biloba 'Jade Butterflies')
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Native
Medicinal
Relocate this somewhere inside yard, it is a dwarf variety.

2006 front field. Very slow growing, Very slow to break dormancy. Increases blood circulation to the brain. Christianson's

Yellow foliage mid Oct - mid Nov
Tree bare mid Nov

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Common Velvetgrass (Holcus lanatus)
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Grass
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Fields.


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Species Iris (Iris tenax)
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Perennial
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Wall Lettuce (Lactuca muralis)
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Perennial
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Back woods understory.

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Orange Honeysuckle (Lonicera ciliosa)
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Vine
Native
Aromatic
Road border

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Twinberry (Lonicera involucrata)
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Shrub
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Big island, back woodlot. Black bird berries, very bitter, inedible but perhaps not toxic to humans. 2017 500 live stakes planted along creek by SCCD.

Berries mid May

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Yellow Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanus)
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Perennial
Native
Aromatic
Back wetlands

Blooms mid April - late May

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Oregon Grape (Mahonia aquifolium)
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Shrub
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Can be cut to the ground, will refill quickly. Porch bed.

Evergreen
Blooms early Mar - late Apr
Berries (blue) early Jul - late Aug? gone by end of Sep

photo by John Grimshaw via Trees and Shrubs Online: https://trees

Pacific Crabapple (Malus fusca)
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2017, 225 bare root planted along creek by SCCD.

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Pacific Wax Myrtle (Morella californica)
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Tree
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Breaking dormancy

Sweet Gale (Myrica gale)
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Shrub
Native
Aromatic
Spreads by suckering. Pond border 2006. Sky Native Plants

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Sweet Cicely (Myrrhis odorata)
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Perennial
Native
Aromatic
Medicinal
Edible
Bitch corner 2007.

Emerges late Feb
Blooms early Apr - mid Jun
Cutback to 18" late Jun


Colonizing around mature trees

Oso Berry (Oemleria cerasiformis)
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Shrub
Native
Back woods, road border

Emerges early Mar
Blooms mid Mar - early Apr
Fruit late May