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Home > Landscaping > Native Plants for Western Washington Gardens and Restoration Projects
 | Dicentra formosa Bleeding Heart Hairless, soft stems and light green lacy leaves overtopped by small nodding clusters of pink heart-shaped flowers. Height: Up to 1.5 feet (50 cm). All basal; numerous, long stalked, fern-like, pinnately divided into narrowly oblong ultimate segments, hairless. Leaves deciduous. |
 | Disporum hookeri Hooker's Fairybells Rhizomatous perennial with sparsely branched stems and irregularly curled leaves with hanging white flowers beneath the upper leaves. Height: Up to 3 feet (1 meters). Alternating arrangement; pointed tips to promote run-off, stalkless to somewhat clasping at base, slightly hairy on upper surface and margins, prominently veined; shape: oval to lance-shaped; size: 5-13 cm (2-5 in) long; color: light green. Leaves deciduous. |
 | Dodecatheon hendersonii Henderson's Shooting Star Leafless stems topped with nodding star-shaped pink flowers. This is our only shooting star with oval leaves. Height: Up to 1.5 feet (50 cm). Margins are smooth to slightly toothed; leaf blades are 3-20 cm (1-8 in) long, egg-shaped to deltoid, contracted abruptly to the stalk. Leaves deciduous. |
 | Epilobium angustifolium Fireweed Tall perennial from rhizome like roots with unbranched stem and terminal spikes of large red to pink flowers. Height: Up to 10 feet (3 meters), but usually shorter than 6 feet (2 meters). Alternate, lance-shaped, stalkless, 5-20 cm long, green and often short-hairy above, paler, hairless and distinctly veined below, smooth-margined; size: 5-20 cm (2-8 in) long. Leaves deciduous. |
 | Epilobium brachycarpum Tall Annual Willowherb Taprooted annual of dry, gravelly or disturbed sites. Height: 1-4 feet (30-120 cm) tall. Slender and alternate, 1-2" long. Leaves deciduous. |
 | Epilobium watsonii Watson's Willowherb Erect herbaceous perennial with opposite leaves. Height: Up to 5 feet (150 cm). Opposite, lance shaped to oval or elliptic, pointed, minutely toothed, short-stalked or stalkless, crowded or overlapping to remotely spaced; size: 1-15 cm (.4-6 in) long; color: green. Leaves evergreen. |
 | Erigeron philadelphicus Philadelphia Fleabane Short-lived perennial with erect stem-base and taproot or fibrous roots. Height: Up to 2.25 feet (70 cm). Basal leaves broadly lance-shaped, coarsely toothed, hairy, short stalked; stem leaves progressively reduced in size, lance-shaped, stalkless, clasping at base, often toothed; size: varies; color: green. Leaves deciduous. |
 | Eriophyllum lanatum Woolly Sunflower Wooly leafy perennial with yellow daisy-like flowers. Height: Up to 2 feet (60 cm). Alternate or opposite, narrowly lobed to sometimes entire, 1-8 cm (0.4-3 in) long; wide leaves at base, narrow up stem. Leaves deciduous. |
 | Erythronium oregonum White Fawn Lily Showy white lily from segmented corm. Height: Flower stem up to 1 feet (30 cm) tall. Basal, paired, lance to oblong shaped, to 20 cm (8 in) long, pale glossy green with dark brown mottling. Leaves deciduous. |
 | Erythronium revolutum Pink fawn lily Large nodding pink flowers grow from a thick and segmented corm. Height: Up to 14 inches (35 cm). Basal, paired, broadly lance-shaped, to 20 cm long, green mottled with white; shape: lance-shaped; size: 20 cm (8 in) long. Leaves deciduous. |
 | Fragaria chiloensis Coastal Strawberry Spreads low across ground with runners. White flowers and small red strawberries. Height: Up to 10 inches (25 cm). Basal on long stalks to 20 cm (8 in); with 3 leaflets each; leaflets thick, leathery and strongly veined, coarsely toothed, dark green above with silvery undersides; leaf size: 3-6 cm (1-2.5 in) across. Leaves deciduous. |
 | Fragaria vesca Woodland strawberry A wild strawberry with thin leaves, low, short runners, white flowers, and small red strawberries. Height: Up to 10 inches (25 cm). Terminal tooth on leaflets is longer than adjoining teeth; shape: 3 lobed; size: 3-6 cm (1-2.5 in) across; color: yellow-green. Leaves deciduous. |
 | Fragaria virginiana Wild strawberry Low growing wild strawberry with runners, white flowers, and small red strawberries. Height: Up to 10 inches (25 cm). Each leaf has 3 leaflets with pronounced veins; terminal leaflet tooth is narrower and shorter than adjoining teeth; shape: 3 lobed; size: 2.5-5 cm (1-2 in) long; color: bluish-green. Leaves deciduous. |
 | Fritillaria lanceolata Chocolate Lily, Rice Root Rare herb to 80 cm tall from bulb with numerous rice-like bulblets; flowers are mottled maroon and yellow. Height: Up to 32 inches (80 cm). In 1-2 whorls of 3-5 leaves, sometimes alternate; shape: lance shaped; size: 5-15 cm (2-6 in) long; color: light green. Leaves deciduous. |
The landscaping and restoration information provided on this page is taken from Starflower Foundation Image Herbarium. All photographs © Starflower Foundation unless otherwise noted.