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Home > Landscaping > Native Plants for Western Washington Gardens and Restoration Projects
 | Galium aparine Cleavers, Bedstraw Leaves deciduous. |
 | Galium trifidum Small Bedstraw Sprawling perennial with numerous stems from slender rhizomes. Height: up to 28 inches (70 cm). In whorls of 4-6, 1 veined, blunt tipped, margins have bristles pointing backwards; shape: linear to narrowly elliptic; size: 0.5-2 cm long; color: light green. Leaves evergreen. |
 | Geum macrophyllum Large-leaved Avens Hairy perennial with short rhizomes and big leaves topped by small yellow flowers. Height: Up to 3 feet (1 meters). Basal leaves long stalked, with heart to kidney shaped terminal segments many times larger that the several leaflets below; stem leaves few, stalkless or nearly so, deeply 3 lobed or 3 parted; color: light green. Leaves deciduous. |
 | Gilia capitata Globe Gilia Upright taprooted annual with large ball-like heads of blue flowers. Height: Up to 3 feet (1 meter). Basal and alternate on the stem, reduced in size upwards, once or twice pinnately lobed with very narrow segments; size: 2-10 cm (0.8-4 in) long; color: green. Leaves deciduous. |
 | Goodyera oblongifolia Rattlesnake Plantain Evergreen orchid from short rhizomes with an unusual mottled leaf pattern. Height: Up to 1.5 feet (45 cm). Leaves in basal rosette, thick dark green leaves with rattlesnake pattern of white markings, especially along midrib; shape: oval or oblong to narrowly elliptic; size: 3-10 cm (1-4 in) long. Leaves evergreen. |
 | Grindelia integrifolia Entire-leaved Gumweed Seaside perennial with sticky heads of yellow flowers. Height: Can grow up to 32 inches (80 cm) in height. Leaves can be toothed or entire; stem leaves have alternating arrangement and are stalkless; basal leaves are oblong; stem leaves are lance-shaped; size: up to 40 cm (15.5 in) long, 4 cm (1.5 in) wide; color: green. Leaves deciduous. |
 | Helenium autumnale Mountain Sneezeweed Leaves deciduous. |
 | Heuchera micrantha Small-flowered Alumroot Grows from rhizomes with one to many flower stems that are reddish and covered with fine hairs and topped with delicate panicles of tiny white flowers. Height: Up to 2 feet (60 cm). Mainly basal, long stalked, 5-7 lobed, sharp to round toothed, hairy on leaf stalk and lower surface, often lacking stem leaves; shape: kidney-heart; color: light green to reddish tinged. Leaves deciduous. |
 | Hydrophyllum fendleri Fendler's Waterleaf Leaves deciduous. |
 | Hydrophyllum tenuipes Pacific Waterleaf Single leafy, hairy stem grows from rhizomes and fleshy fibrous roots; with small clusters of greenish-white flowers. Height: Up to 32 inches (80 cm). Alternating arrangement; hairy and divided into usually 5 (9) coarsely toothed segments; size: 15 cm (6 in) long, 15 cm (6 in) wide. Leaves deciduous. |
 | Iris tenax Oregon Iris Clumped, perennial iris with large purple flowers. Height: Up to 16 inches (40 cm). Mainly basal, long and narrow, to 40 cm (16 inches) long by 5 mm (1/4 in) wide; 1-4 leaves per stem. Leaves evergreen. |
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