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	*Penstemon serrulatus* Coast Penstemon Perennial, sprawling sub-shrub from a woody stem base, with large purple tubular flowers at stem tips. Height: 8-28 inches (20-70 cm). Leaves opposite, hairless and stalkless, saw toothed; lower leaves are reduces and often stalked; shape: lance to oblong egg-shaped; size: 3-8 cm (1-3 in). Leaves deciduous.
	*Petasites palmatus* Palmate Coltsfoot Many-stemmed perennial with umbrella-like leaves from creeping rhizomes. Height: Up to 30 inches (80 cm). All basal on long stalks; deeply divided heart or kidney shape, almost palmate, with 5-7 toothed lobes; green and hairless above, white-woolly below. Stem leaves reduced to alternate bracts. Leaves deciduous.
	*Phlox diffusa* Spreading Phlox Mat forming perennial with showy white to pink flowers. Height: Up to 4 inches (10 cm). Opposite, linear, entire, fused at base in pairs, green and hairless except for hairy lower edges, 5-20 mm long. Leaves deciduous.
	*Platanthera dilatata* White Rein-Orchid, Bog Candle Perennial orchid with spikes of white flowers from tuber-like roots. Height: Up to 28 inches (70 cm). Alternate, oblong to broadly lance-shaped, sheathing, gradually getting smaller up the stem. Leaves deciduous.
	*Plectritis congesta* Sea Blush Delicate annual herb with large dense clusters of small pink flowers. Height: Up to 2 feet (60 cm). Opposite, hairless, oblong-elliptic, stalkless, lowermost leaves spoon or egg shaped, short-stalked ; margins smooth or obscurely; size: 0.5-5 cm (to 2 in) long. Leaves deciduous.
	*Polemonium pulcherrimum* Showy Jacob's-ladder Taprooted perennial with mostly basal leaves and blue bell-shaped flowers. Height: Up to 14 inches (35 cm). Mostly basal, often tufted, pinnately compound (ladder-like), leaflets 11-25, opposite or offset, egg-shaped to circular, often glandular-hairy, at least when young. Leaves deciduous.
	*Potentilla anserina ssp. pacifica* Silverweed Low growing hairy herb with runners and solitary yellow flowers. Height: Up to 16 inches (40 cm). Basal, to 40 cm (16 inches) long, erect, pinnately compound with a mix of large and small leaflets that are woolly beneath. Leaves deciduous.
	*Potentilla gracilis* Graceful Cinquefoil Light green herb with toothed palmate leaves and diffuse panicles of yellow, saucer-shaped flowers. Height: Up to 32 inches (80 cm). Basal leaves on stalks; palmate with 5-9 highly dissected leaflets 3-8 cm (1-3 in) long; stem leaves 1-3, stalkless, divided into 3 spreading leaflets that have deep triangular teeth around the edges. Leaves deciduous.
	*Potentilla palustris* Marsh Cinquefoil Perennial from long, creeping, often floating, somewhat woody rhizomes, with small maroon flowers. Height: Ip to 3 feet (1 meter). Alternate, mainly on flowering stems; lower leaves pinnately divided into 5-7 leaflets that are oblong, coarsely toothed, pale-green above, glaucous to finely hairy below; upper leaves smaller. Leaves deciduous.
	*Prunella vulgaris ssp. lanceolata* Self Heal Fibrous-rooted perennial from short rhizome or stem-base with small purple flowers. Height: Up to 20 inches (50 cm). Opposite, relatively few, lance-egg-shaped to oblong or elliptic, minutely hairy to hairless, stalked; margins smooth or obscurely toothed. Leaves deciduous.
	*Pyrola asarifolia* Pink Wintergreen A small woodland herb with a basal clump of glossy green leaves and slender spikes of pink flowers. Leaves deciduous.
	*Ranunculus occidentalis* Western Buttercup Slender perennial herb with fibrous roots and yellow flowers. Height: Up to 2 feet (60 cm). Basal leaves long stalked, variously lobed but normally with 3 wedge-shaped, coarsely lobed and toothed divisions; stem leaves alternate, short stalked, deeply divided, smaller and narrower up stem. Leaves deciduous.
	*Ranunculus sceleratus* Cursed Buttercup A much-branched herb of wet areas, with tiny yellow flowers. Leaves deciduous.
	*Rorippa curvisiliqua* Curvepod Yellowcress Leaves deciduous.
	*Rorippa palustris* Bog Yellowcress Leaves deciduous.

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