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Home > Landscaping > Native Plants for Western Washington Gardens and Restoration Projects
![]() | Vaccinium oxycoccus Bog Cranberry Creeping perennial of peat bogs, producing pink flowers and dark red cranberries. Leaves deciduous. |
![]() | Vancouveria hexandra Inside-out Flower Rhizomatous perennial with small white flowers and delicate leaves. Height: 16 inches (40 cm). Leaves are twice divided into 3's with 9-15 heart to egg-shaped leaflets. Leaflets are sparsely hairy, delicate. Leaf size: 10-40 cm; color: dull green. Leaves deciduous. |
![]() | Viola adunca Early-blue Violet A blue flowered violet that grows from slender rhizomes and is stemless in the early season, later grow upright stem. Height: Up to 4 inches (10 cm). Leaves can be hairy or hairless; margins are finely round-toothed; reddish-brown stipules; shape: oval to heart-shaped; size: 3 cm long; color: green. Leaves deciduous. |
![]() | Viola glabella Yellow Wood Violet An attractive yellow-flowered violet of moist open woodlands. Leaves deciduous. |
![]() | Viola sempervirens Evergreen Violet A creeping violet with evergreen leaves and yellow flowers. Leaves evergreen. |
![]() | Xerophyllum tenax Beargrass Forms a tall grass-like clump of tough leaves topped by a large dense cluster of white flowers. Height: 3-5 feet (1-1.5 meters). Grass-like, in large basal clumps; margins are finely toothed (barbed); size: to 90 cm long, 1.5-4 mm wide; color: green. Leaves evergreen. |
The landscaping and restoration information provided on this page is taken from Starflower Foundation Image Herbarium. All photographs © Starflower Foundation unless otherwise noted.
Revised: June 7, 2008
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