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Native Plants for Subalpine Elevations

	*Abies amabilis* Pacific Silver Fir An attractive conifer with short dark green needles. Tolerant of shade.
	*Achillea millefolium* Yarrow Aromatic herb with delicate fern-like leaves and flat-topped clusters of white flowers. Height: Found at nearly all elevations but most common at lower elevations.
	*Adiantum aleuticum* Maidenhair Fern This delicate, deciduous fern has five to seven fingerlike branchlets each bearing many toothed leaflets.
	*Anaphalis margaritacea* Pearly Everlasting Clump forming, perennial herb with small withering basal leaves and papery white flower clusters.
	*Aquilegia formosa* Red Columbine Delicate perennial with large nodding, star-shaped, spurred flowers that are a favorite of hummingbirds.
	*Arctostaphylos uva-ursi* Kinnikinnick, Bearberry A mat-forming evergreen shrub producing lovely pink flowers that later turn into red berries.
	*Athyrium filix-femina* Lady Fern Tall, delicate, light-green fronds from a basal cluster. Height: All elevations except alpine.
	*Caltha biflora* Marsh Marigold Perennial herb with large white flowers held above broadly rounded leaves; grows in wet subalpine meadows. Height: 900-3300 meters elevation.
	*Campanula rotundifolia* Harebell Delicate stems topped by large, nodding bell-shaped blue flowers.
	*Castilleja miniata* Red Paintbrush An attractive wildflower with red brush-like flower clusters. Height: Can be found from low to high elevations, but most common in the subalpine.
	*Cerastium arvense* Field Chickweed
	*Deschampsia cespitosa* Tufted Hairgrass Densely tufted perennial grass. Height: Common at all elevations.
	*Festuca rubra* Red Fescue Perennial grass with thread-like leaves forming small patches. Height: Below 2500 meters.
	*Fragaria vesca* Woodland strawberry A wild strawberry with thin leaves, low, short runners, white flowers, and small red strawberries.
	*Fragaria virginiana* Wild strawberry Low growing wild strawberry with runners, white flowers, and small red strawberries.
	*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.
	*Hordeum brachyantherum* Meadow Barley Grass with erect stems that are bent at the base and sometimes hairy on the leaf sheaths.
	*Juncus ensifolius* Daggerleaf Rush
	*Larix occidentalis* Western Larch Height: Frequent along the east side of the Cascade Mountains.
	*Lilium columbianum* Tiger Lily
	*Luetkea pectinata* Partridgefoot Low-growing ground cover with spikes of small white flowers.
	*Mimulus lewisii* Pink Monkey-flower A clump forming perennial with large pinkish-red flowers.
	*Nothochelone nemorosa* Woodland Penstemon
	*Nuphar luteum ssp. polysepalum* Yellow Pond-Lily An aquatic water lily with large, round, floating leaves and fleshy, yellow flowers held at the water surface.
	*Penstemon davidsonii* Davidson's Penstemon Low mat-forming perennial with small evergreen leaves and large blue-purple tubular flowers.
	*Penstemon fruticosus* Lowbush Penstemon Spreading shrub with numerous tubular purple flowers.
	*Penstemon serrulatus* Coast Penstemon Perennial, sprawling sub-shrub from a woody stem base, with large purple tubular flowers at stem tips.
	*Phlox diffusa* Spreading Phlox Mat forming perennial with showy white to pink flowers.
	*Pinus contorta* Shore Pine Short pine tree, often with crooked trunk and bushy habit.
	*Platanthera dilatata* White Rein-Orchid, Bog Candle Perennial orchid with spikes of white flowers from tuber-like roots.
	*Polemonium pulcherrimum* Showy Jacob's-ladder Taprooted perennial with mostly basal leaves and blue bell-shaped flowers.
	*Pteridium aquilinum* Bracken Fern Rhizomous perennial fern with large, much-divided solitary fronds,
	*Rubus parviflorus* Thimbleberry Unarmed spreading shrub with large white flowers. Usually forms dense thickets.
	*Sedum oreganum* Oregon Stonecrop
	*Sorbus sitchensis* Sitka-Mountain Ash
	*Sparganium angustifolium* Narrowleaf Bur-reed
	*Sparganium eurycarpum* Broadfruit Bur-reed
	*Spiraea densiflora* Subalpine Spirea Low mound-forming shrub with rounded clusters of intense pink tiny flowers.
	*Tiarella trifoliata* Foamflower Herb with erect or ascending stems and spikes of dainty white flowers.
	*Tsuga mertensiana* Mountain Hemlock Slow growing evergreen conifer.
	*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.
	*Xerophyllum tenax* Beargrass Forms a tall grass-like clump of tough leaves topped by a large dense cluster of white flowers.

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