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Hydrophyllum tenuipes, the Pacific waterleaf, is an herbaceous perennial plant native to North America. It is found in western North America from British Columbia to northern California . Ecology
The most important plant in the diet of the Northwest Native Americans was the bulb Camassia, a member of the asparagus family. Indigenous peoples engaged in the active management and cultivation of camassia by clearing land, by tilling and weeding, and by planting bulbs.
Corallorhiza mertensiana, or Pacific coralroot, is a coralroot orchid native to the shady conifer forests of northwestern North America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It also goes by the common names Western coralroot and Mertens' coralroot . [ 3 ]
This is a list of plants by common name that are native to the U.S. state of Oregon. Adobe parsley; Alaska blueberry; American wild carrot; Austin's popcornflower; Awned melic; Azalea; Azure penstemon; Baby blue eyes; Baldhip rose; Beach strawberry; Beach wormwood; Bearded lupine; Bensoniella; Bigleaf maple; Bigleaf sedge; Birdnest buckwheat ...
Tsuga heterophylla, the western hemlock [2] or western hemlock-spruce, [3] is a species of hemlock native to the northwest coast of North America, with its northwestern limit on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and its southeastern limit in northern Sonoma County, California. [4] [5] The Latin species name means 'variable leaves'. [6]
Argentina pacifica, sometimes called pacific silverweed, [1] silverweed cinquefoil, [2] or simply silverweed, [3] is a low-growing perennial plant with pinnate leaves and yellow flowers. The edible roots were valued by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast .
Pacific crabapple fruits were prized by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest as a food source, [13] and were gathered all along the coast. As a traditional medicinal plant, infusions of the bark and/or fruit were used, including for stomach disorders, skin and eye infections, and as an analgesic. [15]
Dicentra formosa (western, wild or Pacific bleeding-heart) is a species of flowering plant in the poppy family, Papaveraceae (subfamily: Fumarioideae).With its fern-like foliage and inflorescence of drooping pink, purple, yellow or cream "hearts", this species is native to the United States' Pacific Northwest and West Coast of North America.