Plant database (under development)

Native plants by class and family

Database of Palouse Forbs for Landscaping

Some Palouse prairie plants

Some Field Guides to Regional Native Plants

Some Palouse Prairie plants

Abies grandis -- grand fir

Achillea millefolium -- yarrow; 2 photos

Adenocaulon bicolor -- pathfinder, American trailplant; 1 photo

Agoseris grandiflora -- large-flowered agoseris, bigflower agoseris; 4 photos

Agoseris heterophylla -- annual agoseris; 3 photos

Agropyron spicatum -- bluebunch wheatgrass (Goldar), beardless wheatgrass (Goldar), Snake River wheatgrass (Secar), Agspic; 1 photo

Agropyron spicatum -- beardless wheatgrass; 3 photos

Allium acuminatum -- tapertip onion, Hooker's onion; 2 photos

Amelanchier alnifolia -- serviceberry, Saskatoon serviceberry; 3 photos

Amsinckia lycopsoides -- tarweed fiddleneck

Amsinckia menziesii -- Menzies' fiddleneck; 1 photo

Amsinckia retrorsa --

Anaphalis margaritacea -- western pearly-everlasting; 2 photos

Anemone piperi -- Piper's windflower, Piper's anemone; 2 photos

Antennaria luzuloides -- woodrush pussytoes; 2 photos

Antennaria microphylla -- rosy pussytoes, littleleaf pussytoes; 2 photos

Antennaria racemosa -- raceme pussytoes; 3 photos

Apocynum androsaemifolium -- spreading dogbane; 4 photos

Arabis -- rockcress; 4 photos

Arenaria congesta -- ballhead sandwort; 2 photos

Arenaria macrophylla -- bigleaf sandwort, largeleaf sandwort; 1 photo

Arnica cordifolia -- heartleaf arnica; 3 photos

Arnica sororia -- foothills arnica, twin arnica; 3 photos

Asclepias speciosa -- showy milkweed; 4 photos

Aster conspicuus -- showy aster; 3 photos

Aster eatonii -- Eaton's aster

Aster jessicae -- Jessica's aster; 1 photo

Aster occidentalis -- western mountain aster, western aster; 1 photo

Astragalus arrectus -- Palouse milkvetch; 3 photos

Astragalus canadensis -- Canadian milkvetch; 2 photos

Athysanus pusillus -- common sandweed

Balsamorhiza sagittata -- arrowleaf balsamroot; 4 photos

Barbarea orthoceras -- American wintercress, yellowrocket; 1 photo

Berberis repens -- oregon grape, creeping barberry, creeping Oregon grape; 3 photos

Besseya rubra -- red besseya; 3 photos

Brodiaea douglasii -- wild hyacinth, Douglas's brodiaea; 1 photo

Bromus carinatus -- California brome

Bromus marginatus -- mountain brome

Bromus vulgaris -- Columbia brome

Calamagrostis rubescens -- pinegrass

Calochortus elegans -- cat's ear, elegant mariposa lily, elegant sego-lily; 2 photos

Calochortus macrocarpus -- sagebrush mariposa lily; 2 photos

Calochortus nitidus -- broad-fruit mariposa, big podded mariposa

Calypso bulbosa -- fairy-slipper ; 2 photos

Camassia quamash -- small camas; common camas; 2 photos

Carex -- sedge; 1 photo

Carex geyeri -- elk sedge, Geyer's sedge

Castilleja hispida -- harsh Indian paintbrush; 2 photos

Castilleja lutescens -- stiff yellow Indian paintbrush; 2 photos

Castilleja miniata -- scarlet paintbrush; giant red Indian paintbrush; 2 photos

Castilleja sulphurea -- sulphur Indian paintbrush

Ceanothus sanguineus -- redstem ceanothus, Oregon tea-tree; 3 photos

Cheilanthes gracillima -- lace-lip fern

Circaea alpina -- small enchanter's nightshade, alpine circaea; 1 photo

Cirsium brevifolium -- Palouse thistle; 2 photos

Clarkia pulchella -- elkhorn's clarkia, large-flower clarkia, pinkfairie; 2 photos

Claytonia lanceolata -- spring beauty; 2 photos

Clematis hirsutissima -- sugar-bowls, hairy clematis, Douglas' clematis; 3 photos

Clematis ligusticifolia -- western white clematis; 2 photos

Collinsia parviflora -- maiden blue-eyed Mary; 1 photo

Collomia grandiflora -- large-flowered collomia, grand collomia; 2 photos

Collomia linearis -- narrow-leafed collomia, tiny trumpet; 2 photos

Comandra umbellata -- bastard toadflax; 2 photos

Cornus sericea -- red osier dogwood; 1 photo

Crataegus douglasii -- black hawthorn; 3 photos

Crepis acuminata -- tapertip hawksbeard

Crepis atrabarba -- slender hawksbeard; 2 photos

Cypripedium fasciculatum -- clustered lady's slipper

Cypripedium montanum -- mountain lady's-slipper; 2 photos

Cystopteris fragilis -- brittle bladder-fern; 1 photo

Danthonia intermedia -- timber oatgrass; 3 photos

Delphinium nuttallianum -- low larkspur, two-tone larkspur, upland larkspur, Nuttall's larkspur; 2 photos

Deschampsia cespitosa -- tufted hairgrass

Disporum trachycarpum -- Sierra fairybell, wartberry fairybell, roughfruit fairybell; 2 photos

Dodecatheon pulchellum -- darkthroat shooting star; 1 photo

Dryopteris filix-mas -- male fern

Elymus cinereus -- [great] basin wildrye; 1 photo

Elymus glaucus -- blue wildrye; 1 photo

Elymus lanceolatus -- thickspike wheatgrass, streambank wheatgrass

Elymus trachycaulus -- slender wheatgrass

Epilobium angustifolia -- fireweed; 2 photos

Epilobium paniculatum -- tall annual willow-herb; 2 photos

Equisetum hyemale -- scouringrush horsetail; 1 photo

Erigeron corymbosus -- daisy, longleaf fleabane; 3 photos

Eriogonum heracleoides -- wyeth buckwheat, parsnipflower buckwheat; 2 photos

Eriophyllum lanatum -- Oregon sunshine, common woolly sunflower; 2 photos

Erythronium grandiflorum -- glacier lily, yellow avalanche-lily, dog-tooth violet; 2 photos

Festuca idahoensis -- Idaho fescue

Festuca scabrella -- rough fescue

Fragaria virginiana -- broadpetal strawberry; 1 photo

Frasera albicaulis -- shiny frasera, whitestem frasera; 1 photo

Frasera fastigiata -- clustered frasera, clustered green gentian; 3 photos

Fritillaria pudica -- yellow bell, yellow fritillary; 2 photos

Gaillardia aristata -- blanketflower; 3 photos

Galium aparine -- catchweed bedstraw, stickywilly; 2 photos

Galium boreale -- northern bedstraw; 1 photo

Galium triflorum -- fragrant bedstraw, sweetscented bedstraw

Gentiana affinis -- prairie gentian, pleated gentian; 1 photo

Geranium viscosissimum -- sticky purple geranium; 1 photo

Geum macrophyllum -- bur avens, longleaf avens, largeleaf avens; 3 photos

Geum triflorum -- prairie smoke, old man's whiskers, long-plumed avens; 3 photos

Gilia aggregata -- skyrocket, scarlet gilia; 1 photo

Goodyera oblongifolia -- western rattlesnake plantain; 2 photos

Grindelia squarrosa -- gumweed; 2 photos

Habenaria elegans -- elegant rein-orchid, hillside rein-orchid, elegant bog orchid; 3 photos

Habenaria unalascensis -- Alaska rein-orchid

Haplopappus carthamoides -- Columbia goldenweed; large-flowered goldenweed; 3 photos

Haplopappus liatriformis -- Palouse goldenweed, smallhead goldenweed; 3 photos

Helianthella uniflora -- little sunflower, false sunflower, oneflower helianthella; 1 photo

Helianthus annuus -- common sunflower; 2 photos

Heracleum lanatum -- cow parsnip

Heuchera cylindrica -- lava alumroot; 5 photos

Hieracium albertinum -- western hawkweed; 6 photos

Hieracium albiflorum -- white-flowered hawkweed, white hawkweed; 3 photos

Hieracium cynoglossoides -- houndstooth hawkweed, houndstongue hawkweed

Holodiscus discolor -- ocean spray ; 3 photos

Hydrophyllum capitatum -- ballhead waterleaf, woolly breeches; 2 photos

Iris missouriensis -- western iris, Rocky Mountain iris; 4 photos

Koeleria macrantha -- prairie Junegrass

Lactuca pulchella -- blue lettuce

Larix occidentalis -- tamarack, western larch; 1 photo

Linnaea borealis -- western twinflower; 1 photo

Linum lewisii -- Lewis flax, prairie flax; 1 photo

Lithophragma bulbiferum -- bulbous prairie-star, bulbous woodland-star; 2 photos

Lithophragma parviflorum -- smallflower woodland-star, prairie star; 2 photos

Lithospermum ruderale -- Columbia puccoon, western gromwell, western stoneseed; 1 photo

Lomatium dissectum -- fern-leaf biscuitroot; 2 photos

Lomatium gormanii -- Gorman's lomatium, Gorman's biscuitroot, salt and pepper lomatium; 1 photo

Lomatium grayi -- Gray's lomatium, Gray's biscuitroot; 1 photo

Lomatium macrocarpum -- big seed biscuitroot, grey lomatium; 1 photo

Lomatium triternatum -- nine-leaf biscuitroot, nine-leaf lomatium; 2 photos

Lupinus laxiflorus -- spurred lupine

Lupinus leucophyllus -- velvet lupine; 1 photo

Lupinus polyphyllus -- big-leaf lupine; 3 photos

Lupinus sericeus -- silky lupine; 2 photos

Luzula campestris -- field woodrush, Pacific woodrush

Madia exigua -- little tarweed, small tarweed

Mentha arvensis -- field mint

Mertensia longiflora -- long-flowered bluebells, small bluebells; 2 photos

Microseris nutans -- nodding microseris

Microsteris gracilis -- pink microsteris, slender phlox

Mimulus guttatus -- seep monkeyflower; 2 photos

Montia linearis -- line-leaf Indian lettuce, narrowleaf miner's lettuce

Montia perfoliata -- miner's lettuce; 1 photo

Navarretia intertexta -- navarretia; 1 photo

Orobanche uniflora -- naked broomrape, oneflower broomrape; 2 photos

Osmorhiza chilensis -- mountain sweet-cicely, sweetcicely

Pascopyrum smithii -- western wheatgrass; 2 photos

Penstemon attenuatus -- taper-leaf penstemon, sulphur penstemon; 2 photos

Penstemon deustus -- scorched penstemon, scabland penstemon; 2 photos

Penstemon venustus -- Clearwater penstemon; 3 photos

Perideridia gairdneri -- Gairdner's yampah, western yampah; 2 photos

Phacelia hastata -- whiteleaf phacelia, silver-leafed phacelia, cordilleran phacelia

Philadelphus lewisii -- Lewis' mock orange, syringa; 1 photo

Phlox speciosa -- showy phlox; 2 photos

Physocarpus malvaceus -- ninebark, mallow ninebark; 3 photos

Pinus contorta -- lodgepole pine; 3 photos

Pinus ponderosa -- [interior] ponderosa pine; 4 photos

Plagiobothrys scouleri -- Scouler's popcorn flower; 1 photo

Plectritis macrocera -- longhorn plectritis

Poa nervosa -- Wheeler's bluegrass

Poa sandbergii -- Sandberg bluegrass; 2 photos

Poa secunda -- big bluegrass (var. Sherman), Canby bluegrass (var. Canbar), Nevada bluegrass; 2 photos

Polygonum bistortoides -- American bistort

Polygonum majus -- Palouse knotweed

Polypodium hesperium -- commom polypody, western polypody

Polystichum munitum -- common swordfern, western swordfern; 1 photo

Populus tremuloides -- quaking aspen; 3 photos

Populus trichocarpa -- black cottonwood; 2 photos

Potentilla arguta -- tall cinquefoil; 3 photos

Potentilla glandulosa -- sticky cinquefoil

Potentilla gracilis -- five-finger cinquefoil, slender cinquefoil; 3 photos

Prunella vulgaris -- self-heal, common self-heal; 4 photos

Prunus emarginata -- common bittercherry, bitter cherry; 3 photos

Prunus virginiana -- common chokecherry; 3 photos

Pseudotsuga menziesii -- [Rocky Mountain] Douglas fir; 2 photos

Pteridium aquilinum -- western bracken fern; 1 photo

Pterospora andromedea -- woodland pinedrops; 3 photos

Pyrola aphylla -- leafless pyrola, whiteveined wintergreen, white vein pyrola; 1 photo

Ranunculus glaberrimus -- sagebrush buttercup; 1 photo

Ranunculous orthorhynchus -- straightbeak buttercup

Ranunculus uncinatus -- little buttercup, Idaho buttercup

Ribes cereum -- squaw currant, wax currant

Ribes viscosissimum -- sticky currant

Rosa gymnocarpa -- baldhip rose, dwarf rose; 2 photos

Rosa nutkana -- Nootka rose; 1 photo

Rosa woodsii -- Woods' rose, pearhip rose; 2 photos

Rubus parviflorus -- western thimbleberry; 3 photos

Salix drummondii -- Drummond's willow; 2 photos

Salix exigua -- Coyote willow, sandbar willow; 2 photos

Salix rigida -- Mackenzie willow; 1 photo

Salix scouleri -- Scouler's willow; 2 photos

Sambucus cerulea -- blue elderberry; 4 photos

Satureja douglasii -- yerba buena

Saxifraga integrifolia -- Hooker's saxifrage, diamondleaf saxifrage

Scutellaria angustifolia -- narrow-leaf skullcap; 1 photo

Sedum lanceolatum -- lance-leaf stonecrop, spearleaf stonecrop

Sedum stenopetalum -- wormleaf stonecrop; 2 photos

Senecio integerrimus -- western groundsel, lambstongue ragwort; 2 photos

Senecio serra -- butterweed groundsel, tall ragwort; 2 photos

Sidalcea oregana -- Oregon checkerbloom, Oregon checker-mallow; 1 photo

Silene douglasii -- Douglas's silene, seabluff catchfly; 3 photos

Silene menziesii -- Menzies' silene; 1 photo

Silene spaldingii -- Spaulding's catchfly, Spaulding's silene, Spaulding's campion

Silene scouleri -- Scouler's silene, simple campion; 1 photo

Sisyrinchium inflatum -- grass-widow; 3 photos

Smilacina racemosa -- western Solomon plume, feathery false lily of the valley, false Solomon's seal; 3 photos

Smilacina stellata (racemosa) -- starry Solomon's seal; 4 photos

Solidago canadensis -- Canada goldenrod, meadow goldenrod

Solidago missouriensis -- Missouri goldenrod; 2 photos

Sorbus scopulina -- mountain ash

Spiraea betulifolia -- shiny-leaf spirea, birch-leaf spirea; 2 photos

Spiraea douglasii -- Douglas' spirea, Douglas' spiraea; 2 photos

Symphoricarpos albus -- snowberry; 3 photos

Synthyris missurica -- mountain kittentails, tailed kittentails; 3 photos

Thalictrum occidentale -- western meadow-rue ; 3 photos

Tiarella unifoliata -- western foamflower, coolwort foamflower, false mitrewort

Trillium ovatum -- white trillium, Pacific trillium, western wake-robin; 2 photos

Trillium petiolatum -- Idaho trillium, purple trillium

Typha latifolia -- cat tail; 1 photo

Urtica dioica -- stinging nettle; 3 photos

Vaccinium globulare -- globe huckleberry, blue huckleberry; 1 photo

Valeriana edulis -- tobaccoroot; 2 photos

Veratrum californicum -- California false hellebore; 6 photos

Viola adunca -- long-spurred violet, hookspur violet, early blue violet; 2 photos

Wyethia amplexicaulis -- northern mules ears; 2 photos

Zigadenus venenosus -- meadow death camas; 3 photos

Some Field Guides to Regional Native Plants

Craighead, John J., Frank C. Craighead, and Ray J. Davis. 1963. A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston, MA.

Faust, Ralph and Peggy Faust. 1999. Wildflowers of the Inland Northwest. Museum of North Idaho. Coeur d'Alene, ID.

Gaines, Xerpha M., and D.G. Swan. 1972. Weeds of Eastern Washington and Adjacent Areas. Camp Na-Bor-Lee Association, Davenport, WA.

Guard, B. Jennifer. 1995. Wetland Plants of Oregon and Washington. Lone Pine Publishing. Renton, WA.

Hitchcock, C. Leo, and Arthur Cronquist. 1973. Flora of the Pacific Northwest. Univ. of Washington Press. Seattle, WA.

Jolley, Russ. 1988. Wildflowers of the Columbia Gorge. Oregon Historical Society Press. Portland, OR.

Kruckeberg, Arthur R. 1996. Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington Press. Seattle, WA.

Larrison, Earl J. et al. 1974. Washington Wildflowers. The Seattle Audubon Society. Seattle, WA.

Lyons, C.P. 1956. Trees, Shrubs and Flowers to Know in Washington. J.M. Dent & Sons (Canada) Limited. Vancouver, BC.

Lyons, C.P. 1997. Wildflowers of Washington. Lone Pine Publishing, Renton, WA.

Lyons, C.P. 1999. Trees and Shrubs of Washington. Lone Pine Publishing, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

Mohlenbrock, Robert H. Western Wetland Flora: A Field Office Guide to Wetland Species. USDA, NRCS Western Region. Sacramento, CA.

Parish, Roberta, Ray Coupe, and Dennis Lloyd. 1996. Plants of Southern Interior British Columbia. Lone Pine Publishing. Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Patterson, Patricia A., Kenneth E. Neiman, and Jonalea R. Tonn. 2004. Field Guide to Forest Plants of Northern Idaho. USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station. General Technical Report RMRS-118-CD. Ogden, Utah. CD-ROM.

Patterson, Patricia A., Kenneth E. Neiman, and Jonalea R. Tonn. 1985. Field Guide to Forest Plants of Northern Idaho. USDA Forest Service Intermountain Research Station. General Technical Report INT-180. Ogden, Utah.

Petrides, George A. 1998. A Field Guide to Western Trees. Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston, MA.

Piper, C.V. and R.K. Beattie. 1914. The Flora of Southeastern Washington and Adjacent Idaho. Lancaster, PA: Press of the New Era Printing Company.

Rickett, Harold W. 1973. Wildflowers of the United States: The Central Mountains and Plains. Vol. 6. (3 parts). McGraw Hill, New York.

St. John, Harold. 1963. Flora of Southeastern Washington and of Adjacent Idaho. 3rd edition. Outdoor Pictures. Escondido, CA.

Strickler, Dee. 1986. Prairie Wildflowers. The Flower Press. Columbia Falls, MT.

Strickler, Dee. 1988. Forest Wildflowers. The Flower Press. Columbia Falls, MT.

Strickler, Dee. 1993. Wayside Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest. The Flower Press, Columbia Falls, MT.

Strickler, Dee. 1997. Northwest Penstemons. The Flower Press. Columbia Falls, MT.

Taylor, Ronald J. 1990. Northwest Weeds: The Ugly and Beautiful Villains of Fields, Gardens, and Roadsides. Mountain Press Pub. Co. Missoula, MT.

Taylor, Ronald J. 1992. Sagebrush Country. Mountain Press Publishing Co. Missoula, MT.

Taylor, Ronald J. and George W. Douglas. 1995. Mountain Plants of the Pacific Northwest. Mountain Press Publishing Co. Missoula, MT.

Visalli, Dana, Derrick Ditchburn and Walt Lockwood. 2005. Northwest Coastal Wildflowers. Hancock House Publishers, Blaine, WA.

Visalli, Dana, Walt Lockwood, and Derrick Ditchburn. 2005. Northwest Dryland Wildflowers: Sagebrush-Ponderosa. Hancock House Publishers, Blaine, WA.

Visalli, Dana, Walt Lockwood, and Derrick Ditchburn. 2005. Northwest Mountain Wildflowers. Hancock House Publishers, Blaine, WA.

Whitson, Tom D., et al. 1996. Weeds of the West. 3rd ed. Western Society of Weed Science. Newark, CA.