Oregon native plants
Oregon is two states botanically, split by the Cascades: a wet maritime west with mild winters and dry summers, and a high desert east with cold winters and almost no rain. Its natives include a Mediterranean-climate flora in the Willamette Valley that wants a dry summer.
Bedfellow lists 456 of these.
The 30 most-observed are listed here — see all 456 in search.
- Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
- Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
- Tufted Evening Primrose (Oenothera caespitosa)
- False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum racemosum)
- California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
- Boxelder (Acer negundo)
- Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris)
- Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
- Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
- Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
- Coyote Brush (Baccharis pilularis)
- Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa)
- Blue Dicks (Dichelostemma capitatum)
- Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
- Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus)
- Western Trillium (Trillium ovatum)
- Western Sword Fern (Polystichum munitum)
- Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides)
- Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)
- Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana)
- Red Elderberry (Sambucus racemosa)
- Wood Anemone (Anemone quinquefolia)
- Starry False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum stellatum)
- Sticky Monkeyflower (Diplacus aurantiacus)
- Western Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium bellum)
- Salal (Gaultheria shallon)
- Frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora)
- Smooth Sumac (Rhus glabra)
- Pacific Madrone (Arbutus menziesii)
- Bigleaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum)
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