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Exploring Native Plants

There's no better way to explore Washington's rich and diverse flora than to take to the mountains, deserts, or seacoast each year. Over the years WNPS members have compiled plant lists for many of our favorite sites. We offer them to you to enhance your enjoyment of these special places. Our lists are not necessarily comprehensive and are not guaranteed for accuracy, but they will add to your experience if you take them with you on your next hike. Try to find what we have found and help us improve these lists. If you have suggestions about the plant lists or would like to contribute a plant list please contact Don Knoke at donknoke@yahoo.com.

The plant lists are organized by counties. Multiple lists have been assembled through the years representing each person's experience of a given site at a given time. Some of our lists are for trails which traverse two or more counties. These lists will be found under each county.

We wish to thank all the WNPS members and others who have enjoyed Washington's flora and took the time to create plant lists for many special places. Especial gratitude is extended to Don Knoke, Melinda Bronsdon and Michelle Margroff for doing the work to take handwritten and typewriter lists of days of yore and convert them to the website for your use.

You can find photo images for many of these plants on the University of Washington Herbarium's Plants of Washington Image Collection

Interested in other great places to explore for wildflowers?

Watchable Wildflowers

Information and plants lists for great places to view wildflowers in eastern Washington.

Columbia Coast Plants Website
Information and plant lists for Columbia Coast plants created by Kathleen Sayce.

Selected Oregon Lists:

Selected Canada lists:

British Columbia, Gulf Islands

British Columbia, Salt Spring Island