Common Native Plants
Wild Ginger Redwood Sorrel Salal Asarum cauaatum Oxalis oregana Gaultheria shallon
Distinct heart-shaped leaves form small Carpets forest floor. Waxy green leaves with sticky stems. Flowers white to pinkish. Flowers hanging white bells. carpets in moist shady areas. Leaves in 3 heart shaped sections. Berries aarl<. purple. Aromatic stems and roots.
"J Thimbleberry Poison Oak Salmon berry Rubus parviflorus Taxicodendron diversi/obum Rubus spectabilis Tall shrub. Leaves 5-lobed, Grows as shrub or vine. Common Shrub along creeks and edges of hairy and toothed. Leaves grow in groups of three. Green in forests. Leaves serrated. Stalk has prickles. Fruit reo, thimble shaped. summer turning red in fall. CAUTION: Do not Produces yellow to red berries. Ripe early-mid summer. touch, can cause allergic reaction, skin rash.
Red Huckleberry Evergre.e~ Huckleberry Trail Plant Vaccinium parvifo!tum Vaccm,um ovatum Adenocaulon bicolor
Deciduous, tall shrub with soft green Tall evergreen shrub with waxy, toothed, Leaves smooth and green on top leaves in summer. green leaves. Surface, fuzzy ana white on Bark bright green. Berries blacl<, clustered, ripe in fall. underside. When trampled, the white Berries red, small, ripe 1n mid-summer. arrow-shaped undersides point in direction of the disturber. Common Native Trees
Tanoak Red Alder California Laurel Lithocarpus densiflorus var. densiflorus A/nus rubra (Pepperwood, Bay) Umbellularia californica Leaves leathery, toothed. Grows in open and damp habitats. Bark grayisn brown. Leaves coarsely toothed. Leaves shiny green, yellow in Acorns hairy-capped and are important Bark white-gray. fall, aromatic when rubbed in Source of food for wildlife. hands.
Douglas-fir Big-leaf Maple Sitka Spruce Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii Acer macrophyflum Picea sitchensis Found on ridges. Grows along streams. Bark brown and furrowed, brittle. Grows close to coast. Bark covered with mosses. Needles grow on all sides of twig. Often carries more Leaves yellow in fall. lichen than Coast Redwoods. Bark gray, chip-like.
Coast Redwood Coast Redwood Western Hemlock Sequoia sempervirens Sequoia sempervirens (Octopus Tree) (sun needles) (shade needles) Tsuga heterophylla Fibrous reddish-brown bark, deep Scaly needles (left) from top of tree. Often grows on furrows extend up tree. Cones Flat needles (shown) from lower decaying logs and stumps. olive sized. reaches where light is Drooping branches with soft less prevalent. needles.