Fire-resistant Landscape for the Puget Sound Basin

Selecting native plants suited to the characteristics of SHRUBS common name your site will help ensure you have the most vibrant Acer circinatum Vine maple healthy landscape possible. Native plants require little or Arctostaphylos uva-ursi Kinnikinnick no watering and can be less susceptible to stress. Amelanchier spp. Serviceberry Berberis spp. Grape Cladothamnus pyroliflorus Copperbush Ceanothus spp. Snowbrush or redstem Cornus stolonifera Red osier dogwood

Rhododendron macrophyllum

Characteristics of Fire-resistant Plants • Little seasonal accumulation of dead vegetation • Open, loose branching habit Red osier dogwood • Woody plants are non-resinous Crataegus douglasii Black hawthorn Resinous trees such as cedar, spruce, and pine can Gaultheria shallon Salal increase the intensity and rate of spread of wildfire. Gaultheria ovatifolia Oregon wintergreen Special care in placement, spacing and pruning are Holodiscus discolor Oceanspray needed if trees of this type are retained within 30 feet Linnaea borealis Twinflower of the home. Lonicera ciliosa Orange honeysuckle Lonicera involucrata Black twinberry Mahonia spp. Oregon Grape TREES common name Menziesia ferruginea False azalea Acer spp. Maple Oemleria cerasiformis Indian-plum Alnus spp. Alder Oplopanax horridus Devil’s club Betula spp. Birch Pachistima myrsintes Mountain boxwood Cornus spp. Flowering dogwood Philadelphus spp. Mock orange Fraxinus latifolia Oregon ash Physocarpus capitatus Pacific ninebark Malus spp. Crab-apple Rhamnus purshiana Cascara Populus spp. Cottonwood, aspen Rhododendron spp. Azaleas, rhododendrons Prunus spp. Cherry Ribes spp. Currant Quercus spp. Oak Rosa spp. Nootka or baldhip rose Salix spp. Willow Rubus spp. Raspberry, blackberry, salmonberry Sambucus racemosa Red elderberry Sheperdia canadensis Soapberry, buffaloberry sitchensis Sitka mountain-ash Symphoricarpos albus Snowberry Vaccinium spp. Huckleberry, blueberry Viburnum edule Highbush-cranberry Viburnum trilobum American bush cranberry

Prunus emarginata/bitter cherry

Firewise Plants for the Puget Sound Basin 2011

PERENNIALS common name Achillea millefolium Yarrow Allium spp. Chives, onion Brodiaea spp. Lilies Camassia quamash Common camas Clintonia uniflora Queen’s cup Coreopsis spp. Coreopsis Erysimum spp. Wall flower Erythronium spp. Lilies Eschscholzia spp. poppy Fragaria spp. Wild strawberries Fritillaria spp. Lilies Geranium spp. Geranium Heuchera spp. Alumroot, coral bells Hosta spp. Hosta Iris spp. Iris Kniphofia uvaria Red hot poker Adiantum pedatum/maidenhair fern Lupinus spp. Lupine Maianthemum dilatatum False lily-of-the-valley Oenotheria spp. Evening primrose GROUNDCOVERS common name Orchidaceae Native genera Succulents: Penstemon spp. Beard tongue Echeveria spp. Hens & chicks Saxifraga spp. Various native saxifraga Sedum spp. Stone crops Sisyrinchium spp. Various eyed-grasses Non-succulents: Smilacina spp. Solomon’s-seal Achillea tomentosa Wooly yarrow Solidago spp. Goldenrod Ajuga reptans Carpet bugle Streptopus spp. Twistedstalk Arctostaphylos uva-ursi Kinnikinnick Strachys byzantina Lamb’s ear Armeria maritima Sea pink; thrift Trillium ovatum Trillium Cerastium tomentosa Snow in summer Veratrum viride Indian hellebore Cotoneaster dammeri Bearberry cotoneaster Euonymus fortunei Winter creeper Potentilla spp. Cinquefoil Senecio cineraria Dusty miller Thymus praecox arcticus Mother of thyme Verbenia bipinnatifida Verbenia

Resources: Native Society, 6310 NE 74th Street, Suite 215E, Seattle, WA 98115, http://www.wnps.org/ Trillium ovatum Pojar, Jim and MacKinnon, Andy. 1994. Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast. B.C. Ministry of Forestry and Lone Pine Publishing, Redmond, Washington.

King County Forestry Program 206-296-6519, TTY Relay 711 www.kingcounty.gov/forestry