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CHECKLIST OF COMOX
BLUFFS VASCULAR PLANTS
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(Date 25 June 2006.
Chris Pielou)
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GYMNOSPERMS
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CUPRESSACEAE
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Common juniper
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Juniperus communis
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Rocky Mountain Juniper
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Juniperus scopulorum
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PINACEAE
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Shore Pine
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Pinus contorta
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Western White Pine
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P. monticola
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Douglas fir
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Pseudostsuga
menziesii
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Western hemlock
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Tsuga heterophylla
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ANGIOSPERMS (dicots)
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ACERACEAE
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Bigleaf maple
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Acer macrophyllum
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APIACEAE
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Spring gold
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Lomatium utriculatum
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American wild carrot
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Daucus pusillus
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APOCYNACEAE
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Spreading dogbane
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Apocynum
androsaemifolium
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ASTERACEAE
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Yarrow
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Achillea millefolium
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Pearly everlasting
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Anaphalis
margaritacea
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Pussytoes
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Antennaria ?racemosa or ?neglecta
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Woolly eriophyllum
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Eriophyllum lanatum
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White hawkweed
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Hieracium albiflorum
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Hairy cat’s-ear
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Hypochaeris radicata
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Wall lettuce
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Lactuca muralis
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Silverback luina
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Luina hypoleuca
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Tarweed
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Madia sp
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Macoun’s groundsel
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Senecio macouni
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Blue
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Common dandelion
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Taraxacum officinale
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BERBERIDACEAE
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Vanilla-leaf
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Achlys triphylla
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Tall oregon-grape
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Mahonia aquifoliua
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Dull oregon-grape
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Mahonia nervosa
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BRASSICACEAE
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Hairy rockcress
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Arabis hirsuta
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Little western
bitter-cress
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Cardamine oligosperma
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Shepherd’s cress
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Teesdalia nudicaulis
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CAMPANULACEAE
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Scouler’s harebell
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Campanula
scouleri
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Yellow
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CAPRIFOLIACEAE
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Twinflower
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Linnea borealis
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Orange honeysuckle
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Lonicera ciliosa
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Common snowberry
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Symphoricarpos albus
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Trailing snowberry
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Symphoricarpos hesperius
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CARYOPHYLLACEAE
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Field chickweed
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Cerastium arvense
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Slender sandwort
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Minuartia tenella
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Big-leaved sandwort
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Moehringia
macrophylla
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Small-flowered catchfly
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Silene gallica
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Shining starwort
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Stellaria nitens
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CELASTRACEAE
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Falsebox
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Paxistima myrsinites
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CLUSIACEAE
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Bog St John’s-wort
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Hypericum
anagalloides
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Common St
John’s-wort
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Hypericum perforatum
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Western St
John’s-wort
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Hypericum scouleri
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Yellow
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CORNACEAE
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Pacific dogwood
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Cornus nuttalli
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Bunchberry
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Cornus canadensis
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CRASSULACEAE
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Oregon stonecrop
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Sedum oreganum
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ERICACEAE
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Arbutus
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Arbutus menziesii
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Hairy manzanita
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Arctostaphylos
columbiana
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Yellow
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Hybrid manzanita
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Arctostaphylos media (=
A. columbiana x A. uva-ursi)
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Kinnikinnick
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Arctostaphylos
uva-ursi
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Salal
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Gaultheria shallon
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Dwarf blueberry
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Vaccinium caespitosum
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Red huckleberry
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Vaccinium parviflorum
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FABACEAE
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Small-headed clover
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Trifolium
microcephalum
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Tomcat clover
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Trifolium willdenowii
(was tridentatum)
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American vetch
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Vicia americana
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GERANIACEAE
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Bicknell’s
geranium
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Geranium bicknellii
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GROSSULARIACEAE
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Red-flowering currant
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Ribes sanguineum
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LAMIACEAE
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Self-heal
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Prunella vulgaris
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Yerba buena
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Clinopodium douglasii
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MONOTROPACEAE
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Candy stick
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Allotropa virgata
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Yellow
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Pinesap
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Monotropa hypopithys
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Indian-pipe
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Monotropa uniflora
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Gnome-plant
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Hemitomes congestum
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Pinedrops
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Pterospora andromeda
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ONAGRACEAE
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Fireweed
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Epilobium
angustifolium
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Small-flowered
willowherb
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Epilobium minutum
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OROBANCHACEAE
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Vancouver groundcone
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Boschniaka hookeri
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Naked broomrape
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Orobanche uniflora
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Yellow
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PLANTAGINACEAE
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Common plantain
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Plantago major
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POLEMONIACEAE
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Vari-leaved collomia
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Collomia
heterophylla
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Yellow
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Pink twink
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Phlox gracilis
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POLYGONACEAE
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Polygonum douglasii
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Polygonum douglasii
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PORTULACACEAE
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Pale springbeauty
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Claytonia exigua
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Columbia Lewisia
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Lewisia columbiana
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Yellow
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Blinks
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Montia fontana
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Small-leaved montia
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Montia parviflora
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PRIMULACEAE
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Pretty shootingstar
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Dodecatheon
pulchellum
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Broad-leaved starflower
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Trientalis latifolia
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PYROLACEAE
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Menzies’s
pipsissewa
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Chimaphila menziesii
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Prince’s pine
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Chimaphila umbellata
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Pink wintergreen
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Pyrola asarifolia
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RANUNCULACEAE
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Lyall’s anemone
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Anemone lyalli
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RHAMNACEAE
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Redstem ceanothus
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Ceanothus sanguineus
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ROSACEAE
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Saskatoon
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Amelanchier alnifolia
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Wild strawberry
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Fragaria virginiana
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Wood strawberry
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Fragaria vesca
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Large-leaved avens
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Geum macrophyllum
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Oceanspray
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Holodiscus discolor
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Sticky cinquefoil
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Potentilla glandulosa
pseudorupestris
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Bitter cherry
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Prunus emarginata
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Baldhip rose
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Rosa gymnocarpa
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Nootka rose
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R. nutkana
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Black raspberry
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Rubus leucodermis
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Trailing blackberry
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Rubus ursinus
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RUBIACEAE
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Cleavers
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Galium aparine
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SALICACEAE
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Sitka willow
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Salix sitchensis
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SAXIFRAGACEAE
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Small-flowered alumroot
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Heuchera micrantha
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Smooth fringecup
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Lithophragma glabrum
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Small-flowere fringecup
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Lithophragma parviflorum
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Alaska saxifrage
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Saxifraga ferruginea
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Grassland saxifrage
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Saxifraga
integrifolia
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Rusty-haired saxifrage
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Saxifraga rufidula
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Foam flower
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Tiarella triifoliata
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SCROPHULARIACEAE
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Scarlet paintbrush
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Castilleja miniata
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Large-flowered blue-eyed
Mary
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Collinsia grandiflora
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Small-flowered blue-eyed
Mary
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Collinsia parviflora
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Chickweed monkey-flower
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Mimulus alsinoides
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Yellow monkey-flower
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Mimulus guttatus
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Sickle-top lousewort
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Pedicularis racemosa
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Coast penstemon
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Penstemon serrulatus
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Alpine speedwell
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Veronica wormskjoldii
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VALERIANACEAE
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Sea blush
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Plectritis congesta
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VIOLACEAE
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Early blue violet
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Viola adunca
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Stream violet
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Viola glabella
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Trailing yellow violet
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Viola sempervirens
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ANGIOSPERMS
(monocots)
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JUNCACEAE
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Many-flowered wood-rush
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Luzula multiflora
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LILIACEAE
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Harvest brodaea
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Brodiaeae coronaria
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Yellow
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Common camas
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Camassia quamash
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Yellow
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Chocolate lily
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Fritillaria affinis
(lanceolata?)
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Tiger lily
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Lilium columbianum
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White triteleia
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Triteleia hyacinthina
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Yellow
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Meadow death-camas
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Zigadenus venenosuus
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ORCHIDACEAE
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Fairy-slipper
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Calypso bulbosa
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Spotted coralroot
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Corallorhiza maculata
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Western coralroot
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Corallorhiza
mertensiana
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Rattlesnake-plantain
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Goodyera oblongifolia
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Heart-leaved twayblade
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Listera cordata
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Royal rein orchid
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Piperia transversa
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Alaska rein orchid
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Piperia unalascensis
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Ladies’ tresses
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Spiranthes
romanzoffiana
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POACEAE
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Hair bentgrass
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Agrostis scabra
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Dune bentgrass
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Agrostis pallens
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Blue
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Silver hairgrass
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Aira caryophyllea
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Early hairgrass
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Aira praecox
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Soft brome
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Bromus hordeaceus
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California oargrass
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Danthonia californica
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Timber oatgrass
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Danthonia intermedia
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Blue wildrye
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Elymus glaucus
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Western fescue
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Festuca occidentalis
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Junegrass
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Koeleria macrantha
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Common witchgrass
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Panicum capillare
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Narrow-flowered
bluegrass
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Poa stenantha
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Small fescue
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Vulpia microstachys
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Rattail fescue
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Vulpia myuros
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LYCOPODIOPSIDA
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SELLAGINELLACEAE
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Wallace’s
selaginella
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Selaginella wallacei
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FERNS
( POLYPODIOPHYTA)
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OPHIOGLOSSOPSIDA
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OPHIOGLOSSACEAE (both spp?)
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Least moonwort
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Botrychium simplex
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Blue
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Common moonwort
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Botrychium
lunaria
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ASPLENIACEAE
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Maidenhair spleenwort
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Asplenium trichomanes
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DRYOPTERIDACEAE
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Narrow-leaved sword fern
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Polystichum imbricans
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Yellow
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Sword fern
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Polystichum munitum
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POLYPODIACEAE
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Licorice fern
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Polypodium glycyrrhiza
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PTERIDACEAE
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Indian’s-dream
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Aspidotis densa
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Parsley fern
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Cryptogramma acrostichoides
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