Plant Lists
Below are plant lists I have made for a number of sites in the Western Cascades. Although some may have originally been based on lists obtained elsewhere, these posted lists include only those plants I have seen (or believe I have seen). I may be wrong about some of the IDs and take full responsibility for these mistakes. Some lists are fairly comprehensive based on a dozen or more trips at different times of year. Other sites are new for me, and the lists will undoubtedly grow as I return to the location. As I learn more about the plants and explore the sites more, I will continue to update these. They are now up to date through 2012, including use of the new family classifications (For a cheat sheet to these, see New Year, New Family Names.). I hope to get them all updated this winter (2020/21), along with more new names. While the lists do include conifers, ferns, dicots, and most monocots, there are very few graminoids (grasses, sedges, and similar) listed, as I know very few of these at the moment. Someday I hope to remedy that!
There are two lists for each site. The first is a simpler list. It is an editable MS Word document with common name and family, alphabetized by botanical name. For those more familiar with our plants, the second list is a PDF created from my Filemaker Pro database using only botanical names and sorted by division, family, genus, and species, including synonyms. This is what I take with me in the field. If anyone sees plants at these sites that are not on my lists, I would appreciate the information, including the specific location. You are free to use these lists for your own use or to print out for a field trip. If you want to share them with someone else, however, please just give them the link to this page. Thanks, and enjoy!
Columbia Gorge: Multnomah County
- McCord Creek & Elowah Falls: plant list by genus • plant list by family
Clackamas: Clackamas County
- Anvil Lake: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Bull of the Woods: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Cache Meadows: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- High Rock: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Table Rock: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Whetstone Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
Santiam: Linn, Marion counties
- Bachelor Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Browder Ridge: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Bruno Meadows: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Coffin Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Echo Basin: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Gordon Meadows: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Hawk Mountain: plant list by genus •plant list by family
- Iron Mountain & Cone Peak: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Monument Peak: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Park Creek Basin: plant list by genus •plant list by family
- Parish Lake: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Pyramids Trail: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Triangulation Peak: plant list by genus • plant list by family
McKenzie: Lane, Linn counties
- Carpenter Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Castle Rock: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Deer Creek Road: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Horsepasture Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Lowder Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Olallie Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Quaking Aspen Swamp: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Tidbits Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Wildcat Mountain RNA: plant list by genus • plant list by family
Willamette: Lane, Douglas counties
- Bearbones Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Blair Lake: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Bristow Prairie: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Cloverpatch Trail: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Deception Butte: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Devil’s Garden: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Eagles Rest: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Fairview Peak & Bohemia Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Fall Creek Trail: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Grasshopper Meadows: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Groundhog Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Heavenly Bluff: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Heckletooth Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Hell’s Half Acre: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Hemlock Butte: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Huckleberry Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Lopez Lake and Rd 5884: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Moon Point: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Mosaic Rock: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Mount June: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Patterson Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Pyramid Rock: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Scorpion Butte: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Stone Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Tire Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Youngs Rock: plant list by genus • plant list by family
North Umpqua, Calapooyas: Douglas County
- Balm Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Big Squaw Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Bradley Lake: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- BVD Trail: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Hemlock Lake: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Hills Peak: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Illahee Rock: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Loletta Lakes and Peak: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Lookout Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- McKinley Rock: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Potter Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Reynolds Ridge: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Skipper Lakes: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Twin Lakes: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Upper Elk Meadows: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Watson Falls: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Wild Rose Point: plant list by genus • plant list by family
Rogue-Umpqua Divide: Douglas County
- Abbott Butte: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Buck Canyon: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Donegan Prairie: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Fish Creek Valley: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Hershberger Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Rattlesnake Mountain: plant list by genus • plant list by family
- Whitehorse Meadows: plant list by genus • plant list by family
Southern Cascades: Jackson County
- Grizzly Peak: plant list by genus • plant list by family