Contents Gully Shoot Photographs of Identified Plants

Identified Plants Photographs and text by Aurian Haller To see full-size photographs of the plants, click on the thumbnail images below. (The full-size photographs are between 8 and 28 K in size.) Badge Moss: Grows on humus in moist, shaded, lowland forests, also on soil along trails and other shaded open areas. May form lush, extensive mats. Bigleaf Maple: Dry to moist sites, often with Douglas fir, often on sites disturbed by fire, clearing or logging; at low to middle elevations. Black Cottonwood: On low to medium elevation, moist to wet sites; forms extensive stands on islands and floodplains along major rivers and on disturbed sites. Black Gooseberry: Moist woods and stream banks to drier forested slopes and subalpine ridges, to the shoreline in the northern half of our region; often on rotting wood. Black Huckleberry: Common understorey shrub in moist coniferous forests, but also in open areas such as burns, subalpine slopes, from mid to high elevations. Bull Thistle: Widespread Eurasian weed; common at low to mid elevations in pastures, waste places, clearings and roadsides. Common Dandelion: An introduced, weedy species of disturbed sites at low to middle elevations. Common Horse Chestnut: Commonly cultivated as a shade and ornamental tree. Common Horsetail: On a wide variety of soils, in moist to wet forests, meadows, swamps, fens and alpine seepage areas; from lowlands to alpine areas. Common Snowberry: Dry to moist soils, open forests, thickets, rocky slopes, river terraces, ravines, along beaches; low to middle elevations. Douglas fir: From extremely dry, low elevation sites to moist montane sites. Dull Oregon Grape: Dry to fairly moist soils, open to closed forests at low to medium elevations. English Holly: Introduced; common near parks and gardens. English Ivy: A commonly cultivated and escaped evergreen vine; grows in moist understorey and around trunks of trees; low elevations. False-Polytrichum: Grows on calcium-rich and neutral soil ledges and moist stream-banks and in rock crevices. May form mats on forest litter in open, montane forests. Himalayan Blackberry: An Asian species introduced form India via England and widely naturalized, in disturbed sites and streamside areas, at low elevations. Largeleaved Avens: A native perennial, common in the edges of woods along trails and in grassy areas. Northern Geranium: Moist, open forests, meadows, avalanche tracks, roadsides and clearings, from low elevations to above timberline. Oregon Beaked Moss: Common in lowland rainforests along the coast; forms mats on logs, humus and tree bases. Pacific Bleeding Heart: Moist forests, ravines, stream banks; low to middle elevations. Pacific Willow: Riverbanks, floodplains, lakeshores, and wet meadows; sea level to middle elevations. Paper Birch: Open to dense woods, usually moist, from lowlands to lower mountain slopes; typically on well-drained sites but also around bogs and other wetlands. Red Alder: Moist woods, stream banks, floodplains, slide tracks, and recently cleared land; at low elevations. Red Elderberry: Stream Banks, swampy thickets, moist clearings and open forests; sea level to middle elevations. Salal: Coniferous forests, rocky bluffs, to the seashore; low to medium elevations Salmonberry: Moist to wet places (forests, disturbed sites), often abundant along stream edges, avalanche tracks and in wet logged areas; at low to subalpine elevations. Scotch Broom: Open sites, especially common on disturbed sites, but also invading natural meadows, thickets and open forest; at low elevations. Sweet-scented Bedstraw: Moist forest, thickets, clearings, stream banks, usually in partial shade; common at low to middle elevations. Sword Fern: Moist forest at low to middle elevations; abundant and widespread from central Vancouver Island and adjacent mainland south, less common further north. Thimbleberry: Open sites (clearings, road edges, shorelines, and avalanche tracks); low to subalpine elevations. Tree Moss: Widespread from sea level to tundra. Most common at low elevations in moist, humus-rich woods, peaty swamps, fens, calcium-rich tundra, lake edges and in floodplain forests. Western Hemlock: Fairly dry to wet sites; well adapted to grow on humus and decaying wood, also found on mineral soil; shade-tolerant; very common from low to middle elevations. Western Redcedar: Mostly in wet soils, usually in shaded forests; grows best on seepage and alluvial sites but also occurs in drier habitats, especially on richer soils, and in bogs. Low to medium elevations. Western Yew: Moist mature forest at low to middle elevations in the southern part of our region; often with Douglas fir and Western Hemlock in productive old-growth forests as a small understorey tree.

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