Free lessons below, with in-depth references, provide an introduction to the Cascadia Floristic Region’s ethnobotanical plant species – the coast lands to the west of the Cascade
Crest from San Francisco Bay to the Aleutians. (Cascadia is a sub-region of the Rocky Mountain Floristic Region and the latter’s unique species, are noted “RM”). On-line lessons contain elementary and secondary level questions (answers found in prose/photos and URLs respectively). The structure is (CPA) NASBA’s, self-teaching students of all ages. Comments, content, and questions: email bb@plc215.org as we are now adding college level questions – a third level, with the help of Western Washington University’s SAM Project students. And when open, visit I-5’s Exit 215’s Bonhoeffer Botanical Gardens that serves as an outdoor laboratory exhibiting over 1/2 of Cascadia’s species.
Introduction to the Gardens
Using Bonhoeffer’s Name
Dietrich & Sophie
A Treaty Topic Neglected
Ethnobotanical Focus
Forest Glades
Forest Groves
No More Giants
Today’s Species’ Disappearance
Tracking Extinctions, the SAM Project
Must our Youth Be the Ones to Act?
Vines+
Trailing Blackberry
the 3 + 1 Honeysuckle
Pink Honeysuckle
our 3 Strawberries
Woodland Strawberry
Western White Clematis
Native Conifers
the 3 Cedars
Western Red Cedar
Alaska Yellow Cedar
Douglas Fir
Douglas Fir Clones
the 4 Firs
Grand Fir
Pacific Silver Fir
Alpine Fir
Noble Fir
the 3 “Sequoias”
Dawn Redwood
the 2 Hemlock
Western Hemlock
the 4 Juniper
Larch
Pacific Yew
the 4 Pine
Shore
Lodgepole Pine (RM)
Ponderosa Pine
Pinon Pine (RM)
the 2 Spruce
Sitka Spruce
Blue Spruce (RM)
Shrubs
Blackcap
Buffalo Berry
Currants
Red Currant
Devil’s Club
the 2 Elderberries
the 4 Gooseberries
Hairy Manzanita
the 5 Huckleberries
Indian Plum
Mooseberry
Oceanspray
the 3 Oregon Grapes
Creeping Oregon Grape
Low Oregon Grape
Tall Oregon Grape
Pacific Wax Myrtle
Rhododendron
Western Azalea
our 4 Roses
Salal
Salmonberry
the 2 Snowberry
the 4 Spirea
Sumac
Thimbleberry
Twinberry
Western Serviceberry
Leaved Trees
Acorns Oak
the 4 Alder
White Alder
Red Alder
the 4 Birch
Bitter Cherry
Black Hawthorne
Chinquapin
Black Cottonwood
Plains Cottonwood (RM)
Crabapple
Hazelnuts
Madrona
the 3 Maple
Vine Maple
Ninebark
Oregon Ash
Quaking Aspen
Red Osier Dogwood
Western Dogwood
our 19 Willows
Coyote Willow
Scouler’s Willow
Pacific Willow
Ferns
Anderson’s Swordfern
Deer Fern
Bracken Fern
Giant Chain Fern
Lady Fern
Licorice Fern
Oak Fern
Western Sword Fern
Western Maidenhair
Western Polypody
Strange Mosses, Lichens, Others
Blue-green Algae
Slime Mold
Fungi
the 6 Horsetail
Giant Horsetail
Common Horsetail
Lichen
Bryophytes
Mosses
Rushes
Grasses
Flowers & Herbs
Bleeding Hearts
Bluebell-of-Scotland
Bitterroot (RM)
Bunchberry
California Poppy
Camas
Cattail
the 3 Cinquefoils
Silverweed
Clarkia
Colorado Blue Columbine (RM)
Cow-Parsnip
Cranberries
Douglas Aster
Big Leaf Lupine
False Lady of the Valley
Fawn Lily
Fireweed
Forget-me-not (Alpine)
Fringe cup
Goat’s Beard
the 3 Hedgenettles
Indian Paintbrush (RM)
Indian Rhubarb
Inside-out Flower
Kinnikinnick
Large-leaf Avens
Meadow Checker Mallow
Meadow Rue
Oregon Iris
Oregon Geranium
Oxalis
Pearly Everlasting
Piggy-back Plant
Prickly Pear
Rattlesnake Plantain
Sea Rocket
Sego Lily (RM)
Self-Heal
our 4 Stonecrop
Skunk Cabbage
Starry False Lily of the Valley
Sweet Coltsfoot
Stinging Nettle
Thistles
Tobacco
Twinflower
Vanilla Leaf
Violets
Wapato
Western Wahoo
Wild Chives
Wild Ginger
Wooley Sunflower
Yampah
Yarrow
Yellow Monkeyflower
Yellow Pond Lily
Yucca (RM)
Pioneer Plant Species (exotics)
Butternut Trees
Canada Goldenrod
Dandelions
Evergreen & Himalayan Blackberries
Foxgloves
Holly
