Pacific Northwest Native and Water-wise Plant Selection for Shade and Part Shade

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• How many hours a day sun does your project site have sun?

• Less than 3hrs direct or north/east exposure: Part shade

• No direct exposure: Full shade

• Deciduous

• Evergreen Huckleberry  Vaccinium ovatum

• Salal Gaultheria shallon

• Low Oregon-grape Mahonia nervosa

• Perennials

• Vine Maple Acer circinatum

• Red Huckleberry Vaccinium parvifolium

• Sword Fern Polystichum munitum

• Lady Fern Athyrium filix-femina

• Spiny Wood Fern Dryopteris expansa

• Shrubs

• Deer Fern Blechnum spicant

• Maidenhair Fern Adiantum aleuticum

• Lily Family

• Saxifrage Family

• Barberry Family

• Fumitory Family

• Birthwort Family

• False Lily-of-the-valley  Maianthemum dilatatum

• Starry-flowered False Solomon's Seal Maianthemum stellatum

• Western Trillium Trillium ovatum

• Fairy Bells Prosartes hookeri

• Twisted Stalk Streptopus amplexifolius

• Piggy-back Plant Tolmiea menziesii

• Fringecup Tellima grandiflora

• Foamflower Tiarella trifoliata

• Mitrewort Mitella breweri

• Alumroot Heuchera micrantha

• Inside-out Flower Vancouveria hexandra

• Native

• Non-native

• Vanilla Leaf Achlys triphylla

• Barrenwort Epimedium

• Western Wild Ginger Asarum caudatum

• Hartweg's Wild Ginger Asarum hartwegii

• Western Bleeding Heart Dicentra formosa

• Scouler's Corydalis Corydalis scouleri

• Evergreen

• Deciduous

• Shrubs

• Red Elderberry Sambucus racemosa

• Salmonberry Rubus spectabilis

• Red+Elderberry (binary/octet-stream)

• Salmonberry (binary/octet-stream)

• Osoberry Oemleria cerasiformis

• Oemleria Cerasiformis 07 (binary/octet-stream)

• Thimbleberry Rubus parviflorus

• Rubus Parviflorus (binary/octet-stream)

• Western Beaked Hazelnut Corylus cornuta

• Corylus+Cornuta+2 (binary/octet-stream)

• Ferns

• Evergreen

• Deciduous

• Athyrium+Filix Femina+ (binary/octet-stream)

• Sword+Fern (binary/octet-stream)

• Deer+Fern (binary/octet-stream)

• Dryopteris Expansa (binary/octet-stream)

• Maidenhair+Fern (binary/octet-stream)

• Vaccinium+Ovatum (binary/octet-stream)

• Vine+Maple (binary/octet-stream)

• Vaccinium Parvifolium+2 (binary/octet-stream)

• Salal (binary/octet-stream)

• Mahonia Nervosa (binary/octet-stream)

• Mature height between 15-20 feet

• Mature height between 8-12 feet

• Evergreen

• Epimedium Pubigerum (binary/octet-stream)

• Vanilla+Leaf (binary/octet-stream)

• Vancouveria Hexandra (binary/octet-stream)

• Asarum+Hartwegii (binary/octet-stream)

• Asarum Caudatum (binary/octet-stream)

• Dicentra+Formosa (binary/octet-stream)

• Corydalis Scouleri (binary/octet-stream)

• Trillium Ovatum (binary/octet-stream)

• Maianthemum Stellatum (binary/octet-stream)

• Streptopus Amplexifolius Var. Papillatus 04 (binary/octet-stream)

• Maianthemum Dilatatum+2 (binary/octet-stream)

• Prosartes Hookeri+2 (binary/octet-stream)

• Tiarella+Trifoliata (binary/octet-stream)

• Tellima Grandiflora+2 (binary/octet-stream)

• Heuchera Micrantha+2 (binary/octet-stream)

• Tolmiea+Menziesii (binary/octet-stream)

• Mitella Brewerii (binary/octet-stream)

• Native Plant Selection for Shade and Part Shade

• Ferns