Custom Species Lists
Puget Sound is host to a diverse array of plants and plant associations – communities of plants that tend to occur together. This list of plants in the Puget Trough comes from the Washington Department of Natural Resources National Heritage Program. The DNR is responsible for protecting over 60,000 acres in the Puget Sound region. The Puget Trough ecoregion runs the length of the state and includes the foothills of the Cascade and Olympic mountains, as well as many rivers and streams draining into the Sound.
Plants and lichens of Puget Trough
- Anthoceros fusiformis
- Bartramiopsis lescurii
- Bryum miniatum
- Buxbaumia viridis
- Cladonia norvegica
- Marsupella bolanderi
- Racomitrium aquaticum
- Tayloria serrata
- Tetraphis geniculata
- Calicium adaequatum - (Adequate Spike Lichen)
- Chamaecyparis nootkatensis - (Alaska Cedar)
- Carex macrochaeta - (Alaska Large Awn Sedge)
- Melica subulata - (Alaska Onion Grass)
- Erigeron aliceae - (Alice's Fleabane)
- Ophioparma ventosa - (Alpine Bloodspot)
- Kalmia microphylla - (Alpine Bog Laurel)
- Loiseleuria procumbens - (Alpine-azalea)
- Leymus mollis ssp. mollis - (American Dunegrass)
- Veratrum viride - (American False Hellebore)
- Pulsatilla patens ssp. multifida - (American Pasqueflower)
- Vicia americana - (American Purple Vetch)
- Eurybia merita - (Arctic Aster)
- Petasites frigidus - (Arctic Butter-bur)
- Lupinus arcticus - (Arctic Lupine)
- Juncus balticus - (Baltic Rush)
- Lathyrus japonicus - (Beach Pea)
- Corylus cornuta - (Beaked Hazelnut)
- Carex exsiccata - (Beaked Sedge)
- Carex utriculata - (Beaked Sedge)
- Arctostaphylos uva-ursi - (Bearberry)
- Usnea longissima - (Beard Lichen)
- Usnea sphacelata - (Beard Lichen)
- Carex macrocephala - (Big-head Sedge)
- Acer macrophyllum - (Bigleaf Maple)
- Carex nigricans - (Black Alpine Sedge)
- Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa - (Black Cottonwood)
- Empetrum nigrum - (Black Crowberry)
- Collema nigrescens - (Blistered Jelly Lichen)
- Calamagrostis canadensis - (Blue-joint Reedgrass)
- Carex obtusata - (Blunt Sedge)
- Potamogeton obtusifolius - (Bluntleaf Pondweed)
- Menyanthes trifoliata - (Bog Buckbean)
- Lycopodiella inundata - (Bog Clubmoss)
- Symphyotrichum boreale - (Boreal Aster)
- Carex magellanica ssp. irrigua - (Boreal Bog Sedge)
- Potentilla drummondii ssp. breweri - (Brewer's Cinquefoil)
- Pellaea breweri - (Brewer's Cliffbrake)
- Arctostaphylos columbiana - (Bristly Manzanita)
- Carex comosa - (Bristly Sedge)
- Cornicularia normoerica - (Brittle Lichen)
- Typha latifolia - (Broadleaf Cattail)
- Cicuta bulbifera - (Bulb-bearing Water-hemlock)
- Leptogium burnetiae - (Burnet's Skin Lichen)
- Ranunculus californicus - (California Buttercup)
- Danthonia californica - (California Oatgrass)
- Pityopus californica - (California Pinefoot (Pityopus))
- Polystichum californicum - (California Swordfern)
- Carex scirpoidea ssp. scirpoidea - (Canadian Single-spike Sedge)
- Platanthera sparsiflora - (Canyon Bog Orchid)
- Salix cascadensis - (Cascade Willow)
- Platanthera chorisiana - (Choriso Bog-orchid)
- Cassiope lycopodioides - (Clubmoss Bell-heather)
- Cypripedium fasciculatum - (Clustered Lady's-slipper)
- Microseris bigelovii - (Coast Microseris)
- Carex circinata - (Coiled Sedge)
- Sericocarpus rigidus - (Columbian White-top Aster)
- Campanula lasiocarpa - (Common Alaska Harebell)
- Githopsis specularioides - (Common Blue-cup)
- Triglochin maritima - (Common Bog Arrow-grass)
- Camassia quamash - (Common Camassia)
- Ceratophyllum demersum - (Common Hornwort)
- Ledum groenlandicum - (Common Labrador Tea)
- Mimulus guttatus - (Common Large Monkeyflower)
- Hippuris vulgaris - (Common Mare's-tail)
- Kumlienia cooleyae - (Cooley's Buttercup)
- Elliottia pyroliflorus - (Copper-flower)
- Astragalus australis var. cottonii - (Cotton's Milkvetch)
- Heracleum maximum - (Cow-parsnip)
- Holodiscus discolor - (Cream-bush Oceanspray)
- Eleocharis palustris - (Creeping Spikerush)
- Encalypta brevicolla var. crumiana - (Crum's Extinguisher Moss)
- Luzula arcuata ssp. unalaschcensis - (Curved Woodrush)
- Carex cusickii - (Cusick's Sedge)
- Synthyris pinnatifida - (Cutleaf Kittentail)
- Synthyris pinnatifida var. lanuginosa - (Cutleaf Synthyris)
- Salix sessilifolia - (Del Norte Coast Willow)
- Sphagnum tenellum - (Delicate Peatmoss)
- Balsamorhiza deltoidea - (Deltoid Balsamroot)
- Phylliscum demangeonii - (Demangeon's Phylliscum Lichen)
- Dendriscocaulon intricatulum - (Dendriscocaulon Lichen)
- Oplopanax horridus - (Devil's-club)
- Carex heteroneura var. epapillosa - (Different-nerve Sedge)
- Montia diffusa - (Diffuse Montia)
- Symphyotrichum subspicatum - (Douglas' Aster)
- Spiraea douglasii - (Douglas' Spiraea)
- Pseudotsuga menziesii - (Douglas-fir)
- Argentina egedii - (Egede's Cinquefoil)
- Picea engelmannii - (Engelmann Spruce)
- Erioderma sorediatum - (Erioderma Lichen)
- Vaccinium ovatum - (Evergreen Blueberry)