Bring Home the “Wild” Beauty of Spring in Oregon

The natural “wild” forests and fields of Oregon come a live with a gentle beauty in the spring. Native plants are awaking and emerging with their young evergreen foliage and pristine new blooms. Everything is fresh and full of new life with the anticipation of a brand new year. This wild beauty can easily be duplicated in any size landscape. Below is a list of Oregon native plants that offer spring interest. Plant a few to create your own experience of that walk in the forest or the picnic in a meadow. Transform your outdoors with native plants and you will not have to travel far to refuel your soul with the natural beauty that Oregon has to offer.

 

 

 

Beargrass - Xerophyllum tenax

Bunchberry - Cornus canadensis

Camas - Cammasia leichtlinii

Deer Fern - Blechnum spicant

Evergreen Huckleberry - Vaccinium ovatum

Fawn Lily - Erythronium oregonum

Flowering Currant - Ribes sanguineum

Great False Solomon’s Seal - Smilacina racemosa

Kinnikinnick - Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

Lady Fern - Athyrium filix-femina

Maidenhair Fern - Adiantum pedatum

Oregon Grape - Mahonia

Oregon Iris - Iris tenax

Oregon Stonecrop – Sedum oreganum

Salal - Gaultheria shallon

Shooting Star - Dodcatheon hendersonii

Snowberry - Symphoricarpus

Star-Flowered Solomon’s Seal - Smilacina stellata

Western Columbine - Aquilegia formosa

Western Bleeding Heart - Dicentra formosa

Western Sword Fern - Polystichum munitum

Western Trillium - Trillium ovatum

Wild Ginger - Asarum caudatum