Flower Formulas: More Than You Want To Know

http://biology.clc.uc.edu/Courses/bioall/plant%20families.htm

This is a university biology class website that goes into more detail than is required for a course specifically about native plants but I thought it would be helpful to review the background on flower formulas and how they are computed.

http://wisplants.uwsp.edu/flowerformula.html

This is a long glossary of everything you ever wanted to know about naming plants and flower parts. Links to pages about every facet of a leaf you could imagine. Useful, but overwhelming, reference.

NATIVE PLANT LIST (UPDATED 4/2/8/2009)

Bio 340A Native Plant List

1.
Family: VIOLACEAE (Dicot) pg. 203
VIOLET FAMILY

Genus species: Viola glaba

Common Name: Yellow Wood Violet

Fruit: capsules7-17 mm. long

Inflorescence:



2. Family: LILIACEAE (Monocot) pg. 113
LILY FAMILY

Genus species: Veratrum califonica

Common Name: California false hellebore

Fruit: a 3-loculed capsule

Inflorescence:



3. Family: ROSACEAE (Dicot) pg. 74
ROSE FAMILY

Genus species: Rubus spectabolis

Common Name: Salmonberry

Fruit: aggregate fruit of individual drupelets

Inflorescence:






4. Family: HYDROPHYLLACEAE (Dicot) pg. 232
WATERLEAF FAMILY

(Note: Plant Family Changed from Asteraceae to Hydrophyllaceae)

Genus species: Hydrophyllum occidentale

Common Name: Western Waterleaf

Fruit: a capsule

Inflorescence:



5. Family: URTICACEAE (Dicot) pg.101-102
NETTLE FAMILY

Genus species: Urtica diotica

Common Name: Stinging Nettle

Fruit: Flattened lens shaped achenes

Inflorescence:



6. Family: CAPRIFOLIACEA
HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY

Genus species: Sambucus sp.

Common Name: Elderberry sp.

Fruit:

Inflorescence:










7. Family: FUMARIACEAE (Dicot)
BLEEDING HEART FAMILY

Genus species: Dicentra formosa

Common Name: Bleeding Heart

Fruit: a capsule

Inflorescence:




8. Family: ACERACEAE (Dicot)
MAPLE FAMILY

Genus species: Acer macrophylllum

Common Name: Big Leaf Maple

Fruit: wings of fruit (samaras), when mature dark brown

Inflorescence:



9. Family: CORNACEAE (Dicot)
DOGWOOD FAMILY

Genus species: Cornus nuttallii

Common Name: Western flowering dogwood

Fruit: a 2-seeded drupe

Inflorescence:

10. Family: RUBIACEAE (Dicot)
MADDER FAMILY

Genus species: Gallium aparine

Non-Native

Common Name: Bedstraw, Cleavers

Fruit: fruits with hooked bristles

Inflorescence:



11. Family: SAXIFRAGACEAE
SAXIFRAGE FAMILY

Genus species: Tellima grandiflora
(a monotypic genus)

Common Name: Fringe Cup

Ovary/Fruit: 1-loculed, inferior ovary, compound;
A beaked capsule

Inflorescence:

Dandelion Wishes

Where you see weeds,
I see fields of gold.

Where you see seeds,
I see billions and billions of wishes.

-- Lorian Gray

Sites by Suzy

Suzy contributed these websites. Interesting stuff here! Take a look:

Native Plants It's Plant Oregon, The Nursery on Wagner Creek. They sell native plants and they have an Earth Steward program to learn how to save your corner of the planet.

Plant Native A great resource from the beginner to the professional. It has several databases for finding everything from native plants in any state in the nation to community organizations dedicated to using native plants in naturescaping.

Siskiyou Rare Plant Nursery

A nursery dedicated to preserving alpine plants, particularly plants native to the Siskiyou mountain region.

Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center OSU wealth of information and links to organizations dedicated to the conservation of endangered plants and several databases for native plant research.


Oregon State Noxious Weed Control Official Oregon State website for the Division that keeps track of "invasive, exotic plants" to try to control the plants that choke the life out of the plants we love. Somebody has to do it.

Oregon State Flower

Oregon State Flower is the Oregon Grape

Nature Quotes

"The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns."
-- George Santyana

"The moon pulls the ocean and the ocean pushes back, the dark energy of the universe pulls and gravity pushes back, the sun pulls at the seedling and the seedling pushes back. The evolution is in the struggle"
-- Lorian Gray

"We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden"
--Joni Mitchell for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

"Patients recovered in spite of the treatment."
--Lewis & Clark 1805

"We are going from "Oh, Duh!" to "Big Wow!""
--Bob Misley

Native Plants Websites

Native Plant Society of Oregon $12 Student Membership!

Wallace W Hansen Native Plants of the Northwest Oregon based specialist growing only plants native to the NW. Edible plant guide and poisonous plant guide.

The Portland Medicinal Herbalism Meetup Group free group meeting in NE Portland monthly to talk about local herbs and their medicinal uses.

Northwest Native Plant Guide Seattle NW native plant free database.

WSU Master Gardener: NW Native Plant Guide WSU free native plant database.