Key: Check the back!The back page features water use, sunrequirements, bloom time, wildlife informationand some helpful resources. Use this guide tolearn about plants and gain some inspirationfor your own backyard habitat garden!

PacificMadrone

Alaskan YellowCedar

EvergreenTree

EvergreenShrub

FloweringPlant

Native

DeciduousTree

DeciduousShrub

GroundCover

Non-Native

WesternColumbine

Salal Mock Orange Red FloweringCurrant

DouglasSpirea

EvergreenHuckleberry

Port OrfordCedar

PacificNinebark

Oceanspray SnowbrushCeanothus

ShowyMilkweed

Blue Camas

Yarrow Vine Maple Oregon WhiteOak

False SolomonSeal

Birch CommonRush

Rose Pacific WaxMyrtle

Lavender PacificMadrone

Birch LeafSpirea

GoldenCurrant

Incense Cedar Cascara Silk Tassel Oregon CrabApple

Indian Plum Shore Pine

Red OsierDogwood

BlackHawthorn

Thimbleberry Snowberry AlaskanYellow Cedar

Western Larch

Rosemary Red Alder Kinnikinnick StrawberryTree

Seaside Daisy BeakedHazelnut

Fireweed CascadeStonecrop

ReflexedStonecrop

KoreanDogwood

RedElderberry

FireworksGoldenrod

Shelter/nesting

Western

Columbine Aquilegia formosa

Salal

Gaultheria shallon

Mock Orange

Philadelphus lewisii

Red Flowering

Currant Ribes sanguineum

Douglas Spirea

Spiraea douglasii

Evergreen

Huckleberry Vaccinium ovatum

Bloom Time: late spring to early summer Wildlife attracted: butterflies, hummingbirds & other birds

Bloom Time: late spring to mid-summer Wildlife attracted: bees & butterflies

Bloom Time: late spring to early summer Wildlife attracted: bees, butterflies, deer & birds

Bloom Time: spring Wildlife attracted: hummingbirds, butterflies, birds & mammals

Bloom Time: early to mid-summer Wildlife attracted: bees, butterflies, deer & nesting birds

Bloom Time: spring to summer Wildlife attracted: bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, birds & mammals

Port Orford

Cedar Chamaecyparis lawsoniana

Pacific Ninebark

Physocarpus capitatus

Oceanspray

Holodiscus discolor

Snowbrush

Ceanothus Ceanothus velutinus

Showy Milkweed

Asclepias speciosa

Blue Camas

Camassia quamash Bloom Time: spring Wildlife attracted: squirrels & deer

Bloom Time: mid-spring to mid-summer Wildlife attracted: deer, birds & small mammals

Bloom Time: mid-summer Wildlife attracted: nesting bushtits, bees, butterflies & butterfly larvae

Bloom Time: mid-spring to late summer Wildlife attracted: deer, birds, butterflies & small mammals

Bloom Time: late spring to early fall Wildlife attracted: Monarch butterfly larvae, butterflies & hummingbirds

Bloom Time: mid-spring to early summer Wildlife attracted: deer, bees & butterflies

Yarrow

Achillea millefolium

Vine Maple

Acer circinatum

Oregon White

Oak Quercus garryana

False Solomon

Seal Maianthemum racemosum

Birch

Betula spp.

Common Rush

Juncus effusus Bloom Time: mid-summer to early fall Wildlife attracted: bees & butterflies

Bloom Time: spring Wildlife attracted: bees, birds & deer

Bloom Time: spring Wildlife attracted: birds, mammals & butterfly larvae

Bloom Time: late spring to early summer Wildlife attracted: small mammals, birds & bees

Bloom Time: spring Wildlife attracted: birds, mammals & butterfly larvae

Bloom Time: mid-summer to early spring Wildlife attracted: nesting birds, fish, small mammals & insects

Rose

Rosa spp.

Pacific Wax

Myrtle Morella californica

Lavender

Lavandula spp.

Pacific Madrone

Arbutus menziesii

Birch Leaf Spirea

Spiraea betufolia

Golden Currant

Ribes aureum Bloom Time: spring to summer Wildlife attracted: bees, butterflies, birds & mammals

Bloom Time: mid-spring to mid-summer Wildlife attracted: deer & birds

Bloom Time: spring to summer Wildlife attracted: bees & birds

Bloom Time: spring Wildlife attracted: birds, bees & small mammals

Bloom Time: early to mid-summer Wildlife attracted: butterflies

Bloom Time: mid-spring to mid-summer Wildlife attracted: birds & mammals

Incense Cedar

Calocedrus decurrens

Cascara

Rhamnus purshiana

Silk Tassel

Garrya elliptica

Oregon Crab

Apple Malus fusca

Indian Plum

Oemleria cerasiformis

Shore Pine

Pinus contorta Bloom Time: spring Wildlife attracted: squirrels & birds

Bloom Time: mid-spring Wildlife attracted: birds, mammals & butterfly larvae

Bloom Time: winter Wildlife attracted: bees, butterflies, nesting birds & mammals

Bloom Time: mid- to late spring Wildlife attracted: birds & mammals

Bloom Time: early spring Wildlife attracted: bees, butterflies & birds

Bloom Time: mid– to late spring Wildlife attracted: small birds & butterfly larvae

Red Osier

Dogwood Cornus sericea

Black Hawthorn

Crataegus douglasii

Thimbleberry

Rubus parviflorus

Snowberry

Symphoricarpos albus

Alaskan Yellow

Cedar Callitropsis nootkatensis

Western Larch

Larix occidentalis Bloom Time: late spring to early summer Wildlife attracted: birds, deer & small mammals

Bloom Time: late spring to early summer Wildlife attracted: birds & butterfly larvae

Bloom Time: late spring to late summer Wildlife attracted: birds & mammals

Bloom Time: late spring to late summer Wildlife attracted: hummingbirds, butterflies, birds & mammals

Bloom Time: mid-spring Wildlife attracted: birds, deer & small mammals

Bloom Time: spring Wildlife attracted: squirrels & birds

Rosemary

Rosmarinus officinalis

Red Alder

Alnus rubra

Kinnickinnick

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

Strawberry Tree

Arbutus unedo

Seaside Daisy

Erigeron glaucus

Beaked Hazelnut

Corylus cornuta Bloom Time: early spring to summer Wildlife attracted: bees & butterflies

Bloom Time: early to mid-spring Wildlife attracted: birds & mammals

\ Bloom Time: early spring to mid-summer Wildlife attracted: birds, butteflies & bees

Bloom Time: late spring to early summer Wildlife attracted: birds, butterflies & bees

Bloom Time: mid-spring to late summer Wildlife attracted: birds, butterflies & bees

Bloom Time: early spring to mid-summer Wildlife attracted: squirrels, jays & rabbits

Fireweed

Chamaenerion angustifolium

Cascade

Stonecrop Sedum divergens

Reflexed

Stonecrop Sedum rupestre

Korean Dogwood

Cornus kousa

Red Elderberry

Sambucus racemosa

Fireworks

Goldenrod Solidago rugosa

Bloom Time: mid-summer to early fall Wildlife attracted: bees, hummingbirds & butterflies

Bloom Time: early to mid-summer Wildlife attracted: bees, hummingbirds & butterflies

Bloom Time: summer Wildlife attracted: bees & butterflies

Bloom Time: early summer Wildlife attracted: bees & birds

Bloom Time: late spring to early summer Wildlife attracted: deer, birds & mammals

Bloom Time: early fall Wildlife attracted: bees & butterflies

Create a Wildlife-Friendly Garden at Home! Key for Plant Characteristics:

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Gardening to create habitat is something all landowners can do

to improve the health of the environment. Landscaping with

native plants is a great way to increase habitat and resources

for native wildlife, and reduce maintenance and water use. Use

this key to identify the plants in our backyard habitat.

See which ones you can use in your own backyard habitat!

portlandnursery.com wildflower.org/plants calscape.org

Resources: Why garden like this? Sun Needs:

Water Needs:

Wildlife Value:

Full

High

Food

Partial

Medium

Low

Pollen/nectar

Shaded/understory

If you want to access this guide at home, find it at:

cityofvancouver.us/publicworks/page/backyard-wildlife-garden