8 more plant families

Mallow

Malvaceae

• 5 petals
• Stamen filaments united into a tube
• Fruit often like cheese wheel
• Palmately lobed leaves
• Mucilaginous

Checker mallow

Sidalcea oregana

River hollyhock

Iliamna rivularis

Scarlet globemallow

Sphaeralcea coccina

Common mallow

Malva neglecta

Hollyhock

Alcea rosea

Buttercup

Ranunculaceae

• 5 (or more) petals, often spurred or irregular
• 3-many separate pistils, often hooked
• Leaves often deeply lobed
• Usually poisonous

Ranunculus orthrorhynchus

Long beak buttercup

Monk's hood

Aconitum columbianum

Columbine

Aquilegia coerulea

Anemone multifida

Actaea rubra

Red baneberry

Larks spur

Delphinium occidentalis / nuttallii

Hairy clematis

Clematis hirsutissima

Evening Primrose

Onagraceae

• 4 petals & sepals
• 4 or 8 stamens
• 4-parted stigma
• Ovary inferior, often at the bottom of a long tube
• 4-parting pod with silk

Oenothera cespitosa

Stemless evening Primrose

Diamond clarkia

Clarkia rhomboidea

Fireweed

Epilobium angustifolium

California Fuchsia

Epilobium canum

Willowherb

Epilobium ciliatum

Cactus

Cactaceae

• Succulent
• Spiny
• Flower parts numerous

Prickly pear

Opuntia

Cholla

Cylindropuntia

Hedgehog

Echinocereus

Borage

Boraginaceae

• 5 united petals, often with colored center
• Fruit 4 nutlets or burs
• Usually hairy
• maybe Scorpioid racemes

May include waterleaf family

Hounds tongue - Cynoglossum officinale

Cryptantha

Alkanet

Anchusa officinalis

Many-flowered stickseed

Hackelia floribunda

Comphrey

Symphytum officinale

Bluebells

Mertensia ciliata

Madwort

Asperula procumbens

Stoneseed, gromwell

Lithospermum arvense

Milkweed

Asclepiadaceae

• 5 sepals
• 5 petals
• 5 hoods & beaks (Corona)
• Milky juice
• Pods with silk

Maybe included with Dogbane family

Asclepias speciosa

Showy Milkweed

Antelope horn

Asclepias asperula

Creeping dogbane

Apocynum androsaemifolium

Heath

Ericaceae

• 5 united petals, bell or urn shaped
• Often evergreen shrubs
• Many edible berries

May include Pyrola and Indian Pipe families

Arctostaphylos patula

Greenleaf Manzanita

Huckleberry

Vaccinium membranaceum

Whortleberry

Vaccinium scoparium

Pink pyrola

Pyrola asarifolia

One-flowered Wintergreen

Monesus uniflora

Orchid

Orchidaceae

• Irregular & variable
• 3 seals
• 3 petals, lower (lip) often large or ornate
• Monocot
• Mainly Tropical