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