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Common Plants of Glacier National Park

300 common vascular plants (not including grasses and sedges)

Prince's Pine
Chimaphila umbellata
Common Cattail 1
Typha latifolia
brittle bladderfern 2
Cystopteris fragilis
northern oak fern 3
Gymnocarpium dryopteris
lady fern 4
Athyrium filix-femina
Northern holly fern 5
Polystichum lonchitis
Male fern 6
Dryopteris filix-mas
western maidenhair fern 7
Adiantum aleuticum
American parsley fern 8
Cryptogramma acrostichoides
western polypody 2
Polypodium hesperium
common bracken 9
Pteridium aquilinum
green spleenwort 10
Asplenium viride
Oregon woodsia 11
Woodsia oregana
common juniper 12
Juniperus communis
Rocky Mountain Juniper 13
Juniperus scopulorum
western redcedar 14
Thuja plicata
Pacific yew 2
Taxus brevifolia
Whitebark Pine
Pinus albicaulis
Lodgepole Pine 15
Pinus contorta
Limber Pine 16
Pinus flexilis
Western White Pine 17
Pinus monticola
Ponderosa Pine 8
Pinus ponderosa
western hemlock 18
Tsuga heterophylla
Common Douglas-Fir 19
Pseudotsuga menziesii
Grand Fir 20
Abies grandis
Western larch 21
Larix occidentalis
Engelmann spruce 22
Picea engelmannii
field horsetail 23
Equisetum arvense
Rough Horsetail 24
Equisetum hyemale
Silvery Lupine 6
Lupinus argenteus
silky lupine
Lupinus sericeus
Alpine Milkvetch 6
Astragalus alpinus
Canadian milkvetch 6
Astragalus canadensis
Drummond's Milkvetch 6
Astragalus drummondii
Pale Vetchling 25
Lathyrus ochroleucus
red clover 26
Trifolium pratense
White Clover 27
Trifolium repens
American Vetch 28
Vicia americana
Yellow Sweet Clover 29
Melilotus officinalis
wild licorice 30
Glycyrrhiza lepidota
Yellow Oxytropis 31
Oxytropis campestris
Gray's Point-vetch 32
Oxytropis podocarpa
Showy crazyweed 33
Oxytropis splendens
white-stemmed gooseberry 34
Ribes inerme
swamp currant 8
Ribes lacustre
sticky currant 35
Ribes viscosissimum
Choke Cherry 36
Prunus virginiana
European Raspberry 37
Rubus idaeus
Thimbleberry
Rubus parviflorus
Sitka Mountain-ash 35
Sorbus sitchensis
White Meadowsweet 38
Spiraea betulifolia
mountain spiraea 6
Spiraea splendens
Saskatoon 39
Amelanchier alnifolia
Woodland strawberry 40
Fragaria vesca
Mountain Strawberry 41
Fragaria virginiana
Black Hawthorn 6
Crataegus douglasii
sticky cinquefoil 6
Potentilla glandulosa
slender cinquefoil 6
Potentilla gracilis
ocean spray 42
Holodiscus discolor
prickly wild rose 43
Rosa acicularis
Baldhip rose 44
Rosa gymnocarpa
Woods' rose 45
Rosa woodsii
large-leaved avens 8
Geum macrophyllum
Prairie Smoke 6
Geum triflorum
Mallow-leaf Ninebark
Physocarpus malvaceus
shrubby cinquefoil 46
Dasiphora fruticosa
creeping sibbaldia 47
Sibbaldia procumbens
Yellow Mountain-avens 48
Dryas drummondii
Mountain Avens 49
Dryas octopetala
Roundleaf Alumroot 44
Heuchera cylindrica
smallflower woodland star 50
Lithophragma parviflorum
threeleaf foamflower 51
Tiarella trifoliata
Matte Saxifrage 45
Saxifraga bronchialis
Western Saxifrage 8
Micranthes occidentalis
Brewer's miterwort 52
Pectiantia breweri
Buckbrush 53
Ceanothus cuneatus
Black Huckleberry 54
Vaccinium membranaceum
Tobacco Brush 28
Ceanothus velutinus
slender stinging nettle 6
Urtica dioica gracilis
pinesap 55
Monotropa hypopitys
Indian Pipe 56
Monotropa uniflora
Woodland Pinedrops
Pterospora andromedea
Bog Wintergreen 57
Pyrola asarifolia
long-bracted wintergreen 58
Pyrola asarifolia bracteata
One-flowered Wintergreen 59
Moneses uniflora
Prince's Pine
Chimaphila umbellata
one-sided wintergreen 30
Orthilia secunda
Pinemat Manzanita 60
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Black Huckleberry 54
Vaccinium membranaceum
Alpine Bog Laurel 30
Kalmia microphylla
Red Mountain-heather 39
Phyllodoce empetriformis
Yellow Mountain-heath 39
Phyllodoce glanduliflora
Arctic Bell-heather 39
Cassiope tetragona
Few-flower Shootingstar
Dodecatheon pulchellum pulchellum
Pretty Jacob's-ladder 61
Polemonium pulcherrimum
sky pilot 3
Polemonium viscosum
narrow-leaf mountain trumpet 6
Collomia linearis
Slender Phlox
Microsteris gracilis
Canadian Bunchberry 36
Cornus canadensis
red osier dogwood 62
Cornus sericea

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