Fall Planting 2025

Congratulations to all the Rose City Bluff Restoration volunteers who came out for our second planting day! This amazing team and the planting day one team added over a thousand native plants to the Bluff. We also want to express our immense appreciation for the growers who took care of young plants all spring and summer. A big thank you to all seventy growers and planting day volunteers! And finally, let’s have a round of applause for our planting day team leads and our amazing planners, Reed and Marcelle. Splendid work everyone!

Here is a list of the plants added to the Bluff:

Baldhip Rose (Rosa gymnocarpa)
Blue Wild Rye (Elymus glaucus)
Broad-leaved Penstemon (Penstemon ovatus)
California Oatgrass (Danthonia californica)
Cascara (Frangula purshiana)
Checkermallow, Meadow (Sidalcea campestris)
Columbia Tickseed (Coreopsis tinctoria)
Common Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana)
Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
Douglas Sagewort (Artemisia douglasiana)
Elderberry (Sambucus cerulea)
Elderberry (Sambucus racemosa)
Fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium)
Fringecup (Tellima grandiflora)
Goatsbeard (Aruncus dioicus)
Large Leaf Avens (Geum macrophyllum)
Large Leaf Lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus)
Low Oregon Grape (Mahonia nervosa)
Mock Orange (Philadelphus lewisii)
Narrowleaf Milkweed (Asclepias fascicularis)
Narrow-leaved Buckbrush (Ceanothus cuneatus)
Oceanspray (Holodiscus discolor)
Oregon Grape (Mahonia aquifolium)
Osoberry (Oemleria cerasiformis)
Oval-leaved Viburnum (Viburnum ellipticum)
Pacific Dogwood (Cornus nuttallii)
Piggyback Plant (Tolmiea menziesii)
Prairie Junegrass (Koeleria macrantha)
Red Flowering Currant (Ribes sanguineum)
Red Stem Ceanothus (Ceanothus sanguineus)
River Lupine (Lupinus rivularis)
Romer’s Fescue (Festuca roemeri)
Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis)
Shade Phacelia (Phacelia nemoralis)
Showy Milkweed (Asclepias speciosa)
Snowberry (Symphoricarpos alba)
Suksdorf’s Hawthorn (Crataegus gaylussacia)
Vine Maple (Acer circinatum)
Western Columbine (Aquilegia formosa)
Western Crabapple (Malus fusca)
Western Goldenrod (Solidago canadensis)

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