To view the winter twig set all in one document, please click the link below:
Full Set (pdf)
The winter twigs listed below are arranged alphabetically by scientific name (though both the common names and scientific names are provided). This is just a small sampling of the plants that you can see on campus (both in the Teaching Gardens, and in the College’s forested areas).
- Vine Maple (Acer circinatum)
- Bigleaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum)
- Red Alder (Alnus rubra)
- Serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia)
- Pacific Dogwood (Cornus nuttallii)
- Red-Osier Dogwood (Cornus sericea)
- Western Hazel (Corylus cornuta)
- Cascara Sagrada (Frangula purshiana)
- Oregon Ash (Fraxinus latifolia)
- Ocean Spray (Holodiscus discolor)
- Black Twinberry (Lonicera involucrata)
- Western Crabapple (Malus fusca)
- Indian Plum (Oemleria cerasiformis)
- Lewis’ mock-orange (Philadelphus lewisii)
- Pacific Ninebark (Physocarpus capitatus)
- Black Cottonwood (Populus balsamifera)
- Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides)
- Bitter Cherry (Prunus emarginata)
- Oregon White Oak (Quercus garryana)
- Red-flowering Currant (Ribes sanguineum)
- Bald-Hip Rose (Rosa gymnocarpa)
- Nootka Rose (Rosa nutkana)
- Blackcap Raspberry (Rubus leucodermis)
- Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus)
- Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis)
- Willow (Salix spp.)
- Red Elderberry (Sambucus racemosa)
- Hardhack (Spiraea douglasii)
- Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)
- Red Huckleberry (Vaccinium parvifolium)
These pages were created collaboratively as a part of the academic work in the Citizen Science: Ecoliteracy learning community. They are the tangible result of the work of the following students at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington: Harrison Basch, Sarah Coutts, Melissa Crowe, Zachary Fleig, Zachary Halpern, Stephanie Lewis, Kate McSorley, Emily Monahan, Nikolai Starzak, Saff Smith, Katie Temple, and Isabel Watts.