
Madison Meadow Plant List — Spring 2026
MEADOW TREES
Apple (Malus domestica)
Crabapple (volunteer)
Bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum)
Black walnut (Juglans nigra)
CA white oak (Quercus lobata)
CA black oak (Quercus kellogii)
Interior live oak (Quercus wislizenii)
Blue oak (Quercus douglasii)
Canyon live oak (Quercus chrysolepsis)
Hinds walnut (Juglans hindsii)
Cherry (Prunus avium)
Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
Fig ( Ficus carica)
Filbert (Corylus maxima)
Flowering crabapple (Malus floribunda) -
pink “Prairie Fire” & white ”Snowdrift”
Golden rain tree (Koelreuteria paniculata)
(fell over, June 2019-many new volunteers))
Incense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens)
Lilac (Syringa vulgaris)
Native dogwood
Norway maple (Acer platanoides)
Oregon white oak (Quercus garryana)
Pacific madrona (Arbutus menziesii)
Parrotia
Pear (Pyrus communis)
Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa)
Silver linden (Tilia tomentosa)
Thundercloud flowering plum (Prunus cerasifera)
Vine maple (Acer circinatum)
Weeping willow (Salix babylonica)
Willamette Valley ponderosa pine
(Pinus ponderosa var. willamettensis)
NATIVE SHRUBS
Blue elderberry (Sambucus canadensis)
Buckbrush (Ceanothus cuneatus)
Coast silk tassel (Garrya elliptica)
Ceanothus thyrsiflorus (Oregon Blueblossom)
Common snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)
Common wild rose, Nootka rose (Rosa nutkana)
Coyote brush (Baccharis pilularis)
Deerbrush, wild lilac (Ceanothus integerrimus)
Douglas Spirea
Indian plum/Osoberry (Oemleria cerasiformis)
Manzanita
Mock orange (Philadelphus lewisii)
Ocean spray (Holodiscus discolor)
Pacific ninebark (Physocarpus capitatus)
Red flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum)
Tall Oregon grape (Mahonia aquifolium)
Twinberry
Western redbud (Cercis Occidentalis)
Western chokecherry (Prunus virginiana var demissa)
WILDFLOWERS
California poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
Clarkia
Coastal manroot, aka Wild cucumber (Marah oreganus)
Common camas (Camassia quamash)
Cow’s parsnip (Heracleum lanatum Mitchx.)
Douglas aster (Aster subspicatus Nees)
Early buttercup (Ranunculus fascicularis)
Gaillardia (Blanket flower)
Greater camas (Camassia leichtlenii)
Meadow checkermallow (Sidalcea campestris)
Oregon sunshine (Eriophyllum lanatum)
Pacific fleabane (Erigeron decumbens)
Phacelia
Riverbank lupine (Lupinus rivularis)
Rose checkermallow (Sidalcea virgata Howell)
Showy milkweed (Asclepius speciosa)
Sticky cinquefoil (Potentilla glandulosa Lindl.var. Glandulosa)
Western buttercup (Ranunculus occidentalis Nutt. var. Occidentalis)
Western columbine (Aquilegia formosa)
Wild sweet pea (Lathyrus latifolius)
Wild iris (Iris tenax)
Willamette Valley daisy
Yarrow (Achillea millifolium)
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INVASIVE PLANTS
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Bull thistle (Cirsium vulgare)
Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense)
Catchweed bedstraw (Galium aparine)
English hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata)
English holly (Ilex aquifolium)
English ivy (Ivy cultivars)
Evergreen blackberry (Rubus laciniatus)
Field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis)
Himalayan blackberry (Rubus armeniacus)
Lesser celandine/Fig buttercup(Ficaria verna, formerly Ranunculus ficaria)
Pacific poison oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum)–undesirable native
St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum)
Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima)

