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Native Deciduous Shrubs

	*Acer circinatum* Vine Maple Tall, erect, multi-trunked shrub or small tree with sprawling branches. Height: 13-26 feet (4-8 meters) Leaves deciduous. Bark is initially smooth and bright green, eventually turning brown with age.
	*Amelanchier alnifolia* Serviceberry, Saskatoon Medium-sized shrub producing fragrant white flowers in late spring. Height: Up to 15 feet (4.5 meters). Leaves deciduous. Stems are smooth and slender, often with leaning trunks. Bark is dark gray to reddish.
	*Betula glandulosa* Bog Birch Spreading, small-branched perennial shrub of bogs and wet areas. Height: Up to 10 feet (3 meters) tall; usually shorter. Leaves deciduous. Bark becomes reddish-brown when mature; young branches have numerous round sticky glands.
	*Cornus stolonifera* Red-osier Dogwood Spreading, thicket-forming shrub with bright red stems. Height: Up to 20 feet (6 meters). Leaves deciduous. Bright red, smooth stems; opposite branches; branches can root freely.
	*Corylus cornuta* Beaked Hazelnut Slender, multi-trunked deciduous shrub. Height: 3 feet - 13 feet (1 meter - 4 meters). Leaves deciduous. Numerous stems that are densely clumped, 3mm in diameter, stem bark is gray-brown and hairy when young.
	*Crataegus douglasii* black hawthorn large shrub or small tree with clusters of white flowers and dark purplish-black berries. Leaves deciduous. Stems have large thorns (3 cm long); bark is grey, rough and scaly, often mottled with patches of lichen.
	*Holodiscus discolor* Oceanspray Multi-stemmed upright shrub with ridged young stems and arching older stems with peeling bark. White flowers. Height: Up to 13 feet (4 meters). Leaves deciduous. Several main stems; young stems are rigged, older stems are brownish with peeling bark.
	*Kalmia microphylla ssp. occidentalis* Bog Laurel Small, slender-branched shrub with dark green waxy leaves and clusters of bright pink flowers. Height: Up to 3 feet (1 meter). Leaves deciduous.
	*Ledum groenlandicum* Labrador Tea Evergreen, branching shrub with rusty-hairy leaf undersides and white flowers. Height: Up to 5 feet (1.5 meters). Leaves deciduous.
	*Lonicera involucrata* Twinberry Tall shrub with opposite leaves and pairs of small yellow flowers in leaf axils. Height: Up to 10 feet (3 meters tall). Leaves deciduous. Slender brown stems with pithy centers and thin shredding bark.
	*Malus fusca* Pacific Crabapple Small tree, slender in form, appears thorny; bushy in the open. Height: 16.5-40 feet (5-12 meters). Leaves deciduous. Twigs and branches appear to have thorns, but these are actually spurs, on which flowers and fruits are produced. Young twigs covered with tiny white or gray hairs. Older bark deeply fissured.
	*Myrica gale* Sweet Gale Leaves deciduous.
	*Nothochelone nemorosa* Woodland Penstemon Leaves deciduous.
	*Oemleria cerasiformis* Indian Plum, Osoberry Deciduous shrub producing clusters of white flowers in very early spring. One of the earliest plants to bloom. Height: 16.5 feet (5 meters). Leaves deciduous. Stems are red-brown with round, gray pores.
	*Oplopanax horridus* Devil's Club An erect to sprawling shrub with thick, spiny, crooked stems and very large leaves. Height: Up to 10 feet (3 meters). Leaves deciduous. 1-4 cm thick, often entangled, and densely armed with large yellowish spines.
	*Penstemon fruticosus* Lowbush Penstemon Spreading shrub with numerous tubular purple flowers. Height: Up to 40 cm (1.5 ft) tall. Leaves evergreen,deciduous. Slender, erect, woody near base.
	*Philadelphus lewisii* Mock Orange Erect, loosely branched shrub with large fragrant white flowers. Height: Up to 10 feet (3 meters). Leaves deciduous. Brown bark, checking and eventually flaking off.
	*Physocarpus capitatus* Pacific Ninebark Erect to spreading shrub up to 4 meters tall with clusters of white flowers. Height: Up to 13 feet (4 meters). Leaves deciduous. Brown shredding peeling bark.
	*Ribes lacustre* Black Gooseberry Erect to spreading shrub with spiny stems. Height: Up to 6.5 feet (2 meters). Leaves deciduous. Numerous small golden prickles on stem, larger spines (to 12 mm) at leaf nodes, bark on old stems is cinnamon colored.
	*Ribes sanguineum* Red Flowering Currant Erect, multi-stemmed shrub with showy clusters of deep pink flowers in early spring. Height: 3-10 feet (1-3 meters). Leaves deciduous. Crooked stems; no thorns or spines; young growth finely hairy; reddish brown bark.
	*Rosa gymnocarpa* Baldhip Rose Spindly shrub with brittle weak straight spines and small pink rose flowers. Height: Up to 5 feet (1.5 meters). Leaves deciduous. Younger stems have stalked glands; older stems have numerous soft, straight prickles.
	*Rosa nutkana* Nootka Rose Spindly shrub with a pair of prickles at the base of each leaf and large pink rose flowers. Height: Up to 10 feet (3 meters). Leaves deciduous. A pair of large prickles at the base of each leaf; stems are reddish-brown.
	*Rosa pisocarpa* Swamp Rose Thicket forming shrub with spiny stems and clusters of pink rose flowers. Leaves deciduous.
	*Rubus parviflorus* Thimbleberry Unarmed spreading shrub with large white flowers. Usually forms dense thickets. Height: Up to 10 feet (3 meters). Leaves deciduous. Young stems are glandular and hairy; in older stems the bark is shredding.
	*Rubus spectabilis* Salmonberry Erect and branching shrub with early spring pink flowers and reddish-orange raspberry-like fruits. Height: Up to 13 feet (4 meters). Leaves deciduous. Often forming dense thickets, zig-zag twigs without hairs, with scattered prickles; bark golden brown and shredding; stems prickly on new growth.
	*Rubus ursinus* Trailing Blackberry Trailing prickly vine producing small blackberries in late summer. Height: 20 inches (50 cm). Leaves deciduous. Stems prostrate, trailing up to 5 meters long, armed with curved, unflattened prickles; floral canes erect; stems covered in fine waxy powder; blue-green in color.
	*Salix lucida* Pacific Willow Leaves deciduous.
	*Salix piperi* Piper's Willow Leaves deciduous.
	*Salix sitchensis* Sitka Willow Leaves deciduous.
	*Sambucus racemosa* Red Elderberry Shrub to small tree with clusters of small white flowers and red berries. Height: 20 feet (6 meters). Leaves deciduous. Soft pithy greenish brown twigs with lines and furrows, bark dark reddish-brown, warty, branches opposite, new twigs are purplish.
	*Sorbus sitchensis* Sitka-Mountain Ash Leaves deciduous.
	*Spiraea densiflora* Subalpine Spirea Low mound-forming shrub with rounded clusters of intense pink tiny flowers. Height: Up to 3 feet (1 meter) tall. Leaves deciduous. Slender, brown, much-branched.
	*Spiraea douglasii* Douglas' Spirea Leaves deciduous.
	*Symphoricarpos albus* Snowberry Erect shrub with attractive white berries that persist through the winter. Height: Up to 6.5 feet (2 meters). Leaves deciduous. Very slender, brittle twigs with opposite branching; hairless.
	*Vaccinium parvifolium* Red Huckleberry Delicately branched shrub with small red huckleberries, suitable for shady areas on decaying wood. Height: 4-10 feet (1.5-3 meters). Leaves deciduous. Young twigs are green and strongly angled, older stems are light brown with thin bark; much-branched.
	*Viburnum edule* High Bush Cranberry Shrub with bright red berries and brilliant fall foliage. Height: 3-9 feet (1-3 meters) tall. Leaves deciduous.

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