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Puget Sound Arid Locations

Reginal, local, and microclimates affect the distribution of the basic plants that make up the local forest.  in a few locations, deep gravels and strong rainshadow crearte significantly dryer conditions, 10" rain per year, water table 20 feet down throughout the year, etc.  a few local plants are adjusted to this and represented at the Puget Sound Native Tree Botanical Garden.


Puget Sound sites with these arid climates include the Olympic Mountain rainshadow: Port Angeles and surrounds; SanJuan Islands; South Tacoma and MacCord/Ft Lewis Mt Rainier gravel fields

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Trees of our Local Forests

Serviceberry

Oregon Oak

Common Juniper

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Ponderosa Pine

Shore Pine


Hairy Manzanita

Rocky Mountain Juniper

All pictures taken at the Botanical Garden except where noted

Kinnikkinnik





Snowbrush

Picture of Fireweed and blooms: 


6 feet tall


PNW Plants that can sometimes colonize very dry groound:


Trees: Oregon Oak; Pondrosa Pine; Rocky Mountain Juniper; sometime Douglas Fir; sometimes Madrone; sometimes Shore Pine if fogs available


Fireweed; Kinnikkinnik; Hairy Manzanita; common Juniper; Ocean Spray; Mock Orange; Serviceberry; Red Flowering Current

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