Latin Names
The common name for Rubus Parviflorus.
A Native plant in our nursery that has naked buds.
What is Cascara?
A bird native to the PNW that engineers habitats for other species in old snags.
What is a Pileated Woodpecker?
The largest terrestrial mustelid.
what is a wolverine?
The genus that includes sunflowers.
What is asters?
The latin name for Pacific Ninebark.
What is Physocarpus capitatus?
The kind of leaf shape that is found in gary oak.
What is lobed?
The term used to describe a life cycle with a freshwater phase and a saltwater phase.
What is anadromous?
The structure on a slugs head that it breathes out of.
What is a pneumostome?
This pre-chordate fish is also anadromous and uses mouth suction to travel upstream.
What is a lamprey?
The latin name for our native trailing blackberry.
What is Rubus ursinus?
An ovary that is positioned above the sepals.
What is a superior ovary?
A species of bird that will feign an injury to lure you away from their ground nest.
What is Killdeer?
The first name of our favorite douglas.
What is David?
This act passed in 2021 to limit greenhouse gas emissions from Washington, auctioning credit allowances to generate funds to reinvest in environmental justice and clean energy.
What is The Climate Commitment Act.
The old genus name for Frangula purshiana.
What is Rhamnus?
what is trifoliate?
A gravel structure that salmon create to lay their eggs.
What is a redd?
The celtic festival from which Halloween originates.
What is Samhain?
An abnormal plant growth that is a result of stimulation or irritation of plant cells - often caused by insects and other small organisms like fungi and bacteria.
What is a gall?
The three most common genus names in our nursery. (minus roses and pines)
What is Rubus, Salix, and Acer.
The type of compound leaf that is found in shore pine.
What is fascicle?
The type of symbiosis where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
The chemical that causes skin irritation found in poison oak.
What is urushiol?
The year WCC was founded.
What is 1983?