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Rhododendron menziesii is a mostly erect or spreading shrub often exceeding 3 metres (9.8 ft) in height, and reaching lower heights at higher elevations. [3]Its branches are coated in thin, scaly, shreddy bark and its twigs with fine glandular hairs.
Banksia menziesii – MHNT. Banksia menziesii, commonly known as firewood banksia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae. It is a gnarled tree up to 10 m (33 ft) tall, or a lower spreading 1–3 m (3.3–9.8 ft) shrub in the more northern parts of its range. The serrated leaves are dull green with new growth a paler grey green.
Description: Abutilon menziesii2.jpg (flowers) Credit: U. S. Geological Survey USGS/Ft. Collins, CO (if originating office but not the artist is known)
Delphinium menziesii, the Puget Sound larkspur, northern dwarf larkspur, or Menzies' larkspur, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is native to British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. [ 1 ]
The species includes three varieties: [3]. Nemophila menziesii var. atomaria has white flowers with black dots, often with a faint blue tint or blue veins in the corolla. It is found on coastal bluffs or grassy slopes in Oregon, Northwestern California, the Central Coast of California, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
A. menziesii var. intermedia, showing the "fiddleneck", which is a cincinnus inflorescence. Amsinckia menziesii var. intermedia (common fiddleneck, or intermediate fiddleneck) is one of the common fiddlenecks of western North America, distributed from Alaska and Canada through the Western United States to Mexico.
The Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) [4] is an evergreen conifer species in the pine family, Pinaceae. It is native to western North America and is also known as Douglas-fir , [ 5 ] Douglas spruce , [ 6 ] Oregon pine , [ 7 ] and Columbian pine . [ 8 ]
Archibald Menzies found R. macrophyllum growing along with Arbutus menziesii in May 1792 when he and George Vancouver made their second landfall after leaving Hawaii, near present-day Port Discovery, Washington. [7] Seed was sent to England in 1850 by William Lobb.