Wildflowers Found in Oregon

Pacific Ninebark

Physocarpus capitatus - Erect to spreading, to 4 m tall; arching, angled branches eventually with brown, shredding bark. Leaves alternate, deciduous, 3-6 cm long, 3-5 lobed, the lobes toothed, deeply veined, shiny dark-green above, lighter and with abundant star-shaped hairs below. Flowers white, small (about 4mm long), 5 petals, about 30 pink stamens; several to many in terminal, rounded clusters. Found in wet, somewhat open places,(stream side thickets, edges of moist woods, coastal mashes, meadows, margins of lakes and streams), occasionally on drier, shrubby site at low to middle elevations.