Terrestrial Biodiversity:

• Native Flowering Plants
• Ancient Gardens
• Butterflies
• Bats
• Small Mammals
• Amphibians
• Reptiles
• Coastal Cutthroat Trout
• Wetlands
• Climate Change

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Native Flowering Plants

Native flowering plants can produce spectacular springtime displays in island meadows and rocky outcrops.  There is only one federally listed flower in the islands (Golden paintbrush, Castilleja levisecta), but at least 30 other flowering species are regionally threatened—some with as few as one or two occurrences in Washington State.  Kwiaht is re-locating and monitoring many of the islands’ rarest flowers and conserving some of them ex situ for landowners. 

View Native Flowers Photo Gallery