PNW Native Replacements for Common Invasive or Exotic/Ornamental Plants

Invasive or Exotic Plant	Native Replacement
Laurel	Pacific Wax Myrtle
English Holly	Tall Oregon Grape
English Ivy	Kinnickinnick / Coastal Strawberry / Point Reyes Ceanothus
Tree of Heaven	Cascara/Black Hawthorn/ Smooth Sumac (looks similar)
Arborvitae	Coyote Bush/ Wild Lilac / Tall Oregon Grape
Tulips/Daffodils	Camas/ Checker Lily/ Ookow/ Shooting stars/ Fawn Lily
Boxwood	Oregon Boxwood
Wisteria	Hairy Honeysuckle
Burning Bush	Oval leaved viburnum/ Vine Maple/ Red twig dogwood
Crososmia	Camas/Oregon Iris
Daisy	Blanketflower/ Douglas Aster/ Beach Daisy/ Oregon Sunshine
Butterfly Bush	Wild Lilac/ Douglas Spirea/ Goats Beard
Forsythia	Golden Current
Purple Loosestrife	Checkermallows?
Fountain Grass	Bear Grass/ Tufted hairgrass
Japanese Spirea	Spirea Splendens (Rosy Spirea)
Blackberry	Thimbleberry/ Salmon berry/ Wild black gooseberry
Scotch Broom	Deerbrush/ Cyote Bush
Shiny Geranium	Western Geranium/ Candy flower
Hosta	Bunch Berry/ Giant Trillium
Tea Rose	Nootka, Wild or Baldhip rose
Camellia	Wild Lilac/Mock Orange
Snap Dragon	Barrett's Beardtongue, Broad Leaves Penstemon, Cascade Penstemon
Chrysanthemum	Asters
Huechera/Coral Bells	Alpine Alumroot/ Fringecup
Day Lily	Tiger Lily/Oregon iris
Chinese Rhododendron	Pacific Rhododendron
Rose of Sharon	Western Azalea
Holly Hock	Checkermallows (Cusicks)
Hyacinth	Ookow
Norway Maple	Vine Maple
Bamboo	Tall Oregon Grape
Flowering Cherry Trees	Red Flowering Currant / Western Serviceberry/ Big Leaf Maple