Pressed Plants – BIOL F190: Intro to Alaska Flora

I had a lot of fun with this assignment!! Definitely more flowers will be pressed in the upcoming weeks at my household.

Author: Nikira Lane

Food and plants are inextricably intertwined. Plants undoubtedly serve a much larger role than just growing the items we consume, but this overlap between botany, nutrition, and people is where my interests lie. Using the knowledge we have learned so far about the relationships between plants and people to shape the future of agriculture seems like the right path forward and explains my interest in the field of ethnobotany. This past May I graduated from Purdue University with a degree in agricultural engineering and a focus on crops and soils. I recently started working for a small nonprofit here in Anchorage, Alaska (the place where I was born and raised) called Alaska Village Initiatives to help with economic development and sustainability, agriculture being a massive part of that, for rural Alaska.

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Stefanie Ickert

July 4, 2022 at 10:36 pm 2 years ago

Nicely done Nikira,
I like the diversity of your specimens, adding a fern to the mix is nice to see. Those lend themselves very well to a framed specimen, they are so delicate. Adding some more information about the habitat and associated species is nice for somebody trying to find your plant. Of course in our times the GPS coordinates should take you right to the area, but sometimes within the error surrounding the GPS some habitat information is nice to have. Adding the collector number is also a nice touch, but overall these work well, and are professionally prepared. The only records we have of Trollius riederianus is from Kiska Island in the western Aleutian Islands and at Cold Bay at the western end of the Alaska Peninsula. It is more common in Asia. Is that from a cultivated plant? Well done!

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