Plant Bingo – BIOL F190: Intro to Alaska Flora

I had a lot of fun with this assignment! I got to go through all of my flower pictures from the past few weeks to look for these characteristics. There were so many pretty pictures that I had a hard time choosing and identifying the right plant parts. I put in a few extra pictures underneath by bingo just because I thought they were so pretty.

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 11, 2022 at 8:21 pm 3 years ago

Thanks Nikira,
yes, I love looking at plant pictures from previous hikes. I cannot see the image of the porate anther dehiscence, what plant is that flower from? Nice image of the ground cone, Boschniakia!

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