Arnica angustifolia Vahl. Arnica angustifolia usually blooms in late June in interior Alaska. I see it along roadsides and highways and trails in spruce/hardwood forests. Its bright yellow color is eye-catching and its form is daisy-like. It grows on a long (about 12-15 inches) slender stem with alternate, lanceolate leaves …
Iris setosa, Pall. Iris setosa can be found throughout interior Alaska. These specimens from my neighborhood grew in disturbed soil along the roadside and bordering a spruce/hardwood forest. The plants can be very tall, up to a meter in height, with lanceolate leaves that have parallel venation and are alternately …
Here are a couple more that survived the pressing, Rubus arcticus and Pyrola grandiflora.
Good challenge! I wasn’t able to find an example for each one of the listed terms so I substituted something similar for those squares. I used my USB microscope for some of the photos on this assignment. I am still working out some of the finer points of microscope photography. …
I chose to focus on just one feature present in the four bins. (Thank you, https://northernwoodlands.org/articles/article/needles-leaves). And that was plenty. It’s a bit of a logic puzzle. It took me a long time to think my way through labelling the choices A/A1—F in the second version I wrote. Still not …
I have my daughter’s little plant press so I am going to press little plants! More to come … they need another day or so.
Hello, everybody! My name is Lucia and I am really excited to be taking this class. I have lived in Alaska for 25 years and every summer I faithfully haul Wildflowers Along the Alaska Highway just about everywhere I go. It’s taken only half my life so far to become …
