Not sure I formatted this correctly but the overview of cow parsnip in habitat is first with additional images and text embedded. Amazing smell! Forgot how fragrant these plants are! So the embed is not working correctly, I will post the photos direct and add text. Heracleum Lanatum in the …

Attached are the images and description of my dissection of  Ranunculus repens. BreynoldsRanunculaceae BreynoldsRanunculaceaeb

Attached are my images and description of my plant dissection of  Heracleum maximum. BreynoldsApiaceae BreynoldsApiaceaeb

I wanted to get this published before I head down from Anchorage to Hope to camp for the night. I am looking forward to checking out the wildflowers on the way. I worked a lot this week, so two of the plants were from my work, one from indoors and …

Cornus Canadensis (Canadian Bunchberry) Family: Cornaceae Habitat: Leaves:   Overview (6 whorled leaves): Flowers: Petals: Center of flower (within are individual flowers with pedicels, pistils, and stamens): Pistils: Stamens from a single pistil:    

Rubus idaeus (European Red Raspberry) Family: Rosaceae Habitat: Leaves: Flower (5 petals) Stamens: Carpels:  

Pyrola Asarifolia (Bog Wintergreen) Habitat: Inflorescence/flowers (as you can see there are not a lot of leaves except for the small attachment at the base of the pedicel) : Petals (note adnation of stamens fused with petals) : Sepals: Stamens: Carpel: Pistil: Ovary:  

It’s something of a mess but these are my dissections of four different flowers found at UAF’s campus. The fours dissections are of Ox-Eyed Daisies (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum), Bleeding Heart Flowers (Lamprocapnos spectabilis), Lilacs (Syringa pubescens), and a white flower from a shurb outside of Moore Hall at UAF I couldn’t …

The final plant I chose for my dissection was the tall bluebell (Mertensia paniculata  (Aiton) G. Don)).  Thanks for the great class.  I look foward to reviewing everyone else’s dissections in the coming days!        

  The third plant I dissected for this  assignment was spreading dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium L.).   I found a lot of these growing on the hill below our house.    

Here are my plant dissections: wild rose, yarrow, lilac, and wild mustard plant dissections

I have been delighted that Sitka strawberries have naturalized in my front yard as a pretty and fast expanding ground cover.   To give the fruits more sun, I harvest leaves that I dry for a mild and slightly tannic addition to tea mixtures. According to my readings, the various …