Alaska wild plants

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About Alaska wild plants

Wildflowers, trees, grasses, weeds, moss, fungi & lichen (though strictly speaking they're not plants), etc., of Alaska.

1. Please identify plant as best you can (common name(s) and/or botanical name), and where in Alaska your photo was taken. Dating the photo is helpful too -- was your photo taken in spring, summer, fall, winter?

2. You are encouraged to use labels to identify different parts of plants, or different plants within the same picture.

3. You are encouraged to include information about plants in your photographs. How do you identify the plant? Does it have any important uses for food or medicinally? Is it poisonous? What is its range? There are a lot of really good books out there for identifying Alaska wildflowers, trees, and other plants. Please feel encouraged to use them!

3. Please, wild plants only. This can include plants indigenous to Alaska, or invasive species that have escaped the garden.

4. Plants in gardens, aboretums, etc. are okay as long as they are plants that are native to and grow wild in Alaska.

5. Non-Alaska and non-wild plants will be removed. That makes it doubly important to identify both plant and where taken, if you want to keep your photo in the pool.

Have fun!

-- yksin