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This category includes the Flora of Alaska, in Subarctic America. It includes flora taxa that are native to Alaska. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included. Higher taxa are included only if endemic. For the purposes of this category, "Alaska" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions.
Southeast Alaska has an unusual climate that allows a large number of edible plant and edible mushroom species to grow. The area consists primarily of the Tongass National Forest, which is a temperate rainforest. This rainforest has plenty of precipitation and the temperature remains relatively constant, therefore many plant and fungi species ...
Artemisia kruhsiana, also known as Alaskan sagebrush, Alaskan wormwood, and Siberian wormwood, is a species of plant in the sunflower family. [1] It is found in Asia from eastern Siberia to the northern Russian Far East , and in North America from Alaska , British Columbia , Yukon , and the Northwest Territories .
Native plants in the U.S. are under threat from habitat loss, construction, overgrazing, wildfires, invasive species, bioprospecting — the search for plant and animal species from which ...
Betula neoalaskana (syn. B. resinifera) or Alaska birch, also known as Alaska paper birch or resin birch, is a species of birch native to Alaska and northern Canada.Its range covers most of interior Alaska, and extends from the southern Brooks Range to the Chugach Range in Alaska, including the Turnagain Arm and northern half of the Kenai Peninsula, eastward from Norton Sound through the Yukon ...
Rumex arcticus, commonly known as arctic dock [1] or sourdock, is a perennial flowering plant that is native to Alaska. Its leaves are an important part of the diet of the Alaska Natives such as the Yup'ik people, who include it in various dishes such as akutaq .
Salix alaxensis is a species of flowering plant in the willow family known by the common names Alaska willow and feltleaf willow. It is native to northern North America, where it occurs throughout Alaska and northwestern Canada .
Elaeagnus commutata, the silverberry [4] or wolf-willow, is a species of Elaeagnus native to western and boreal North America, from southern Alaska through British Columbia east to Quebec, south to Utah, and across the upper Midwestern United States to South Dakota and western Minnesota.