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The Alaska Native Plant Society predates the North American Native Plant Society that got started in 1985. Founding President: Verna Pratt. Verna Pratt and 34 other native plant enthusiasts started the Alaska Native Plant Society in 1982. Verna was the lead in its start up and worked as its president from 1982 to 1988. She cultivated knowledge ...
Tsuga mertensiana is a large evergreen conifer growing up to 20 to 40 metres (66 to 131 feet) tall, with exceptional specimens as tall as 59 m (194 ft) tall. They have a trunk diameter of up to 2 m (61⁄2 ft). The bark is about 3 centimetres (11⁄4 inches) thick and square-cracked or furrowed, and purplish-brown [3] to gray in color.
WGSRPD code: ASK (level 3) 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 ...
S. alaxensis. Binomial name. Salix alaxensis. (Andersson) Coville. Natural range of Salix alaxensis. 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.
The plant has been used ceremonially by the Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Haida people residing in Southeast Alaska and coastal British Columbia. A piece of Devil's club hung over a doorway is said to ward off evil. The plant is harvested and used in a variety of ways, most commonly as an oral tea in traditional settings, but also poultices and ...
Polygonum polymorphum var. lapathifolium (Cham. & Schltdl.) Ledeb. Koenigia alaskana ( synonym Aconogonon alaskanum, Persicaria alpina) is an Asian and North American species of flowering plant in the buckwheat family known by the common names Alaska wild-rhubarb and alpine knotweed. [2]
Rubus stellatus Sm. Rubus arcticus, the Arctic bramble[4] or Arctic raspberry, [5][6] Nagoonberry, [7] or nectarberry[8][9] is a species of slow-growing bramble belonging to the rose family, found in Arctic and alpine regions in the Northern Hemisphere. It has been used to create hybrid cultivated raspberries, the so-called nectar raspberries.
The finely and sharply serrate leaves are shiny and dark green above. Gaultheria shallon is 0.4 to 3.05 metres (1⁄2 to 10 feet) tall, sprawling to erect. It is loosely to densely branched and often forms dense, nearly impenetrable thickets. [2] The twigs are reddish-brown, with shredding bark. Twigs can live up to 16 years or more, but bear ...