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Verna Pratt was born Verna Evelyn Goldthwaite on September 30, 1930, on a small family farm in West Newbury, Massachusetts, where she was the sixth of eight children.Her fascination with plants and flowers began in her childhood, where she would often find herself compelled by the fields of wildflowers that surrounded the farm.
She cultivated knowledge of Alaska's native flora as others cultivated plants. Verna was born in Massachusetts in 1930 and died in Anchorage, Alaska in 2017 at the age of 86. [4] Verna moved to Alaska in 1966 with her husband Frank Pratt, where the two of them made a huge impact beginning with their start up of the AKNPS.
The species can occur far inland in Arctic climates such as Alaska. [8] Angelica lucida is considered an endangered species in some of the Northeastern United States. Angelica lucida is generally similar in appearance to other angelicas, with tall, dense umbels of yellowish-white flowers. [9]
Callitropsis nootkatensis is an evergreen conifer growing up to 40 meters (131 ft) tall, exceptionally 60 m (200 ft), with diameters up to 3.4 to 4 m (11 to 13 ft). The bark is thin, smooth and purplish when young, turning flaky and gray. [4]
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 ...
Devil's club or Devil's walking stick (Oplopanax horridus, Araliaceae; syn. Echinopanax horridus, Fatsia horrida) [2] is a large understory shrub native to the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest, but also disjunct on islands in Lake Superior.
The leaves are each divided into a number of leaflets up to 3.5 centimetres (1.4 inches) long. The inflorescence is a dense raceme of flowers. [1] The flowers are pink or pale purple and up to 1.5 centimetres (0.59 inches) long. [2] The flowers are pollinated by insects such as the bumblebee and honeybee.
The wildlife of Alaska is both diverse and abundant. The Alaskan Peninsula provides an important habitat for fish, mammals, reptiles, and birds. At the top of the food chain are the bears. Alaska contains about 70% of the total North American brown bear population and the majority of the grizzly bears, as well as black bears and Kodiak bears.