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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 ...
(state wildflower) Solidago altissima: 2003 [60] South Dakota: Pasque flower: Pulsatilla hirsutissima: 1903 [61] Tennessee: Iris (state cultivated flower) Iris: 1933 [62] Purple passionflower (state wildflower 1) Passiflora incarnata: 1919 [62] Tennessee purple coneflower (state wildflower 2) Echinacea tennesseensis: 2012 [62] Texas: Bluebonnet ...
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. That is, the geographic region known as Alaska is defined by its political boundaries except for the Aleutian Islands (see Category:Flora of the Aleutian Islands ...
Southeast Alaska is an extensive landscape, with communities scattered across the archipelago on different islands, isolated from each other and the mainland road system. The road system that exists in the region is in place because of the resource extraction history in the region, primarily established by the Forest Service to enable timber ...
The Peterson Field Guides (PFG) are a popular and influential series of American field guides intended to assist the layman in identification of birds, plants, insects and other natural phenomena. The series was created and edited by renowned ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson (1908–1996).
The 2010 census population of southeast Alaska was 71,616 inhabitants, representing approximately 10% of the state's total population. About 45% of residents in the southeast Alaska region were concentrated in the city of Juneau, the state capital. As of 2018, the number of settlements in southeast Alaska that have a population of at least ...
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.
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.