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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.
Boykinia richardsonii is a species of flowering plant in the family Saxifragaceae, endemic to Alaska and the adjacent Canadian territory of Yukon.It is commonly known as Richardson's brookfoam, but has also been called Alaska boykin, bearflower, [2] Richardson's boykin and Richardson's saxifrage. [3] "
Ribes glandulosum is a deciduous shrub growing to 0.5 metres (2 ft) tall and wide. The leaves are 2.5–7.5 centimetres (1–3 in) wide, palmately lobed with 5–7 deeply cut segments. [3]
Veronica alaskensis, known as Alaska speedwell or northern kittentails, is a flowering plant in the genus Veronica of the family Plantaginaceae. [1] [2] [3] It was first formally named in 1933 by Francis W. Pennell and was transferred to the genus Veronica in 2004. [4] [5] Veronica alaskensis is native to Alaska and Yukon. [1]
The taiga forests are mainly white spruce (Picea glauca), alaskan birch (Betula neoalaskana), balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera), and quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) in the warmer drier areas, and black spruce (Picea mariana), and american larch (Larix laricina) where it is marshier but the ecoregion also contains scrubby areas of dwarf birch (Betula nana) and riverbanks of willows ...
Arnica unalaschcensis, commonly known as Alaskan arnica, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. [2] It is found on both sides of the Bering Strait, being native to Alaska, the Pacific coast of Russia, and northern Japan.
This is a hilly area that lies between the boggier Arctic coastal tundra to the north and the Brooks Range to the south, and stretching from the Chukchi Sea east across northern Alaska to the border with Canada's Yukon Territory. The Noatak River valley is the only forested area. [2]
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.