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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.
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.
The leaves are spirally arranged on the stems, simple, palmately lobed with 5–13 lobes, 20 to 40 centimetres (8 to 15 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) across. The flowers are produced in dense umbels 10 to 20 cm (4 to 8 in) diameter, each flower small, with five greenish-white petals.
It is widespread across much of the United States and Canada from Alaska and Yukon south as far as California, New Mexico, and Georgia. [2] Lactuca biennis is a biennial herb in the dandelion tribe within the daisy family growing from a taproot to heights anywhere from one half to four meters (20 inches to over 13 feet). There are deeply lobed ...
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 .
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 ...
Picea glauca (Moench) Voss., the White Spruce, [4] is a species of spruce native to the northern temperate and boreal forests in Canada and United States, North America.. Picea glauca is native from central Alaska all through the east, across western and southern/central Canada to the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland, Quebec, Ontario and south to Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin ...