Alaskan Wildflowers

Alaskan Wildflowers
grouped by color for easy identification
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Photographs by Mary Hopson
(Caveat: I am not a botanist, and do not guarantee these identifications.
I'm just someone who enjoys hiking and taking pictures of the flowers.)

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x White flowers (including cream, slightly tinted pedals, etc.)


Alaska Cotton x	Alaska Spiraea x	Alpine Spiraea x	Death Camas Wand Lily	Holboells Rockcress x	Kamchatka Rockcress x

Northern Yarrow x	Serviceberry x	Starflower x	Alaska Starwort x	Sea Chickweed Sea Greens	Mouse Ear Chickweed


Dwarf Dogwood x	Bog-Star x	Northern Oxytrope x	Mountain Heather x	Moss Heather x	Bell Heather x

Mountain Avens x	Narcissus-Flowered Anemone	Cut-leaf Anemone	Sidebells Pyrola x	Large-flowerer (Arctic) Wintergreen	Shy Maiden Single Delight


Kinnikinnick Flower x	Alpine Bearberry x	Alpine Heuchera Alpine Alumroot	Lapland Diapensia x	Wild Strawberry x	Cloudberry x

Labrador Tea x	Northern Black Currant	Wild Raspberry x	Trailing Raspberry x	Elderberry x	Highbush Cranberry x


Cow Parsnip, Pushki, Putshki	Water Hemlock plant - flowers	Devil's Club x	Sitka Valerian x	Bog Candle x	Northern Bedstraw x

Sitka Burnet x	Northern Jasmine x	Grove Sandwort x	Arctic Sandwort x	Brook Saxifrage x	Coast Saxifrage x


Prickly Saxifrage x	Red-stemmed Saxifrage (whole plant)	False Solomon's Seal x	Watermellow Berry x	Goatsbeard x	Bogbean x

Deer Cabbage x	Alp Lily x	Capitate Lousewort x	Pussytoes x	AlpineMeadowBistort x	Baneberry x


Arctic Sweet Coltsfoot x

Yellow Flowers

Yellow Pond Lily x	Yellow Monkeyflower x	Touch-me-not Jewelweed	Elegant Goldenrod x	Northern Goldenrod x	Coastal Paintbrush Yellow Paintbrush

Labrador Lousewort x	Yukon Goundsel x	Frigid Arnica x	Lessing's Arnica x	Fewflowered Groundsel	Mastodon Flower x


Caltha-leaf Avens x	Large-leaf Avens x	Ross Avens whole plant	Glacial Avens closeup	One-Flowered Potentilla x	Silverweed x

Tundra Rose x	NorwegianCinquefoil x	Yellow Anemone x	Marsh Marigold x	Dwarf Buttercup x	Pacific Buttercup x


Rattlebox x	Sibbaldia x	Alaska Poppy x	Yellow Willow-herb (whole plant)	Yellow Oxytrope x	Yellow-Spotted Saxifrage

Arctic Wormwood (whole plant)	Draba Flowers Whitlow Grass	Hairy Arctic Milk Vetch	Butter And Eggs (non-native, invasive)	Ball Mustard (non-native, invasive)

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Alaskan Scenic Views, with wildflowers, suitable for wallpaper or desktop Valerian hangs over a valley in Hatcher Pass Serviceberry flowers overlooking Eklutna Lake Windflowers, Anemone parviflora, by Flattop Mountain Marsh Marigolds, Caltha palustris, reflected in still water Arnicas dominate over smaller tundra flowers, Flattop Trail False Hellebore and others in a floral meadow below Flattop Wrangell-St.Elias Park scene, with mixed wildflowers in late May Kamchatka Rockcress, Arabis lyrata, overlooking Turnagain Arm Highbush Cranberry, Viburnum edule, fall foliage, with a large dog Mountain Avens, Dryas octopetala, along the Flattop Mountain Trail Arctic Wormwood, Artemisia arctica, along the Flattop Mountain Trail Cow Parsnip, Yellow Monkey Flowers & others adorn the Falls Creek Trail Bearberry leaves, Arctostaphylos alpina, in autumn color, up on Flattop Mountain Red-Berried Elder, Sambucus racemosa, festoon this seascape, along Turnagain Arm
There's an older page of my wildflower photos at this webpage link with some additional species

All photos were taken by an amateur, with amateur equipment. Feel to use any of the photos at your website, but please leave the copyright information intact. You might also enjoy these webpages by Mary Hopson: Alaskan Berries, and berry-like fruits Butterflies Along Alaska's Hiking Trails A Fat Old Lady Takes Up Climbing Contact the "photographer"

Reference Sources:

Pojar, Jim & MacKinnon, Andy. Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British columbia & Alaska. Lone Pine Publishing. Vancouver, BC.

Pratt, Verna. 1995. Alaska's Wild Berries and berry-like fruit. Alaskakrafts, Anchorage, AK.

Pratt, Verna. 1989. Field Guide to Alaskan Wildflowers: commonly seen along the highways and byways. Alaskakrafts, Anchorage, AK.

Pratt, Verna. 1991. Wildflowers along the Alaska Highway. Alaskakrafts, Anchorage, AK.

Pratt, Verna & Frank. 1993. Wildflowers of Denali National Park. Alaskakrafts, Anchorage, AK.

Schofield, Janice J. 2002. Alaska's Wild Plants: A Guide to Alaska's Edible Harvest . Alaska Northwest Books, Anchorage, Portland.

Schofield, Janice J. 1989. Discovering Wild Plants: Alaska, Western Canada, The Northwest . Alaska Northwest Books, Anchorage, Portland.

Trelawny, John G. 2003. Wild Flowers of the Yukon, Alaska & Northwestern Canada. 2nd Edition. Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd., Madeira Park, BC.

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