Alaskan Wildflowers

Alaskan Wildflowers grouped by color for easy identification x Become a fan of Alaskan Wildflowers on Facebook
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 Blue, Violet and Purple flowers

Alpine Milk Vetch x	Nootka Lupine xx	Arctic Lupine xx	AAlaska Violet lax	Dog Violet x	Marsh Violet x

Common Harebell x	Mountain Harebell x	Chiming Bells x	Four-petalled Gentian x	Broad-pettalled Gentian	Star Gentian x


Wild Iris	Monkshood x	Larkspur x	Pasque Flower close up / seedheadx	Purple Oxytrope Purp	Beach Pea x

Sticky Locoweed x	Alpine Milk Vetch x	Beautiful Jacob's Ladder	Tall Jacobs Ladder plant / closeup	Northern Jacob's Ladder	Wild Geranium x


Brook Veronica x	Purple Cress whole plant	Alpine Forget-me-nots	Yukon Beardtongue plant / closeup	PixieEye Primrose x	Wild Mint Field Mint

Purple Mountain Saxifrage	Blue Fleabane x	Alaska kittentails closeup	Tufted ("bird") Vetch (non-native; invasive)

Pink and Lavender flowers

Spring Beauty x	Kinnikinnick x	Bog Rosemary x	Low-bush Cranberry Lingonberry	Twinflower x	Pink Pussytoes x

Northern Red Currants x	Nagoonberry x	Salmonberry x	Fireweed (Common or Tall)	Dwarf Fireweed River Beauty	Marsh Willow Herb x


Prickly Rose x	Pink Plumes x	Moss Campion x	Pink Pyrola Arctic Wintergreen	Siberian Aster x	Coastal Fleabane x

Wild Sweet Pea x	Whorled Lousewort x	Wooly Lousewort	Arctic Willow x	Eskimo Potato Bear Root	Lapland Rosebay x


Alpine Azalea x	Shooting Star x	Parry's Wallflower closeup / whole plant

Red, Orange, Brown

Western Columbine x	Kings Crown x	Marsh Cinquefoil Swamp Fivefinger	Chocolate Lily Skunk Lily	Sitka Burnet x	Red Burnet x

Barclay Willow "Rose"	Rusty Menziesia x	Mountain Sorrel x	Orange Hawkweed (non-native; invasive)	Squirreltail Grass (naturalized)

Alaskan Scenic Views, with wildflowers, suitable for wallpaper or desktop Prickly Rose, Rosa acicularis, high above Eklutna Lake Tall Fireweed, Epilobium angustifolium, in Turnagain Pass Nootka Lupine, Lupinus nootkatensis, near Thompson's Pass Mountain Harebell, Campanula lasiocarpa, in Denali State Park Highbush Cranberry, Viburnum edule, fall foliage, with a large dog Monkshood, Larkspur, and others in a floral meadow below flattop Chiming Bells, Mertensia paniculata, along Campbell Creek, in Anchorage Fireweed "cotton" overlooks a hazy valley, with Denali rising in the distance Wild Sweet Pea, Hedysarum mackenzii, along Richardson Hwy, near Paxson Fireweed seedpods and red leaves, Epilobium angustifolium, in Hatcher Pass Bearberry leaves, Arctostaphylos alpina, in autumn color, up on Flattop Mountain Yukon Beardtongue, Penstemon gormanii, high on a clay cliff in Whitehorse, Yukon Red-Berried Elder, Sambucus racemosa, festoon this seascape, along Turnagain Arm Wild Irises beside Cheney Lake in Anchorage, with a Canada Goose family in the background
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"

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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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