FLOWER

FOR GET ME NOTS

The blue petals yellow middle they grow like a bush. The Forget-me-not, Alaska's state flower, is a small clump-forming perennial that grows 5 to 12 inches high in alpine meadows. The flowers have five connected salviform petals in a sky blue color, that are a quarter to a third of an inch wide. They have a white inner ring and a yellow center. The best time to spot alpine forget-me-nots is midsummer, from late June to late July. The flowers are very fragrant in the evening and night time, but give off little or no scent in the daytime.

BLUEBERRY

BLUEBERRIES NATIVE TO ALASKA

• BLUEBERRIES, SALMONBERRIES, RASPBERRIES AND MANY OTHER BERRIES ARE ALL OVER ALASKA. WITH NEARLY 50 TYPES OF BERRIES IN ALASKA, MOST OF WHICH ARE EDIBLE, IT IS NO WONDER THAT THE FRUIT HAS BEEN A MAINSTAY OF THE ALASKA NATIVE DIET FOR CENTURIES.

WILD IRISES

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• The Wild Iris is a perennial that stands erect and is somewhat branched. It grows up to 3 ft tall and has long, narrow leaves that wrap around the stem. Its flowers are large at about 4 inches across and blue to purple. You'll find the Wild Iris growinging alone and occasionally in dense stands in wet upper beach meadows, upper estuaries, and wet lowland meadows. The bloom is poisonous so don't add it to your alpine salad.

ALDER

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• The common name alder evolved from Old English alor which in turn is derived from Proto Germanic root aliso. The generic name Alnus is the equivalent Latin name. Both the Latin and the Germanic words derive from the Proto-Indo-European root el meaning red or brown which is also a root for the English words elk and another tree elm a tree distantly related to the alders.

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ALASKA COTTEN

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• They are herbaceous perennial plants with slender, grass like leaves. The seed heads are covered in a fluffy mass of cotton which are carried on the wind to aid dispersal. In cold Arctic regions these masses of translucent fibres also serve as down increasing the temperature of the reproductive organs during the Arctic summer by trapping solar radiation. Paper and the wicks of candles have been made of its cotton and pillows stuffed with the same material. The leaves were formerly used in the spongy pith of the stem for the removal of tapeworm.

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